ABSTRACT
Murder and "war" are legal definitions of similar behavior. Killing in war is simply state-sanctioned. More than 600,000 soldiers died during the Civil War, more than all the soldiers died in all the other wars fought by the United States. Most Civil War soldiers used rifles, whose rifled barrels had spiral grooves etched into them, giving better accuracy and range. Repeat-action Spencer rifles could fire seven shots in a row, while Enfield rifled muskets were accurate well past 400 yards. A war to end the nation was also a war to save the nation. An ambitious man named Mathew Brady did more than any other single individual to get the world to see the Civil War. Just before the Civil War, Brady moved to Washington, DC, and opened his National Photographic Art Gallery, situated for both his talents and the coming storm. Brady's studio walls were incongruous photographs of Lincoln and McClellan stting under the white canopy of McClellan's tent.
