Wickham of Philadelphia had made this smoothbore musket in 1822, and it was an obsolete flintlock. By the time of the Civil War, muskets were usually rifled and were caplock percussion guns.
In a traditional service offered to Civil War veterans, the historical 4th U.S. Infantry Regiment dressed in Union uniforms ...
BBC historians have delved deep into a Devon estate where the National Trust is searching for a long lost manor house. The ...
It was pummelled by canon and musket shot for 11 weeks until the Royalists surrendered on 28 August, ending the second English Civil War. By this stage the besieged had resorted to eating their ...
The episode, titled “The Civil War’s Lost Massacre,” will help trace ... most of the men were unable to fight back due to ...