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SEA3PO:
I own Spencer 7484 carbine....it has a brass name tag on it that says  G. Remmel  ...  Could you give he some direction in finding out who this guy was... when or where the carbine was originally issued..

Thanks.....

SEA3PO

Two Flints:
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I have an exact match for your Spencer Carbine looking at my serial # records.

Serial # 7484 - Spencer Carbine 1860 was issued to a member of Company G, 11th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry on or about 8-21-63.

You might try doing a Google search for the 11th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Co. G, and see if they give you a member with that name G. Remmel.

Go to this link:  http://www.ohiocivilwar.com/books.html  scroll down and see the regimental history book on the 11th Ohio Cav. available for purchase.

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Two Flints:
Also found this..."During the first week of June 1862, the troops from Company D, 6th O.V.C. began establishing an outpost near Guinard’s bridge. Soldiers spent much of the summer repairing the telegraph line damaged by raiding Shoshone, Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. The raiding was so successful that on July 11, 1862, the Postmaster General of the United States ordered all mail carriers to abandon this portion of the route in favor of the Overland Trail through southern Wyoming.

By the end of 1862, Platte Bridge Station had taken shape. On October 27, Captain Peter Van Winkle reported that he had 28 men, completed quarters and stabling, and rations to last until April. On November 1, Van Winkle reported three officers and 60 men for duty, two on detached service, one sick, three absent sick, and four awaiting discharge. He had 62 serviceable horses.

In July 1863, Collins organized a Second Battalion of Ohio Volunteer Cavalry consisting of Companies E, F, G, and H. The State of Ohio consolidated it with the first battalion to form the 11th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. Because his regiment was 50 men short when he recruited the new companies in 1863, Collins gave Confederate prisoners of war a chance to join. Men enlisted in this manner were known as "Galvanized Yankees." By October 10, the troops arrived at their new posts.
 
Companies A, B, C, and D of the 11th O.V.C. were scheduled to muster out at Omaha, Nebraska, in April 1865. To fill the gap, the 11th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry was sent out. The Kansas troops arrived in the area April 19 and established regimental headquarters about six miles from Platte Bridge Station at a temporary tent camp called Camp Dodge. Additional reinforcements in the region included members of both the 3rd and 6th U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments, made up of “Galvanized Yankees.”


In response to the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre of Black Kettle’s Cheyenne by Colonel Chivington’s militia in Colorado Territory, Plains tribes increased raids along the trails the following spring. In July 1865, Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho gathered to attack Platte Bridge Station. On July 26, Lieutenant Caspar Collins led a small detachment from Platte Bridge Station to escort an army supply train traveling from Sweetwater Station. Less than a mile from the bridge, Collins’ men were ambushed and had to fight their way back to the fort. Five soldiers including Collins were killed in the Battle of Platte Bridge. Sergeant Amos Custard and 24 men with the supply wagons were attacked later that day five miles west of the fort. Only three soldiers survived the Battle of Red Buttes.

On October 26, new troops from Company A, C, F, and G of the 6th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry arrived at Platte Bridge Station. The October post return for 1865 reported the following troops on duty: nine officers and 82 men of the 6th West Virginia, two officers and 149 men of the 11th Ohio, and three officers and 11 men of the 6th Infantry.

 

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also, go to this link:  http://www.historynet.com/lieutenant-casper-collins-fighting-the-odds-at-platte-bridge.htm 

Read the battle summary of Platte Bridge Station.  Spencers were used in this battle...maybe yours ??? ???

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Arizona Trooper:
Is that an M-1860 or M-1865? An M-1860 with that number ought to be a rifle. M-1865 carbines in that range would have been been delivered in June or July of 1865, too late to be at Platte Bridge Station. Most M-1865s sat in storage until sold off as surplus. There are a lot of beautiful, almost new M-1865s because of that. A lot were issued to the post war regular cavalry. The 7th had theirs up to the mid 1870s, even though the company closed in 1869. Many more went to western militia units, teamsters, settlers and so on. Thousands went to France for the Franco-Prussian War. Unfortunately, the regular army didn't keep serial number records, so it's anybody's guess who a particular gun would have been issued to, if anyone. The 10th Cav. marked their guns on the buttstocks fairly consistently. Other units did when there was a problem with them walking off, but it wasn't an Army policy. G. Remmel is most likely the guy that bought it surplus.

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