“It was like being reunited with a long-lost friend,” Whitlock said Friday as he showed off the mountain ... the howitzer and used it during the rest of the war. Donated after Civil War ...

Drennen-Scott House volunteers have taken the “Mountain Howitzer” to both the Civil War re-enactment at Prairie Grove in December and the Paris Frontier days in October. A small trailer is used to ...

Company E of the 12th Iowa Infantry Regiment chose as its trophy a mountain howitzer near ... the first Democrat elected since the Civil War, the howitzer resurfaced — fully repaired and ready ...

In the Civil War, 160 years ago, the first Black soldiers fought ... Spillars now owns a replica of a 12-pound mountain howitzer. The interior tube of the cannon is not full-size but the rest of the ...

The U.S. Army has begun the process of restarting M777 howitzer production ... Even as late as the Civil War, the primary role of artillery was to attack enemy infantry, without much thought ...

who contacted the cemetery not long ago offering a full-size replica Civil War cannon — a 12-pound mountain howitzer — acquired by her late husband, Richard. Richard, who died on Feb. 6 ...

A dig at a Civil War battle site turned dangerous this month when researchers unearthed a live artillery shell. Archeologists at the Kennesaw Mountain ... the M777 howitzer, the main towed ...

Those looking to get a sense of some critical events that immediately preceded our nation’s bloodiest battle should circle July 21 and July 22 on the calendar, when the Union Mills Homestead ...

POCAHONTAS COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) — When West Virginia became a state on June 20, 1863, the Civil War was still raging, meaning that even though it was no longer part of Virginia, Confederate ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - A Civil War painting depicting a pivotal battle fought by Vermonters is coming back to the Green Mountain State. “The Vermont Division at Battle of Chancellorsville ...

FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. (AP) — A gun like those used by Confederates in the final months defending Fort Sumter is again back on the ramparts of the Charleston fort. A mountain ...

One of Wabasha County’s Civil War Mountain Howitzers will be on display in the event tent, and the Second Minnesota Light Artillery will fire a replica mountain howitzer during the event.