At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record ... He was sketching among the crowds watching from the seawall as Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter.

Fowling pieces for the very affluent were often lovely works of art, but impractical for ... Introduced at the start of the Civil War, Spencer repeating guns were technically advanced, used ...

PITTSBURGH–As the Civil War was raging, thousands of American readers would wait to get news on the conflict every seven days from Harper’s Weekly, then the most widely-read periodical in the United ...