The Pepperbox revolver was a multiple-barrel repeating firearm that h as three or more barrels grouped around a central axis. The Pepperbox gets its name as it resembles a kitchen pepper grinder. Mark Twain the famouse writer once said that that when being shot at by a Pepperbox, the safest place to be was behind it. After the war some companies made new cartridge pepperbox pistols to use as a backup weapon but they were not very popular and production did not last very long.