This is every rifle the Marine Corps has issued to Marines in the service's 250-year history, from muskets to M4s.

But to get back to Mr. Carper's letter and his question about Marines in the Civil War: Marines are, by definition, naval infantry, and their earliest assignment, starting on Nov. 10, 1775, was ...

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Hook, Richard Subject United States Marine Corps History Date 2004 Civil War, 1861-1865 Call number E591 .F54 2004 Type Books Physical description 64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm Place United States ...

In this photo provided by The Valley Breeze, Civil War re-enactors fold an American flag near an urn, center, containing the cremated remains of Byron R. Johnson, a Union soldier who was born in ...