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Batteries can be confusing as a battery in the Civil War usually meant a team of 4 to six cannon manned by 100 men, utilising some 30 to 50 horses or mules, and commanded by a captain. However electrical batteries were also used during the Civil War to power telegraph communication and for electric detenation of sea mines. (known as torpedos in the 1860's)

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