Welcome to the Forum. Whenever I hear someone say this or that gun was used in the Civil War, I immediately am skeptical. It is surprising how many cartridge double-barrel shotguns and cartridge single action revolves are claimed to have been used by an ancestor in that war. It is also not possible for your revolver to have been used during the 1860s.
The US Revolver Company was part of Iver Johnson Cycle Works & Firearms Company, which operated from 1871 to 1993. They made guns under the trade-names American Eagle, Boston Bulldog, Lovell Safety, Defender, US Revolver, Swift, Secret Service, Champion, Armsworth, Viking, etc. The US Revolver was made in three different models; top-break, solid frame, and the Automatic Hammerless, but you did not mention which type of frame you have.
The top-break model was made from 1910 to 1935, the solid frame from 1910 to 1933, and the Hammerless in the same era. That means there were no antique US revolvers made, and certainly not back to the early 1860s. About the only cartridge US manufactured revolver used in the Civil Was was the Model 2 S&W. A handful of European cartridge guns were used, but seldom have documentation associated with their stories.
I do have access to manufacture dates and, depending on what your model's configuration, it could have been manufactured the following years: Solid Frame - 1915, Top-Break & Hammerless 1912.
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Gary
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