Life as a soldier during the Civil War
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- Life as an African American was hard they were paid $3 less than white people. And many people believed that I could not be trusted with a gun which made it hard to fight.
- Hi my name Is David Rite I am an African American soldier fighting in the Civil war for the Union
- They had square flour-and-water biscuits so hard, some said, that they could stop bullets.
- The food is disgusting beans, bacon, pickled beef—called “salt horse”by the men—dried, compressed mixed vegetables, a cake that made a thin soupwhen crumbled into boiling water, and hardtack—square flour-and-water biscuits
- Camp life was horrible people would die left and right from diseases. They would never clean them because soldiers were in and out every day
- Camp life was terrible we have done little fighting but have lost manymen. They are dying daily in the camps and hospitals from pneumonia, dysentery,and camp disease.
- In battles the south would target African Americans because they believed that they did not have the freedom to fight or earn money. And that is why African Americans had a higher death rate than whites
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- in battles they would target me because of my skin color
- In the prisoner of war camps at Andersonville the largest prison camp in the South. Of the45,000 prisoners who entered its gates between 1862 and 1865, nearly 13,000 died.
- I am a prisoner of war at Andersonville and every morning “the men crawled out of their bunks shivering and half frozen. and they treat us terrible
- When they ran out of Chloroform they would do surgery's and amputation while the patient was awake so they would feel everything
- This is where I had my medical treatment. It was in a tent and if you needed surgery they would do it when you are awake or use chloroform.
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