Revolutionary Firepower: How Civil War Weapons Changed Combat. The Civil War was by far the most deadly war in American history. The bloody four-year conflict between the northern and southern ...

"Civil War weapons are sky-high now," said Ed Higginbotham, a local gun expert who helped examine the weapon for the auction house, Wickliff Auctioneers. "Anything used by the Confederacy is ...

It started as a mundane environmental cleanup along the Congaree River in Columbia, South Carolina, and ended as a trip back in time to the last days of the Civil War. Archaeologists uncovered a ...

These forgotten weapons are landmines we’re found metal detecting and used in the American Civil War and are a rare part of history that forever changed warfare. They were used by the ...

The American Civil War is no exception. Here are a few examples of technological leaps, and tragicomic missteps, in military machinery during the United States’ north-south skirmishes: 1.

The Yemeni civil war has served as a proxy war for competing interests in the Middle East since 2014, when Iranian-backed Houthi rebels took control of the government.

SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Preservationists are using computer sensors and other high-tech methods to protect massive iron Civil War guns at a fort in South Carolina that fired on Fort Sumter ...

Robert Ferro is always in search of a good story that gives a personal glimpse into America’s past. As a collector of swords from the Civil War, he takes pride in being a link between a weapon ...