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Many of the rifles were taken home by the soldiers.
Some of the weapons stayed in government warehouses and others were given to states for their national guard armories.
Nearly all of the Civil War weapons were obsolete within a few years with the advent of repeating rifles using brass cartridges, so many of the weapons may have been scrapped.
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What items were used in the civil war?
Guns and cannons
Who used the guns in the civil war?
Soldiers on both sides
Did the soldiers use machine guns in the civil war?
no they used swords
What happend in 1864?
The American Civil War
How where spices involved in civil war?
People traded them and ate them and used them in guns
What kind of guns were used at the Battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War?
the ones you shoot
How and when were the guns used on the u.s.s. constitution warship?
first in the civil war and then in vietnam
What were weapons used during the civil war?
They used small arms, and rifles, basically guns.
What was used in place of gun powder during the Civil War?
Nothing was used in place of gunpowder during the Civil War. Gunpowder was made and used extensively by both sides. During the Civil War the guns used black powder for propellant. Modern guns use smokeless powder, which has a completely different chemical composition.
How guns changed the Civil War?
The civil war was more deadly.
What were the civil war camps for?
they were used to put union or confederate soldiers in or to exchange them for their guns to continue the war.
How were weapons used during the US Civil War?
Weapons were used in battle during the civil war, at many battlefields in both North and South territory. The early forms of machine guns were used for the first time in the Civil War.
