Medicine

• The north had chloroform and the first use of modern anesthetics was in the Northern
armies.
• Used ambulance wagons

Submarine
• The CSS Hunley was the first submarine to attack a warship successfully
• Something went wrong with it and it blew up
• The sinking of the Hunley ended submarine experimentation for the
remainder of the Civil War

Gatling Gun
• First rapid fire gun
• Invented by Richard J Gatling
• set out to create a weapon so devastating that it would make the idea of
war so horrible that war would become unthinkable thus ending all wars
• Gatling guns were large and heavy, weighing about a ton (900 kg), hence,
they were usually mounted on wheels
• A drawback with the earliest Gatling guns was that they had problems with
the ammunition jamming up causing long delays during which they could
not be fired.

Cannon
• The incredible advances in manufacturing capabilities that had occurred
up to the time of the Civil War made the widespread manufacturing of
rifled cannon possible
• Increased range and accuracy
• Opposed to smooth bore guns

Communication
• At the beginning of the Civil War, telegraph was a recent innovation.
• Samuel F. B. Morse, its inventor, sent the world's first telegraph message
from Washington D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland in 1844
• Brought an end to the pony express
• Used to report battle information
• Important form of military communication
• There were some instances where messages were intercepted and
replaced with disinformation. One Union commander captured at least two
Confederate supply trains this way
• The telegraph became an increasingly important military tool and began to
affect the outcome of battles
 Railroads
• New Technology in civil war
• Northern states had 21,000 miles of track
• South had 9,000 miles of track
• use the railroads to transport troops, ammunition and supplies to the front.
• With this newfound mobility troops and supplies could be relocated more
rapidly and in greater quantities than ever before
• As the battle wore on operations that would not have been possible
without the railroads were conducted

Ships
• use of ironclad ships
• Union and Confederate navies began to cover their gun-ships with armor
plate so that they could better withstand engagements
• One of the most famous naval battles of all time is the engagement
between the CSS Virginia and the USS Monitor at Hampton Roads
Virginia in 1862
• Both first iron clad ships on both sides
• - Draw
• Wooden ships became obsolete
• Union blockaded southern ports
• Southern stated developed blockade runners
• Which ran of steam power and sails

Mines
• As a countermeasure to the Union's blockades, the Confederate States
developed the first naval mines
• Mines sank 40 union ships
• success with the naval mines led to the development of torpedoes and
land mines as well as other similar explosive devices