What Are The Dangers Of Soldier's Heart

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Soldier’s Heart
The dangers that Charley and the other people faced was much different than what Charley had imagined. Life at war wasn’t easy. They got sick, many died from horrible things. But how they were treated was like heroes before they left town to the camp, people were cheering them, waving flags. When Charley’s first battle happened, it was at Manassas Junction, Virginia. In the middle of the war he was caught in the middle of suffering and death, and hundreds of people died. Then A camp was created with 90,000 men in Washington, D.C and Charley was a day-to-day routine at the camp. And Charley and others eventually build a log house for them to live in while winter is coming. Many of the soldiers got the diseases called dysentery

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