“Never. You couldn’t own a cannon during the Civil War,” the 81-year-old president claimed. “No, I’m serious. Think about it.

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment of an ... the new Minié ball bullet and the rifled cannon would inflict. The time-honored military tactic of lining ...

"It would be lovely to get to the bottom to see if we could find some evidence of this cannon emplacement in use, during the civil war in the 1640s," said Mr Cornah. "What we're likely to find is ...

Edisto Island has several properties that housed Union forces during the war. Later, in the Reconstruction ... The signs of conflict like cannon bombardments are sometimes taken as a point of ...