The Starr single-action army revolver was a refinement and simplification of the previous double-action version of the Model 1858 . It was also cheaper to manufacture. Around 32,000 of these revolvers were made between 1863 and 1865, numbered after the double-action Model 1858 (the lowest production numbers for the Model 1863 start at around 23,000). The company produced the guns in its own workshops in Yonkers, and later in Binghampton and Morrisania. There was only an agency in New York City, which appears in the gun marks. The sturdy and carefully crafted Starr revolvers gained popularity, and the vast majority of the single-action and double-action models were adopted by the Army (nearly 50,000 in total) during the Civil War, in which they became the third most common type of revolver after the Colt and Remington.
Length 345 mm, barrel length 202 mm, .44 calibre, weight 1,328 g.