This is something that I’ve wondered for a while. but didn’t know who to ask. Why, in the American Civil War and others like it, didn’t the soldiers wear helmets?

Because at the time, advances in firearms were ahead of advances in armor. Not until 1915 was the technology there to make a helmet that would stop a bullet. 

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