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“We were both missionaries and musketeers. When we captured a man we talked him nearly to death; in other respects we treated him humanely. The Civil War was a battle of ideas interrupted by artillery.” … The thoughts of a Federal soldier in Missouri. 3– The creator of the Kansas–N...
were needed to move the heavy artillery but they required many men to manage them. These numbers of a battery varied as the Civil War progressed and battle attrition took its toll on men, horses, and equipment. Overall, the North with its industrial strength had more artillery than the ...
dueling artillery I was in the hottest of the battle a little over three hours and escaped without even a scratch while those who stood by my side were shot and instantly killed. I was not the least frightened after we had fired the first shot until we had left the field and reached ou...
All new inventions take time to work out, as illustrated by the way the Gatling gun was initially treated more like an artillery piece in its deployment. Later in the war, General Benjamin Butler, who’d purchased eight Gatling guns out of his own pocket, used these hand-driven machine gun...