CIVIL WAR TECHNOLOGY BY TAMMY GAGNE CONTENT CONSULTANT Charles D Ross Professor of Physics Longwood University Cover image Union troops stand beside large mortars near Yorktown Virginia in 1862 Core Library An Imprint of Abdo Publishing abdopublishing com WAR TECHNOLOGY
CHAPTER ONE
A NATION DIVIDED It was the spring of 1862 The CSS Virginia left Norfolk Virginia It searched for Union ships just a few miles off the coastline The Virginia looked unlike other ships of the American Civil War 1861 1865 Its angular iron sides rose above the water Ten cannons poked out from its thick armor Confederate officer Franklin Buchanan steamed the Virginia toward the USS Cumberland The wooden Union ship was no match for the Confederate ironclad The Virginia had a 1,500-pound 680-kg battering ram It smashed through the The Virginia right looked vastly different from earlier ships
