1861 - Breech loaded guns in common use. 1861-1865 - American Civil War. Both breech and muzzle loaded guns used. 1862 - The Gatling Gun is invented. 1869 - Center-fire cartridge introduced.

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

"The idea was, once fully manned with all the gun ... Civil War ended in 1865. Four years to the day after Sumter fell, Anderson – by then a retired general – returned to raise the American ...