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This 3 page paper discusses the evolution of the rifle, with particular emphasis on the American Civil War. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the effect of this change in the American Civil War. Discussion The "anchor" of this paper is the 1993 movie Gettysburg, an intense and moving account of the battle. The
movie, backed by Ted Turner, is a detailed account of the three-day struggle that changed the course of the war. Because it is so focused on such a short period
of time, we learn a great deal about the conflict, and one of the things that is brought out is the incredible killing power of the weapons. That in turn
leads to the observation that the Civil War is a good starting point for a consideration of weaponry, because many historians have called it the first modern war. A number
of references have been made to the fact that by the time the war began, weapons were ahead of tactics. Shelby Foote, a noted historian, said in a interview on
the DVD that the casualty figures were so high in this war because "they believed that in order to mass your fire you had to mass your men" (Esparza &
Maxwell, 1993). The result was that troops advanced shoulder to shoulder into withering fire that tore them to shreds. Rifles had evolved; tactics had not. The rifle takes its name
from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that the first rifling appeared in the "late
15th and early 16th centuries, though the "earliest written description of a spiral rifled firearm is found in an inventory of firearms from Turin, Italy, dated 1478" (History of the
rifle). It appears that gun technology did not advance greatly until the 19th century, which saw "perhaps the greatest rate of invention in the evolution of the rifle" (History
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