War is something that everyone knows about. it is very prominent and chances are throughout the history of the world there is always someone effected by it during any point in time. Wars come and go leaving many good and bad things behind, whichever light it is looked at from, weaponry is always one of those things. War time is notorious for pushing technology to the edge, this including weaponry. There have been several wars that impacted future weaponry but the Civil War is on the farthest away that you can still see a prominent major impact even with modern day weaponry. The Civil war took many existing weapon technologies and improved them as well as standardizing them. Around this time period new weaponry technology were also implemented to work towards the war effort. Many of these weapon advancements are evident today, through the hard work of the people during Civil War times.
Infantry is arguably the most important thing that you need for a war. In previous war soldiers used what is known as line tactics. (Ben Judy) Line tactics essentially meant lining up soldiers in rows and marching toward one another to be able to fire at each other. As crazy as that sounds it was pretty much the most effective way to fight, given the weaponry they used. (Ben Judy) During that time they used what is called a smoothed bored musket. Tactics changed and new weaponry was implemented. The standardization of the rifle came into existence because of its increased accuracy, with this said the Military then started to issue these types of guns to the infantry. The rifle as it sounds uses a rifled barrel instead of a smooth one its predecessors used. Rifling was the result of cutting spiraled grooves into the barrel of the weapon(Andrew Dupps...
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... in one way or another. Whichever way you look at influence from war for even more deadly modern weapons, whether it be in a good or bad light, The Civil War is one of the most if not the most influential war for existing and important advancements in weaponry
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The Civil War in America was so much more than just a war. This event brought along with it so many changes. Changes like abolition of slavery, voting rights for all men, Medical advances like improved surgical skills, hospital organization, anesthetic and many more. The Civil War is at the center of the abolition of slavery although that is not the only advancement that America made toward the future during that time. The Civil War was a major turning point for America. It pushed America into the future and it couldn’t have happened without influential leaders like Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S Grant, and William A. Hammond. Each one of these influential and strong leaders made others see their great ideas and their strong leadership skills helped them to gain followers to implement these ideas and actions. All of those factors helped to advance American into the future in different ways.
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Was the Civil War the first modern war or the last Napoleonic War? This question has plagued historians for years. Joseph Dawson, author of the article “The First of the Modern Wars?” argues that the Civil War was the first Modern War. His view is the commonly accepted one. Alternatively, in his book Battle Tactics of the Civil War, Paddy Griffith compares the tactics used in the Civil War to those used during Napoleon’s time. He counters the common belief and argues that even though the Civil War had new weapons and techniques, it was still a Napoleonic war. He draws the conclusion that even though Civil War soldiers used weapons that were more advanced; they were still using Napoleonic tactics. By examining the rifles used during the Civil War, the way Commanders chose to control their mass armies and the drill books the soldiers trained from, it is evident that the Civil War was indeed the last Napoleonic War.
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During the American Civil War, which lasted from 1861-1865, over 620,000 accounted soldiers were killed. Known as the "the first modern war", historians generally agree that the reason for this was because this was a time of transition for the military. Armies and Navies were still using tactics where they would gather large forces of firepower to bear on the enemy. At the same time, weapons were being developed which were accurate and lethal well beyond any arms of the earlier conflicts. As a result of these two conditions many more casualties were sustained. Add to that the lack of medical knowledge of disease and infection and the numbers truly began to grow. This paper is an overview of the types of weaponry that was used during this time.
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The American civil war was an important event in the history of United States. It changed the internal structure of American society and had a greater impact than the revolution. The basis of the civil war was due to slavery. It overthrew the once dominated planter elite politically and its slaveholding class. During early decades of the nineteen-century the planters of American south were not about to follow the path of gradual emancipation that the northern states had raged. The economies of the south and north, continues to go in opposing directs.
The Civil War had a very large affect on all of the States. It changed men from gentlemen that went to church every Sunday and never cussed to people who rarely went to church and cussed all the time. Some of the people in the war were also very corrupt and did not do things as they should be done. The way that the enemy was looked at was even changed. All of these things were talked about in "The Civil War Diary of Cyrus F. Boyd".
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