Naval Mines
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Both sides - the Allies (Britain, USA, Australia, New Zealand, India, etc) and the Axis (Germany, Italy, Japan). They were used on land at at sea. Mines are laid and recovered at sea by warships called mine sweepers.
There were many more than 3 innovations during the Civil war: ironclads, submarines, land and sea mines (called torpedoes), steel wire used in the field fortifications, the first types of machine-gun, repeating rifles, breech-loading rifled guns, armoured railway cars.
Sherman's March to the Sea
There were: Dreadnoughts (battle ships), Light Cruisers, U-Boats (German submarines), hydrophone (an underwater microphone to listen to electrical currents being made by u-boats : used by British, Asdek (first type of radar tracking), depth charger (deep explosives planted under water to blow up u-boats), mines and mine fields. Some planes were fitted with asdek and most boats had torpedoes, especially the u-boats.
That is called Sherman's march to the sea.