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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...