CIVIL WAR questions-- h e l p!?

Question

some questions~~~

>What did soldiers on each side eat?(north & south)

>Who provided food for each side?

>Who cooked?

>What did both sides wear? uniform (color)
>>>equipment

>did soldiers get paid? if so how much?

>daily activity s? what was a typical day like?

>Training?

>where did they sleep

if you can answer any of these please do

Answer 1

1. & 2. The staple food of soldiers on both sides at the beginning of the war was a hard biscuit called "hardtack," and coffee was the drink of choice. Both sides had commissary services which provided them with better food, but the Confederacy's commissary service quickly ran out of supplies and the Southern troops were forced to "forage," or find whatever food they could from the surrounding countryside. The Union forces had it a little better, but most of the time they were so far away from their supply lines that they, too, had to forage.

3. For the most part, the men cooked for themselves. Some of the larger units had separate detachments that did the cooking for the entire unit, but as the war went on and the casualties mounted, these detachments disappeared and the men were left to cook for themselves.

4. The standard issue uniform for Union enlisted men was sky blue trousers with a dark blue blouse and a dark blue kepi or forage cap. Union officers wore dark blue trousers and dark blue blouses with dark blue kepis or forage caps. The majority of Union forces were state militia units, and a lot of these had their own distinctive uniforms, but for the most part they stayed with the dark blue colors. By the end of the war most of the Union troops were all wearing the standard government issue uniform of dark blue with sky blue pants.

The standard issue uniform for Confederate enlisted men was sky blue trousers with a cadet gray blouse and cadet gray kepi which was adorned with a different colored band for each of the different branches; yellow for cavalry, red for artillery, and French blue for infantry. Confederate officers below the rank of general wore cadet gray trousers and a cadet gray blouse, with a cadet gray kepi or forage cap. General officers wore dark blue trousers, gray blouses, and either cadet gray or dark blue forage caps. However, the various Confederate units were all basically state militia units that had their own distinctive uniforms, so the uniforms were far from standardized. By the third year of the war the Confederate supply system was a shambles, there were no new uniforms to issue, and the first ones had worn out so the troops were left to wear whatever they could find. A lot of times this meant having to wear captured Yankee uniforms, but they did what they had to do to survive.

5. Both sides carried the same equipment, and the equipment was varied to the extreme. The basic load for both Billy Yank and Johnny Reb was a .50 or .58 caliber Enfield rifled musket, a long bayonet, a canteen of either wood or tin, a leather belt on which was a percussion cap pouch, a cartridge pouch which hung across their body from one shoulder, and a small knapsack.

6. The average pay for an enlisted man was around $12.00 a month; officers got around $15.00 a month. Most Confederate forces stopped getting paid on a regular basis by the third year of the war.

7. For both sides, the daily activity was boring. You got up, ate breakfast, drilled, drilled some more, ate lunch, drilled again, cleaned equipment, drilled again, and then ate dinner. The rest of the day was yours. If the unit was on the move, the day would be spent walking.

8. Training was done at the individual unit level, but by the second year of the war there wasn't much time for formal training, so the new troops got their experience in the field - which meant in battle.

9. At the beginning of the war the soldiers slept in tents. During winter each side would go into encampments to wait out the winter months, and the armies would build woodent structures to live in. By the end of the war the Confederate forces were sleeping on the ground in the open.

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Hope this helps!

Answer 2

AH the War Of Northern Agression.

1- Generally what ever was available

2- Surrounding Farms and sometimes individual states in the south and the Yankee Gov't in the north. There was alot of foraging and plunder.

3- Whoever had a fire and food. Though in some larger encampements there were mess tents.

4- Yankee Officers wore Blue Confederate Gray, though uniform color varied on Regiment and State and availability.

They slept on the Ground or in tents

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Answer 3

1. A 2. D 3. B 4. False 5. B 6. A 7. B 8. D 9. False 10. C 11. B 12. D 13. True 14. C 15. C 16. D 17. C or D 18. False 19. D 20. B Hope this helped

Answer 4

If you don't know blue and grey, I suggest you do your homework and then some. The last thing we need is another ignorant liberal out voting.

Answer 5

Please do your own homework. Go google it, or use the wikipedia.