In most key aspects of the American Civil War – from money and manpower to guns and supplies – the Confederacy was outmatched by federal forces. Sharpshooter units were one notable exception ...

A group of Native Americans from throughout Michigan, known as Company K, volunteered as sharpshooters during the U.S. Civil War, an official ... named after a Native American,” Brant said ...

Civil War sharpshooter Berry Benson fought in several ... and worked on developing high-protein food crops for poor African-American sharecroppers. Benson also became a nationally known puzzle ...

Southern sharpshooters were successful in picking ... Only Gettysburg resulted in more casualties. The bloodiest Civil War battle contested in the South, from September 18-20, 1863, 34,000 ...

A screening of "The Road to Andersonville: Michigan Native American Sharpshooters in the Civil War" will be at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Pokagon Community Center on Dailey Road in Dowagiac.

A Native American sharpshooter’s return home during the Civil War greatly surprised his wife. She had been notified that he had died. Quita Shier of Larkin Township recently told area senior ...

Attendees of the 142nd NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits, which begin Friday, May 3, 2013, are invited to join American Rifleman ... The session "Civil War Sharpshooters" will be hosted on Saturday ...

Anesthesia was in its infancy when the American Civil War ... Albin, himself a World War II combat medic, tracked the story of Union Private James Winchell, a member of Berdan’s First United States ...

The proposed memorial highway would run through tribal lands in Leelanau County, where descendants of Company K soldiers ...