Civil War Technologies

4. Allowed guns to shoot multiple bullets at a time without having to be reloaded after each shot.
6. Ancestor of the modern machine gun.Most successful of rapid fire guns.And invented by Richard Gatling.
11. Added to make ships stronger. The first engagement with two of these were between the USS monitor and CSS Virginia in Hampton Roads on March 9th 1862.
12. Invented in 1844 by Samual Morse. Used as a form of communication. Nearly 15000 miles of this was laid for military purposes.

1. Was a transport for the wounded, created by Jonathan Letterman, usually consisted of a ragtag group of soldiers unfit for fighting.
2. used for a main source of transportation. Trains are seen on these and they did allow generals to move their soldiers or move vital equipment from place to place quickly
3. The first of these was the C.S.S. Hunley. Also Confederate Soldiers tried to sink ironclads with these.
5. Sunk 40 Union ships. A "missile" and can be aimed.
7. Developed by confederates in hopes of counteracting the union's blockade of southern ports.
8. One of the first wars in which had this.Introduced camera's and the "Wet-plate" process to develop pictures.
9. A type of Bullet, had longer distance, in a rifle musket it spun faster, and 5 times more accurate then a regular bullet.
10. A type of gun could shoot a bullet up to 1000 yards and was fairly accurate. The only downside was it took a long time to reload.