Historical timeline of the development of modern weapons starting at 1364 with the first recorded use of a firearm and ending in 1892 with the introduction of automatic handguns. 1364 - First ...

By the time Congress got around to awarding the promised rifles to “Aiken’s Volunteers” on May 20, 1826, the U.S. Army had updated its hardware.

and the whitewashed bricks were built for the War of 1812, and then our fort was very active during the American Civil War,” he said. Before the Coastal Heritage Society took over, this place ...

Several new exhibits have recently opened at the Hagen History Center in Erie with more on the way, museum officials ...

Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at attention in front of the Capitol. May 13, 1861. Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started.