A rare Civil War 1875 Gatling gun sold at auction for $93,000 to a private East Coast collector at Wednesday's Nye & Company's Americana auction. ... invented during the American Civil War.

Civil War Gen. Benjamin Butler also purchased one, which his troops used in the final year of the war. The Gatling gun was officially adopted by the U.S. Army in 1866.

The Gatling Gun actually only saw limited use in the Civil War and wasn’t officially used by the U.S. government until 1866, when it was used by the U.S. Cavalry on the frontier until it was ...

It is based on the Gatling principle, which permits a high rate of fire while also reducing heat and barrel erosion.The M61A2 20mm is just the latest generation of the Civil War-era “Gatling Gun ...

The Gatling, a predecessor of the modern machine gun, was first used by Union soldiers during the Civil War By Kelsey D. Atherton Published August 22, 2013 4:34PM (EDT) ...

While Gatling guns didn’t change the outcome of the Civil War (unlike some technology that certainly could have), they played a major part in the colonial wars of the next 50 years.

On this week's episode of American Rifleman TV, we continue with the top 10 machine guns of all time, with the Gatling and Bren Gun. We'll also take a look at the CrossBreed Chest Rig Holster ...

Keith Takacs of Lilly checks to make sure a Gatling gun is unloaded at Historic Hanna’s Town on Sunday, July 30. He took part in the Westmoreland Historical Society’s Civil War encampment and ...