Civil War

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A digital image is needed for this website of the Shenandoah Valley taken from Signal Knob at the north end of Massanutten Mountain.  That's the left peak in this photo taken from down below.

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Civil War Guns

There was an immense production of guns for the Civil War plus imports.  Civil War ushered in the era of the breechloader in military service, especially the cavalry carbines.

Technology in the Civil War

One of the awful things about warfare is the scientific and creative genius that comes forth in a war, and the worse the war, the more development in other areas.  Medical use of anesthetics was prominent development in the American Civil War.  There were so many new technologies before or during the American Civil War that it became the new textbook standard for many European Military Academies. The railroad enabled putting larger armies into the field and keeping them there longer then ever before. The common soldier’s musket was so much more accurate and faster to load causing the wide spread adoption of defensive trench warfare.

More on Technology in the American Civil War

Shenandoah Valley in the Civil War

As we have been asked for more details on the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley as the setting of the book we are writing, here is the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley.

Return to source at Civil War Guns.