The+American+civil+war+TW

they called it the first modern war because it was the first war where widespread used of merchandise and electrified divices like railroad trains,aerial abservation etc. the inventers and anterprenuers of thesse new technologies visualized military applications for them and had to persuade the war to use them in military efforts. Instead of standing in a line, troops defending positions began to use trenches and barricades to protedt themselves,