Claude Etienne Minié

male
Minié ball, Minié rifle
Claude Etienne Minié was a French Army captain, born on February 13th 1804, Paris, France, and died on December 14th 1879, in Paris. Minié fa...
William Greener

William Greener

male, deceased (1869)
inventor, bullet, Rifle, felling, northumberland, English…Minié ball
William Greener (1806 - 1869) was an English inventor and gunmaker. He developed a self-expanding bullet in 1835, an electric lamp in 1846 (patent...
Franklin Buchanan

Franklin Buchanan

male, deceased (1874)
United States Naval Academy, germantown, sharpshooter, Confederate States Navy, USS Merrimack, Battle of Hampton Roads…Minié ball
Franklin Buchanan (September 13, 1800-May 11, 1874) was an officer in the United States Navy who became an admiral in the Confederate Navy during...
Theodore Winthrop

Theodore Winthrop

male, deceased (1861)
Yale University, novelist, death by firearm, american civil war, Colonel, Battle of Big Bethel…Minié ball, musket ball
Theodore Winthrop (September 22, 1828 - June 10, 1861) was a novelist, lawyer, and world traveler, best known today as the first Union officer...
Susie Gibson

Susie Gibson

female, deceased (2006)
1920 Census, 1900 census, battle of shiloh, NBC News, rms titanic, titanic…Minié ball
Susie (Potts) Gibson (October 31, 1890 or 1889, according to herself - February 16, 2006) was the third oldest person in the world at the time of...