hand GRENADES
Civil War soldiers made jury-rigged explosives using fuses and gunpowder, but some advances in the design of the hand grenades. The most popular model was the Union, Ketchum grenade, a projectile explosive that was thrown like a dart. The grenades came in one-, three- and five-pound models with stabilizer fins, Upon impact, the plunger would detonate a percussion cap and release the spark into the gunpowder and kill anything around it.