The era of the American Civil War coincided with the Industrial Revolution, which, for better or for worse, meant that weapons could be produced on a mass market scale, arming both the Union and Confederate troops with larger numbers of more sophisticated weapons than any war in U.S. History. Despite the fact that innovations in [...]

Horse Artillery Soldier
The faded photographs and illustrations in textbooks often picture the Civil War soldier, Federal or Rebel, sword in hand, posing for a portrait, or on his horse or on foot, charging into battle.
That sword in hand, however, is not a sword at all - rather, it’s a saber, a weapon with [...]