MILITARY TECHNOLOGY OF THE CIVIL WARModern War

Railroad• A relatively “new” technology at the time• North had 22,000 miles

of track (standard)• South had 9,000 miles of

track (non-standard)

• South could not maintain or supply railroads due to a lack of iron

Medicine• Field hospitals from just behind the lines all throughout the northern states

• Wounded men are transported to northern hospitals

• Chloroform and first use of modern anesthetics in northern hospitals

Surgeon’s Tools

Rifled Musket• Minie Ball - Video

Other Weapons• Rifled Cannons

• Sharps & Spencer breech loading rifles

• Colt “revolving” pistols

Still More Weapons…• Submarines• Flame Throwers• Land Mines• Grenades• Observation Balloons• Military Telegraph• Iron Hulled Warships• Repeating Guns