life as a soldier
Throughout the Civil War soldier’s spent a great deal of his or her time in camp or marching from destination to destination. Their war struck life was full of hardships, a person can really see what hardships the typical Civil War Soldier went through when one looks at the soldiers’ daily lives in camp. To really understand their life at camp one would look at what a soldier ate, where he or she slept, and what they did in their free time. ... Unlike us, a Civil War Soldier normally did not have a variety of foods to eat throughout the typical day. A soldier fighting for the North, as a soldier in the Union, was normally better feed than the normal soldier fighting for the South, also known as a Confederate.