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Life As a Soldier in the Civil War

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Kate Shoup

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Life As a Soldier in the Civil War Kate Shoup

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Published in 2016 by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC 5th Avenue, Suite 136, New York, NY 10016

Copyright 2016 by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shoup, Kate, 1972- Life as a soldier in the Civil War / Kate Shoup.

pages cm. ( Life as. . . ) Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-5026-1084-3 ( hardcover) ISBN 978-1-5026-1083-6 ( paperback) ISBN 978-1-5026-1085-0 ( ebook) United States. Army Military life History 19th century Juvenile literature. United States

History Civil War, 1861-1865 Juvenile literature. United States. Army History Civil War, 1861-1865 Juvenile literature. Soldiers United States History 19th century Juvenile literature. I. Title.

E607. S56 2016 7'4 dc23

2015023781

Editorial Director: David McNamara Editor: Kristen Susienka

Copy Editor: Nathan Heidelberger Art Director: Jeffrey Talbot

Designer: Joseph Macri Senior Production Manager: Jennifer Ryder-Talbot

Production Editor: Renni Johnson Photo Research: J8 Media

The photographs in this book are used by permission and through the courtesy of: J. F. Gibson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images, cover; American School/Peter Newark American Pictures/Bridgeman Images, 5; Brady National Photographic Art Gallery/

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter Setting the Scene

Chapter Getting Involved

Chapter Fighting the Civil War

Chapter On the Job

Chapter What the Civil War Means Today

Glossary

Find Out More

Index

About the Author

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Introduction

The Civil War was an important war in United States history. Soldiers from the South fought soldiers from the North. It was the bloodiest war in American history. Many thousands of people died. Many were killed in battle. Even more died from disease.

At first, soldiers thought the war would be short. In the end, though, it lasted for four years. As the war dragged on, it became hard to find food. Many soldiers had little food to eat. Some had no shoes.

Eventually, the North won the war. If the South had won, our lives would be very different today.

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This map shows slave states and Free States in 1860.

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Jefferson Davis, leader of the Confederacy

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Chapter

Setting the Scene

In 1861, many Americans who lived in the South owned slaves. President Abraham Lincoln, however, was an abolitionist. That meant he wanted to free the slaves. To prevent this, many Southern states split from the United States. This group of states was called the Confederacy, or the South. Its leader was Jefferson Davis. The states that sided with Lincoln were called the Union, or the North.

On April 12, 1861, Confederate soldiers attacked Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. It belonged to the United States government. The next day, Union soldiers inside the fort surrendered. This was the start of the Civil War.

Setting the Scene

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The war lasted four years. Two famous generals were Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. General Grant fought for the North and General Lee fought for the South. On April 9, 1865, General Grant forced General Lee to surrender. Soon, other Confederate generals also surrendered. The war was over. The North had won. The Confederacy was again part of the United States.

Over million soldiers fought in the Civil War. 750,000 died. The Civil War was the deadliest war in American history.

The Gettysburg Address

The Battle of Gettysburg was a famous battle in the Civil War. It was fought in 1863. It was won by the North. It was the turning point of the war. Four months after the battle, President Lincoln gave a famous speech at Gettysburg called the Gettysburg Address.

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President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.

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A group of men outside a Union army recruitment office

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