the artillery was more accurate. The shotgun shot more efficiently, it was earlier and faster to reload, and had a better accuracy, shells and canisters could explode things faster and from a farther distance than other explosives.
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The new technology made war fare more deadly as battlefield tactics remained generations behind. The most important technological advances in the American Civil War were iron clad ships (beginning with the fight between the USS Monitor and the CSS Merrimac), the first successful sinking of a ship by a submarine (CSS Hunley), and the introduction of the rifled Minie Ball , which decimated the ranks of attacking infantrymen.
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The US military draft began in the US Civil War (1861-1865).
The Union was the North and the Confederate States were the South.
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After the Civil War, the US military built the frontier because of the American westward expansion.