Harrington & Richardson chose to celebrate its 100th anniversary—along with the company’s heritage of building firearms for ...

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.

A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...

The year: 1861. The problem ... And bizarrely, it was tried and kind of worked. Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon ...

"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 ...

Editor's note: On this day April 12, 1861, the Confederate Army opened fire at Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay, launching the American Civil War. The War raged for four years and caused the deaths ...