ADAMS COUNTY, Pa. — Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a Confederate Navy Revolver found in a Walmart trash can. Troopers say an employee found the Pietta 1851 Confederate Navy Revolver in a ...

A Civil War revolver was found by a Walmart employee while changing the trash in the parking lot in Straban Township, Adams County on Tuesday evening. The gun found was identified as a Pietta 1851 ...

When Confederate forces opened fire April 12, 1861, on Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C., it signaled the start of the Civil War. “President Abraham Lincoln recognized Washington, D.C., lay vulnerable ...

Pennsylvania state police are investigating after a Walmart employee discovered a Civil War revolver while changing the trash in the parking lot Tuesday evening. Police in Gettysburg said they ...

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