I stumbled across something on the interweb about the Confederate revolver. The outward appearance is that of a straight copy of the Colt 1851, except that it has 12 bolt notches or cylinder stops, whatever you choose to call them. I haven't been able to find much information as to the reason. I don't think it is a 12 shot revolver because, as far as I can tell from the photos, it only has 6 nipples. Are the extra stops nothing more than safety notches? It wouldn't make sense to me to think you had to cock and dry fire after every round, so I'm assuming that the extra notches are just skipped over during normal function...
And I wasn't sure whether to post this here or under STORM...