The Lincoln Memorial Shrine’s reproduction Civil War-era cannon will be fired at an event 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, in Smiley Park, between the Lincoln Shrine and Redlands’ A.K. Smiley Public Library.

A blast that harkens back to the past. The Lincoln Memorial Shrine’s reproduction Civil War-era cannon was fired Saturday, Aug. 9, in Smiley Park. The raucous noise of the reproduction Model 1857 ...

A piece of Winchendon’s history has been restored and returned to its proper place in the community. When members of Eugene M. Connor American Legion Post 193 noticed that the Civil War-era cannon in ...

Modern stealth warships did not invent their low visibility shapes, they rediscovered them. This breaks down how Civil War ironclads used angled armor to defeat cannon fire, and why the same geometry ...