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The Role Of Technology In The Civil War

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Over the years, many changes have been made to further battlefield technology from the Revolutionary War to World War II completely revolutionizing the way in which battles are fought and it has changed and stretched our standards of what we consider ethical and acceptable. During the the Revolutionary War, the battlefield technology that we had included the Kentucky long rifle, flintlock muskets, the Brown Bess, the French Charleville musket, and cannons which used metal balls and grapeshot. However, the accuracy and the time it took to load some of the firearms at this time was far from today’s standards. Some of the new innovations during the Civil War, that radically changed the way the war was fought included hot air balloons, submarines,

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