Lauren C Snead Rise before the sun even rose Eat small rations of food if there was any Would either march on to another camp sitebattle site or do drills If there was free time soldiers would write letters home of play games ID: 235556
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A Day in the Life of a Civil War Soldier
Lauren C. SneadSlide2
Rise before the sun even rose.Eat small rations of food if there was any.
Would either march on to another camp site/battle site or do drills.If there was free time, soldiers would write letters home of play games.Most days could be extremely intense with fighting or with extreme boredom.
Daily Schedule of a SoldierSlide3
FOOD!
Confederate Army
Union Army
Most foods were bacon
, corn meal, tea, sugar,
and molasses.
“Johnnie
Cake" that they made in the field from cornmeal, milk and a few other
ingredients.
Most foods were uncooked to last longer.Usually had salt pork, fresh or salted beef, coffee, sugar, salt, vinegar, dried fruit and vegetables. Bread was hardtack.Slide4
Most uniforms were made by ladies at home.Not every soldier had one.
Hats were provided for warmth during winter and shade during summer.Most uniforms were grey.Footwear was hard to provide so most soldiers marched barefoot.
Clothing for Confederate TroopsSlide5
Confederate Soldier UniformSlide6
Soldiers were issued uniforms.
Officers were expected to purchase their own and had to make sure that they met strict military requirements.Blue
uniforms blue blouse and
light-blue pants of wool, worn both winter and summer.
Long overcoats, often with a short cape, were worn in
cold and
wet weather.
Cavalrymen
and some infantry units wore broad-brimmed hats.High leather boots for cavalry, shorter shoes for the infantry
. Advances in shoe manufacturing meant agood supply of footwear for Union troops.Union Clothing/UniformSlide7
Union Soldier UniformSlide8
Weapons
Confederate Army
Union Army
A rifled musket.
Bayonets were
sometimes used
.
Cavalrymen and officers
also used
pistols, either single-shot breechloaders or the more modern revolvers. Swords were carried but rarely used in combat.
The rifled musket was also the
standard Confederate weapon.
Lacking
the North’s
manufacturing capacity, Confederate forces made
widespread use of
captured Union weapons
As in the
Union Army
, carbines and pistols
were the
chief cavalry weapons.Slide9
Most soldiers were very religious.They tried to attend church services regularly.
Both Union and Confederate armies had a Chaplain at all times.Most soldiers had a Bible in their pocket so “God would watch over them”.
ReligionSlide10
More soldiers died from disease than from battle.Soldiers weren’t paid a lot. Most of
them volunteer.Some Random Facts