Confederate Health Care

Health had to do with their diseases, personal hygiene, and injuries. Some of the diseases during this war that were majorly impacting the soldiers were Typhoids, Pneumonia, Measles, Tuberculosis, Malaria, and Dysentery. These diseases were not just in the Battle of Gettysburg, they were in the whole Civil War and affected everyone. The personal hygiene during the 1800’s left much to be desired. On the battlefield, conditions the soldiers had to live in were gross. They lived in filth and allowed garbage to pile up in their camps. Sometimes when their clothes were infested with lice, they would boil them in pot and then cook with the same pot. During the Civil War there were only 2 major injuries. The 2 main injuries and they were gunshots and

The white soldiers thought that African Americans were less intelligent than them and would be better suited as cooks and cleaners for the war effort than fighting in complex battles ("Black Soldiers in the U.S Military During the Civil War"). This was not the only way that black soldiers faced discrimination. Black soldiers were not paid equal to the white. Black soldiers were paid $10 per month and from that $10, $3 was automatically taken out to pay for the soldier's clothing. White soldiers on the other hand were paid $13 per month and did not have to give any of that amount for clothes ("Black Soldiers in the U.S. Military During the Civil War). When the black soldiers found out about their discriminatory and unfair pay they were very upset. Many protested and fought for equal pay. Their fight was successful. Finally, in June 1864 Congress passed an equal pay to U.S Colored Troops. Black soldiers would now receive the same rations and supplies, as well as better medical care ("Black Soldiers in the U.S Military During the Civil

They said that though blacks should not be enslaved, they should not be equal to the white male. The army was extremely reluctant to commission black officers -- only one hundred gained commissions during the war. For example, Colonel Shaw was white. African American soldiers were also given less supplies and rations. In addition, they received inferior ammunition and weapons and absolutely no medical treatment on or off the battlefield. For example, the soldiers were not given shoes when they asked for them, until Colonel Shaw demanded them for his men. This greatly affected their ability to fight. With less to keep them warm or defend themselves, you are going to have more casualties. Black soldiers served in artillery and infantry and performed all noncombat support functions that sustain an army, digging trenches, hauling supplies, cooking food, tending to the wounded, and providing personal service.

First,when it came to slavery the north didn't need slaves like the south did,so when it came to the slaves escaping they always headed north to freedom.Nevertheless what about the ones that couldn't escape this is when Abraham Lincoln came in to stop the south.Even though with a full examination, it shows that a war was needed to put a

Throughout my research about the importance of African Americans in the American Civil War, I realized how our modern society underappreciates the involvement of African American soldiers in the Civil War. Although the involvement of African American soldiers in the American Civil War is depicted in various ways in multiple sources. The main difference is the amount and the thoroughness each source provides. However, what they do have in common is that during the Civil War, African Americans played a huge role in the victory of the Union. In an article by Thavolia Glymph, she quotes Henry L. Abbot about what it means to be an soldier in war. He wrote that the authority and symbol of a soldier is a gun, not a shovel. Despite the fact of being full-fledged soldiers, African American soldiers were often ignored and extremely mistreated by white soldiers. They were given menial tasks such as digging trenches and were constantly degraded by Union soldiers. They scarcely held guns, but rather held shovels and sent to noncombat labor As a result, African

The medicines and medical techniques used during the Civil War were very primitive for their time. Extremely little was known about germs and the dangers of infections. In Recovery, it is stated that, “Treating wounds and illnesses with medication had become common—opiates, stimulants, sedatives, diuretics, purgatives, and more were widely available and used. The first pills had been made in the early 1800s. The stethoscope and the

The diseases soldiers tended to face were small pox, measles, mumps, dysentery, and so on. The list is endless. Dysentery was by far the most lethal during the Civil War (Civil War Diseases 1). There was a 75% chance that if a soldier was injured, an amputation would occur (Civil War Medicine 1). This led to a tremendous death toll due to the bacteria into the wound. There were plentiful reasons as why a soldier contracted these diseases other than a gunshot wound. These reasons included, poor physical upon entering the army, the doctors lack of knowledge when it came to medical information, terrible hygiene, disease causing parasites, and lack of the basic necessities for survival. As you can see, this is a recipe for failure and death. For example, in order to

When slavery was present in the United States, life was very hard for many slaves. They would spend their days working in the fields or in the home, doing whatever their master called upon. Slaveholders also held the power over their slaves treating them however they pleased. Most slaveholders were cruel which led to the slaves to do anything they could to avoid their master’s treatment and hope for a better life in the North. The North was filled with freedom, hope, desire and equality for people. It sounded like paradise to most slaves which was the proper motivation they needed to escape from their masters. Many slaves had goals of making in up North

“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one, I would have the other.” Stated by a freed Northern slave in his journal. The civil war affected the course of America and changed the World we know today. With the effect of slavery thousands of African Americans were outlawed into slaves across United States. With civil war storm clouds building, blacks did anything to be free by running to the free lands of so called “equality.” Many took a route called the Underground Railroad to the North lands. People thought that the North was free and equal but wasn’t so. The outcome of ex-fugitive slaves in the North wasn’t great. Through segregation and inequality, the blacks were restricted in North. They

During the Civil War, they had to have many medicines, operations, and surgeries done to themselves or others in order to survive (Jenny Goellnitz, Paragraph 1). Some of these medicines we still use today. Medical technology and scientific knowledge have changed dramatically since the Civil War, but the basic principles of military health care remain the same. The deadliest thing that faced the Civil War soldier was disease. For every soldier who died in battle, two died from disease.

Antebellum south had many issues, but one of the most pervasive of the time was the wide spread of disease and insufficient medical treatments. During that time the most widespread diseases included yellow fever, cholera, smallpox and malaria these diseases had almost a sixty percent mortality rate (“Antebellum Louisiana 1: Disease, Death and Mourning” ). Although medical advances and science were minimal there were attempts and different practices in attempt to heal the sick. Methods of treatment included different techniques, some dabbled with herbs, others bleed and other yet relied on ancestor and religious spirits. Slave owners did not seek physician treatment for slaves unusually it was dire thus leading to the slave community taking

The Civil War was fought with much carnage, and was one of America’s most ‘uncivilized’, wars with a soldier’s chance of survival about twenty-five per cent. While many were killed by other soldiers, usually through bullets, a large portion died as a result of disease such as: dysentery, mumps, pneumonia, typhoid fever, measles, and tuberculosis, diseases that are curable today. These diseases were spread through the horribly sanitized camps found on both sides of the war: Confederate and Union. And while many died from disease, some died from other soldiers’ bullets; these deaths may have been prevented if the technology, or overall techniques used by surgeons, during this time period were more up-to-date, as amputations were the main procedure

The Civil War had a tremendous influence on how America viewed sanitary reform and public health programs. Before the war, health reformers proved unsuccessful in gaining government involvement in these issues. Most cities, New York City particularly, were filthy, especially among the poor, which proved detrimental to the nation in regards to the spread of disease (p. 160). At the start of the war, health and hygiene was lacking so much that disease and infection spread rapidly among soldiers (p 160). As a result, reformers turned to Florence Nightingale, a nurse reformer during the Crimean War (p. 160).

The South had ways to "keep slaves under control." They would keep them in groups of three or four. The owners woulds also not let them go anywhere after dark and if they wanted to leave during the day they would have to have a signed paper by their owner saying they can do whatever it is that they want to do. They would try so hard to just escape to the North and if they could to Canada. Reason is, they were technically "free," but at the same time they had no rights but they were not as mistreated in the north as they were in the south. Also it was illegal to marry slaves in the South so that was also a reason they would leave so they could marry.

Prior to Civil War, distinct Northern and Southern cultures were established; North strengthened on industrialized commercial area and the south reinforced with an agrarian agricultural area. Racism ran rampant in the Civil War and sectioned off everyone into their different groups and cliques. The north was more industrialized and didn’t really need slaves. But the south was around about 80% farmland so the south needed slaves to profit from their massive amounts of land.