Throughout much of the Civil War, a key Union objective ... troops make use of the rifled musket, which can be fired and reloaded rapidly. This new weapon makes waging war more efficient.

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

Historical timeline of the development of modern weapons starting ... carbines and rifles (of 144,500 made), and the Spencer became the principal repeating gun of the Civil War.

Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...