Nursing the Wounded
True or False: During the Civil War, more soldiers died from illness and disease than during battle.
What is True?
At the beginning of the war, THESE were turned away from the Confederate army due to an excessive amount.
What are volunteers?
Did black soldiers in the Union fight in their own regiments, or did the join white regiments?
What is they fought in their own regiments?
THIS many soldiers were killed during the Civil War.
What is six-hundred twenty thousand (620,000)?
Black soldiers were paid more, the same, or less than white soliders?
What is less than?
When a soldier was shot in the arm or leg, THIS was usually the treatment.
What is amputation?
The Confiderate soldiers uniforms were THIS color.
What is gray?
THIS many black soldiers earned the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Union's highest medal, for bravery.
What is twenty-one (21) soldiers?
As the war progressed, troops from THIS army began to run out of guns, uniforms, and shoes.
What is the Confederate?
The Union army fighting for THIS area of the United States.
What is the North?
THIS illness was nicknamed the "Virginia Quickstep.
What is diarrhea?
Many uniforms worn by Confederate soldiers were made WHERE?
What is at home? ("What is Handmade at home?" is also acceptable.)
True or False: At the beginning of the war, black men were not allowed to volunteer in the Union army.
What is true?
THIS was the deadliest battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
THIS is the color of the Union soldiers uniforms.
What is bue?
THIS is the reason antibiotics were not used to prevent wounded soldiers from getting infections after being shot.
What is antibiotics had not yet been invented?
THIS many states seceded from the Union to join the Confederate States of America.
What is eleven (11)?
THIS edict by Abraham Lincoln allowed freed slaves to join the Union army.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
THIS was called a "red badge of courage".
What is a wound received in battle?
At the beginning of the war, Union soldiers were attacked by Southern sympathizers in THIS Maryland city.
What is Baltimore?
Chloroform and whiskey were used as THIS.
What are painkillers?
The song "Dixie" was important to the Confederates for THIS reason.
What is it was the unofficial National anthem?
THIS many black men fought for the Union during the Civil War.
What is two-hundred thousand (200,000)?
Near the end of the war, William Sherman ordered the burning of the homes and crops of civilians, causing much hardship for the people of THIS state.
What is Georgia?
THIS is the major advantage the North had over the South.
What is more efficient industry?