they didn't they held them the right way up and fingered your mum with it!!!
Certainly - but not as many as disease.
They were used to carry ammo for the soldiers and carry there backpacts with there equipement
muskets IMPROVEMENT Sabres, revolvers, repeating rifles.
Most men already knew how to use black powder when they entered the war and there was no need to teach them how to use something else. The government was set up to produce Black power not mass quantities of Air rifles
Answer Their horses so they could plow their crops. And I believe their rifles, so they could hunt for food.
Almost all Civil War rifles were muzzle loaders.
Certainly - but not as many as disease.
They were used to carry ammo for the soldiers and carry there backpacts with there equipement
muskets IMPROVEMENT Sabres, revolvers, repeating rifles.
The single shot rifles used by Napoleon's soldiers were inaccurate and slow to load. It took a large group of soldiers, firing many rifles to hit anything. The rifles used by both sides in the USA Civil War were very accurate, and could hit targets many yards away, and some of the Union soldiers had rifles that could be reloaded with many rounds of ammunition and had a much faster rate of fire than single shot guns. There were massive casualties on both sides from charging into accurate, rapid fire rifles that could hit the people they were aiming at.
The relatively high death rate. The northern soldiers had modern rifles which could fire accurately and quick. The southern soldiers had muskets and had no option but to get close in an open space which led to slaughter.
No
In short, to obey superior officers, to honor their cause, and to carry out duties assigned by their superior officers.
English rifles were used in the Civil War. As a neutral country, England and its businesses could sell to America for money.
It is known as the Fallen Soldier Battle Cross, and has supposedly been in use by American soldiers since at least the time of the Civil War.
Most men already knew how to use black powder when they entered the war and there was no need to teach them how to use something else. The government was set up to produce Black power not mass quantities of Air rifles
Answer Their horses so they could plow their crops. And I believe their rifles, so they could hunt for food.