Pp. xxiv, 396. Illus., tables, diagr., notes, biblio., index. $50.00. ISBN: 0807178004 A Detail Look at Field Artillery in the Civil War Earl Hess wanted to know what made Civil War field artillery so ...

The Civil War nearly claimed another casualty after an archaeologist discovered a live artillery round buried ... time such a thing was uncovered on the field. The shell likely dates back to ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

OSAGE — Osage’s two Civil War-era garrison cannons at ... cemetery in what was known as Potter’s Field, the original cement slabs on which the cannons sat since the early 1930s began to ...

When members of Eugene M. Connor American Legion Post 193 noticed that the Civil War-era cannon in Legion Park was showing signs of disrepair, they decided to use some of the money they received ...

On the last day of summer, in central Virginia, a battalion of Confederate soldiers marches in orderly ranks onto the field sloping ... uniforms reenacting the Civil War. How much, I wanted ...

The third anniversary of the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial Shrine’s reproduction Civil War-era cannon will be celebrated ... 1857 Napoleon 12-pounder field gun, manufactured by Trail ...

Volunteers and members of the Third Iowa Light Artillery unit of Civil War re-enactors led a unique salute to our nation’s fallen soldiers this memorial day weekend, firing rounds from two of Iowa’s ...

Every cannon blast at the Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum serves as a somber reminder of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. At a Memorial Day ceremony, hundreds of people honored ...