Battledress Evolution: Combat Uniforms of the US Army
@media (max-width:576px) { .read-more-content { height: 230em; } } REVOLUTIONARY WAR Today’s Army Service Uniform (ASU), which is the military uniform worn by United States Army personnel in situations...
View ArticleSpec Ops History: Early Hot Air Balloons in the Civil War
@media (max-width:576px) { .read-more-content { height: 230em; } } With the Civil War about to erupt in April 1861, Thaddeus S.C. Lowe decided to fly his hot air balloon from Cincinnati to Washington,...
View ArticlePorter Turret Rifle: The Most Interesting, Flawed Civil War Gun
@media (max-width:576px) { .read-more-content { height: 230em; } } The first ironclad warship commissioned by the United States Navy, the USS Monitor, proved the effectiveness of a rotating turret. The...
View ArticleBillinghurst-Requa Battery Gun: The First Machine Gun
@media (max-width:576px) { .read-more-content { height: 230em; } } The Billinghurst-Requa battery gun is an unusual piece of armament that resulted from an equally unusual partnership between two men...
View ArticleNew Militaria & Firearms Auction: John Wayne’s Revolvers, Hitler’s Desk
@media (max-width:576px) { .read-more-content { height: 230em; } } Have you ever wanted to own John Wayne’s revolvers? The revolvers and much, much more can be yours when Ohio-based Milestone Auctions...
View ArticleCivil War Revolvers: The British Wheelguns Used in America’s Fight
@media (max-width:576px) { .read-more-content { height: 230em; } } Great Britain’s role in America’s early history has been one of both adversary and ally. From the fight for our nation’s independence...
View ArticleA Confederate Sniper Had More Than 100 Union Kills – All For Revenge
@media (max-width:576px) { .read-more-content { height: 230em; } } When we think of snipers today, chances are good we’re thinking of either Tom Berenger or some burly special operator with a...
View ArticleThe Gifted Psychopath: Civil War’s “Bloody Bill” Anderson
@media (max-width:576px) { .read-more-content { height: 410em; } } William T. “Bloody Bill” Anderson was quite the gifted psychopath. The deadliest Confederate guerilla leader of the American Civil...
View ArticleColt’s Old-School Revolving Rifles | Revolver Rewind
@media (max-width:576px) { .read-more-content { height: 230em; } } The very first firearm ever manufactured by Samuel Colt was a rifle! Although Colt is known the world over for its legendary handguns,...
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