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Lack of medical services and supplies - if you were wounded, you would probably die.

Boredom - there were long intervals of inactivity.

For the Confederates, a chronic shortage of clothing, equipment and food. They had the strongest incentive to win battles, and be able to strip the enemy of their boots, and raid the food-stores. (The Battle of Gettysburg had a lot to do with a nearby shoe factory.)

In the last year, after Grant ended the system oif prisoner-exchange, the prison camps became hideously overcrowded. The Andersonville camp in Georgia, full of Union prisoners, saw starvation, gang murder and even cannibalism - worse horrors than anything seen on a battlefield.

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