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The conditions in the prison-camp at Andersonville, Georgia, must have been worse than any battlefield danger or hardship.
The overcrowding and starvation was so bad that the Union prisoners began to form rival gangs for sheer survival, eventually descending to cannibalism.
The photograph of the prisoner reduced to skin and bone, a couple of days from death, is as haunting as any image from the big campaigns.
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ProfessorThere were many problems faced by infantrymen during the middle 1800s. These were the use of large caliber musket projectiles which shattered bones requiring amputation. Other problems came from inhumane and decrepit conditions of Union POWs such as their experience at the notorious Andersonville camp in Georgia.Ê
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When a civil war soldier died in the field because of illness was his body shipped home or was he buried where he died?
this was one of the first wars in history where the bodies were able to be preserved and shipped home for burial. the new embalming technologies were being developed and also soldiers were more identifiable than previous wars. the fighting was also for the most part relatively close to most of the soldier's homes. but still embalming was an expensive process and was usually reserved for the wealthier soldiers and their families who were for the most part officers in the war. also embalmers got really rich during this period.
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If you are referring to the US Civil War, Germany played no part at all.
What was the most important part of the navy in the civil war?
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