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Civil War Weapons

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Since the civil war new things in the battles of the future have been won or lost by the weaponry and strategies that the leaders give you have become advanced and this is a start to the day that only one nation will stand with the weapons of mass destruction.

The civil war battles are the start of a newborn war because of new weaponry, high death rates because of new never before seen weapons, and the strategies used by the old generals.

The high death rate during the the civil war was above the ten thousands, These men were all americans and most were killed by new weaponry most of the time.The deaths reached to the ten thousands and one reason for this is some of the battles the men would form rows and rows that marched towards the …show more content…

One new weapon during the civil war was the musket and what came with the musket was the mini ball that inflicted severe damage to whatever it hit (mostly bone and tissue of a human). The new weapons were used in all of the civil war battles, one was the newer cannons built on the ironclads like the monitor and the Merrimack during the battle of Hampton roads. The Mini balls, muskets, and cannons helped start a new advancement in weaponry all the way to weapons of mass destruction. Don’t forget the weapons also caused a lot of deaths as said in the last paragraph above. This new innovation of weapons helped the union inflict a lot of damage of lees forces in a lot of the battles like the battle of Gettysburg. What do you think would happen if Lee used the unions weapons and secret weapons and the union used the confederates weapons, would the result of the war be different? Yes because the union had the telegraph and train systems that allowed quick supply to the forces while the confederates were basically poor of secret weapons and didn’t have superior secret weapons like the unions. The war could have changed but it didn’t and the union won no one can change

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