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The American Civil War was a moment of transition, with its feet firmly planted in the warfare of the past but with new technologies, often not understood or fully exploited by combatants or civilian leadership, and with mass armies equipped by industrialized societies. Nevertheless, technological developments in the market, transportation, and information revolutions, as well as new developments in weapons and other military technologies, shaped its essence. Simultaneously, the Civil War era represented a period of transition, and as participants’ grasp of these technological changes evolved, so too did the nature of military operations. The arena for all this change was the vast geographic spaces of the North American continent, and looming over all was the specter of destruction.
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