Infantry tactics at the time of the Civil War were based on the use of the smoothbore musket,a weapon of limited range and accuracy.Firing lines that were much more than a hundred yards apart could not inflict very much damage on each other,and so troops which were to make an attack.The old smoothbore a brass gun of 4.62 inch caliber,firing a 12-pound spherical shot-remained popular to end the war.
