The 15-inch Brooke rifle was one of the most powerful artillery pieces of the Civil War. Designed for coastal defense, it could fire massive projectiles with devastating impact. Watch as this ...

This muzzle-loading artillery safety qualification program for re-enactors and history buffs will be held on April 8 featuring an original bronze 12-pounder Napoleon Civil War cannon, cast in 1863 ...

Civil War Cannons Do Disappearing Act. By Ben Dobbin . Aug. 21, 2005 12 AM PT . ... Watterson’s Civil War Artillery Museum opens by appointment only, drawing a few hundred visitors a year.

DOVER — It took seven soldiers to operate a 1,230-pound bronze Napoleon-style cannon and limber during the Civil War. ... When he met with the Gettysburg National Park’s artillery expert, ...

PETERSBURG, Va. – Bomb disposal experts removed four Civil War-era artillery rounds from Virginia's Siege Museum after X-rays showed several artillery rounds stored there are capable of exploding.

Civil War artillery lesson Members of a Civil War living history encampment outside Gettysburg's Seminary Ridge Museum give young visitors a lesson in how to fire the cannons. In the video above ...

Explore Civil War history at Castlerock Museum on July 12, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Enjoy reenactors, artillery replicas, and period ...

Appraisal: Civil War Artillery Shell, ca. 1863. GUEST: I mean, it looks like something that came from a cannon or a gun, but I got it at a yard sale for three dollars ...

The Lincoln Memorial Shrine’s reproduction cannon, which was dedicated in August 2021, will be fired once again in an event beginning at 10 a.m. Aug. 26 in Redlands’ Smiley Park, between the ...

The Lorena Sternwheeler Civil War Reenactment and ... “They won’t even let me know where the cannons are,” said Captain Bill Page of the ... “We have artillery people on the ...

The third anniversary of the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial Shrine’s reproduction Civil War-era cannon will be celebrated with an artillery demonstration 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 17.