ONE: Choose a photograph of Civil War soldiers from the following archive and create a Padlet post that includes:

-         Archive: https://www.archives.gov/research/military/civil-war/photos

-         A screenshot of your chosen image

-         Who is shown and when the image was taken (if that information is provided)

-         What you believe is happening in the image

-         How this image relates to what we have learned about the lives of Civil War soldiers

-         Tie your post to at least one specific piece of evidence from the primary documents or lecture

 

TWO: Make a substantive reply to another group member’s post. You may agree, disagree or expand on what they say. Like all posts, however, remember to tie it directly to evidence from the documents. 

You are by no means limited to JUST these posts. The more we interact in our groups the more we will all take away from the class. The more conversation the better!

 All posts must be completed by Midnight on Sunday.

2)This image depicts men that look to be already "taken care of." You have Bobby-Jean up front missing an arm and Earl on the stretcher wondering where he left his leg. With the lack of anesthetics most of these men would  be undergoing shock, and could die from it, if infection didn't get them first.  

3) This relates to their lives because everything was more difficult back then, they were taught to rub some dirt in it, and hope it didn't need amputated. Both armies used barbaric weapon (compared to today) that shot a ball of lead, and cannons bowling down people like in the Patriot (Mel Gibson), so there was very little that could be done to mend large wounds. 

4)  Joseph Milton Elkins had this to say in his letter to his wife, "I saw the surgeons operating on them, it made me shed tears to see how they suffered, 

some had to have both of their arms cut off and some their legs." This was an actually medical tent, but still the same things occurred on the battlefield.

Here we have regimental and corps drums. Photographer is unknown and date is also unknown.  Many of these battles were set up where the soldiers were merely yards from each other.  Sights like this were not very rare and they would set up in lines so that they could fire and then reload while there were other soldiers firing.  These battles lasted a few hours and were normally bloodbaths.  Many of these soldiers had extreme PTSD and other mental problems once the battles and war was over.