Download - Warfare in the Civil War
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• The obvious answer!
• Every time anyone was killed in the Civil War, it was an American.
• There is another answer– Weapon technology.
• Smooth Bore is inaccurate.
• It is like an airsoft gun.
• The bullet tends to move farther away from center the farther it travels.
• How do you throw a football?
• Why do you throw it that way?
• For the same reason gun barrels are rifled.
• The spiral motion helps the bullet fly straighter and farther.
• This makes the guns much more accurate.
• It also means that shooting can kill people at a longer range.