Students uncovered Civil War-era bullets, called minié balls, glass, ceramics and more. Professors said they think the trench was likely dug by Union soldiers shortly before the Battle of Fort ...

Brett Gibbons will discuss “The Influence of the Rifled Musket” at the Colonel Henry Ryerson Civil War Round Table meeting at ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

The students found remnants of a fire, pottery, glass bottles, and a Civil War-era lead bullet known as a Minié ball. The history of the Battle of Fort Sanders sat under the feet of thousands of ...

One of the major accomplishments during the Civil War was the establishment of an ... not prepared for the devastation the new Minié ball bullet and the rifled cannon would inflict.