Some Civil War monuments -- including cannons in Midland and Bay City -- were given away to help win World War II. Two Civil War-era cannons, each with a small stack of cannonballs, were on the ...

I know that headline seems a little ridiculous: why were there no tanks in the Civil War? Most of you are likely thinking ‘because nobody built any, idiot.’ While you’d be absolutely right ...

A Reading foundry manufactured cannons for the Union Army during the Civil War. Scott Foundry fabricated the “Rodman” cannon at its Eighth and Buttonwood plant, according to an account … ...

The obsolete split-tail design was used in the Mexican War (1846) and is simpler to fabricate than a Civil War type. This is the cannon that arrived in Neponset in 1862. Advertisement ...

Like many boys in the South, Sam White got hooked on the Civil War early, digging up rusting bullets and military buttons in the battle-scarred earth of his hometown. IE 11 is not supported.

Moon rocks, Civil War cannons, artworks and more at gorgeous R.I. State House ... (Victor Zucchi, an Italian-born artist who went on to design murals for dozens of churches across the U.S.). ...

The Civil War was by far the most deadly war in American history. ... A mature design with design roots in French artillery (hence the nickname), it was considered safe and reliable, ...

Sam White got hooked on the U.S. Civil War early, digging up rusting bullets and military buttons in the battle-scarred earth of his hometown. As an adult, he crisscrossed the Virginia countryside ...

Virginia relic collector Sam White was killed when the Civil War Cannonball he was trying to restore was exploded, sending chunk of shrapnel through the front porch of a house a quarter-mile away.

The CIVIL WAR transformed Cleveland from a commercial village to a city dependent on manufacturing. Migrating Connecticut settlers, one historian holds, transplanted their religious, political, and ...