Rose O'Neal Greenhow mentions that she had a pistol on her mantle when she was arrested. She smuggled a pistol into the old capital prison that she had no ammunition for. Does anyone know what type of pistols they were?
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The details of her imprisonment that you seek may be included in her book “My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington” or in her correspondence. For more information, please contact the National Archives at Washington, DC (RDT1) via email at archives1reference@nara.gov.
A description about the Old Capitol Prison or NARA’s web page about Greenhow does not reveal that detail.
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