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The most common chores Civil War soldiers had to do were cleaning the camp, chopping and bringing in firewood, cooking, and digging latrine trenches/pits. If any soldiers/officers owned horses, then someone had to take care of those.
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ANSWER They were "citizen-soldiers".
there were 10 blinded soldiers during the civil war
*Disease*
cause
amputations
The main cause of death in the US Civil War was disease because of the unsanitary conditions in hospitals used to care for wounded soldiers. One of the greatest killers was Dysentery, a disease that killed over 45,000 Union soldiers and 50,000 Confederate soldiers. It is estimated that two thirds of all deaths among US Civil War soldiers were due to various diseases.
No. Black soldiers have been in the US military since the Civil War, and there are records of black soldiers serving even in colonial times.
Disease - far more than death in battle.
The most common chores Civil War soldiers had to do were cleaning the camp, chopping and bringing in firewood, cooking, and digging latrine trenches/pits. If any soldiers/officers owned horses, then someone had to take care of those.
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A member of one of the African-American regiments within the US Army after the Civil War, serving primarily in the Indian wars of the late 1860s.
Civil War Soldiers Museum was created in 1991.
The same as white soldiers, to shoot and be shot at.
ANSWER They were "citizen-soldiers".