A+Soldiers+Life

__**A SOLDIERS LIFE:** __ **INTRODUCTION QUESTIONS:

1. What was the food like for soldiers?**


 * 2. What was camp life and the conditions for soldiers like?**


 * 3. What did soldiers do in their leisure time?**

1. The food for soldiers consisted of hardtack fried together with salt pork in grease. They also ate desiccated vegetables or as the soldiers called it "desecrated vegetables". By the end of the war the vegetables were the soldiers favorite meal. The soldiers also raved about navy beans or also know as army beans. The soldiers favorite think to snack on or drink were coffee beans. They would ground the beans using rifle butts and boiled them in whatever container was available. And when they couldn't build a fire they even occasionally would chew on their beans.

2. The camp life for soldiers was very tough and difficult. On a normal day without much free time they would experience many new experiences many of them being unpleasant and run many vigorous drills. They would do hours and hours of military exercises. While all that is going on they have to try to keep warm and dry. They would take any advantage to be in their tents and when they couldn't they would wear ponchos, a rubber, or an oilcloth sheet.

3. A soldier in their leisure time would write many many letters home. They also enjoyed music just as much as we do today to they would create bands or the soldier-musicians would put on a show. Many soldiers also had pets. Many of them just had dogs but there was one time a guy had an eagle and another one who had a camel. The soldiers also would play baseball or as they called it driveball. That is what a soldier would do in their free time at camp.



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