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To see world War I, all you need to see are the Civil War photographers pictures of the trenches around St. Petersburg, VA. The Americans had figured out how modern, industrial war was going to go. The Europeans didn't pay any attention.
The Europeans had been shown trench warfare twenty years earlier at Ohaeawai.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ohaeawai
The generals of Europe considered the American Civil War as a war that was across the Atlantic and had no baring on a real war. However, if you look back on it in history, one can consider the Civil War the first total war in modern history.