Union and Confederate forces re-enacting Pickets charge the 155th Gettysburg National Civil …
A sampling of Civil War cannons at the Visitors Centre Parking Lot at the Vicksburg Battlefield including the Dahlgren gun, Rodman gun, howitzers, smoothbores, Parrott guns, siege and Coehorn mortars and more!
We fired 17 rounds of Canister from an original Civil War Napoleon Field Cannon for a study on battlefield archeology. Each Canister shell contained 27 steel balls 1.5" in dia that were painted a certain color and then fired out onto a field from various cannon positions. The cannon's coordi…
A modern day recreation of a 17th century cannon capable of firing a single nine pound shot reveals the devastation it can wreak on a ship’s hull – not to mention the crew.
This is an open discussion for the Civil War artillery community. The Burton vs. Dyer Controversy. The magazines are in order of year and numb…
Slow motion sound and musicy things by: Gordon McGladdery did the outro music the video. Checkout "A Shell In The PIt.”
Today we are taking a Closer Look at a Bronze Model 1857 12-pounder Napoleon Light Field Cannon, Dated 1863.
Today we take a closer look at a Civil War bronze 12-pounder mountain howitzer, with its accompanying extremely rare original carriage and limber.
While looking for cannon shown on Civil War websites, Fort Branch, Hamilton, North Carolina, proved very interesting because there was a varie…
Current Artilleryman e-Edition
At a North-South Skirmish Association (N-SSA) National Competition you will see just about every kind of field piece used in the Civil War. So…
We all know that Selma, Ala., became a Confederate center of manufacturing, famous for the producing the Brooke cannon, the ironclad CSS Tenne…
Fort James Jackson, the oldest brick fortification in Georgia, still stands on firm ground created by pilings driven into the mud. The fort is…
America’s Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War. By Kenneth R. Rutherford, PhD.