- Civil War Field Fortifications
Basic information on the design, construction, and use of field fortifications during the Civil War. Includes illustrated glossary and excerpts from military manuals.
www.civilwarfortifications.com
- Civil War Small Arms
Describes the typical weaponry available to infantry and cavalry soldiers.
www.nps.gov/gett/soldierlife/webguns.htm
- CSS Hunley@
Learn about CSS Hunley, the U.S. Confederate submarine which sank undersea while sinking a warship near Charleston, South Carolina, in 1864. Sites offer history, background information, current news, archaeological efforts, and data obtained from a 23-year long search project that led to the discovery of the sunk CSS Hunley.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Navy/CSS_Hunley
- Gatling Gun in the Civil War
Brief article describing Richard Jordan Gatling's early machine gun and its limited field use during the war.
extlab1.entnem.ufl.edu/olustee/related/gatling.htm
- Observations on the Use of the Bayonet
Discusses the use, symbolism, and psychological effect of the bayonet in the Civil War as well as its position in the modern reenactment community.
members.lycos.co.uk/lazyjacks/bayonet.htm
- Storm of Shot and Shell: Weapons of the Civil War
Photographs and text from an exhibit produced by Chicago Public Library.
www.chipublib.org/003cpl/civilwar_catalog.html
- Torpedoes in the Civil War
1877 article by Confederate general Gabriel James Rains describing the use of torpedoes (explosive devices now called mines).
www.civilwarhome.com/torpedoes.htm
- Weapons of the American Civil War
Overview of the artillery, small arms, and edged weapons used in the war, including a description of the lethal lead bullet known as the Minie (or Minnie) Ball.
www.civilwarhome.com/weapons.htm
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