Top Answer
User Avatar
Answered 2020-04-29 18:53:56


User Avatar

Your Answer

Related Questions

The most common weapon for soldiers in the Union and the Confederacy was the musket (rifle of sorts ).

Dysentery killed most soldiers in the Civil War.

Most soldiers were draftees or volunteers, and had little or no training. Many died before they fired a shot in battle

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.

Union had more soldiers in the war.

What were the most common punishment used in the Civil War?

Illness killed more soldiers than battle.

Most union soldiers were wealthy and well organized.

The two most common intestinal diseases that afflicted soldiers during the American Civil War were diarrhea and dysentery. Dysentery alone was the cause of more than 95,000 of the 620,000 war deaths during the Civil War.

Approximately 258,000 Confederate soldiers died in the American Civil War. Most deaths were due to disease.

During the time of the US Civil War, the state of New York provided the most soldiers for the Union. New York was by far the most populous state in the US and provided almost 450,000 soldiers for the war.

Disease and illness rapidly spread among civil war soldiers due to lack of proper hygiene and poor living conditions. The army camps were often dirty and cramped. This made life in the camps uncomfortable for the soldiers. There often were food shortages, and supplies could not be delivered on time, so soldiers would starve. Most civil war soldiers died from sickness before having the chance to fight.

The most US soldiers died during the American Civil War. That is because Americans were fighting on both sides.

In 1861, before the US Civil War became a reality, the US Army structure consisted of 1,105 officers and 15, 259 enlisted men. Most soldiers were serving in the West.

To pass the time, what did soldiers in the civil war do?

The most common and politically correct nickname for African-American soldiers was "buffalo soldiers." This was the name given to a particular unit of the Union Army that was composed of African-Americans, but it was borrowed by others.

Most factories were located in the North East before the Civil War.

Most experts agree somewhere between 620,000 to 700,000 deaths from the civil war.

Most of the deaths among soldiers in the US Civil War was the result of diseases. The idea that most soldier deaths were due being killed in battle is not true. However, certainly the wounds that were the result of actual battle, was a major contributing factor to the diseases the ultimately resulted in death.
