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The American Civil War: Tactics and Technology

Technology in the Outcome

Tactics' Role in the Outcome

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In the Words of Others

"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are."

-General William Sherman

“the enemy…with their hand-grenades render it difficult for our working parties to remain in the crater at all. The wounds inflicted by those missiles are frightful.”

-Anonymous Union Officer, on the Yankees at the Battle of Vicksburg

Other Factors Contributing to Outcome

  • Economic Reasons
  • Industrial nature of the Union and its advantages
  • The introduction of paper money in the US
  • Slavery/Emancipation
  • Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
  • Blockade of Supplies from England and France
  • Political and Military Leadership
  • Abraham Lincoln vs Jefferson Davis
  • Ulysses S. Grant vs Robert E. Lee
  • Communication Issues on Battlefield

A Short Clip on American Civil War Tactics (Civil War Battles, 1987)

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