Following the Civil War, Prussia and Austria made drastic changes that aided their artillery such as the Prussian’s reliance on steel breech-loading rifles that improved their training. Artillery in ...

After all, he might be the only man in America who's building an addition to house five Civil War artillery pieces. He has also collected locks of hair from Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Jeb ...

A dig at a Civil War battle ... means of building up artillery units during the Civil War. They featured cast-iron tapered barrels with muzzles thinner than the breech in order to save weight.

A shooter uses one hand for firing, and a prop to steady the gun.The first device, or "lock," for mechanically ... repeating gun of the Civil War. 1861 - Breech loaded guns in common use.

Muzzle loading firearms gave way to breach-loading repeating rifles, while the Gatling Gun was employed in small numbers. Fifty years before the Civil War ... and to direct artillery fire.

As Harry Shapell works at the Fort Sill Field Artillery Museum, he breaths new life into a historical artifact -- a cast-iron Civil War-era Confederate ... surface from breech to muzzle of brass ...

The Civil War nearly claimed another casualty after an archaeologist discovered a live artillery round buried under a foot of dirt at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. Park ...

While touring historic Fort Sumter with the National Park Service, we spotted a Civil War artillery projectile still embedded in the brick wall—right where it struck over 160 years ago.

and Ireland’s Civil War began with the firing of the field guns, last used in Dublin, and indeed on the Four Courts, by the British during the rebellion of 1916. The use of artillery to oust the ...

In the summer of 1863, Union and Confederate soldiers met at Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Today ... bullet-shaped artillery shell buried underground at Gettysburg National ...