Weapons

==__Civil War Weapons__ Handheld Firearms==

machine gun called the Gatling Gun(bottom)
==Civil War Weapons were used during 1861-1865. ==

rifles, and the use of new weapons.
-Christian Sharps invented a gun called a sharps carbine. It was used more by the North. Then the South stole the weapons and copied it for themselves. -The rifles were simply muskets. Out of all of the Civil War weapons the musket was the most widely used weapon of the entire war and it caused 90% of the deaths in th war gunfire. Civil War cannons were the kings of the war. The bayonet was not used very often by the solders. By Liam and David