Civil War Technology
http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Artillery-Civil-War-001.htm
Telegraph
http://w1tp.com/perkcol.htm
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/january/telegraph.htm
Telegraph office
http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/CivilWar/Communication.htm
Telegraph wagon
http://www.civilwarhome.com/telegraph.htm
Can spread info faster and more accurately
Cheap/easy to construct and build
North has more lines and uses them more effectively
Information could be stolen from the other side
http://www.webbgarrison.com/thesoldierfull/vol1fullindex.html
Railroads
http://updatecenter.britannica.com/art?assemblyId=8341&type=A
http://wigwags.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/
http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Soldiers-railroad-cannon-small.htm
•Can move supplies
and troops to more
places faster
•Railway junctions
became major focus
of war strategies in
the North
•North has more RR
lines then the South
•Need upkeep, and
use a lot or resources,
accidents could
destroy valuable
resources
•http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/~walters/web%20103/outline%2014%20umf%20103_06.htm
http://www.anselm.edu/academic/history/hdubrulle/WarandRevolution
Rifled musket
http://www.marstar.ca/gf-armisport/ArmiSport-Civil-War-US-rifles.shtm
Minnie Ball
http://scottsvillemuseum.com/forkids/Museum_in_a_Trunk/minieball.htm
Accuracy of
Smoothbore Muskets vs. Rifle-muskets
Distance
Target
Smoothbore Rifle Shots
from
Shots
that that
Hit
Hit Target
Target
100 yards
74.5%
94.5%
200 yards
42.5%
80%
300 yards
16%
55%
400 yards
4.5%
52.5%
http://www.littlestregular.com/blog/2007_02_01_archive.html
•More accurate leads to
higher body count when
used with old battle
techniques
•New technology expensive
and need Industry to keep
producing them
•North had more
Rifled Cannon
The Whitworth designed cannon could fire a shell over 6 miles.
http://www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com
http://www.georgia.gov/00/photo_article/
http://www.answers.com/topic/rifling?cat=technology
http://www.aeragon.com/03/03-31.html
Fort Pulaski, Georgia.
The accuracy and range of the rifled cannon rendered
brick fortifications obsolete.
New weapons v old battle techniques = lots of dead
people
http://www.georgia.gov/00/photo_article/
Repeating rifles
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/gabrmetz/gabr001b.htm
http://www.ironoutlaw.com/html/weapons.html
Allows more shots to
Be fired more accurately
Led to higher causalities
For attacking forces
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/museum/havant-museum/firearms/henry-repeating-rifle.htm
Hand grenades/rockets
http://grenadelauncher.com/
http://www.championhillrelics.com/Images.htm
http://www.inert-ord.net/19cent/index.html
Hale rocket and rocket
launcher
More causalities
http://warandgame.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/nineteenth-century-military-rockets/
Ironclads/gunboats
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1862/september/civil-war-iron-clads.htm
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/navalbattles1800s/ig/Civil-War-Navies/USS-Cairo.htm
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0cww2hQ3EcgMh
http://www.britannica.com/ebc/art-13043/In-the-first-battle-of-ironclad-warships-the-Confederate-Virginia
http://www.patternsfromhistory.com/civil_war/gunboat_quilts.htm
•Ships can withstand
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~barrettbranches/Researchers/Karen%20Hett/B24cavindex.html
cannon fire
•South can break
through blockades, and
raise old wooden ships
and rehab with iron
•Battles will last much
longer
http://www.irononthered.com/Photographs.htm
Submarines
http://news.webshots.com/photo/1195793651015913979KyvkEV
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/sub-history3.htm
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/november/submarine.htm
•Used for covert missions
•Can be used to break
blockades
http://shoutaboutcarolina.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/the-hunley-submarine-mystery-and-replica-operation-video-things-to-do-in-charleston-and-columbia/
Balloons
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/october/civil-war-balloons.htm
http://historyday.crfusa.org/1725/cause_and_effect_during_the_ci
vi.htm
http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Professor-military-Virginia-balloon.htm
http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/CivilWar/Communication.htm
•Can be used to gather
information from
battles/enemies
•Can be used to drop
grenades/grenades
http://warandgame.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/first-military-uses-of-the-balloon/
Photography
http://howardlanham.tripod.com/photography.html
http://howardlanham.tripod.com/photography.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/canfielddave/931936429/
http://wigwags.wordpress.com/the-artists/
http://www.rbhayes.org/hayes/civilwar/display.asp?id=362&subj=civilwar
http://www.littlestregular.com/blog/labels/civil%20war%20photographs.html
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/gettysburg/dead-at-gettysburg.htm
•Creation of
photojournalism
•Brings war into
peoples homes
•Used as
propoganda
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/antietam-dead.htm
Propoganda
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Ideals, allegations used deliberately to sway
peoples opinions for or againist something
Medical Improvements - Embalming
http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Embalming.htm
http://www.forensicgenealogy.info/contest_65_results.html
Preservation of dead
Soldiers
More knowledge of
Human body
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/05/21/embalm
Medical presentation
http://www.imageofsurgery.com/Surgery_history_art.htm
Southern Strategy
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Jefferson Davis – Defensive war of attrition
Pick their battles carefully, retreat, avoid large
battles, force N to use up resources
Idea outraged S, felt they were militarily superior
Troops ignored and went on the offensive
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S suffers 20,000 more casualties then N
Solider Life
As a private in the Confederate army, you will be paid $132 a year, or $11
each month.
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You will be paid $156 a year, or $13 each month, if you are a Union soldier.
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last for five years.
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sent to a place called the Camp of Instruction (basic training).
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issued a uniform.
a wool coat,
wool trousers with suspenders
wool socks,
leather shoes
a cotton shirt (and a wool shirt to wear in the winter)
ankle length drawers (long Johns or underwear)
a kepi [“KEP-E”] (hat), and a great coat (winter overcoat).
*Be careful and take good care of your uniform. If you don’t, the army can make
you pay for any clothing or equipment issued to you that is lost or damaged.
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5:00 a.m.- A bugler will sound (play) “reveille” on a bugle. Everyone must get up, get dressed and
prepare (wash your face and shave) for morning roll call. In the winter “reveille” is played at 6:00
a.m.
5:15 a.m.- The bugler sounds “assembly” and everyone (except those who are sick or on guard
duty) falls in for roll call. When the sergeant calls your name, you answer, “Here, Sergeant!” After
roll call, announcements, assignments, and instructions for the day are issued. Once this is
completed you are dismissed.
6:00 a.m.- The next bugle call is “breakfast call.” You have one hour to eat. 7:00 a.m. – “Fatigue
call” is played telling the soldiers to prepare for inspection. You muse make sure your musket,
uniform, bunk, and barracks are clean.
8:00 a.m. – After inspections, the bugler plays “drill call.” For the next four hours, until noon, you
will practice all the things you learned at the Camp of Instruction.
12:00 p.m. – “Dinner call” is sounded and you are allowed to eat your lunch
1:00 p.m.- “Drill call” is sounded again. Until 4:00 p.m. you drill, drill, and drill.
4:00 p.m. – You will spend this time cleaning your equipment, barracks, cannons, and the fort.
6:00 p.m. – “Attention” is called to give you a few minutes to get ready for roll call. Next, the
bugler plays “assembly” and everyone falls in for dress parade roll call. This means everyone is in
full uniform. You are carrying your musket and wearing all your equipment. After answering to roll
call, the guard duty assignments are made and then you are dismissed.
7:00 p.m. – The bugler now plays “assembly of the guard.” Those soldiers assigned to guarding
the fort begin performing this duty. The remaining soldiers eat their evening meal and relax.
8:30 p.m. – “Attention” is played followed by “assembly. At this time roll call is taken and you are
dismissed.
9:00 p.m. – “Tattoo” is sounded. This means everyone must go to bed. Your day is finally over.
On Sunday the routine is the same except for drill. In the place of frill, everyone spends the
morning polishing and cleaning everything, and then attend church services. In the afternoon,
everyone prepares for a dress parade. Everyone wears their best uniform and marches back and
forth on the fort’s parade ground. After doing this for a couple of hours, you are dismissed and
have the rest of the day as free time.
The Northern Strategy
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Anaconda Plan
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Blockade ports
Cut Confederacy in half
Cut supply lines
Force S. to exhaust resources
Thought to be to slow, eventually implemented
when hopes for a quick war were shattered