Civil War rifles were accurate for hundreds of yards ... Primarily in use by the Confederacy, the LeMat had a 9-shot revolving cylinder as well as a secondary barrel that was capable of firing ...

Civil War rifles were accurate for hundreds of yards ... Primarily in use by the Confederacy, the LeMat had a 9-shot revolving cylinder as well as a secondary barrel that was capable of firing ...

chartered the National Rifle Association (NRA) in New York City on this day in history, Nov. 17, 1871. Civil War veterans Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate created the organization ...

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 ... not allowed to have guns or participate ...