FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT, S.C. (AP) - A gun like those used by Confederates in the final months defending Fort Sumter is again back on the ramparts of the Charleston fort. A mountain howitzer ...

It’s an attractive display in the Drennen-Scott House's visitor center, but the Model 1841 replica “Mountain Howitzer” also serves as an educational tool for both local and national history. In use ...

The Colorado Department of Transportation will perform target practice Thursday on Red Mountain Pass using a howitzer gun. It is the second week in a row the highway department will calibrate its ...

The Mountain Howitzer saw use by the Army for about 40 years on the western plains until it was replaced by breech loading guns such as the Hotchkiss Mountain Gun. A 12-Pounder Mountain Howitzer was ...

If you were going to steal a cannon, how would you do it? Cannons, after all, are not generally associated with larceny. For starters, they’re hard to fence or pawn. But the real question when it ...

Members of the cannon demonstration crew for Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park, fire a mountain howitzer, a field cannon and a Parrott rifle on May 1 during an artillery demonstration at the park ...

FORT SUMTER NATIONAL MONUMENT — A gun like those used by Confederates in the final months defending Fort Sumter is again back on the ramparts of the Charleston fort. A mountain howitzer cast in 1863 ...