Across
- 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.
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- 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.