A revolutionary lever-action firearm that let a Civil War soldier fire 15 fast shots without reloading was donated to Wilson's Creek National Battlefield on Tuesday.

GUEST: I brought a Sharps & Hankins, an old Civil War rifle. This old rifle has got a 32-and-three-quarter-inch barrel, and it's got hexagon bore, and where the serial number is located is, is a ...

Much has been written about the Civil War, but after reading everything from the barrel, James felt he had something important — to his family, yes, but maybe to others, too.

The first USS Nantucket naval vessel was commissioned for the Union Army during the Civil War, heroically attacking Confederate forts in South Carolina in 1863 while trading heavy fire with the ...

CULLMAN, Ala. (AP) — A Mississippi teen who lost his Civil War-reenacting pet chicken Peep outside a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Alabama was reunited with the bird courtesy of a farmer who ...

Smoke billows from the scene of a reported barrel bomb attack in Aleppo on March 5. (Zein Al-Rifai/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) Raed al Saleh is head of the Syrian Civil Defense. No ...

A rifle used in the Battle of New Orleans that went missing from the Confederate Memorial Hall was returned to the museum over 30 years after it was stolen, FBI ...

A Mississippi teen who lost his Civil War-reenacting pet chicken Peep outside a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Alabama was reunited with the bird courtesy of a farmer who helped find the fowl.

Guest Commentary Wonder what every American carrying a gun would be like? Look to Civil War days By Matthew C. Hulbert Special to The Star November 09, 2017 8:30 PM ...

More than 100 people have been killed in three days of barrel bomb attacks by Syrian army helicopters, aid group Doctors Without Borders said on Tuesday.

Though not an uncommon episode in a civil war then in its early stages, what was truly bizarre was that the rebels had uncovered a cache of Sturmgewehr 44s—an assault rifle designed by Nazi ...