This video takes you through the fascinating journey of restoring a Civil War cannon and firing it once more. From painstaking repairs to the thunderous blast, see how history comes alive with every ...

The cannon was built for coastline defense and was used on Angel Island near San Francisco. During the Civil War, the Union Army put the cannon on a barge that patrolled the Mississippi River ...

Two Civil War-era cannons, each with a small stack of cannonballs, were on the Midland County Courthouse lawn from the later 1800s until World War II, when they were donated to be melted down.

Come July 19, the Muskingum River will come alive with a Civil War reenactment that sees guests of the Lorena Sternwheeler getting shot at from the river banks — and the boat firing back.

So, it's clear during the Civil War the idea of a land-based mechanized, armored artillery platform was appreciated and understood.

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.

The show will feature cannon-firing demonstrations, memorabilia dealers and reenactors covering every conflict from the Revolutionary War to WW2.

BANGOR, Mich. — "This is really the cornerstone of our cemetery," Bangor Mayor Lynne Farmer said. After 127 years, a civil war-era Dahlgren cannon has been restored to its original condition in ...

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.

During the Civil War, many American cities and towns were intentionally destroyed as part of military strategy. Burning enemy cities served to disrupt supply lines and lower civilian morale ...