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Two thousand were ordered by the US Army, but production was canceled in 1862. Imported by both the Union and the Confederacy.Ī transitional revolver with tape primer invented in 1855 by Jesse Butterfield of Philadelphia. With the shortage of pistols in the American Civil War, many soldiers on both sides carried these as a backup arm. Sidearms ModelĪ double-action only revolver and predecessor to the Beaumont–Adams M1862. Thousands were made and issued but not known to have been used in combat. Brown governor of Georgia, proposed issuing pikes to the State militia to compensate for the shortage of guns. Mameluke sword (top) and scabbard (bottom) Sailors also had access to harpoons, axes and grappling hooks. Southern officers sometimes carried ancestral blades from the American Revolutionary War or even from the War of 1812. Regulation officer's sword, though in practice most officers used cavalry sabers. M1840 army noncommissioned officer's sword An engraved version was privately purchased by senior officers.

Often carried by Confederates instead of bayonets. Some of the advances and innovations of the Civil War included mass production of war materiel, rifling of gun barrels and the use of the Minié ball, the advent of repeating firearms and metallic cartridges, transportation railroads with armed locomotives, ironclad warships, submarines, one of the first uses of air corps for aerial reconnaissance, communication (especially the telegraph), advances in medicine and the gradual decline of tactics from previous centuries. The Civil War is often referred as one of the first "modern" wars in history as it included the most advanced technology and innovations of warfare available at the time. These weapons include edged weapons such as knives, swords, and bayonets, firearms such as rifled muskets, breech-loaders and repeating weapons, various artillery such as field guns and siege guns and new weapons such as the early grenade and landmine. During the war, a variety of weapons were used on both sides. The American Civil War, fought between the Union and Confederate forces, took place from 1861 to 1865. The bayonets attached to the guns were an important force multiplier during the war

Muzzle loaders dominated the battlefields of the Civil War, being used by both sides in hundreds of thousands.