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 ...

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.

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