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Civil War Weapons

 They are a bunch of thing that you guys. YES you reading this should know!!!

Civil War weapons varied from swords to submarines, and from hunting muskets to hand grenades. With such a wide range of options, there have to a be a few with some really interesting stories to go with them!
Take for example the use of Ketchum Grenades (invented during the war) by Union troops during their attack on Port Hudson: Confederate troops cleverly used blankets to catch the grenades and throw them back down on the their attackers. One Confederate would later describe the incident like this:
"Always equal to any emergency, they quickly devised a scheme ... Spreading blankets behind the parapet, the grenades fell harmlessly into them, whereupon our boys would pick them up and hurling them ... down the moat they would ... explode."

                            

This page is the place to find all sorts of interesting stories surrounding many different Civil War weapons. Just imagine the stories that might go with the beast in the picture above...