Technology and the Civil War

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Perhaps the first industrial-age war, the Civil War saw a revolution in figthing technology.

The Hunley Confederate Submarine H.L. Hunley (1863-1864) Sepia wash drawing by R.G. Skerrett, 1902, after a painting then held by the Confederate Memorial Literary Society Museum, Richmond, Virginia. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph

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