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Casualties were high because of a mismatch between modern weapons and relatively unsophisticated tactics, used through necessity by armies of inexperienced volunteers. |
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| Author: Ann Anderson |
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Rifled muskets using a percussion cap priming system were far more efficient and accurate than the smoothbore flintlock weapons they replaced. However, troops still fought in the same shoulder to shoulder formations that Napoleonic armies had used long before.
Most battles quickly degenerated into murderous firefights at close range, each side blazing away until one or the other withdrew. Even later in the war when tactics had been refined and the spade took over as the main "weapon" as the armies dug in, generals often needlessly threw away the lives of their men in massed attacks.
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