Week 11: March
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3/12 of…1864
Charles Young; born a slave in May’s Lick, KY but grew up free because his father had escaped to Ohio and served in the Fifth Regiment of the Colored Artillery (Heavy) thus earning freedom for his family. His family later migrated to Ripley, KY where Young graduated at the top of his high school class. In a white school because that’s what there was… Young was to successfully compete for a West Point appointment and would enter the academy in 1883. {001}
1874
Died: Christian Sharps, approximate age 64 (born c. 1810): Designer of the first commercially successful breech loading rifle. Manufactured in a number of variations from military sniper rifles and cavalry carbines to sporting/buffalo rifles by several different companies with whom Sharps was associated; C. Sharps and Co. being the last. Single shot Sharps Rifles (1859-74) are excellent long-range firearms, powerful and accurate. The design is still made today in a wide variety of calibers by a number of manufacturers, domestic and foreign. (see also: Wk. 26, 6/30/1874) Sharps also designed some fine, small, multi-barreled pistols (see: Dirk’s Derringers P. 1 left, 7th. down). {001}
1874
Jesse James said to have filled Pinkerton Agent Whicher with lead on the Lexington Road about four miles east of Independence, MO. {nothing in Pinkerton records] {001}
1880
