The Lives of Soldiers
The lives of soldiers lost made families in the Union, and the confederacy sadden. Soldiers from both sides volunteered to enroll in the army. Most of the time spent in the army the soldiers lived in camps. But sometimes in between battles soldiers from both sides got along. The soldier's lives were very dull. It was a routine of drills, marches, bad food, and rain. The new rifles in the war were made for killing as many people as they could.
After the battle of Shiloh the injured were rained on for 24 hours waiting for medical help. A union soldier told everyone that the moaning of the injured and dying was heart-breaking, and horrendous. So many soldiers were terrified or starving, so they fled. One of the reasons for the invasion in Marlyand in 1862 was to feed the soldiers with the Maryland crops.
