The men who helped build Plymouth, Nebraska were soldiers before they were farmers, Union Army veterans who laid a foundation of service in the northeast corner of Jefferson County.

Civil War Gen. Benjamin Butler also purchased one, which his troops used in the final year of the war. The Gatling gun was officially adopted by the U.S. Army in 1866.

A rare Civil War 1875 Gatling gun sold at auction for $93,000 to a private East Coast collector at Wednesday's Nye & Company's Americana auction.

The Gatling Gun actually only saw limited use in the Civil War and wasn’t officially used by the U.S. government until 1866, when it was used by the U.S. Cavalry on the frontier until it was ...

Keith Takacs of Lilly checks to make sure a Gatling gun is unloaded at Historic Hanna’s Town on Sunday, July 30. He took part in the Westmoreland Historical Society’s Civil War encampment and ...

While Gatling guns didn’t change the outcome of the Civil War (unlike some technology that certainly could have), they played a major part in the colonial wars of the next 50 years.

It is based on the Gatling principle, which permits a high rate of fire while also reducing heat and barrel erosion.The M61A2 20mm is just the latest generation of the Civil War-era “Gatling Gun ...

The “Ager Gun” was designed by Wilson Ager and was termed the “Ager’s Coffee Mill Gun.” It is sometimes mistaken for the much more famous Gatling gun.

The M134 GAU-17 “Vulcan” cannon is a six-barreled, air cooled, medium machine gun used primarily as a fire suppression weapon in aircraft for the U.S. military. The so-called “Gatling ...