The Confederate revolving cannon was a weapon developed and used during the U.S. Civil War. The weapon had a design similar to that of a revolver pistol...

single example of a two-inch-bore, five-shot revolver cannon was built and used by the Confederate States of America during the Siege of Petersburg. It...

The Confederate States Army (CSA), also called the Confederate army or the Southern army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America...

negationist mythology of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy spread by Confederate sympathizers around the turn of the 20th century, historical assessments...

The military forces of the Confederate States, also known as Confederate forces or the Confederate Armed Forces and Confederate States Armed Forces, were...

sufficiently perfected. Agar gun Centrifugal gun Confederate Revolving Cannon Gatling gun Puckle gun Revolver cannon George M. Chinn (1951). The Machine Gun,...

technology could achieve. During the 19th century, The Confederate Army used a single 2-inch revolver cannon with 5 manually rotated chambers during the Siege...

offensive against the Confederate capital of Richmond. Irvin McDowell led a force of 30,000 men south, where he met the Confederate Army at the First Battle...

The Hotchkiss revolving cannon of the late 19th century was not a revolver cannon in the modern sense but was rather a rotary cannon, with multiple barrels...

fought in many of the key battles of the Eastern theater and defeated the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia led by General Robert E. Lee at the Battle...

Military Arms Armies Campaign Medal Cavalry Confederate Home Guard Confederate railroads Confederate revolving cannon Field artillery Infantry Medal of Honor...

mass escape, but their efforts were nearly useless in the tumult. As Confederate troops raced to the scene, the steamboats took off toward Beaufort with...

pro-Union territory (four statehood attempts were thwarted, largely by Confederate sympathizers in July 1862, February 1863, February 1864, and January...

Confederate surrenders. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered his large Army of Tennessee and the Southeastern Department on April 26. The Confederate cabinet...

Only an even less influential rump convention purported to secede. When Confederate armies invaded Kentucky in 1862, bringing extra arms to equip new volunteers...

Ironton, with 3,000 untrained troops, to stop a potential Confederate attack led by Confederate General William J. Hardee. Immediately thereafter, Frémont...

Colt Single Action Army "Peacemaker" (US – revolver – 1873) Confederate Revolving Cannon Derringer (USA - small handgun) Philadelphia Deringer: 1852 Colt...

the United Kingdom and France from recognizing the independence of the Confederate States. He was one of the targets of the 1865 assassination plot that...

troops had overrun the road, captured a Confederate cannon and were holding the road between Beverly and the Confederate troops west of their position on Rich...

cannons. The First and Second Battle of Mesilla have an interpretive sign on the Plaza in historic Mesilla, which was the capital of the Confederate Arizona...

American Civil War, especially in the early days as both the Union and Confederate armies struggled to arm their rapidly-expanding forces. Everything from...

fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland...

mortars and rifled cannons on nearby Tybee Island, Gillmore opened a bombardment of the fort on April 10, 1862. The Confederates surrendered the following...

British sailors were released, while Confederates went to prison camps. The ships were unarmed (the weight of the cannon would slow them down), so they posed...

the few remaining Agar machine guns were sold for $500 each. Confederate Revolving Cannon Gatling gun Gorgas machine gun Lowell machine gun Pritchard,...

and outfitting with cannon of the newly built British steamer Enrica as a sloop-of-war, which thereafter became the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama...

the United States and the United Kingdom. The U.S. Navy captured two Confederate envoys from a British Royal Mail steamer; the British government protested...

the Battle of Gettysburg, was attended by more than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans, and included reenactments of elements of the battle, including...

to manufacture cannons. Butler made a thrust toward Petersburg and was met by Johnson's division at Swift Creek. A premature Confederate attack at Arrowfield...

Reconstruction. He opposed the lenient policies of Johnson towards the former Confederate States. Johnson's attempt to dismiss Stanton ultimately led to Johnson...