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Several types of hand grenades were used in the American Civil War, some better than others, but none were used on a large scale. For detonation they employed the new percussion caps (the same ones used in Civil War firearms) instead of lighting a fuse as with earlier hand grenades.

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The closest thing to a bomb in the civil war would be a mortar round.

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