In most key aspects of the American Civil War – from money and manpower to guns and supplies – the ... Like modern-day snipers, Civil War sharpshooters typically concealed themselves in ...

Some amazing feats of marksmanship were reported during the American Civil War with ... The M1903/W&S sniper rifles remained in use through the end of the war, and most were withdrawn from service ...

The introduction of smokeless powder with the French Model 1886 Lebel rifle ... a German sniper armed with a scope-equipped Mauser Model 98. Although the end of the American Civil War resulted ...

"I always seemed more vulnerable at home," wrote Chris Kyle in his 2012 book, American Sniper: The Autobiography ... Shooters were formed during the Civil War, by Colonel Hiram Berdan.

Weapon #56, written by Martin Pegler, covers Sharpshooting Rifles of the Civil War: Colt, Spencer, and Whitworth. Pegler is the Senior Curator of Firearms at the Roral Armories Museum in Leeds ...

American military culture is inherently linked to the firearms that defined different historical periods. In the Revolutionary War era muskets were instrumental in asserting American independence.

As a Navy SEAL sniper, Kyle holds the record for the most confirmed kills in American ... Revolutionary War. The Spencer Repeating Rifle — while most of the soldiers in the Civil War went ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The American Civil ... that the First World War was the first large scale conflict to see the use of machine guns, but it was the Civil War some fifty years earlier ...