Capt. Townsend's Company "Robertson Five Shooters" from Robertson county Texas where provided with this weapon in early summer 1861 by the county government. Cartridges for this weapon where found in their positions in the trenches at Petersburg leading to speculation that they carried some of these weapons throughout the war. The 4th Texas was with Gen. Longstreet at the Chickamauga, Chattanooga and East Tennessee campaigns.