Many of them were just hoping that they might be given some boots sometime! (Incidentally there were no left or right boots. Civil War boots were only one shape. You trod them in.)
In the later half of the war, many Confederates were doomed to stay barefoot, unless they won a battle, when they could strip the enemy of their boots - including the dead men.
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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.
No! There were camp followers, but no front line soldiers. Women might have driven wagons or been nurses.
there were 10 blinded soldiers during the civil war
what was the civil war diet? *
that was the color of the American soldiers prior to the civil war