war for over 500 years. For the civil war foot soldier, their swords were the last line of defense after the cannons had fired and the flintlocks had billowed their white smoke. Officers the Union and Confederate armies commanded loyalty, respect and bravery from their troops. Their swords ...
The artifacts were discovered while crews removed tar-like material from the Congaree River and bring new tangible evidence of Union Gen. William T. Sherman's ruthless Southern campaign toward the end of theCivil War. The remains are expected to find a safer home at the South Carolina Confeder...
Swords and bayonets: as hand-to-hand combat was rare in the Civil War, the sword or bayonet was often viewed as anachronistic, adding only weight to the infantryman's arsenal. More often than not, the sword or bayonet was used as a multipurpose tool, such as cooking food over an open...
The Civil War is considered the deadliest war in American history with over 600,000 dead soldiers. During the war, soldiers used muskets, repeating rifles, knives, bayonets, swords, cannons, and ironclads. Moreover, the invention of the telegraph was an advantage to the Union forces. ...
Information and Articles About Civil War Weapons used during the American Civil War Many weapons were used in the The Civil War from knives to swords
20. “War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”― William Tecumseh Sherman 21. “A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and...
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Born in Somers, Connecticut the foal would be sold to the U.S. Government to serve in its war effort. In 1861, he and a number of other Union horses landed in Confederate hands when Southern forces at Harper’s Ferry overtook their transport train. ...