Apparently, the Confederate Government held high hopes for the carbine’s output from this gun works, for the projected number of long guns produced was set at 6,000 per annum.

The Civil War is the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. It’s estimated that roughly 620,000 soldiers lost their lives over the course of the conflict, and even though roughly half of those ...

The guns of the Civil War were a major part of the evolution in American warfare, they set the tone and technology for future generations of weapons systems, many of which we still use today.

The USS Chancellorsville has been renamed the USS Robert Smalls, to honor the enslaved man who stole a Confederate battleship in the Civil War and delivered to the Union forces, loaded with weapons.

At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate guns opened fire. Over two days, more than 3,300 shells and balls would rain across the harbor. But they never succeeded in actually breaching the walls.

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 ...

Retropolis Black men weren’t allowed guns in the early Civil War. He fired one anyway. Lewis A. Bell, who fired a gun at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff in Virginia in 1861, is believed to be the ...

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 ...

Too many deaths. It's time for a red flag law. Enough is enough! The shootings by Shane James (Jr), then at Barton Creek Mall and on 6th Street are a disgrace, and it's time for a radical change.

Archaeologists have unearthed a trove of Civil War weapons from South Carolina’s Congaree River. Cannonballs, artillery shells and other items have been lurking in the waterway since February ...

The USS Chancellorsville has been renamed the USS Robert Smalls, to honor the enslaved man who stole a Confederate battleship in the Civil War and delivered to the Union forces, loaded with weapons.

The Navy has renamed the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory, to the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate steamship.