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Medicine •

The north had chloroform and the first use of modern anesthetics was in the Northern armies. • Used ambulance wagons

Submarine • The CSS Hunley was the first submarine to attack a warship successfully • Something went wrong with it and it blew up • The sinking of the Hunley ended submarine experimentation for the remainder of the Civil War Gatling Gun • First rapid fire gun • Invented by Richard J Gatling • set out to create a weapon so devastating that it would make the idea of war so horrible that war would become unthinkable thus ending all wars • Gatling guns were large and heavy, weighing about a ton (900 kg), hence, they were usually mounted on wheels • A drawback with the earliest Gatling guns was that they had problems with the ammunition jamming up causing long delays during which they could not be fired.

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Cannon The incredible advances in manufacturing capabilities that had occurred up to the time of the Civil War made the widespread manufacturing of rifled cannon possible • Increased range and accuracy • Opposed to smooth bore guns

Communication • At the beginning of the Civil War, telegraph was a recent innovation. • Samuel F. B. Morse, its inventor, sent the world's first telegraph message from Washington D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland in 1844 • Brought an end to the pony express • Used to report battle information • Important form of military communication • There were some instances where messages were intercepted and replaced with disinformation. One Union commander captured at least two Confederate supply trains this way • The telegraph became an increasingly important military tool and began to affect the outcome of battles

Railroads • New Technology in civil war • Northern states had 21,000 miles of track • South had 9,000 miles of track • use the railroads to transport troops, ammunition and supplies to the front. • With this newfound mobility troops and supplies could be relocated more rapidly and in greater quantities than ever before • As the battle wore on operations that would not have been possible without the railroads were conducted Ships • use of ironclad ships • Union and Confederate navies began to cover their gun-ships with armor plate so that they could better withstand engagements • One of the most famous naval battles of all time is the engagement between the CSS Virginia and the USS Monitor at Hampton Roads Virginia in 1862 • Both first iron clad ships on both sides • - Draw • Wooden ships became obsolete • Union blockaded southern ports • Southern stated developed blockade runners • Which ran of steam power and sails Mines As a countermeasure to the Union's blockades, the Confederate States developed the first naval mines • Mines sank 40 union ships • success with the naval mines led to the development of torpedoes and land mines as well as other similar explosive devices

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