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Giant Mobile Mortar
Confederate troops pose with a giant flatcar-mounted mortar. Railroads greatly increased the ability of both sides to transport troops, supplies, and weapons during the American Civil War (1861-1865).
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Civil War, American; Industrial Warfare in the Modern Era
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