Cpl. John Mackie’s gun crew was cut down around him in a fight against Confederate troops. He cleared the casualties and kept ...

One might well wonder why an inland city was selected as the site of a Civil War naval museum. The answer is twofold. The first part involves the strategic location and industrial resources of ...

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At the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia, we got the rare chance to fire an original Brooke rifled naval cannon built in 1865. Designed near the end of the Civil War, this massive ...

Andrew Sillen announces the contradiction in this volume — "Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White" — from the start. He declares that it would be nearly impossible to write a ...

Information on the Civil War is well-known, but what about some of the factors that led to its start? This week, we examine ...