Relics

[Wesley Harris]

Atzerodt put up a revolver by Cooper Firearms Manufacturing for loan of $10. The revolver was admitted as evidence at the conspiracy trial but there is no record of what happened to it afterwards. It was not in the box of weapons the War Department eventually transferred to the National Park Service.

The only mention I'm aware of regarding Surratt's Sharps pepperbox pistol is Weichmann's testimony he saw Surratt with it at the boarding house. I have a story of a pistol Surratt supposedly auctioned off in Canada to raise some funds but it was a different weapon, a "buggy pistol."