- Civil War Field Fortifications
 - Basic information on the design, construction, and use of field fortifications during the Civil War. Includes illustrated glossary and excerpts from military manuals. - Civil War Small Arms
- Describes the typical weaponry available to infantry and cavalry soldiers.
- CSS Hunley@
- Learn about CSS Hunley, the U.S. Confederate submarine which sank undersea while sinking a warship near Charleston, South Carolina, in 1864. Sites offer history, background information, current news, archaeological efforts, and data obtained from a 23-year long search project that led to the discovery of the sunk CSS Hunley.
- Gatling Gun in the Civil War
- Brief article describing Richard Jordan Gatling's early machine gun and its limited field use during the war.
- Observations on the Use of the Bayonet
- Discusses the use, symbolism, and psychological effect of the bayonet in the Civil War as well as its position in the modern reenactment community.
- Storm of Shot and Shell: Weapons of the Civil War
- Photographs and text from an exhibit produced by Chicago Public Library.
- Torpedoes in the Civil War
- 1877 article by Confederate general Gabriel James Rains describing the use of torpedoes (explosive devices now called mines).
- Weapons of the American Civil War
- Overview of the artillery, small arms, and edged weapons used in the war, including a description of the lethal lead bullet known as the Minie (or Minnie) Ball.
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