The Minie Ball Shaped

1. The minie ball shaped the Civil War because it was a huge advantage to both sides. It was twice as fast to load, and they were a lot cheaper to make. They were also very good quality; they could kill someone within a second of the bullet being fired. A few other inventions helped out the war effort. One of the inventions being the telegraph. In the White House, there was a room filled with telegraphs, and wires were stretched for miles and miles along railroad tracks.

The President could send short messages, like a text, to army generals. This could carry big new or small orders.

Another invention was an idea more than an object. The idea was the use of trains to help bring ammunition and troops to campsites. This helps the North because they have twice as many railroad tracks, so they already had a huge advantage. When the South was starving during the winter, the North was receiving trains full of food and supplies. 2. Clara Barton was a nurse during the Civil War. She helped men and women to perform first aid, carry water, and prepare food for the wounded. Throughout the war, Clara traveled with the Union giving First Aid to the soldiers. After the war, she created Red Cross, an organization that helps with emergency assistance and disaster relief in the United States. She helped with the Civil War, so now Red Cross helps with disasters, including hurricanes, tornadoes, mass shootings, and others. 3. The telegraph helped the Union with sending messages.

Before the telegraphs, a person on horseback had to send a letter from place to place. If it was urgent, it would take a few days. But in a war, a few days old news can be useless. When the telegraph was invented, messages were sent within seconds of each other, which is so much more useful when you have someone waiting for a message to arrive. The way it helped the North was because of trains. The wires, as I said above, were along the train tracks. Since the North had twice as many miles of track, they could send messages to anywhere at any time. 4. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, and it stated that slavery would be banned from all states and territories. Lincoln writes this document to free slaves but doesn’t want the white soldiers to leave and fight against freeing slaves. It also boosted internal support in the North for a Union war effort.

Lincoln was now able to represent the purpose of the war as ending slavery in the United States, and not only the Union or the Confederacy. 5. One thing that happened was that the Union won the battle over the Confederacy, with about 7,500 soldiers killed from both sides. It is also the site of the Battle of Gettysburg is where Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address. He gave us a look at his personal side and at the circumstances surrounding his short speech at the dedication of the cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield. It was the first cemetery dedicated to soldiers in a war. 6. Approximately 620,000 soldiers died from combat, accident, starvation, and disease during the Civil War. A recent study puts the number of dead as high as 850,000 and as low as 300,000.

There are about 620,000 in the Civil War and 644,000 people who have died in other wars America has been in. The only war that comes even close to this one is World War II, which has about 406,000 casualties. The reason for this is because everyone who died was American and in the other wars I researched there were other countries involved.

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