Civil War Clothing and Equipment

Mrs. Jones’ 5th grade
Civil War Camp Life Just
the Basics.
• Lorrie and Erica
Solider in camp
• For every hour in
battle, the solider
spent weeks even
months, in routine
camp.
• They did chores
cutting wood,
washing clothes,
and more.
• A fortune few had
wives who followed
the armies and
helped.
Soldiers Haversack.
• Soldiers use
haversacks for
emergencies,
hunger and, letters.
• Haversacks are
important cause
they help people
connect.
• They are important
to people cause
they are useful for
emergencies.
Food Shortage
• During the Civil War
food in the South was
scarce.
• In Richmond, Virginia
before the war, the
cost of feeding a family
was $6.55 per week.
• After the Civil War,
started, the cost for a
small family was
$68.25 per week.
Skedaddle
• Skedaddle was
the word
soldiers used
to describe the
act of fleeing
under free.
Civil War Clothing and
Equipment
Aubree & Rossi
Union Soldier Jacket
• This is a picture of a
Union soldier’s
jacket.
• Union Soldiers had
to wear these during
battle.
• Many Union soldiers
had to wear grey
over shirts until the
blue coats could be
made.
Confederate Soldiers Cloths and
Items
• Confederate soldiers
mostly wore grey
uniforms, but some wore
blue uniforms.
• A few states had dress
regulations but most
governors let each
company pick their own
style.
• At the beginning of the
war people just wore
what they had on.
Civil War Kipi
• This is a picture of a Kipi.
• During the Civil War the
soldiers uniforms were an
important part of their
equipment.
• Servicemen actually wore
combinations of personal
clothing and infantry men
sometimes went without
shoes .
Civil War soldier supplies
• One of the things
soldiers carried
was a knapsack
• Rolled and folded
on this knapsack
would be a blanket
and rubber cloth or
oil cloth which
added more
weight.
Mackenzi & Kelsey
Supplies
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is a picture of
supplies that soldiers
might of used for the
Civil War.
► They
had to use
swords and compasses
to help find the right
way to go.
Gear
► Civil
War soldiers gear
included a cartridge
box , a bayonet , a cap
box , a canvas
haversack , a tin
canteen , a bar of soap
, a towel , a jackknife ,
and a shaving kit.
Rifle of Civil War
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This is a weapon they might have used in the Civil
War.
Some soldiers brought a lot of supplies from home
but some supplies were given to them from the
camp.
Weapons of the Civil War
Here are pictures of swords soldiers fought with in the
Civil War.
► Officers swords were more decorated than soldiers.
► Dress sword were smaller and lighter.
► A scabbard was what the sword went into.
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Civil War Camp Life
Letters, Songs, and
Newspapers
Sidney and Carissa
Newspaper ,
Liberator
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The Liberator was a
newspaper. What
ever they wrote about
it became a chronicle.
William Lloyd Garrison
started the Liberator.
The liberator is about
freeing slaves. It was
very influential for
anti--slavery people.
anti
Civil War Letters
Sometimes the soldiers
had to use the back of
envelopes to write on
because paper was hard
to find.
 Soldiers had to pay three
dollars for ink .
 You only got a few
thimbles full of ink when
you bought the paper.
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Civil War Songs
During the Civil War singing
was a way to pass time.
• A lot of people played
different band instruments.
• There were fewer
Confederate bands because
musicians were not quite as
plentiful in the south and
they were very expensive.
• Each company in an infantry
regiment had a musician who
was usually a drummer.
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Civil War Band
In the Civil War most
units had their own
bands.
• Civil War bands played
different instruments and
wore different styles of
uniforms.
• Many songs were
marching tunes to keep
the soldiers moving.
Other songs were sad
and spoke of loved ones
at home.
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Civil War Medicine
Jesse, Landon,& Brandon
Amputations
 Three out of four
operations were
amputations.
 Surgeons would cut off
the blood flow with a
tourniquet.
 More lives were saved by
amputations than lost.
 Surgeons would take a
scalpel and slice through
the outlying tissue and
flesh.
Civil War Amputation Kit
These are some of the basic tools
used for amputations.
Most of these tools were used for
amputations.
Amputations were the most
common surgery performed.
3 out of 4 operations were
amputations.
If a soldier was struck in an
appendage by a Minie Ball and
hit the bone the soldiers option
was to get an amputation.
Civil War Medicine
 In the
amputation kit
the capital saw
severed the
larger long
bones.
 This was one of
the saws used by
surgeons during
the Civil War.
Civil War Medicine bottles
 These are some
medicine bottles
used in the civil war.
 Doctors used tin
cans to put herbs in.
Dead Soldiers
 During the Civil War the
soldiers were not prepared for the
casualties.
 Do to this cause more then twice
as many soldiers died of diseases
as they did on the battlefield.
 If the Civil War military leaders
had learned the importance of
battlefield medicine ,both sides
might have been better prepared
to treat there wounded and
diseased soldiers.
Civil War Field Hospitals
 Civil War field
hospitals were used
to put soldiers in that
came from the battle
field.
 Doctors would go out
to the battle field to
bring back the dying
men on the battle
field.
Civil War Nurses
 Nurses of the Civil
War dressed
wounds, washed
patients, scrubbed
ward floors,
emptied bed pans,
and a variety of
other chores.
Civil War
Discipline
Ethan & Paige
Black Soldier Getting Bucked
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This soldier is getting
bucked because he
attempted to run away
during a battle.
Getting bucked involves
putting handcuffs on
and putting a stick under
the knees and over his
arms.
Bucking & Gagging
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This picture is a guy getting
bucked.
He is probably being
punished because he
probably ran away when he
was fighting or he did
something bad in the war.
He is also getting gagged.
Gagged means that you
have a stick in your mouth
and they leave it there until
the head master takes the
stick out.
Branding Of Soldiers
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During the Civil War soldiers were sometimes
branded on their face or hip. This punishment
was for deserters, cowards, and thieves.
Riding The Wooden Horse
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Another punishment is called
riding the wooden horse.
The wooden horse is an eight foot
high saw horse.
The master would leave people
out in the cold the rain and in the
very hot sun.
If you get in trouble this is where
you go.
You sit out there until the master
comes and gets you.
You could be out in the cold, rain,
and in the hot sun for hours, day,
and maybe weeks.
Civil War Prisons and
Punishments
Brayden and Spencer
Barrel Punishment in Prison Camps
• This was a
punishment that
some prisoners
received for bad
behavior in prison
camps.
• The prisoner that
wears the barrel shirt
wears it for 2
HOURS!!!
Civil War Prison Raiders
• In prison camps there
were groups of
prisoners known as
raiders. They were a
band of thieves who
preyed on weaker
prisoners, stealing
food, clothing, and
money.
Starvation at Andersonville
• Because of over
crowding, prisoners
were often short on
rations.
• When prisoners came
home many of them
were little more than
living skeletons.
Freedom For Slaves
• On the date of July
17,1862 Congress
passed a Confiscation
and Militia Act that
meant if a slave master
was going to war the
slaves were set free.
free.
African Americans At War!
• At the end of the Civil War
10% of the Union Army was
African Americans.
• By the end of the Civil war
about 30,000 of the African
American soldiers had an
infection or a disease.
• Some black soldiers also
served in the artillery and the
infantry.
Civil War Spies And Scouts
Cierstynn & Jessica
Belle Boyd
This is a picture of the very famous
spy Belle Boyd.
• Belle was for the Confederacy.
• The reason why Belle was a
successful spy is because no one
would suspect that a woman could
be a spy, because women had no
rights back in the 1850’s.
• Also another reason why Belle was
never caught because she could
easily charm officers by saying
“Why weren’t you there last night?”
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Emma Edmonds or Franklin Thompson
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This is a picture of another famous
spy, Emma Edmonds.
Emma was famous for her disguise
as Franklin Thompson (in this
picture she is Franklin Thompson)
“Franklin” was for the Yankees.
Franklin was once a disguised as a
male slave at a Confederate camp.
To change her race she used sliver
nitrate powder.
Emma never was caught by the
Confederacy.
Civil War Scouts
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Here are some Civil War Scouts.
They are the Brandy Station Scouts.
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Scouts were to help take care of the
soldiers.
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The Brandy Station was a Civil War
battle. This battle was Virginia in
June 1863.
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In the civil war, scouts would
deliver messages. They would take
it to the officer and if he needed to
warn the troops he would use a
signal flag.
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During the civil war scouts would
trade things for fur and find new
routes in mountains.
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was a slave
and an abolitionist.
 During the Civil War, Harriet
was a scout, spy, and a cook
for the Union Army.
 During her time as a slave,
Harriet helped over 300 slaves
escape.
 Harriet encouraged African
Americans to join the Union
Army.
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