Beyond the Glory: Commonalities of Being a Soldier

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Beyond the Glory: Commonalities of Being a Soldier

Life of a Civil War soldier Absolute guarantees: dread, dehydration, diarrhea, disease, despair Probabilities: disability, death Gettysburg: Union soldiers collect 37,574 rifles from battlefield 24,000 still loaded 6,000 had bullets in chamber 12,000 had 2 bullets in chamber

By the Numbers 2.8 million served for Union army 800,000 served for the Confederacy 750,000 deaths

Hospitals Crude, disease ridden places 3 treatments: Emetic-makes you throw up (balance body’s humors Eruma- gives you diarrhea Lancet- cuts veins to bleed poison out

Medicine Calomel: mercury & chloride – prescribed for almost every disease – mercury poisoning 1863-surgeon general banned Amputation: rifles had low velocity Hope to prevent infection No sterilization(no scalding water, no cleaning saw) 14% of Union soldiers died from wounds

Types of Injuries Gunshot wounds: 230,000 Disease: 225,000 Sypillis/Gonorrhea – 182,000 Union army legalized & regulated prostitution in occupied Nashville & Memphis, TN during war. Army official referred to Memphis as the “Gonorrhea of the West” Opium addiction

Prison Camps Soldiers in both prison camps treated about the same – officers treated better Andersonville: 100 prisoners died per day (starvation or exposure) Camp commander was tried and hanged after war.

Nurses Women nurses seen as scandalous. Soldiers respond better to female nurses. Work in battlefield hospitals Clara Barton: founded the American Red Cross

Life on the Home Front Confederacy facing food shortage Food riots (Richmond) Women working on farms while men are off fighting North: industries booming Women working in factories

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