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    Great Civil War Projects: You Can Build Yourself
    Great Civil War Projects: You Can Build Yourself
    Great Civil War Projects: You Can Build Yourself
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    Great Civil War Projects: You Can Build Yourself

    By Maxine Anderson

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    From periscopes to homemade paper, uniforms to telegraphs, Great Civil War Projects You Can Build Yourself explores the Civil War era through hands-on building projects and activities using common household and craft store items. Detailed step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and templates for creating 25 Civil War projects, combined with historical background, facts and anecdotes, and biographies and trivia, give kids a hands-on way to experience the fascinating history of one of the most important eras in American history.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNomad Press
    Release dateJun 1, 2012
    ISBN9781936749508
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      Great Civil War Projects - Maxine Anderson

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      ON THE BATTLEFIELD

      Most soldiers who joined up to fight for either the Union or the Confederacy had no idea what they were getting into. Why did soldiers join? In the case of the Confederacy, most wanted to defend their state, their home, and their families. Most of the fighting took place in the southern half of the country, in the states that had seceded.

      Union soldiers joined up for a variety of reasons. Some believed in the idea of a single country and a national government. Some believed in the abolitionist cause. Others were looking for adventure.

      Soldiers on both sides found that they spent far more time waiting around camp or marching long distances than they did fighting on the battlefield. When they did fight, it was slaughter on a massive scale. In the Battle of Gettysburg, more than 51,000 men were killed or wounded in three days.

      Clear the Track—Union For Ever pictorial envelope.

      Even more soldiers died of disease than of battle wounds. For every soldier killed in battle, two died of diseases such as dysentery, diarrhea, typhoid, and malaria. This was mostly due to the crowded and unhealthy living conditions. Soldiers from rural areas contracted childhood diseases such as measles and chickenpox because they’d never had them before. More than 5,000 Union soldiers died of measles during the war.

      Battlefield medicine was very basic. No one sterilized instruments or operating areas. Also, ammunition called the minie ball shattered bones and infected wounds with clothing and dirt. The most common method of treating leg or arm wounds was to amputate as soon as possible. In total, more than 200,000 men died of battle wounds, usually from shock and infection.

      These injuries led the Union and Confederate armies to change the way they waged war. New weapons shot much farther and more accurately than ever before. By the end of the war, siege fighting had taken the place of close-range fighting.

      abolitionist: someone who believed that slavery should be abolished, or ended.

      amputate: to cut off.

      siege fighting: long battles where each side digs in and waits for the other side to

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