Bell Ringer!

• Take out HW • Compare your opinion questions at the

bottom with your neighbors

Life of a soldier

• Most soldiers under 21• Drilled and marched for hours a day• Slept on the ground, even in rain or snow• New bullets made war even deadlier• Disease and infection common

Desertion – when a soldier leaves his service illegally1/7 Union 1/9 Confederate

“ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE”

Draft Laws

• Both sides had laws of conscription/draft:REQUIRED men to serve in the military

• The draft was extremely unpopular and there were many draft riots

• Why did the poor in particular resent the DRAFT?- Wealthy men could buy substitutes to serve for them

Lincoln suspends Habeas Corpus• Translates to “you have the body”• The right to be charged with a crime or have a

hearing before being thrown in jail Why is this important?

Economic Effects of War• War benefited the Northern economy

Increased government demand for many products

• Food shortages were common in the South: the Confederate army seized food and used trains to carry supplies to the troops rather than food to the people

• Inflation was a major problem in the South–Prices increased 9,000 percent!

Women Aid the War Effort

• With men away in the army, women took over their jobs

• Served on front lines as nurses, gave care for sick/wounded, spies

Civil War Prison Camps

• In the North and South, POW’s (Prisoners of War) faced terrible conditions that caused suffering and death for thousands

Prisonerscouldn’t crossthe “deadline”

or they’d be shot

An Overcrowded Camp

Lack of Confederate supplies contributed

to malnutritionof soldiers

More than 12,000 Union Soldiers died at

Andersonville

Trencheswere dug for dead bodies

Andersonville NationalCemetery

Andersonville

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Executions of Captain Henrich "Henry" Wirz

He was the only person to be tried, convicted and executed for war crimes during the Civil War .