1. The Impact of the Civil War on Daily Life in South Carolina Standard Indicator 8-4.6

2. Civil War  Had a profound impact on daily life in South Carolina.

3. Impact on Planters/plantation life:  Wealthy planters volunteered & served as officers in army  Some were exempt from service under “20 slave” law  Plantations destroyed  Slavery abolished  Fortunes lost

4. Impact on Women:  Tended farms & ran plantations  Suffered shortages of supplies (clothes, food)  Forced to use substitutes for necessities  Confederate money worthless  Served as nurses to soldiers  Raised money for the war  Many forced to leave homes to return to ruins  Left widowed & were sole family providers

5. Lower Class Males:  Farmers  Mainly lower class & more served & died than elite

6. Impact on lives of soldiers:  Experienced devastation of war  Suffered disease in camps  Unsanitary conditions in camps  Close quarters in camps  Tired, sick, hungry, wet, scared, & lonely  Fought courageously

7. Impact on African Americans:  Fled to Union lines for freedom  Many stayed on plantations working, waiting for Union Army  Emancipation Proclamation  Confederate states did not obey proclamation  Freed as result of military action  Emancipation Proclamation allowed them to join Union Army  They were discriminated against in army (served under white officers & paid less)  Some forced to serve for Confederate masters in army

8. Impact on children:  Slave & free worked on farms & plantations  Suffered the same losses & troubles as adults  Some as young as 10 joined the armed forces, served as drummer boys, etc. & were killed in battle  left without fathers or disabled fathers

9.  Manpower shortage in South during war so most males served in military & were pardoned after the war