"All the little Colt revolvers would have grown into horse pistols." - President Lincoln, standing in telegraph office. A message came into the War Department that a skirmish with the enemy yielded the capture of 30 prisoners, all armed with Colt revolvers. President Lincoln commented with a twinkle in his eye that the dispatch would likely be exaggerated later by the newspapers. "All the little Colt revolvers would have grown into horse pistols."

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Subject: "All the little Colt revolvers would have grown into horse pistols."

Description: President Lincoln, standing in telegraph office. A message came into the War Department that a skirmish with the enemy yielded the capture of 30 prisoners, all armed with Colt revolvers. President Lincoln commented with a twinkle in his eye that the dispatch would likely be exaggerated later by the newspapers. "All the little Colt revolvers would have grown into horse pistols."

Lincoln quotes by Dr. Wayne Temple; text by Betty Canterbury.

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