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Article: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION SET STAGE FOR WAR'S HORRORS
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- October 27, 2008
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I started teaching a course on the American Civil War at the
Greensboro Historical Museum in North Carolina last month. The
subject matter is so intense and detailed that the museum asked me
to prepare a 10-session course over 10 weeks. The deeper I delved
into the complexity of this most intricate war, the more I was
struck by how the Industrial Revolution affected every phase of how
the war was fought, and even more horrible, how the Industrial
Revolution was responsible for the horrendous casualties of this --
and all subsequent -- wars. The sheer killing power of better rifles
and artillery that had developed in the nearly 80 years between the
end of our Revolutionary War and the ...