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 ...

Forgotten Civil War Memorial found in Alton apartment building ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

The loud booming sounds were the culmination of a 45-minute presentation by the Ninth Massachusetts Light Artillery Regiment, a group of Civil War re ... Civil War-era cannon delivers local ...

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.

Park Service gets two Civil War cannon that may have been at Battle of Bull Run in 1861. ... They were elegant Navy artillery pieces, with an anchor insignia likely stamped on the barrel.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - A rare Civil War cannon that was quietly sold to a collector and then returned for an inflated price after public outcry is back at Groton Rural Cemetery, where it had sat ...

The island was occupied by 13.000 federal troops in 1863 during the Civil War, and soldiers built roads, forts and an artillery battery, according to the city.

OSAGE — Osage’s two Civil War-era garrison cannons at the city cemetery will again be fired today at dusk to honor those who have served in the military.