Civil War Firsts Chapter 8

trains • Tobacco tax Civil War Firsts Chapter 8 Directions: The Civil War is often called • Union printed fake Confederate the first "modern" war. There were currency several inventions Military Firsts connected with it, in addition to changes • Organized use of black troops in in military methods and in social, combat Other Firsts political, and economic • Widespread use of railroads to • First conduct. Examine the chart carefully American breadlines and answer the questions that follow. transport men and supplies • Formation Naval Warfare Firsts of U.S. Secret Service • A successful submarine • Visual • Organized signal service • First U.S. signaling by flags and torches president assassinated • A "snorkel" breathing device during • First photographics taken in battle combat 1. Which items, strategies, or discoveries • Naval torpedoes (mines) • Military are obsolete? reconnaissance from manned 2. Which items, strategies, or discoveries • Ironclad navy vessels balloons are still in use today? • Revolving gun turrets • Bugle call 3. In your opinion, which items do you “Taps” think were most important during the • United States Navy admiral • Civil War? Rank Commissioned army chaplains your top five choices. What about today • Armed services draft system - would your choices change for modern Weapons Firsts • Servicemen voting in time? Rerank the field for a your top five choices for today (they may • Flame throwers national election overlap). • Use of periscope for trench warfare • The Civil War, A Nation in Conflict Black U.S. Army officer (Major M. R. • Practical machine gun Delany) • Repeating rifles • Medal of Honor • Mobile artillery on railroad cars • Press correspondents on battlefields • Land mine fields • Field trenches on a grand scale • Telescopic sights for rifles • Blackouts and camouflage for aerial • Antiaircraft fire observation • Use of military telegraph Medical Firsts • Organized aerial psychological warfare • Organized medical and nursing corps (Kites were used to drop Lincoln’s • Hospital ships Amnesty Proclamation behind southern • Army Ambulance Corps lines) • Widescale use of anesthetics to treat the wounded Economic Firsts • Widespread use of rails for hospital • Income tax