The 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment engaged in the first action of the Battle of Gettysburg, defending Union positions and ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

Civil War Cannons Preserved With New Technology Preservationists completed a project to maintain the safekeeping of Civil War artillery By Bruce Smith • Published June 16, 2013 • Updated on ...

Maybe it's just more cannon fodder, but James Bruckner says he'll swear to it on a stack of bibles. Bruckner says he was there that day, in the mid to late 1980s, flying kites with a group of young… ...

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.