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Civil War
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Intro
•The Civil War was the bloodiest, and most
violent war ever fought in American history.
•The civil war was first started from when the
confederacy shelled fort Sumter, and the union
declared war on the confederacy.
•The civil war was the war that most American
soldiers were killed in.
The Union And Confederate
•Union
and confederate
had similarities,
and
union
and confederate
armies
differences.
•Their cloths were obviously different
•the way their cloths were different is the
colors.
•Their similarity is they were both fighting for
something. like the Union was fighting to keep
the United States together, and the Confederate
were fighting to leave the United States and
start their own government and country.
The Battle of Gettysburg
•The battle of Gettysburg is the most well known battle
that was fought in the Civil War.
•It first started when Union and Confederate soldiers
unexpectedly saw each other in the town of Gettysburg.
•The Confederacy tried to run the enemy lines, but
almost lost 2/3 of their men.
General Grant
• General Grant was the General that led the Union army
to victory.
• After the war, he was elected the 18 president of the
United States.
• His full name is Hiram Ulysses S. Grant.
• Hiram Ulysses S. Grant is on the fifty dollar bill.
Military Tactics and Technology
• Military Tactics, and
Technology changed the way of
how wars were fought. Instead
of marching in crowds, soldiers
covered behind walls or hid in
trenches.
• The more accurate rifles
replaced the old muskets.
• The cannon was useful for
taking out large crowds of
people.
• Pointed bullets replaced the old
big round musket balls.
Combat Conditions
•Civil war combat was a nightmare of horrors to
all the soldiers.
•Many soldiers were scared of getting shot, and
catching diseases around them.
•A lot of soldiers didn’t want to join the army
•Some joined the war to fight for their country,
and loved ones.
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Medical Care
•During the Civil War, medical care was very poor.
•Some soldiers died cause doctors didn’t know how to
heal soldiers. The doctors sometimes gave soldiers the
wrong kind of medicine, and some even died from the
wrong medication.
•Soldiers got infection from the dirty environment or
the doctors never washed their medical tools.
Food and Drink
•In the Civil War, a lot of soldiers hated the food.
•They ate pickled meat that was preserved in salt.
•Union soldiers ate a cracker bread called Hardtack
which was filled with worms and weevils. (a type of
beetle).
•The Confederacy ate a boiled root called Chicory..
Conditions On the Home Front
•On the home front, there was a severe argument on the
drafts.
•For people to escape the drafts, they were able to pay a
fine of $300.
•Draft Rioters broke out, and burned down the drafts
office, and killed many innocent African Americans.
•More than 100 people died in this little act.
From Gettysburg to Appomattox
•General Grants plan was to attack the South from
two sides.
•General Grant got a lot of his men killed, and some
people even called General Grant a butcher.
•His attempt did successfully work, and the Union
won the war.
•Before the Union won the war, the Confederacy
predicted that they would lose the war, and
fortunately they were right.
conclusion
• After the civil war, many bodies lay dead on the
battlefield.
• some were lucky and only survived with minor
injuries.
• some soldiers survived , but were sadly
paralyzed.
• Soldiers that survived were sad to lose friends
that fought with them through the whole thing.
• The civil war was truly a very tragic war.