SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) – Preservationists are using computer sensors and other high-tech methods to protect massive iron Civil War guns at a fort in South Carolina that fired on Fort Sumter to ...

QUINCY — With thousands of Union troops mustered at the start of the Civil War, federal officials negotiated contracts and prices with manufacturers for needed supplies including guns. Illinois ...

It is a historic coincidence that Dahlgren's 12-inch/35-caliber M1918 railroad gun was transferred to Ft. Lee's U.S. Army Ordnance Museum, located near a Civil War battlefield that saw one of the ...

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As a young boy, Keith Takacs knew he wanted a Gatling gun. The rapid-fire weapon, a precursor to modern machine guns patented in 1862, looked cool in old cowboy movies. Fast-forward a few decades, and ...