The Gallager carbine is one of the American Civil War's lesser-known cavalry arms, but it still used a unique design that allowed it to adapt to the metallic cartridge era that followed.

In the Civil War, small arms include muskets, rifles, carbines, pistols and revolvers. These weapons are identified by their caliber, their maker and their method of loading.

On a forgotten Civil War battlefield, we discovered relics that may have belonged to a fallen cavalry officer. These finds help reconstruct a powerful story of courage, struggle, and sacrifice. As ...

Many Union cavalry regiments formed in the early part of the war were armed with only revolvers and sabers. One such unit was the 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry formed in the fall of 1862.

Check out Jeff Shrader’s appraisal of a Civil War cavalry officer’s presentation sword in Junk in the Trunk 13! Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines.

Gen. George A. Custer, among the boldest cavalry commanders in history, saw the zeal and dash he esteemed in Connecticut’s Civil War horse soldiers. “I cannot fail to remember the many … ...

Cavalry, Infantry and Guns, OurThree years of war have taught our people many truths which will hereafter almost be axioms in the conduct of military affairs on this continent. It is very manifest ...

The Third Arkansas Cavalry was organized in October 1863 at Little Rock, becoming one of four Union cavalry regiments raised in Arkansas during the Civil War. Led by Col. Abraham Ryan, the Third ...

The National Rifle Association, which has some 5.5 million members in the U.S., was chartered in New York City on Nov. 17, 1871, by veteran Union officers of the Civil War.