most soldiers died from disease not bullet,what u do think life was like during the civil war.?
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I know you will not believe this but there has been a holocaust in this country (I mean other then what we did to the native Americans) take a look at Johnson s Island (northern Ohio); Camp Douglas (Chicago); and Elmira (New York). \n\nThe official U.S. position on the treatment of Confederate prisoners of war during The War for Southern Independence would shock many modern Americans.  The data, facts and statistics have been thoroughly eliminated from American history books.  One must research the original documents to discover the horrible truth.\n\nDuring the Civil War (1861-1865), the U.S. House of Representatives passed the following resolution: "Rebel prisoners in our hands are to be subjected to a treatment finding its parallels only in the conduct of savage tribes and resulting in the death of multitudes by the slow but designed process of starvation and by mortal diseases occasioned by insufficient and unhealthy food and wanton exposure of their persons."\n\nOne Yankee prison commander boasted that he had killed more Confederate soldiers than any Union officer on the front battle lines.\n\nThe story of Confederate prison camps, especially Andersonville, has been misrepresented.  There was no deliberate attempt to mistreat northern POWs.  The South asked the North to send doctors and medicine, and they tried to exchange the prisoners. \n\nThe North refused and finally the Confederacy offered the North cotton and gold as payment to take the men without exchange.  Again, the North refused to do so.  They knew the Confederate States of America would be honor bound to try to feed and house the Union POWs and to do so would hamper the Confederate war effort.  Yankee prisioners got the same rations as our boys, and one of the responders was correct Wirtz was the only person hung for war crimes and that was for Andersonville.\n\nThe yankees sold our blankets and uniforms as souvenirs, charged civilians a nickel to view a “Confederate” at Camp Douglas they stood us outside until we froze to death, we would raise vegetables only to have the yankees take and sell them.\n\nUntil the German Death Camps in the 1940s nothing would remotely compare, something else, yankees should be proud.\n\nMedicine was not as we know today but it was not lie pictured in the movies.  They knew little about germs but practiced reasonable sanitation in fact, there were groups dedicated it just that.  The biggest problems were infection and medicines they used mercury for many cures, which of course kills you.  For instance once a soldier got to the actually hospital they had over a 90% survival rate.  If you look at picture of casualties, their pockets are inside out and many erroneously think people were stealing from them and left their pockets inside out.  Most had nothing or very little to steal what it was the wounded were searching to find where they were wounded.  Look at a Minnie ball and imagine that hitting you.  It is so heavy it does a lot of damage you would off your feet in unimaginable pain and you looked to see where you were hit in the arm, stomach, etc.\n\nAncient Egyptians were doing brain surgery thousands of years ago, most people feel their era is superior and these who came before were dumb.  You can surprise your classmates by telling them there are still sons and daughters of Civil War veterans (especially Confederate) who are still alive.   \n\nLife in general was harsh compared to the way we live but at the same time they had time for leisure things, enjoyed art, music, fashion, riding and everything just about that we do.  Yankees had it better than we did when it comes to disease; like visitors to remote tribes in South America and Africa they have carries diseases in that have killed the whole population,  Yankees usually lives in populated areas and had been exposed and developed immunity to some of the diseases while we dies.  Make no mistakes mumps, Smallpox, bad water and dysentery killed more boys on b
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During the Civil War.
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I was a Medic with the 4th Division in Vietnam.\nWe did everything the infantry did until someone was hurt or killed. Myself I'm 100% disabled because of the Vietnam war. I was not only wounded twice but had cancers due to agent orange and PTSD. It was terrible. I not only had to try and patch up my friends but I had to try and find their body parts to ship home to their families.
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1. I have a prescription for my vitamins.\n2. When you transport a prisoner, he may be difficult to pacify.\n3. I tried to read a scribble in my notebook, but I couldn't understand it; it looked like complete nonsense.\n4. During the antebellum, the rebel forces were increasingly hostile.\n5.  I can still remember when the portable cd player was a novelty.\n\nLike that?\nI don't know if no. 4 is a very good sentence, I'm afraid I don't really know much about the American Civil war.
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I would think he came into contact with all the diseases and ailments which any other person at that time could have struggled through.  There is quite a bit of his life which isn't told.  He did hunger and thrist so by no means if he had those discomforts that he wouldn't have had other discomforts as well.
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In WWI, there were not that many medical care. There was a vaccine developed by Louis Pasteur to combat anthrax infection, alcohol as disinfectant, and anti-mosquito sprays to slow the spread of influenza.\n\nMorphine (I think) was developed sometime in WWI but was not fully used.
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well, it depends on how much blood loss there is and if there were any organs stuck.  the body is pretty resilient and can take a lot of crap.  i have heard that a shot in the stomach is a slow and painful death but i haven't known anyone that was shot in the stomach to confirm. i saw a picture of a guy that was boating and got catapulted from the boat and flew all the way to the bank and landed groin first on a fence post. the dude was completely impaled and even tho it was disturbing, he survived.  so it just comes down to what the body is capable of.  it also depends a whole lot on blood loss.
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Woe.....hey....why stop at WWI .....how 'bout the civil war. The revolutionary war.
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1. Racial tension amongst soldiers, despite that military units of different race were not mixed.\n\n2. "Liberal" loss of support for the war.\n\n3. Cut exports/imports via railways; loss of major agriculture; (all due to Southern possession).\n\n4. Poor military leaders.
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Disadvantages to the North in the civil war?\n\nWell, the North had all the money and all the ammunition and all the factories. Their population was more than double that of the South. The North had highways, canals & railroads. The Union had a Navy.\n\nSo it was really the South that was in dire straights from the onset of the war.\n\nBut the South held a few advantages. They were able to fight on their home turf and it could win the war simply by continuing to exist after the hostilities ended. The South also had a military tradition that encouraged young men to serve in the armed forces or attend a military school; many had served the U.S. military prior to the Civil War, only to resign and fight for their states and family. In addition, the South had the leadership of great commanders, including Robert E Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson.
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As far as effects on humans-  \n\n1) The drought leading to the dust bowl time of the great depression-it caused starvation, massive efflux of people out of the midwest and into the cities and further west-a huge migration of people that still effect us today- The western states are generally populated by people who's families came over from the south and midwest, in great part because of this drought.\n\n2) The Spanish Flu, that killed thousands of people in 1917-18, and spurred modern epidemiology.  For any doubt about the effect this still has on modern America, read anything about bird flu, and you see the fear we still have of this 90-year old natural disaster.\n\n3) The San Francisco Earthquake- Again, massive loss of life, followed by a significant change in behaviour, and still being felt today.\n\nNot to be rude, but the New Madrid Earthquake, which was indeed the largest in US history, had relatively little effect on US history, since so few people lived there at the time, and I dont see how the effects of *that* event really effects us today.\nLocusts are not extinct-they are a form of grasshopper caused by overcrowding and vegetation conditions.  There are many very interesting articles about how common grasshoppers become locusts, and how they have been controlled in the US in the last 100 years.  It was an agricultural disaster, but not anything on the scope of the Dust Bowl midwest, which was, by the way, hit by locusts early in the 1920's.
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Yep I think they hit it right on the head. I think the great war had a very deep and tragic meaning to the British, much like the Civil War to the Americans. I took a tour of Flanders given by a British Army officer. Early war it was Chlorine, burns up your lungs...It doesent kill you right away and they put the guy in the cart and watched him die slowly. He didnt get his mask on in time.Remeber at the start of the poem it talked about how tired they were and they really wasnt paying attention to to gas shells being fired at them. Gas shells usually are not as loud as regular high explosive shells. The early masks were basically chemically treated sacks with cellophane "glas" to see out of.Not easy to put on in a hurry.
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Extreme poverty, no antibiotics, lots of violence, the feudal system, no democracy, much shorter life span, poorer and less food, no glasses for poor vision, people died from toothache, poor clothing especially in bad weather, living in fear, extreme superstition, violent punishments for petty crime, workhouses for children, many women died in childbirth, no birth control, etc.  I hope this helps.
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C.  A very small percentage of Southerners owned slaves (2-3%).  Most men who  fought for the South left behind women and children to tend to crops and livestock alone.
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Yeah treated like cattle. Checked for lice and other paracites. Some famliies where split up. Forced to change their names to sound more american. Depending on the era they have might have came off one boat and got on another to be shipped off to fight in the Civil War....stuff like that it was Sh***y!
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I would like to expand the answers already given.\nThe first worldwar (1914-18) severely affected the population balance due to the policy of 'local recruitment'. The battle of the Somme resulted in a large number of deaths where the whole MALE population from some villages had enlisted in 'Pals regiments'. These villages were left without males between the ages of 16-50 and eligible husbands were at a premium.\nThe outbreak of 'Spanish Flu' followoed in 1919 causing many thousands of deaths in males, females and children. (This pandemic is the reason for the recent worries about 'Chicken Flu' at present).\nThe period between the wars saw an increase in the use of vitamins particularly  D to combat ricketts in the poorer families by the supply of milk.  Unfortunately the quality of the milk was uncontrolled and many cases of TB were contracted from milk (bovine TB) as well as poor hygiene conditions in the housing.\n\nInfectious diseases were large killers until the introduction of antimicrobials and antibiotics after World War 2. This war also resulted in large numbers of deaths but there was an increase in births due to the possibilities of the husbands being killed in combat.\n\nPost WW2 there was austerity and hardship until the late 1950s/60s.  (Really from the coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second.) The country talked of the new Elizabethan era and prosperity. This was shown by the "Baby Boom" of the 1960s. Mortality was reduced by the wide spread availability and use of antibiotics to fight TB and other infectious diseases. (Scarlet fever, whooping cough and  diphtheria). Innoculations were also introduced as preventative measures against some of these bacterial diseases. They then started anti-viral vaccines against polio and mumps which they combined with tetanus as the famous triple DTM vaccine.\nUnfortunately the winter of 1957 brought another pandemic of Flu, the so-called Asian flu, which killed nearly 300.000 people in UK.  Matters were not helped by the introduction of a faulty polio vaccine in 1960 which raised concern and a drop in people especially children being vaccinated against polio.
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The American Civil War was worth fighting from all focal points. If it was not fought, African-Americans would still be under the evil of slavery. We also would not be the country that we are today; we would be split in two. North vs. South. Brother vs. Brother. Family vs. Family.\n\n   It has often been said that the Civil War was a turning point in America. In this great war, we Americans actually became Americans. We were not Northerners. We were not Southerners. We were Americans, and we still are today. And in the Civil War, people fought for what they believed, not because they were forced to, not for any reward, not for any kind of land, or money, or gain. They just fought for what they believed.\n\n\nP.S. Yoube72: LOL very funny! I'm a SW fan too.