Civil War TechnologyCivil War Technology

http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Artillery-Civil-War-001.htm

TelegraphTelegraph

http://w1tp.com/perkcol.htm

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/january/telegraph.htm

Telegraph office

http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/CivilWar/Communication.htm

Telegraph wagon

http://www.civilwarhome.com/telegraph.htm

http://www.webbgarrison.com/thesoldierfull/vol1fullindex.html

RailroadsRailroads

http://updatecenter.britannica.com/art?assemblyId=8341&type=A

http://wigwags.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/

http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Soldiers-railroad-cannon-small.htm

•http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/~walters/web%20103/outline%2014%20umf%20103_06.htm

http://www.anselm.edu/academic/history/hdubrulle/WarandRevolution

Rifled musketRifled musket

http://www.marstar.ca/gf-armisport/ArmiSport-Civil-War-US-rifles.shtm

http://scottsvillemuseum.com/forkids/Museum_in_a_Trunk/minieball.htm

Accuracy of Smoothbore Muskets vs. Rifle-muskets

Distance from Distance from TargetTarget

Smoothbore Shots that Smoothbore Shots that Hit TargetHit Target

Rifle Shots that Rifle Shots that Hit TargetHit Target

100 yards100 yards 74.5%74.5% 94.5%94.5%

200 yards200 yards 42.5%42.5% 80%80%

300 yards300 yards 16%16% 55%55%

400 yards400 yards 4.5%4.5% 52.5%52.5%

http://www.littlestregular.com/blog/2007_02_01_archive.html

Rifled Cannon/The Napoleon CannonRifled Cannon/The Napoleon Cannon

The Whitworth designed cannon could fire a shell over 6 miles. http://www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com

http://www.answers.com/topic/rifling?cat=technology

http://www.georgia.gov/00/photo_article/

http://www.aeragon.com/03/03-31.html

Fort Pulaski, Georgia. The accuracy and range of the rifled cannon rendered brick fortifications obsolete.

http://www.georgia.gov/00/photo_article/

Ironclads/gunboatsIronclads/gunboats

http://www.flickr.com/photos/

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1862/september/civil-war-iron-clads.htm

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/navalbattles1800s/ig/Civil-War-Navies/USS-Cairo.htm

http://www.daylife.com/photo/0cww2hQ3EcgMh

http://www.britannica.com/ebc/art-13043/In-the-first-battle-of-ironclad-warships-the-Confederate-Virginia

http://www.patternsfromhistory.com/civil_war/gunboat_quilts.htm

http://www.irononthered.com/Photographs.htm

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~barrettbranches/Researchers/Karen%20Hett/B24cavindex.html

BalloonsBalloons

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/october/civil-war-balloons.htm

http://historyday.crf-usa.org/1725/cause_and_effect_during_the_civi.htm

http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Professor-military-Virginia-balloon.htm

http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/CivilWar/Communication.htm

http://warandgame.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/first-military-uses-of-the-balloon/

PhotographyPhotography

http://howardlanham.tripod.com/photography.html

http://howardlanham.tripod.com/photography.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/canfielddave/931936429/http://wigwags.wordpress.com/the-artists/

http://www.littlestregular.com/blog/labels/civil%20war%20photographs.html

http://www.rbhayes.org/hayes/civilwar/display.asp?id=362&subj=civilwar

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/gettysburg/dead-at-gettysburg.htm

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/antietam-dead.htm