Union troops used searchlights to turn night into day and overcome the Rebel defenders of Charleston’s Battery Wagner. Wars have a way of advancing technology much more rapidly than during peacetime, and the Civil War was no exception. Railroads, submarines, the telegraph, repeating weapons and even the canning of food were just a few of …
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