When Confederate forces opened fire April 12, 1861, on Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C., it signaled the start of the Civil War. “President Abraham Lincoln recognized Washington, D.C., lay vulnerable ...
The Pettengill revolver, a double-action-only muzzleloading design created in the 1850s, initially secured a large Union Army contract during the Civil War but ran into production delays that led to ...
This river has been here longer than any of us. During the Civil War, it saw movement, conflict, and loss. Recovering three war-era firearms from the water wasn’t about excitement it was about history ...