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Civil War TechnologyCivil War Technology
http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Artillery-Civil-War-001.htm
Accuracy of Smoothbore Muskets vs. Rifle-muskets
Distance from Distance from TargetTarget
Smoothbore Shots that Smoothbore Shots that Hit TargetHit Target
Rifle Shots that Rifle Shots that Hit TargetHit Target
100 yards100 yards 74.5%74.5% 94.5%94.5%
200 yards200 yards 42.5%42.5% 80%80%
300 yards300 yards 16%16% 55%55%
400 yards400 yards 4.5%4.5% 52.5%52.5%
http://www.littlestregular.com/blog/2007_02_01_archive.html
Rifled Cannon/The Napoleon CannonRifled Cannon/The Napoleon Cannon
The Whitworth designed cannon could fire a shell over 6 miles. http://www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com
http://www.answers.com/topic/rifling?cat=technology
http://www.georgia.gov/00/photo_article/
http://www.aeragon.com/03/03-31.html
Fort Pulaski, Georgia. The accuracy and range of the rifled cannon rendered brick fortifications obsolete.
http://www.georgia.gov/00/photo_article/
http://www.britannica.com/ebc/art-13043/In-the-first-battle-of-ironclad-warships-the-Confederate-Virginia
http://www.patternsfromhistory.com/civil_war/gunboat_quilts.htm
http://www.irononthered.com/Photographs.htm
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~barrettbranches/Researchers/Karen%20Hett/B24cavindex.html
BalloonsBalloons
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/october/civil-war-balloons.htm
http://www.littlestregular.com/blog/labels/civil%20war%20photographs.html
http://www.rbhayes.org/hayes/civilwar/display.asp?id=362&subj=civilwar