American Civil War - Naval Battles, Blockades, Ironclads: In addition to their increasing use of steam power, the screw propeller, shell guns, and rifled ordnance, both sides built and employed ironclad warships. Besides fighting efficaciously with ironc
In the years after the Civil War ended, thousands of defiant and disillusioned Confederates fled Reconstruction-era Dixie and headed even farther south to Latin America. Some settled in Mexico and Venezuela, but the lion’s share sailed for Brazil, a former Confederate ally and one of the few...
Telegraphs, weapons and ships, the gatling gun, and the ambulance corps. The gatling gun itself killed thousands of men while these bullets shot more than 600 rounds per minute, this gun was a killer. Without The civil war america would be technologically behind other countries. 510 Words 3...
American Civil War - Cost, Significance, Impact: 21st-century data has revised the total death toll upward to 752,000. Roughly two percent of the 1860 population of the U.S. died in the war.