Life During The Civil War Essay

Soldiers’ day to day lives during the Civil War was filled with drilling, writing letters to their loved ones, and fighting in battles which would potentially change the rest of their lives forever. At the beginning of the war, both the North and the South didn’t have a problem with numbers in their military because of the amount of volunteers. Some would do the heroic thing and join because they “wanted to save the Union” or “secure their liberty.” Though many people from the Confederacy and the Union had a large amount of epic soldiers willing to risk their lives, the South forced the first draft of the war in 1862. This draft required three years of service for any unmarried male that was pressured into the war if they were between the ages of seventeen and thirty-five. As the war continued on, the number of males with the certain requirements to be drafted had been lowered; therefore, the age limit that were able to be drafted changed to fifteen to fifty year olds. The Draft Act was issued in 1863 was the first major draft that occurred during the Civil War. The draft was available to men that were not married and between twenty to forty-five years old. Men that …show more content…
This grenade became inefficient as the war went on because it required it to land on its nose first. The fins had to stabilize the flight in order for it to land correctly; consequently, if the soldier didn’t through it right, the grenade never went off. The Union soldiers started to throw them when they attacked at Port Hudson; however, they did not land correctly. The Confederacy would just throw them right back into the position of the Union after they hadn’t gone off before. After a few battles, the Confederacy knew how the grenade worked, and they took out blankets and tried to catch the grenades in them. This allowed the grenades to not have a chance to be hit in the nose; furthermore, they would not