A+Soldiers+Life

=**__​​Essential Questions__**= =** 1. What was the camp life like? **= =** 2. Why didn't they spend a lot of time on gun related drills? **= =**__ Camp Life __**=

**During the civil war soldiers spent more time in a camp than actually fighting. While marching over the countryside the soldiers and officers would sleep in tents or on the ground. Tents were hard to get so eight to ten men had to share tents over night. Some of the soldiers made their own sleeping places like log straws fly tents,** keep them warm. ** = **R**media type="custom" key="5658311" align="center" width="755" height="388" ** R ** =
 * rubber ponchos and trenches in the ground. In the winter soldiers had to camp in a dry rough places.**
 * They also built log cabins and chimney to

=__ Sanitation __=

**Sanitation wasn’t thought of during the civil war** unclean and really dirty, especially in the camps they stayed in. ** hygiene and as in taking good care of where to dispose waste, they had limited access to clean water, and they also didn't have access to almost anything that was even close to being clean. **
 * As being very important because during the civil war many army camps were very
 * They also weren’t thinking of keeping good care of themselves as in great

=__ Food and Rations __=

**Occasionally Civil war soldiers received packages of cookies, cakes and other** As the big war progressed, the Confederate and Union forces were on the move to supply their own soldiers with lots of army rations through fishing and hunting expeditions. **
 * different kinds of snacks from all the way back home.

= __Desertion__ =

**Desertion and related lesser offenses, such as going absent without leaving bedeviled both the Confederate and Union armies during the American Civil War. The big majority of soldiers even those who endured crutial battles and deadly skirmishes on obligations, even on their darkest hours of doubt and fear. From the opening months of the civil war both the north and the south recognized that desertion posed a potentially serious threat to their respective causes.**

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__**Work cited**__ Windrow, Martin. "camp life." The Civil War Rifleman. New York: Frinklin Watts,1985. 12, 13. Print.

"A Soldier's Pastimes." Gale Library of Daily Life: American Civil War. Ed. Steven E. Woodworth. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 2008. 31-39. Civil War Resources. Web. 22 Mar. 2010.

"Food and Rations." Gale Library of Daily Life: American Civil War. Ed. Steven E. Woodworth. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 2008. 15-18. Civil War Resources. Web. 22 Mar. 2010.