Wheeler is reported to have said, "Only a PRISSY DAMNyankee would haul around a damn knife, when he could carry four pistols"!
fwiw, Gen Wheeler routinely is reported to have carried as many as EIGHT (8) Colt's revolvers in Cuba. - 4 on his saddle, two spares in his saddlebags & 2 on his belt (one of his "belt guns" was his engraved 1851 Navy Colt, which he had carried during the WBTS!). he was, to say the least, WELL-armed!
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My DH has been known to carry as many as three. I content myself with one concealed and one in the car.
(No Navy Colts though. Wish I had one!)