"T. L. Pruett, a native Kentuckian, was plying his trade just east of Montgomery, Alabama in Autauga County....Pruett made a D-guard knife for each of the Autauga Guard’s enlisted, between September 16, 1861 when the Autauga Guard first formed and the first week in October of the same year. Pruett supplied all 39 enlisted men in Captain Faulkner’s Autauga Guard with a huge iron mounted D-Guard knife with a nineteen inch blade..."

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