Technology During The Civil War

Civil War Technology Civil war technology was a very important part of the war. It influenced inventors and military inventors to create more weapon and machines to help in the war. New ideas and creations happened in this time, it changed the way wars were fought forever and not only wars were affected everyday life was also upgraded. For example railroads and telegraphs were a major part of change in this time. Weapons were a major part of the change of the civil war. Infantry soldiers usually carried around muskets that only shot 250 yards and with little accuracy. People said the maximum distance for accurate and powerful shots was about 80 yards. This made wars usually fought in short range combat. Rifles were the exact opposite. The
His name was Claude Minie, his bullet was smaller than the barrel making it way easier to load. The bullets were also more accurate a deadlier than muskets. This changed wars simply because of the range of these weapons. Troops at the line had to protect themselves even if they were far away from the line. They had to build deeper trenches an bigger walls of forts because of these bullets. Rifles and their bullets were easy to load an reuse but they still had to pause and find cover to do so. It was very inefficient and sometimes dangerous. By 1863 there became another option they were called repeating rifles. They made it so you could fire more than one bullet at a time before you have to stop and reload. The most well known and famous of these guns was called the Spencer carbine. This weapon could fire 7 shots in 30 seconds which may not sound like a lot but in that time it was. The repeater along with other civil war technologies were only available to northern troops. Southern troops did not have these weapons or equipment to make them. They also don't know how. One union soldier said that the southern troops said it was unfair that they have guns that we load up on sunday and shoot all the rest of the
Abraham Lincoln was the first president who was able to communicate to his troops and officers on the battlefield. This made it easy to communicate and tell orders to his men directly from the white house. Like most other times the confederate army as at another disadvantage because they lacked the technological and industrial stuff to make these telegraphs. It was simply to big for them. In 1861 the union army capitalized on this opportunity and lead by Andrew Carnegie they made this piece of equipment a huge part of the war. The U.S.M.T.C trained 1,200 operators and change 4,000 miles of telephone wire. With these advancements they sent over a million messages to and from the battlefield. The civil war was the first war to be documented on camera. The camera as you would expect was poor quality but was the start. Taking one photo was one problem but actually being able to see the image was a multi step procedure that involves chemicals and equipment. This problem led to something bigger, the pictures were not in action. They were portraits and landscapes. It was not till the 20th century that action shots of the war were able to be