At least 620,000 died in the Civil War, and recent estimates suggest the number is closer to 750,000. Disease and starvation were far more deadly than cannonballs, rifles and swords.

A Vicksburg man's goal to collect guns from the Civil War period grew into a larger project when he discovered a bill of sale for a 7-year-old girl.. Then, his goal became a quest to give people a ...

The alignments that led to the Civil War are still evident in U.S. politics, including in our paralysis over gun ... 2020 book “How the South Won the Civil War,” the North may have ...

SHILOH, Tenn. - Every Civil War bullet, every sword and every musket tells a story. There's the .69 calibre musket made in 1831 by a company founded by cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney, the leaden ...

A team of underwater archaeologists from the University of South Carolina raised three Civil War cannons from the bottom of the Great Pee Dee River on Tuesday near Florence.

Such a weapon was not new to the Second World War however, and its origin dates back nearly eighty years to the American Civil War. Between 1861 and 1865 both Confederate and Federal forces ...

Defending Civil War Fort ... And no one who heard the fiery discharge of its giant solid-shot balls on April 2 could fail to recognize the North’s ... “The Biggest Gun in the ...

Rare Civil War Gatling gun sold for $93,000 at auction. ... North Jersey's 600 abandoned mines. An oil on canvas, titled "Standing Them Off," signed by Charles Schreyvogel fetched $17,500.

Civil War Gen. Benjamin Butler also purchased one, which his troops used in the final year of the war. The Gatling gun was officially adopted by the U.S. Army in 1866.

Just as guns, many of them—including those wielded by black soldiers—helped to end slavery and win the Civil War, it would take thousands of guns—this time wielded by white supremacists—to ...