Fighting In The Civil War

The average camp had about 24 buildings, including kitchen, mess hall, barracks and quarters for the officers. Many camps began as tent cities until the permanent camp could be built.

Valley Forge did not have many warm clothes to go around for everyone despite the fact that it was 33 degrees fahrenheit outside. The soldiers had to live through the cold, without warmth and without food. “Tyranny, like hell is not easily conquered…”(Doc. D). Comparing the camp to “hell” shows the struggle and tough decision that soldiers had to make.

Depression, unhappy feelings and mood, is the general feeling at Valley Forge. Winning the battle against Britain seemed extremely unlikely, if at all possible to the soldiers there at Valley Forge. Valley Forge is located approximately 18 miles northwest of Philadelphia, and consisted of little more than a few houses and a mill. This is where General George Washington decided to have the Continental army settle in for the winter. He thought of the location as a strategic place to watch the British army housed in Philadelphia.

A day in a Union soldiers Camp life started at 5 a.m. and ended around 9 p.m. with several drills in between similarly to the Confederates, but unlike the Confederates, the Union was supplied with multiple advantages to create a greater camp life. Although the union did not have that much food the Union soldiers still were supplied with much more food than the Confederate. Also, the union tended to have more desirable clothing and shelter. According to The Civil

At the camp in Manzanar each barracks were sixteen by twenty feet with one light bulb in the middle”We were assigned to of these for the twelve people in our family group: and our official family “number” was enlarged by three digits -16”(Houston pg 959). Jeanne’s new family only had a little amount of room to live. The ones that took this the hardest was newly married couples. Privacy was a big deal for some people so one person made a screen out of cardboard. However screens appeared one or two at a time “They were first built of scrap lumber. Word would get around that block such and such had partitions now, and mama and my older sisters would walk halfway across the camp to use them”(Houton pg 964). These people had no privacy, but did not do heavy work.

The island had over one hundred buildings on it. Everything within the prison walls was called the Bull Pen. In the center were two rolls of six buildings with one building on the end. Twelve of these were the barracks. They were two stories high with the first floor divided into multiple rooms and two kitchens. Later the kitchens and mess rooms were removed to another building. Men would be assigned two to a bunk and bunks would be three tiered. These buildings were not sealed but weather-boarded. It did not give much protection against cold or snow. Due to poor ventilation, the men would cut small holes in the walls, normally by their heads, to get some air.One stove was provided to heat the room but was inadequate. Very little wood was given to the prisoners a day. Many times the stove would not be burned during the night due to not enough wood. Every available chair or box and even parts of the bunks were burn. Prisoners would even form a circle around the stove and

time to be alive. Soldier Life During The Civil War The camp life for a soldier was

Soldiers in the Army of the Potomac would live and sleep in camps. In the camps they would build small two man tents, they are easily pitched, and log huts that could fit several men. They would use blankets to keep warm at night. Canteens were for them to drink fresh water. Haversacks were what they used to keep their belongings in. They had inadequate food and shelter,

Likewise, in the winter they are given little protection from the elements, in the barracks they are only given two blankets per five people, one to lay on and the other to cover themselves with.

Camp Sumter was one of the largest military prisons during the Civil War era. Throughout

The common method to cook food was using kettles and cast iron skillets. Each group, known as “messes”, took turns cooking over the fire for the meals. When cooking over the fire, they had to create a rope and tie it around the animal. They would turn their flour or cornmeal into a dough, coil it into a rope, then wrap it around the animal. Once in a while, the soldiers would go out and hunt for wildlife.

The command area surrounded the prisoner camp. Nine guard towers, ditches, tall concrete walls, and electrified barbed wire encircled the whole camp. A maintenance building and living quarters for 200 SS trainees and 200 camp guards were positioned near to the camps

They had to remove their clothes and put on meager work clothing. They slept in tight quarters. They had no rights and were treated like animals.

In 1861, a horrific war began. Nobody had any idea that this war would become the deadliest war in American history. It wasn’t a regular war, it was a civil war opposing the Union in the North and the Confederate States in the South.. The Civil War cost many people’s lives on the battlefield and beyond. In addition it cost an extreme amount of money for the nation which possibly could have been avoided if the war had turned to happen a little differently.

On the 16th of January, Jack stepped out of the tavern and surveyed his surroundings. The sun was just rising over the tree line on the east shore of the Cape Fear River, the 84th Regiment was mustering on the eastern end of Cross Creek Towne Commons;, he could hear the beat of the Regimental Drummer.