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The American Civil War is often used as a preview or warning of the warfare that would emerge in Europe in 1914 and it's known most European generals entered that war unprepared.
So the question is did Europeans ignore the development in warfare during the ACW? or were there conflicts in Europe that already demonstrated similar warfare thus they didn't consider it anything particularly noteworthy?