Transcript Civil War Warfare - hsleapsushistandgov

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Both the Union and Confederate armies used balloons for
reconnaissance during the American Civil War, marking the first
time that balloons were used in the United States for
reconnaissance. The professional aeronaut John Wise was the first
to receive orders to build a balloon for the Union army.
Thaddeus S.C. Lowe was an American aeronaut who attempted to cross
the Atlantic and also introduced the use of balloons into the U.S. Civil
War.
Air Balloons were shot down if seen
President Lincoln made a balloon corps for secret reconnaissance team.
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An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship in the later part of the 19th
century, protected by iron or steel armor plates The ironclad was
developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to
explosive or incendiary shells. The first ironclad battleship, La Gloire, was
launched by the French Navy in November 1859.
Ironclads were designed for several roles, including as high seas
battleships, coastal defense ships, and long-range cruisers.
Ironclads were some of the first ships in history to be armored with metal
and propelled by steam instead of by the wind.
John Ericsson made invented the USS Monitor
Impacted on the civil war because it was the first metal armored naval
ships
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The telegraph was emerging as a means of sending messages from one
location to another electronically. Telegraph corps followed troops and
erected telegraph poles and wires to provide communication from the
battle front.
Tall signal towers were used to send messages short distances.
Telegraph helped communicate with soldiers around the battleffields
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In 1861, Doctor Richard Gatling patented the Gatling Gun, a six-barreled
weapon capable of firing a phenomenal 200 rounds per minute. The
Gatling gun was a hand-driven, crank-operated, multi-barrel, machine
gun.
The first machine gun with reliable loading, the Gatling gun had the
ability to fire sustained multiple bursts.
Richard Gatling created his gun during the American Civil War, he
sincerely believed that his invention would end war by making it
unthinkable to use due to the horrific carnage possible by his weapons.
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A repeating rifle is a single barreled rifle containing multiple rounds of
ammunition.
These rounds are loaded from a magazine by means of a manual or
automatic mechanism, and the action that reloads the rifle also typically
relocks the firing action.
It was adopted by the Union Army, especially by the cavalry, during the
American Civil War.
Impacted the battlegrounds because instead of shooting once then
reloading you were able to shoot a number of times then reload
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The United States Military Railroad supplied more than 100,000 troops
and more than 65,000 horses and mules with food, equipment, and
supplies from the waterfront docks on the navigable portion of the James
River at City Point.
The railroad began by assuming the eastern portion of the nine-mile long
City Point Railroad, which extended to Petersburg.
It branched off with new track and ran behind union lines, eventually
extending 21 additional miles and partially encircling Petersburg.
25 steam locomotives and more than 275 pieces of rolling stock were
used, operating a total of 2,300,000 miles.
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