This was never truer than in the post Mexican American War (1846-1848 ... to have dependable muzzleloading rifles fire as fast as the smoothbore muskets. The combination of these advancements ...

Bradley Feely believes traditions are an integral part of the identities of the fire service at large and of the individual ...

Throughout much of the Civil ... Rifled Musket Union and Confederate troops make use of the rifled musket, which can be fired and reloaded rapidly. This new weapon makes waging war more efficient.

But his luck changed for the worse at Gettysburg, where Pickett lost a staggering number of his own men; nearly all the rest would be killed by the ... fire and repeated volleys of musket fire.

Most of the Civil War firefights occurred at one hundred yards range. Further, despite having the muzzle loading rifle, the average infantryman did not fire two volleys in one ... as in the case of ...