W. H. D. Rouse
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soldiers in both armies suffered from a shortage of food and had no scruples about supplementing their rations with whatever could be taken from the surrounding farms and homes corn pork chickens geese hams potatoes apples and onions disappeared as the armies moved through a neighborhood wild berries and fish were also eaten
nevertheless there were many times when food was in short supply one federal wrote most of the time we are on the move and cannot get such as is fit for a man to eat
the atlanta campaign like many of the later civil war campaigns saw the development of trench warfare on a large scale protecting works were built from loose rocks fence rails tombstones or even the bodies of dead comrades by the third or fourth week of the campaign
Both sides had mastered the art of field fortification, a trench with the dirt piled on the side toward the enemy and surmounted by a head log under which were small openings for firing.
Such works left little but the eyes exposed to enemy fire.
In front of the trenches, the underbrush would be cleared away and young trees cut so that they fell toward the foe.
The trees were left partly attached to the stump so that they could not be dragged aside.
telegraph wire was sometimes strung between them to create further obstacles from behind their fortifications soldiers could pour out such a volume of fire that there was no chance for a successful massed attack unless complete surprise could be achieved or overwhelming numbers brought against a weak part of the enemy's line much of the fighting was therefore done by small patrols and snipers
especially in heavily wooded country such as the area around new hope church and kenesaw mountain
The soldier who died in battle could expect no elaborate funeral.
Usually, the armies were too busy to do more than bury the dead as quickly as possible, and they would probably be put in a mass grave near the place where they had fallen.
Later, the bodies might be exhumed and moved to a cemetery, where they would be listed as unidentified and re-entered in a numbered but nameless grave.
the soldier who was wounded or who was disabled by disease suffered greatly as a rule the northerner who was sent to an army hospital fared better than his opponent because the federals were better equipped and provisioned than the confederates
field hospitals treated men whose wounds were either very slight or too serious to permit further movement others were sent by wagon and rail to hospitals in the rear rome chattanooga and knoxville for the federals atlanta and the small towns along the railroad south of that city for the southerners transportation in crowded hospital wagons over rutted roads or in slow hospital trains was an indescribable horror
the hospitals themselves were better but by modern standards uncomfortable and dirty for painful operations northern soldiers often enjoyed the blessing of chloroform many southerners however especially those in the hospitals in smaller towns frequently endured major surgery without the benefit of any opiate except perhaps whiskey in some cases the hospitals echoed with the screams of men undergoing amputations
or such treatments as that calling for the use of nitric acid to burn gangrene out of their wounds no precise figures as to the number of men who were killed wounded or sick during the campaign are available however it is known that for the war as a whole disease killed about twice as many men as did the weapons of the enemy sickness brought on by exposure and unsanitary camps
undoubtedly accounted for many lives among the soldiers in georgia diseases that were especially common were smallpox scurvy dysentery diarrhoea also known as diarrhoea and the tennessee quick-step and various types of fevers religion provided a great source of comfort for many soldiers
Chaplains accompanied both armies but were too few to serve all the troops.
Some chaplains preferred to spend the campaign in the rear, where they would be safe, while others, of far more influence with the men, braved hardships and dangers with the units they served.
At least three of the latter group were killed in battle during the campaign, either while helping the wounded or fighting in the ranks.
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