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It is more difficult for children on the frontline than on the homefront. From Charles Bardeen “and I saw them, in less time than it takes to write this, exposed to a galling fire of shot and shell and almost decimated… . I saw wounded men brought in by the hundred and dead men lying stark on the field,...”  Children had to see hundreds of thousands of men die right in front of them. Many thought it would be a very easy and quick war, so they wanted to join before it was over but they were wrong. Countless children died in the war and their parents only received a simple letter, unless they happened to be wealthy.

More and more children would die throughout the war yet some people might say children on the homefront is more difficult. Sure they might have stray bullets hit there house ,and their loved ones are possibly at war and might be dead. Those are just variables it is a given that as a child you will see countless dead and wounded men you could lose a limb or even your life, that won’t happen on the homefront.

Overall it is much more difficult on the frontline than the homefront. Children shouldn’t have to see all of the carnage of war and be in the war shoulder to shoulder with the soldiers that will possibly die. Either way no child should have to live on either but the frontline is much more dangerous.

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Being on the front line in the war is harder than the home front.
“ Where I was and see the scenes that I saw”
This shows what people had to see being on the front line. Home front people could also see death too, Front line are the ones who either did the killing, or are being killed. And someone dying right next to you and seeing that makes your feel hopeless. Not being able to save them.
“ It is hard to be homeless”
This is important because during the war people didn’t have beds to sleep on. Sometimes they didn't even have a tent. And most of them couldn’t sleep because of what they have seen. And some just want to go home. But they want to fight for what rights to them. And that's what keeps them going during the war.

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As a child, it was more difficult to live on the front line during the Civil War because the children faced rough climates and were terribly mistreated in prison camps.

According to 15 year old William Bircher, “We began to sleep, some rolling themselves up in their blankets and over coats and laying down, Indian fashion, feet to the fire while others crept off their cold shelter tents under the snow-laden pine trees for what poor rest they could find...” This shows the reader the difficulties the children had to encounter. The children had to be in the cold with no shelter which could lead them to getting sick. Also, little rest can lead to health problems and the children could get sick. It would be difficult to fight in the war if their shelter isn’t great and if they have bad health.

The diary of 16 year old Michael Dougherty states, “At various places [we saw] different instruments of torture: stocks, thumb screws, bared iron collars, shackles, ball and chain...There are millions and millions of all kinds of vermin here, flies, bugs, maggots and lice, some of them as large as spiders… A great many of the prisoners are hopelessly crazy, starvation, disease and vermin being the cause...” This is significant it portrays the experience in being in a prison camp. During the Civil War, the children in the front line had to deal with the fear of not knowing if they were going to die the next day or be in a prison camp. Not to mention, the prison camps had bugs, lice and dreadful devices that could harm or even kill the children.

Therefore, it was more difficult for a child living in the front line than in the home front.

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As a child, It was more difficult to live on front line than home front because of all the death and fighting involved. It could either cause the kids to act different or it could influence their future.

It was more difficult for children to be in frontline because they could be captured and tourtured which is horrible for children. In document B it stated that “ The gates swung open on their massive hinges and we marched in. At various places [ We saw ] different instruments of torture: Stocks, thumb screws, barbed iron collars, shackels, ball and chain. Our prison keepers seemed to handle them with familiarity.”

You would expect that the prison would be a regular prison with just the iron bars and that you were captured, but instead they use torture as a method for when the soilders are captured. Usually people don’t use torture as a method for punishment but the south really didn’t care because the kid was on the side of the North.

Another reason the frontline was more difficult to live on was because the kids would be tramutized by all the things that happened like for example seeing all the dead people on the battle grounds. In document F the text stated that “ My first battle is over and I saw nearly all of it … Exposed to galling fire of shot and shell and almost decimated… I saw wounded men brought in by the hundred and dead men lying stark on the field.”

The kid might be scared but no mater what, he will still change because kids don’t act normally around deaths or anything like injuries or wounds. He could probably think that, that could have been him lying on the ground cold and non-moving.

Therefore which is why I think that it would be difficult for a kid to be on the frontline. No mater what they see and no mater what they hear they would forever be scared or changed by the war.

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As a child, it was more difficult to live on the front line during the Civil War because they faced disease, poor conditions, and death.

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As a child, it was more difficult to live on the front line during the Civil War because they faced disease, poor conditions, and death.
According to Michael Dougherty a boy in the civil war he says,”There are millions and millions of all kinds of vermin here, flies, bugs, maggots, and lice, some as large as spiders.”Children in the front line of the Civil War faced poor conditions with bad hygiene. They face things like vermin, disease, and hunger. These poor conditions made it hard for children to live. They usually make people die or have to live the rest of their lives with sickness. Facing disease and hunger made it harder for children to live on the front line.
In Document F it states, “I saw wounded men brought in by the hundred and dead men lying stark on the field...”Children i the front line of the Civil War faced death and wounded men. They saw things a child shouldn’t be seeing. Seeing men with missing limbs or faces covered with blood can haunt a child for the test of their lives. A child seeing those dreadful things changes them when they come back home. It is harder for them to become their normal selves again and feel happiness. Watching people die or with wounds makes it harder for children to live on the front line in the Civil War.
Overall children on the front line of the Civil War saw things they shouldn’t have seen like wounded and dead men and faced poor conditions with vermin, disease, and hunger. These things can scar a child for the rest of their lives and change them in a negative way.

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As a child, the front line was more difficult to live during the Civil War, because they have seen unbearable sights, and being open to fire caused a lot of deaths.
Document B stated, “With what served until our release to distract our attention from much of the surrounding misery." This quote shows how these children on the front line had to distract themselves from all the horrific sights of soldiers dying, covered in pools of blood. These kids have to suffer with images of these people dying, for the rest of their lives. That would be an understatement of how hard it would be to deal with this. Everyone around them is being shot, and all they can do is just keep going, and to do that is to distract themselves.
In Document F, Charles Bardeen, a fifteen year old, states in a letter to his family, “...exposed to galling fire of shot and shell and almost deciminated.” Charles Bardeen explained that because these children were on the front line, they were very open to fire. Many of these children have been shot, or shelled because they were unable to protect themselves from being shot. Just imagine how terrified these kids must have felt while there were shells going off next to them, and at any moment they could be killed. These reasons prove that children on the front line had it harder than the children on the home front.

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As a child it is more difficult to live on the front line then the home front.
As a child you can face death all around you and get ptsd.
As a child witnessed firsthand of america's bloodiest battle has to face men running towards them shooting at them and their comrades, That is scary. While on the home front they sit back do their lives not having to worry about getting shot at.
You have to kill others so you yourself won’t get shot, it’s a extremely traumatic thing.
If you have to live a life were day in day out you get shot at and almost killed every day. That is a whole lot harder than living a life were you can live and not get shot at. For example one of my family members was a field communicator he had to repair wires while getting shot at, now he works at a cable company his job is easier because there’s none shooting at him. So with that it's harder to live on the front line then the home front.

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As a child, it was more difficult to live on the home front during the Civil War then it was to be on the front line.
In document C it says" No pleasure, no enjoyment - nothing... but the stern realities of life." This shows that people that are not in the war still face difficulties living life with all the deaths of their relatives or reading the papers of the gruesome bloodthirsty battle that both sides are fighting on.
In document B it says" Shouting, yelling most unearthly, cursing, brandishing their revolvers and firing right and left..." This shows that the soldiers coming back wounded or hurt are traumatized and are acting so disrespectful and rude. It must have been scary for those waiting for a loved one to come back only to see severed arms or get yelled at for no reason.
Lastly in document E it says "We were terrified and much excited by the loud rush and scream of mortar shells..." This shows that there is so much going on by the people at home. There is so much violence going on that it is unsafe to even be in your own neighborhood.

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It was more difficult to live on the frontlines for a child to live on the frontlines during the Civil War.

One reason is that in document B it says “The site near the gate of a pile of dead their faces black with grime and pinched with pain and hunger gave us some idea that a like fate awaited us inside.”

In my opinion if your on the front lines than you probably see more traumatic experiences like this than at your home during the war.

Another reason is that in document C it says “It is with deep regret I am compelled to inform you of the death of your son, Langdon which occurred at the hospital yesterday morning.” Again in my opinion if you were informed that your son died on the battlefield than that would be heartbreaking for some close friends on the front lines and at home.

In the end, the Civil War was a hard time to get through and these reasons are examples  of that claim.

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For a child, it was more difficult to live on the front line during the Civil War because they experienced death, illnesses, being poor, no shelter, etc.

In document F, which was written by Charles Bardeen, says “I saw wounded men brought in by hundred and dead men lying stark in the field, and then I saw our army retreat too the very place they started from, a loss incalculable in men, horses, cannons, and small arms." Charles was 15 and a teen can never get rid of the thought of something as horrific as that. Some soldiers could be someone they knew, or even worse, someone they loved like a family member. Memories cannot be erased.

As for Michael Dougherty, who was 17 and writer if document B, he described the horrible conditions at the Andersonville Confederate Camp by saying “At various places [we saw] different instruments for torture: stocks, thumb screws, barbed iron collars, shackles, ball and chain.” Michael seems to be disgusted about the surrounding at the prison camp, even though he says “Our prison keepers seemed to handle them with familiarity.” It can show that he somewhat knows about the war and what is going on but is against the way people were being treated. People at the age of 17 should not see people getting tortured, starved, and sick especially without care. Guards at this camp probably let their prisoners die of illnesses or from being beat.

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As a child, living on the home front was much more difficult since they had no pleasure and barely even any food to live on during the Civil War. According to Carrie Berry, she journals “I was ten-years-old today. I did not have a cake. Times were too hard.” Meaning she didn’t really even have time for enjoyment because of the war. Therefore with other children who’ve lived on the homefront during the Civil War, they must’ve not had time for enjoyment either since the war wasn’t just in Carrie’s area of Atlanta. Furthermore, celebrating birthdays are pretty important since it’s just once a year where you can get a chance to cherish moments with your loved ones, build your self-esteem, and reflect on your life so far, but is especially important for the young. Then not being able to celebrate a birthday during the Civil War, also showed that it went along with other holidays or celebrations as well. So not being able to celebrate anything all in all, meant that the children experienced hardships and violence instead of fun, which is quite important as a child. The reason behind that is because of its’ benefits of helping to improve their mental, physical, and emotional health. Not only that but contrasting it to the people on the frontline, they at least they got to celebrate christmas. In addition, the people on the frontline were even comparing eggnogs between soldiers and officers for Christmas or a banquet as what the officers called it. While the people on the homefront hardly celebrated anything.

According to Mary Loughborough, her servant offers “let me make her some soup from the bird”. Not to mention, as she offered Mary’s daughter, Mary was sick while her daughter was too, with a low-grade fever. However, a soldier then came giving the daughter a little jaybird for her to play with. Yet with Mary’s daughter being so tired and ill, she was in need of food. But for them living in Mississippi or on the confederate side, they faced a shortage of food because of the Union blockades as well as their control over most of the Mississippi river. So now back to Mary's daughter being both tired and sick while there wasn’t much food, her servant had no choice to but to sadly resort to the bird as food in order to survive. Then comparing to others who’ve lived on the homefront, who knows what else they used as food.

Overall, living on the homefront was more strenuous as a child because of the time of displeasure and no food.

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In the front line document B it says “The sight near the pile of dead their faces black with grime and pinched with pain and hunger gave us some idea of the fate that waited inside.”

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As a child, it was more difficult to live on the front line during the Civil War then to be on in the Home front because there is poor conditions being the the war and the child see things that they could never unsee.

According to Michael Dougherty a boy in the civil war he says,”There are millions and millions of all kinds of vermin here, flies, bugs, maggots, and lice, some as large as spiders.” Children has to go through this terrible conditions, some of the bugs can kill someone like the spiders if a spider bites them the spider releases chemicals that could hurt a child more than an adult. Lice can spread quickly to other people, when you have lice it makes your scalp itch which can make you have a lost of sleep itching then they can’t have her mind focus on helping and fighting but sleeping. But they can’t just leave the war they could get shot by running so they have to go through this everyday.

In the front line, document F it says “ I saw wounded men being brought in by the hundred, and the dead men lying stark on the field.” The children in the war has to see a lot of dead bodies which children should not see when they are young. The children  will have the memory in their brains forever and that could lead into depression which could lead into killing themselves, the view on life like keeping their guard up and think about the negatives, have nightmare during the night on seeing people dying or hear the gunshots fire, and have guilt by not saving people and just thinking about themselves in the war. Children has to carry the dead bodies which they don’t have strength to pick up bodies that are almost twice the amount the weight that they had.

These reasons show that font line is more difficult than Home front because they can get bite by a bug, diseases, and saw things that they can not unsee. The Home front people can get help more quickly and stop bacteria but the front line can not get help quickly because the other nurses has to take care of the people who got shot or need surgery not diseases.

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During the Civil War it would be harder to live on the front line than the home front because you would have to suffer from food shortages and you will see worse things from joining the war.
In Document C it states, “If they did, their eggs must have been better than ours.” This quote shows that when you are a soldier in the army your food is not as good as the officers in the army. Food can be really expensive at some points, and when you have about 2 million soldiers to feed your food is not going to be the best. Also it would be hard for farmers to keep producing all that food, to keep up with how much people have to eat. n Document B it states, “The sight near the gate a pile of dead.”
Also in Document D it says, “Let anyone go into the hospital were I was and see the scenes that I saw.” Just think, some of the soldiers are 15 years old and they are seeing all of these terrible sights. A young teenager should never have to see all of these wounded and almost dead people. It is not right for the brain and can make your brain go into shock because of the awful sights that they have seen this young. Even adults see these people and can get scared also.
Many people on the front line have seen way more than the home front has and has suffered through a lot more also which makes living on the front line way more difficult.

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As a child, in the civil war it was more difficult to live on the front line because you can see violence and could get killed or lose a body part and your away from your family. In the text it states, “I saw wounded men brought by the hundred and dead men lying stark on the field. I saw our army retreat to the very place we started from a loss incalculable in men, horses, cannon, small arms, knapsacks, and all implements of war, and I am discouraged.” This explains that soldiers lost everything and this is much harder to deal with than people who are on the home front. Soldiers also have to keep fighting for hours and defend their side of the war.In the text it states, “I came out here sanguine as anyone, but I have seen enough, and I am satisfied that we never can whip the south. Let anyone go into the hospital where I was and see the scenes I saw.” This proves that people who were in the war saw a lot of violence. This will have a big effect and will stay there within their whole life. They feel bad because they can’t do anything to help the people who have been killed.

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It was more difficult for children to live on the front line in the Civil War.
In document F it says ”I saw the Irish Brigade make three charges. They started with full ranks, and I saw them, in less time than it takes to write this, exposed to a galling fire of shot and shell”  A reader can infer that because of all this firing it killed many people on the little boy’s side and he has seen bloody deaths and friends fall down and die on the ground. It would be terrifying to experience.

In document C it says “inform you of the death of your son, Langdon… which occurred at the hospital yesterday morning…. He died a brave boy”. This shows that it was hard for the children on the front line because they had to send mail to his family that their son died also in the text it talks about how he got sick from the crowded hospital. This shows how bad the conditions were, and how hard it was to survive.

In conclusion it was harder for children on The front line  in the civil warbecause they were walking into death and bloodieness, and horrible sights that can scar you for life.

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It was harder to live on the front line because the soldiers had a higher chance of disease and was thrown into war prisons with no food, and care. In one of the letters from Michael Dougherty, and John Mcelroy  it states, “The sight near the gate of dead their faces black with grime and pinched with pain and hunger.”...”Flies bugs maggots and lice some of them as large as spider. If they once get the best of you you’re a goner.” This shows that the soldiers weren’t well cared for and that medical care and hygiene didn’t exist during this war and also at the camps there was lots of disease because of how unsanitary everything was, it could kill you, you didn’t just need to fight to die in this war disease could easily get to you, especially at a camp like what the soldier was describing.

Another piece of evidence is from a letter written by Charles Barden, in the letter it states, “I saw wounded men brought in by the hundred and dead men lying stark on the field.”... “But I have seen enough and I am satisfied that we can never whip the south.” This shows how the sights of seeing people killed and hurt watching it happen before you making you wish that you never signed up for the war it can make many feel uncomfortable and wish to get rid of the image in their head but when you are at the frontline and you battle it just isn’t possible you have to battle and watch it happen, the homefront hides in the cellar and don’t watch brutal deaths by the hundreds daily. The frontline in the end has to physically and mentally get over the trauma of the war and the disease of the poor living conditions put onto the soldiers and what was gone through, hundreds of more deaths from being killed in battle for a fight for their country. This can clearly show that there is more hardship put onto the soldiers than there is on the homefront.

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As a child it was more difficult to be on the front line during the Civil War, rather than living on the home front because you have to deal with traumatizing images and you are scared for life.
In the front line, document B it says “The sight near the pile of dead their faces black with grime and pinched with pain and hunger gave us some idea of the fate that waited inside.” This shows that they would be traumatized because of the fact that they are looking at the dead people who had been tortured and starved because of the fact that they were prisoners of war. That image in your head will make you freak out, just the thought of what could happen if you were captured would scare you half to death. After seeing this image they were probably scarred for a long time because it is a horrifying sight. This image was probably impossible to get out of their head because things like that don't just go away, they stay there forever, and for a kid it just makes it worse.

In the front line, document F it says “ I saw wounded men being brought in by the hundred, and the dead men lying stark on the field, and then I saw our army retreat to the very place they started from,  a loss of incalculable in man, horses, cannon, small arms, knapsacks, and all the implements of war, and I am discouraged.” The child saw people who were dying/dead being carried across a field to safety to possibly be put either back in the war or out of it to recover, in a child’s mind that would leave a scar like no other. The things that are running through this kid’s mind are probably crazy. Even adults come back with mental scars from war because of what they have seen but a child with these scars is much worse because of the fact that they now have to live with them forever, they cannot undo what they have seen, their friends that they made while in the army could have died and that leaves a tear on your soul, it all adds up to something that is not pretty whatsoever and very sad for the kid.
These reasons show why being on the front line is much worse than being on the home front, at least there you are surrounded by loved ones and family, but in the front line, you are probably all alone with nobody with you.