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 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.

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

1861-1865 - American Civil War. Both breech and muzzle loaded guns used. 1862 - The Gatling Gun is invented. 1869 - Center-fire cartridge introduced. 1870-1871- The Franco-German War. Breach ...

Soldiers had always marched in lines and rows; those tactics were still used in the US Civil War. But the Gatling gun began a revolution that revolutionized warfare.

The Civil War Balloonist Who Invented Aerial Recon; The RAND game took an historical event, but made a few counterfactual changes. ... and a Gatling gun had 200 times the firepower.