CIVIL WAR

NAPOLEON FIELD GUN

• Ammunition 12.3 lb projectile
• 1000+ union 600 confederate
• Lightweight safe good close range
• Less accurate than rifles. Shorter range
• Named after french emperor. Financed it's development

MINIÉ BALLS

• Caliber .58 and .57
• Production 470 million (union alone)
• Commonly used small arm. Load quickly. Cheap. Mass produced easy.
• Slow speed. (Compared to a .22 caliber rifle)
• Catastrophic injuries to bones

SPENCER REPEATING RIFLE

• $40 (rifle) $25 (carbine)
• 56/56" rim fire cartridge. 100000+ purchased union
• Reliable in combat. Easier made and cheaper.
• Limited range due to small cartridge power charge.Ammunition difficult
• John Wilkes booth armed with one when captured and killed.

RAILROAD

• Fast large scale movement of troops and injuried
• Extended supply lines. Lack of consistency
• Tracks can be destroyed or captured
• Andrew Carnegie hired to oversee expansion of union
• Railroads tracks and telegraph lines into N. Virginia

TELEGRAPH

• Real time communication between military commanders and political leader
• Press update to public regularly on war progress.
• Captured wires could be used for disinformation.Difficult to make.
• Short of metals. Their was no telegraph in White House.
• Abraham Lincoln went to War department to monitor events often slept there.