Thursday, October 21
Thursday, October 21
Directions:
1. Tape this into page 60 of your ISN.
2. Create 4 Questions in your Q column about disease,
poor hygiene, medical practices and numbers of death
due to disease vs. battle wounds.
3. On the bottom of page 59 write a summary discussing
how bad hygiene affected the troops.
4. On the top of page 59 complete a reflection about
hygiene in the camps and how it led to very much
disease and death.
a. Make a bar graph showing disease related deaths
and battle wound deaths
b. Make a pie chart showing disease related deaths
and battle wound deaths
c. Draw a political cartoon or cartoon strip that
shows how there were many more deaths due to
disease than battle wounds
d. Write a rhyming poem about disease and death in
the civil war (Use these words: disease, hygiene,
death, doctors, amputate)
e. Write a diamond poem about disease and death
in the civil war (use these words: disease, hygiene,
death, doctors, amputate).
Directions:
1. Tape this into page 60 of your ISN.
2. Create 4 Questions in your Q column about disease,
poor hygiene, medical practices and numbers of death
due to disease vs. battle wounds.
3. On the bottom of page 59 write a summary discussing
how bad hygiene affected the troops.
4. On the top of page 59 complete a reflection about
hygiene in the camps and how it led to very much
disease and death.
a. Make a bar graph showing disease related deaths
and battle wound deaths
b. Make a pie chart showing disease related deaths
and battle wound deaths
c. Draw a political cartoon or cartoon strip that
shows how there were many more deaths due to
disease than battle wounds
d. Write a rhyming poem about disease and death in
the civil war (Use these words: disease, hygiene,
death, doctors, amputate)
e. Write a diamond poem about disease and death
in the civil war (use these words: disease, hygiene,
death, doctors, amputate).
Hygiene and Death in Civil War Camps
Hygiene and Death in Civil War Camps
Civil War soldiers in the field were often wet, muddy, or cold
from marching outdoors and living in crude shelters. Many
camps were unsanitary and smelled from the odors of garbage
and latrines. One Union soldier described a camp near
Washington where cattle were killed for their meat.
“The hides and waste parts of the cattle for miles upon
miles around, under a sweltering sun and sultry showers would
gender such swarms of flies, armies of worms, blasts of stench
and oceans of filth as to make life miserable.”
Not only were the camps filthy, but so were the soldiers.
They often went weeks without bathing or washing their clothes.
Their bodies, clothing, and bedding became infested with lice
and fleas.
Poor hygiene (conditions and practices that promote
healthy) resulted in widespread sickness. Most soldiers had
chronic diarrhea or other intestinal disorders. These disorders
were caused by contaminated water or food or by germcarrying insects. People did not know that germs cause
diseases. Doctors failed to wash their hands or their instruments.
Many soldiers had arms and legs amputated (cut off with a
saw) in tents on the battle field because doctors did not know
how else to help them. An observer described how surgeons
“armed with long, bloody knives and saws, cut and sawed
away with frightful rapidity, throwing the mangled limbs on a
pile nearby as soon as removed.”
In the Civil War 2 out of 3 deaths were related to disease
because of bad hygiene. Only one 1 of 3 Civil War Casualties
were due to battle wounds.
Civil War soldiers in the field were often wet, muddy, or cold
from marching outdoors and living in crude shelters. Many
camps were unsanitary and smelled from the odors of garbage
and latrines. One Union soldier described a camp near
Washington where cattle were killed for their meat.
“The hides and waste parts of the cattle for miles upon
miles around, under a sweltering sun and sultry showers would
gender such swarms of flies, armies of worms, blasts of stench
and oceans of filth as to make life miserable.”
Not only were the camps filthy, but so were the soldiers.
They often went weeks without bathing or washing their clothes.
Their bodies, clothing, and bedding became infested with lice
and fleas.
Poor hygiene (conditions and practices that promote
healthy) resulted in widespread sickness. Most soldiers had
chronic diarrhea or other intestinal disorders. These disorders
were caused by contaminated water or food or by germcarrying insects. People did not know that germs cause
diseases. Doctors failed to wash their hands or their instruments.
Many soldiers had arms and legs amputated (cut off with a
saw) in tents on the battle field because doctors did not know
how else to help them. An observer described how surgeons
“armed with long, bloody knives and saws, cut and sawed
away with frightful rapidity, throwing the mangled limbs on a
pile nearby as soon as removed.”
In the Civil War 2 out of 3 deaths were related to disease
because of bad hygiene. Only one 1 of 3 Civil War Casualties
were due to battle wounds.
Union (North)
Confederacy
(South)
Battle
deaths
Disease
Deaths
Accidents
Total
Deaths
110,010
94,000
224,586
164,000
24,872
359,528
258,000
NA
Union (North)
Confederacy
(South)
Battle
deaths
Disease
Deaths
Accidents
Total
Deaths
110,010
94,000
224,586
164,000
24,872
359,528
258,000
NA