[The following interesting and valuable paper was written in 1866 as an appendix to a proposed history of Longstreet’s corps by its able and accomplished Chief of Artillery.]
English Blakely Rifle
There’s a point in Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels (1974), when General Longstreet turns to his artillery chief and asks, “How old are you, son?”
ACCOUTREMENT: Also known as Accouterment. A generic term given to those items of equipment, other than clothing and weapons, issued to militar…
DAHLGREN BREECH-STRAP: A strap connecting the breech with a separate trunnion-ring, in order to avoid longitudinal weakness in a gun, without …
FABRICATION OF PROJECTILES: Shot and Shells, depending upon their kind and size, should be made of gray or of mottled cast-iron, of good quali…
Prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, the arsenals of the United States Army did not carry any rifled cannon on their inventory. Although se…
The following list of Confederate, United States and Great Britain Patents during the period of 1855 until 1879 is by no means complete. It is…
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Confederate manufactures appear in alphabetical order; each reference has been taken from text listed below the manufactures section and may n…
Thomas S. Dickey Sr. (1925–1987)Courtesy The Atlanta History Center Using a metal detector to comb battlefields, Dickey acquired the largest a…
Federal and Confederate Manufacturers
My first interest in the Civil War came in the early 1960’s with the 100th Anniversary. At the time, I was in my early teens and unaware of co…
American Society of Arms Collectors (ASAC) members make presentations at meetings reflecting areas of their expertise or recent research. Thes…
Firing the Brooke rifled naval cannon at the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia! And a little history on the cannon.
USS Cairo was the lead ship of the City-class gunboats and named for Cairo, Illinois. In June 1862, she captured the Confederate garrison of F…
Union and Confederate forces re-enacting Pickets charge the 155th Gettysburg National Civil War Battle Reenactment in Gettysburg Pennsylvania.
A sampling of Civil War cannons at the Visitors Centre Parking Lot at the Vicksburg Battlefield including the Dahlgren gun, Rodman gun, howitz…
We fired 17 rounds of Canister from an original Civil War Napoleon Field Cannon for a study on battlefield archeology. Each Canister shell con…