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Environmental Conditions Although we don't know the exact temperature at the time of the battle o f Petersburg we can get an average of that season. the temperature at the time was about 61 degrees. Topography
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The musket was a heavy
large-caliber muzzle-loading usually smoothbore shoulder firearm a shoulder gun carried
by infantry during the civil war. It fired a variety of bullets ranging from a ball
to a U shape. The musket was latter replaced in the civil war with the rifle. The
final type of flint-ignition gun was the flintlock. Most of the the muskets used
during the civil war were flintlocks. they were de
signed to protect
the powder from moisture until it was struck by the flint of the hammer. The muskets
had and effective range of less then 90m or 300 ft. because of this sometimes hand
to hand combat was more effective then firing from a distance. It was also very ineffective
against large groups of on coming enemies.
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