Why does Geronimo have a Confederate Revolver?

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The interim period of the "old west", which like to refer to as the old old west, included the use of a lot of surplus weapons from the US Civil war. The transition and evolution from percussion revolvers to cartridge revolvers took time, and thus it would be common to see someone with a percussion revolver but a cartridge long arm. Let's talk about why Geronimo has a Confederate percussion revolver in this 1890's (or later) photo.