Civil War arms

March 27, 2024 at 4:00 a.m.

Andy Shupe/NWA Democrat-Gazette Jim Spillars (left) picks up a revolver Tuesday, March 19, 2024, while showing the different arms used by Civil War-era soldiers during the class The 19th Century Soldier's Life at Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park organized by the University of Arkansas Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Spillars, a scholar of the war, a longtime Civil War re-enactor and director of Farmington High School band, discussed how soldiers in the Civil War lived, what they wore and what they carried with them.
Andy Shupe/NWA Democrat-Gazette Jim Spillars (left) picks up a revolver Tuesday, March 19, 2024, while showing the different arms used by Civil War-era soldiers during the class The 19th Century Soldier's Life at Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park organized by the University of Arkansas Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Spillars, a scholar of the war, a longtime Civil War re-enactor and director of Farmington High School band, discussed how soldiers in the Civil War lived, what they wore and what they carried with them.

Andy Shupe/NWA Democrat-Gazette Jim Spillars (left) picks up a revolver Tuesday, March 19, 2024, while showing the different arms used by Civil War-era soldiers during the class The 19th Century Soldier's Life at Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park organized by the University of Arkansas Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Spillars, a scholar of the war, a longtime Civil War re-enactor and director of Farmington High School band, discussed how soldiers in the Civil War lived, what they wore and what they carried with them by Spillars.

Andy Shupe/NWA Democrat-Gazette Jim Spillars (left) picks up a revolver Tuesday, March 19, 2024, while showing the different arms used by Civil War-era soldiers during the class The 19th Century Soldier's Life at Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park organized by the University of Arkansas Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Spillars, a scholar of the war, a longtime Civil War re-enactor and director of Farmington High School band, discussed how soldiers in the Civil War lived, what they wore and what they carried with them.