Click2History - Unforgettable Sights - America's Civil War - Chapter 4

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 4 - CAMP LIFE</font></b></p> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Civil War soldiers, from both North and South, endured more than deadly battles. Camp life produced its own measure of difficulties as these links to American records reveal. (Exact locations, where provided by the Archives, are also identified here.)</p><ul type=disc> <li> During the war, soldiers lived in <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/4/05-0381a.gif" target="_blank"><b>tents</b></a> while civilians in the South often lived in damaged buildings.<br><br></li> <li> <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/3/05-0291a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Officers' quarters</b></a> were usually more spacious than those of their men.<br><br></li> <li> The men could always identify the <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/4/05-0326a.gif" target="_blank"><b>company’s kitchen</b></a> or the <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/4/05-0338a.gif" target="_blank"><b>cooks’</b></a> <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/4/05-0310a.gif" target="_blank"><b>tents</b></a>.<br><br></li> <li> <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/4/05-0334a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Commissary</b></a> headquarters at Rocky Face Ridge, Georgia provided cooks with supplies.<br><br></li> <li> Without their wives around to help, soldiers had to <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/4/05-0319a.gif" target="_blank"><b>wash</b></a> and <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/3/05-0288a.gif" target="_blank"><b>dry</b></a> their own clothes.<br><br></li> <li> Camp sites, like the one guarding a trestle bridge at Whiteside, Virginia, were sometimes <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/6/05-0549a.gif" target="_blank"><b>picturesque</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li> Soldiers, who took a break from fighting, <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/4/05-0308a.gif" target="_blank"><b>relaxed</b></a> at their camp.   </li><br><br> <li> During bad weather, efforts were made to build winter <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/3/05-0297a.gif" target="_blank"><b>quarters</b></a> with <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/81/4101.html" target="_blank"><b>"corduroy" roads</b></a>.<br><br></li> <li> Many soldiers, however, had to live in <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/4/05-0316a.gif" target="_blank"><b>tents</b></a> during the winter months.<br><br></li> <li> <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/3/05-0300a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Officer</b></a> winter quarters were usually better than those of their men.<br><br></li> <li> When the army moved on, camps were often <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/9/05-0826a.gif" target="_blank"><b>abandoned</b></a>.<br><br></li> <li> Sometimes wounded soldiers remained behind in <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/4/05-0324a.gif" target="_blank"><b>deserted camps</b></a>.<br><br></li></ul> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="civil_war_ch3.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="civil_war_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="civil_war_ch5.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>