The only thing I was able to learn from a few quick Internet searches about the name stamped there was a reference to a "Capt. F. B. Potts" paying $19.00 in dues to the Society in a document containing hundreds of names of military people, all paying some amount of dues money. The title of the document was "Recorded Procedures of the Society of the Army of Tennessee" and dated 1879. It could be deduced that Capt. F.B. Potts may have been around twenty years old in 1879 and in 1922 or so would have been around sixty-five or so and may well have risen to the rank of Lieutenant General by then. Just a WAG on my part but it is quite plausible.
Further examination in this same document yields the name of Brevit Major General B.F. Potts of Helena, MT. Probably nothing to do with the subject of the name stamped on the gun.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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