Civil war life
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- To improve camp life during the war years, some camps established weekly newspapers, photographic establishments. The worst feature of camp life is its influence upon the mind and character. The physical discomfort, hard fare, etc.
- Black soldiers saw limited military action. Many officers used their personal slaves as orderlies and cooks, other African-American southerners were used as construction workers building fortifications, bridges, and trenches. The majority of the southern black population remained on their plantation working as slave labor.
- This sucks, Im being used for labor instead of helping in the war!
- Before the discovery of anesthesia, wounded soldiers who underwent surgery did so while fully awake. The military medical system, unprepared for high casualties, was pushed beyond its ability to provide care. Disease took more lives than did battle wounds.
- OWW!
- The soldiers’ diet was not very appealing. Union troops were given beans, bacon, pickled beef—called “salt horse” by the men—dried, compressed mixed vegetables, a cake that made a thin soup when crumbled into boiling water. n the southern army, the men favored something called “sloosh,” cornmeal swirled in bacon grease, then wrapped around a ramrod and cooked over the campfire.
- This stuff sucks, but its all we got to eat.
- More than 50,000 men died in prison camps; the number was about the same for North and South. While most prisons had bad conditions, perhaps the worst prison was Andersonville, the largest prison camp in the South. Of the 45,000 prisoners who entered its gates between 1862 and 1865, nearly 13,000 died.
- Battles in the Civil War were usually short, bloody encounters seldom lasting more than one day. Most were fought in rugged, forested country. The defending soldiers would form a double line, firing from behind any cover available. For many, the battle experience inspired an intense hatred for the enemy, turning the war into a grim exercise in revenge.
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