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Camp Life of a Confederate Soldier By: Caleb Blackwell
Soldiers were drilled constantly in camp. First soldiers would perform company drills, then they would practice regimental drills. Buglers and drummers were vital to camp life. Not only did they signal every meal of the day and drills, they would signal different positions and formations during a battle. Buglers were used in calvary, were as drummers were used in infantry.
Although soldiers ate a very nourishing meal, the proportions were barely enough to survive on. Their provisions were made up of 20 ounces of salt beef, 12 ounces of salt pork, more than a pound of flour, a vegetetable, cofee, salt vinegar, and sugar. Though many soldiers never got as much as they were supposed to. They drunk mostly water and coffee, but occassionally they would try to smuggle liquor into camp or brew it themselves.
Soldiers faced very hard times during winter. When the leaves started to fall soldiers had to make themselves a shelter to live in during winter. Some soldiers made a roug form of a cabin using logs and packing mud in between the logs and on the sides of the chimney. While other soldiers would construct some sort of elaborate lean-to or a tent.
One of the most common ailment in camp was scurvy. Most soldiers that had gotten this disease woudl die. The medical advances and medications were very primitive then and if someone got a sickness that is now normal to us or not serious, the would most likely die.
During summertime, soldiers quarters consisted of tents most of them were of a type called the Sibley. Inside their tents could be found a rough form of a bed, most soldiers would simply use heaps of pine needles, but others prefered to use straw.
Of the little free time that soldiers had, it was very boring. Some would organize a game of baseball, some would play cards, while others had boxing matches and gambled with what little that they owned. Another thing that was considered a life line was letters. Soldiers loved to recieve letters because it was a little something from home that they enjoyed greatly. Some were sad letters telling about how someone who had died, some were happy telling of how good they were doing .
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