When he bagged a 120- pound doe recently, he did so with a special, and old weapon. McMahan used a 58-caliber Civil war musket, a weapon passed down in his family, that was originally used by his ...

Adam Dluzeski of Gettysburg demonstrates how to load and fire a Civil War musket as part of the National Regiment Living History program on the Gettysburg Battlefield.

Many Union sharpshooters carried Sharps rifles that fired a .52 caliber Minie Ball accurate out to 600 yards. ... > New York’s official side in the Civil War: Union. 24/7 Wall St.

Stephen Esposito, 13, gets a close look at Gerry Bliss’s Civil War musket during a Civil War Union military camp reenactment at Graue Mill, Oak Brook, Ill. Saturday, September 3, 2022.

Check out Tim Prince's appraisal of a Civil War Austrian-made musket in Springs Preserve, Hour 3. Aired 10/03/2024 | Rating TV-G Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American ...

The Civil War began on April 12 when Confederate troops bombarded the Union’s Fort Sumter in South Carolina. This first appeared in WarIsBoring here . Image : Flickr.

Nearly 700 other Civil War graves are located at Wood National Cemetery, just south of Calvary. The event was sponsored by the C.K. Pier Badger Camp #1 of Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War ...

Ankle-deep snow covers most of old St. Alexander's Cemetery, but only last fall's leaves and a thin wreath of snow ring the tombstone of Joseph Rock Sr.