A reproduction Gatling gun drew a crowd at Historic Hanna’s Town on Sunday, July 30, during the Westmoreland Historical Society’s Civil War encampment and battle reenactment.

What problems did the Gatling gun solve? Galling gun: An early-century hand-driven machine gun that was the first to solve loading issues, reliability issues, and sustained firing issues. The American ...

Soldiers had always marched in lines and rows; those tactics were still used in the US Civil War. But the Gatling gun began a revolution that revolutionized warfare.

1861 - Breech loaded guns in common use. 1861-1865 - American Civil War. Both breech and muzzle loaded guns used. 1862 - The Gatling Gun is invented. 1869 - Center-fire cartridge introduced.

The Civil War, Rewritten: What If the Battle of Gettysburg Had Machine Guns? Here’s how the U.S. Army is wargaming alternative history to enhance its weapons strategies.

Most people believe that the first rapid-fire gun was the Gatling gun, which was invented in 1862 by Richard Gatling and used in the Civil War to deliver devastating losses, the likes of which no ...

A Civil War soldier statue erected in 1924 on Greenwood Avenue and the actions of local soldiers inspired a Disney movie.

During the American Civil War the worlds first effective machine gun The Gatling Gun fired five bullets at a time and while never gaining traction during the war went on to be a major mile stone ...

Two long years after the outbreak of the American Civil War, Richard Gatlin, the creator of his devastating machine-gun namesake, offers his invention to the Federal Government. As a result ...

1861 - Breech loaded guns in common use. 1861-1865 - American Civil War. Both breech and muzzle loaded guns used. 1862 - The Gatling Gun is invented. 1869 - Center-fire cartridge introduced.

The Gatling gun was invented by Richard Jordan Gatling in an effort to peacefully end the battle and reduce casualties and costs of the war, said reenactor Dave Mason of Centerville.