History: The 13" Union Seacoast Mortar saw action in almost every theater in the American Civil War. It was used by both the Army and the Navy. The official records site that four 13-inch mortars participated in the capture of Island No. 10. General Gillmore had a dozen, which took part in the reduc...
Enjoy placing your gun behind a replica of Battery Stevens. Battery Stevens was located on Morris Island, South Carolina and was one of many sand forts protecting heavy Union artillery. Battery Stevens was immediately to the left of Battery Reno. It was 4,278 yards from Fort Sumter and 1,875 yards a...
The Confederates had an Armstrong Rifle at Ft. Fisher North Carolina guarding Wilmington. The gun fired a studded steel shell with a 30-pound charge of powder. The gun weighed 15,737 pounds. The gun is on display at West Point as old trophy No. 179. The Armstrong was the pride of Ft. Fisher sea face ...
New - Our carriages are now made of spun cast pewter! One of the most famous guns of the war was an 8-Inch Parrott Rifle which was nicknamed the "Swamp Angel". The Swamp Angel made history when on August 22, 1863 when it fired Parrott shells into the city of Charleston. Using a compass siting of St....
History: Captain Thomas Rodman, responsible for increasing and improving endurance of heavy ordinance, changed the current foundry methods for casting large hollow cylinders. He revived a long abandoned hollow casting method with a critical difference. Captain Rodman substituted a patented "co...
