Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

Wickham of Philadelphia had made this smoothbore musket in 1822, and it was an obsolete flintlock. By the time of the Civil War, muskets ... along with two paper-wrapped .69-cal.

Evolutionary Cartridge Types (a) Cal. .58 paper-wrapped cartridge for U.S. Civil War period muzzle ... made for Colt revolving rifles. (d) Hunt cal. .54 'loaded ball' cartridge for Jennings ...

Archaeologists found a handful of musket balls near a famed Revolutionary War bridge in Massachusetts — and they were likely fired by a colonial militia during a skirmish that later inspired the ...

Museum curator Nikki Walsh holds up two Revolutionary War musket balls Monday at Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord, Mass. Archeologists say the musket balls date back nearly 250 years ...

hundreds of militiamen lined a hillside in Massachusetts and started firing a barrage of musket balls toward retreating British troops, marking the first major battle in the Revolutionary War.