Rifles fitted with telescopic sights were used in warfare long before World War I. Some amazing feats of marksmanship were reported during the American Civil War with the surprisingly accurate ...

Although the end of the American Civil War resulted in a rapid drop in ... Germany was the leader in the field of telescopic-sighted rifles because of its long hunting tradition and access to ...

Civil War rifles were accurate for hundreds of yards, with some being deadly at up to 1,000 yards. (These are the 14 guns that helped fight the Revolutionary War.) To compile a list of 22 guns ...

Bell had traveled alongside the Union troops as a camp worker — not an uncommon role for African Americans at this early point in the Civil War ... He picked up a gun and fired it at the ...

But when the Civil War began in 1861, members of the Guard left to join both the Union and the Confederacy. The Lexington Rifles had already organized with other Fayette County companies to form ...

The weapon, a .38-caliber long rifle was used by William Ross during the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, the assistant to the curator of the Confederate Museum Joseph Ricci said during a ...