Musket

My blood pumping. My ears ringing. The air full of energy. I feel alive. Every year hidden in the woods of Mineral City, Ohio, lies one of the biggest Christian music festivals in the country. Alive. For four days every year, music is blasting around the clock in this small town, and this year I was lucky enough to go. A small group of friends and I braved the six and a half hour drive to be a part of the madness. The gang, Beth, Rae-Lynn, Katelyn, Brandon, Josh, and I, all piled up into…

Many cavalry regiments in the Army of the Potomac were also outfitted with breech-loaders. Infantry regiments in the Army of the Potomac were at the time outfitted with muzzleloaders. A muzzle loading rifle musket like the one with which Lindsey would have been armed could have been loaded and fired three times per minute by a trained soldier. The Battle of Fair Oaks or Seven Pines began on May 31, 1862 when the army of Confederate General Joseph Johnston…

GUN CONTROL STARTS WITH LEGISLATION Gun laws that are ineffective are a major cause of violent crime in America, the best way to resolve the problem is to change and strength the laws. We are reaching the end of 2016, and there have been reports of at least 44,427 gun related incidents. In 2015 there was a total of 53,379. In 2014 it was reported that there was 51,848 gun related incidents. (Gun Violence archive, 2016)The gun violence does not have any signs of slowing down. Every day, 48…

Curtis “Stickman” Brummitt Looking at the history of humanity, one can see that we are a people whom claim to have strong ties to morality, with the ability to actively determine right and wrong, yet every day we stray further and further from the rightness we so often claim to possess. Poets and writers, already known for criticizing humanity for its every flaw, have unsurprisingly leapt at the opportunity to again berate humans for their disregard for doing the right thing. “We must cultivate…

Those British rifles can’t even scratch our Kentucky Long rifles, but I had something a little different. I knicked a special rifle off our earlier battles in Boston before we came here, a double barrel musket. People keep telling me the rifle is called a Golcher, but all I know is it sure does feel comfortable in my hands. The Golchers a little harder to aim compared to the Kentucky long rifle, Kentucky’s have something called rifling to make them so accurate…

Why did Alexander II emancipate the serfs? Alexander II, the Tsar of Russia from 1855-1881, formally emancipated, or set free, the serfs in the Emancipation Reform of 1861 despite that it was only applied to privately owned serfs and was a measured three stage process beginning with personal freedom. Ultimately, Alexander II emancipated the serfs as it held back Russia’s economy from progressing and improving. However, the combination of various military, social and political factors also…

On the afternoon May 22, 1865, a small band of soldiers from the 22nd and 28th Iowa regiments left their camp. There had been a heavy rain the night before. Their destination was a large peach orchard not far from the rows of white canvas. Some of the men had visited the orchard before. They had discovered a kennel of “bloodhounds,” ferocious animals whom they knew were once used in the pursuit of enslaved people and believed had been placed on the trail of Union prisoners of war. The owner of…

Camilla Townsend, associate professor of history at Colgate University, wrote Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma which was published in 2004. The book is an account of Pocahontas’s life which has been dramatized through publications and movies. However, many myths exist surrounding her life. It is written chronologically and primarily covers the period from 1607 to 1622. In preparation Townsend read all relevant seventeenth century documents and stated a brave woman like Pocahontas deserves…

continental army. In camp they cooked, cleaned, and mended uniforms. On march they loaded and drove wagons and tended livestock. At coastal shipyards blacks built or repaired war vessels and their weapons. Black miners produced much of the lead to make musket balls for the rebel army. In fields and on plantations all across the new United States, black farmworkers produced the meat, grain, and produce that fed the front line troops. And others performed the dangerous military missions of spies,…

This essay will look over the reasoning behind gun control laws and why there are a good thing to have, and it will also include a very interesting disagreement point as well. The current focus on the debate is whether or not the laws would be fair, and whether or not the laws are infringing on our second amendment rights. According to some research 83% of adults are in favor of required background checks for private and gun show sales, and 56% of adults were in favor of banning all…