Civil War Quiz (1 Viewer)

[PolarBear]

What advantage did this machine give the North over the South during the American Civil War?

 

[Shiloh]

I would have to say better artillery fuses. Just a hunch I have no ideal what this machine really is.

 

[1879fanatic]

Propaganda Pamphlet Maker to drop behind enemy lines via pigeons!

 

[PolarBear]

A Clue

The machine was used in a factory that was making something for the military. The people in the North who operated these machines often identified with the plight of the Southern slaves.

 

[Scott]

I think it's a wool carding machine or one big cotton gin. Textile factories tended to be in the North.

 

[PolarBear]

I think it's a wool carding machine or one big cotton gin. Textile factories tended to be in the North.

Bingo! This is a wool making machine from a Northern factory that made uniforms for the Union army. Many of these textile factories were here in New Hampshire. The plight of the textile workers, was often described as a form of slave labor by reformers in the North. Of course, the 2 parts of the nation were connected since the South provided the cotton for the Northern textile factories. The South lacked the quantity of machines found in the North so their manufacture of uniforms suffered. In the North, however, there were greedy industrialists who provided shoddy uniforms to the government.