Common Soldiers 1
Those who assist surgeons in Civil War field hospitals or dressing stations.
Who are orderlies?
This presidential act encouraged many African Americans to enlist.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Union hero at Mobile Bay.
Who is Admiral David Farragut?
What are several details about General Sherman's march?
In most field hospitals this universal "cure-all" for treatment of wounds was usually imbibed (drank).
What is alcohol?
Most were men but some were angels of mercy like Clara Barton and Dorothea Dix.
Who are nurses near the battlefields?
This percent of Union soldiers/sailors were of African American descent.
What is 10%
He was given command of all Union armies in March, 1864, by President Lincoln.
Who was U.S. Grant?
What is Georgia?
By two to one this killed more soldiers than battle wounds in the Civil War.
What is disease?
Chloroform - if available.
What is the common kind of anesthesia used in dressing stations?
Two negative attitudes believed by many while soldiers about "colored" soldiers.
What is discrimination and racism?
He was the Democratic party's nominee to face the incumbent, President Lincoln, in November 1864.
Who is former General George B. McClellan?
Some of Sherman's unruly soldiers who looted, stole, and burned on this march were called these.
What are "bummers"?
The common fate of Civil War soldiers when they were hit in the abdomen.
What is death?
These bullets are usually 58 caliber, made of lead, and often fragment when they hit.
What are Minie balls?
Colonel Robert Shaw's heroic colored infantry which perished at the attack on Fort Wagner came from this norther state.
What is Massachusetts?
Sherman's capture of this Southern city helped lift the Union spirits and Lincoln's re-election chances.
What is Atlanta, Georgia?
Iron railroad tracks in the Confederacy that were heated and twisted by Sherman's troops were called this.
What are "Sherman's hairpins" or "Sherman's neckties"?
Another name for field hospitals near battlefields.
What is a dressing station?
Two-to-one ratio.
What is the ratio of death from disease as compared to battle wounds?
Book published just before the Civil War that told of the evils of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This 25-day event left the heart of the Confederacy, Georgia, in ruins and gave the civilian population a taste of real war.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
Sherman's destination on his march from Atlanta to the sea.
What is Savannah, Georgia?
Lightly wounded, severely wounded, and mortally wounded.