Original U.S. Indian Wars M1874 .45/70 McKeever Cartridge Box with New Jersey Plate - Marked to Watervliet Arsenal - Springfield Trapdoor Rifle Japanese Holsters The fittings and leather body

The fittings and leather body have been repainted OD green at one point

Fort Blakely continued to fight after Spanish Fort's fall on April 8

with most of the original nickel plating still intact

The 34th Arkansas crossed the Arkansas River on December 2

he surprised and destroyed Chief Mow-way's village of Quahadi and Kotsoteka Comanches on the North Fork of the Red River about six miles (10 km) east of the site of present-day Lefors

Original U.S. Indian Wars M1874 .45/70 McKeever Cartridge Box with New Jersey Plate - Marked to Watervliet Arsenal - Springfield Trapdoor Rifle Japanese Holsters The fittings and leather bodyOriginal Items: Only One Available. This is a very nice Model 1874 McKeever cartridge box, designed to hold twenty . 45 70 "Government" cartridges for the Springfield Trapdoor rifle, ten on each side. These are held in place by fabric loops, and the box opens up like a clam shell, and is hinged at the bottom with a brass rod. A leather closure tab fastens to brass finial on the top. The box was a very well liked design, so after the U. S. Army Adopted