Question

identify and explain how the telegraph, the railroad, the hot air balloon, Gatling gun and Minie ball impacted warfare strategy during the Civil War. please

Answer 1

Civil War Technology made the American Civil War the first industrial and modern war. Technologies ranged from hot air balloons to submarines.

Old style smoothbore muskets were quickly phased out and rifles were now mass-produced in huge quantities on both sides. These rifles allowed soldiers to fire accurately at long distances causing massive casualties.

The use of Photography meant that the war was the first conflict to be recorded on a large scale with actual photographs instead of paintings.