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

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 ...

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...

And it’s instant rapid fire. It is almost as if, when they came up with the Gatling Gun in the Civil War, where everyone’s doing single musket, and then the Gatling Gun. . . I mean like when ...

peppered them with musket fire and caused them to retreat. The site is famous for the civil war battle of Read Old Bridge.

Outdoor writer and photographer Corbet Deary is featured regularly in The Sentinel-Record. Today, Deary takes readers on a journey to Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park.

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 ...