Section 9.3

Question 1

Hardtack

Answer 1

A soldiers meal that was made of A hard biscuit made of wheat flour potatoes and beans flavored at times with dried salt pork

Question 2

Prisoners of war

Answer 2

Soldiers captured by the enemy in battle, after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation the confederacy announced that it would not exchange free African-Americans for southern white prisoners

Question 3

54th Massachusetts

Answer 3

One of the first African-American regiments organized in the North, Fought valiantly at Fort Wagner near Charleston Harbor in July 1863

Question 4

Elizabeth Blackwell/ United States sanitary commission

Answer 4

First female physician in the United States and started the first training program for nurses her work led to the creation of the United States sanitary commission an organization that provided medical assistance and supplies to army camps in hospitals

Question 5

Clara Barton

Answer 5

Left a job in a patent office to nurse soldiers on the battlefield, Fed the sick bandaged the wounded and even dug out bullets with her own small knife

Question 6

Florence Nightingale

Answer 6

Famous British nurse that inspired American woman to take on nursing tasks in civil war army hospitals

Question 7

Battlefield medicine

Answer 7

Doctors have a little understanding of infection and germs, or use the same on sterilized instruments on all patients which resulted in infection, diseases one of the greatest threats facing a Civil War soldier. Crowded together in army camps drinking from unsanitary water supplies many soldiers became sick.

Question 8

Andersonville Georgia

Answer 8

Most famous person in this house that had no shade or shelter. Exposure overcrowding a lack of food and disease killed more than laundrymen per day. 13,000 of the 45,000 prisoners sent to Andersonville died there