Rifles in the Civil War

26Jun08

On May 11, 1861, some two months before the First Battle of Bull Run, Scientific American published a fascinating time-capsule of an article on “Rifles and Shooting.” At the time, target practice in the army had languished for decades, with a concordant diminution on the part of many troops to hit anything. Before the mid-1850s, target [...]

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