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There were many more than 3 innovations during the Civil war:

ironclads, submarines, land and sea mines (called torpedoes), steel wire used in the field fortifications, the first types of machine-gun, repeating rifles, breech-loading rifled guns, armoured railway cars.

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Why did Civil War soldiers view the war between the North and South as a new kind of conflict?

The civil war soldiers viewed the war between the North and South as a new kind of conflict because it was the first war Between the States.


Why do many scholars consider the civil war the first moderns war?

Not only because of the new technologies which were brought in but also for several innovations adopted, after the first stage of the war, in the tactics, logistics and strategy, innovations that unfortunately were not found worth studying by the Europeans Strategist and General Staffs of that time and after that time for about further 70 years until sir Basil H. Liddel Hart a (civilian) scholar of military art, first "rediscovered" them, followed also by other scholars of the military establishment.


Which battles of the civil war were undecided?

There were many battles of the Civil War that were undecided with no true victor. An example of an undecided Civil War battle were the battles that occurred in the New Mexican territories and Indian territories.


What new weapons were introduced in the American Civil War?

Ironclads, submarines, sea and land mines, armoured trains, breech-loading rifles and cannons, machine-guns, repeating rifles, observation balloons, iron wire fences, minesweeping apparatuses.


What new weapons made war on the American Civil War battlefield more deadly?

Cannons, updated and more modern guns. The use of floating mines and iron clad ships also changed warfare at sea. Improvements in transportation with trains and steam ships made troops more mobile.

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