Google
Current archive: February 3, 2012
The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat
Written on:February 3, 2012
0
The American Civil War was the last conflict where both sides predominately used single-shot muzzle loading rifles, yet the technology of the rifle was such improved that historians have largely assumed that the rifles used in the war revolutionized the nature of the conflict. However, as historian Earl J. Hess (and a few others such as Paddy Griffith and Brent Nosworthy) has discovered, though the rifle used during the American…
Read more...In category: Civil War Soldiers