U.S. Civil War History bits

An army travels on it's stomach!

 

Actually feel itchy meself after reading some of these...
"Disease accounted for the deaths of 65% of Union soldiers and 62% of Confederates during the Civil War. Those high numbers beat out all other forms of death. Not all soldiers afflicted with diseases died, but some did carry their diseases home where they – and often their family – suffered with them for years afterward."
Be Thankful For Modern Medicine - The Army Itch And Other Scary Civil War Maladies

 

According to Dyer's Compendium, the Ninth Ohio Cavalry lost a total of 205 officers and men during the war: One officer and sixteen enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, and two officers and 186 enlisted men by disease. Of those killed by disease, 21 died at Andersonville prison.

Those 21 were all from Company G. One of my ancestors served in that company and was fortunate to survive the war unscathed.

 

Look at the picture again, real good.

 

You can thank Confederate Commissary - General of Subsistence, Lucius B. Northrop, and good ol' Jeff Davis, who kept his friend Northrop in said position, for that. There was no good reason, until 1864, for the North to have better rations.

 

Look at the pic again. You and Belasar completely and totally missed the point.

 

Your "point", or shall I say "feeble attempt at humor", was not missed, but ignored...Or do you plan on proving that the Northern soldiers were eating Big Mac/Whoppers at every meal?

 

No, not all Northern soldiers, only the officers. And it wasn't Big Macs and Whoppers, as McDonalds and Burger King didn't exist back then. The burgers in that photo are clearly Big Boys from Shoney's.

 

Ahhh! So, A-58 has mislabeled this photograph, and it was Southern officers that ate better than anyone.

Clearly these are Southern officers, as no self-repecting Southern restaurant would serve Northern officers, and those slim few Shoney's located in the North, would have been taken over and renamed.

Another Southern "myth" busted.

 

No, it was a Southern restaurant. The Yankees had to use the drive through window.

 

Nah. If it was a Southern restaurant, they would have served them hot lead, not hot burgers...

 

Business is business. Sort of like the brisk trade of cotton between the Northern speculators and Southern plantations early in the war.

 

The latest from the Hunley restoration-
"Researchers have found human remains inside the H.L. Hunley, the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship, after it emerged from a 75,000-gallon tank of chemicals.
The submarine, which fought for the confederacy in the US civil war, was sunk near North Charleston, South Carolina, in 1864 by its own torpedo, killing all eight men on board.
The Hunley was raised from the bottom of the ocean in 2000, and two scientists have spent the past 17 years collecting the crew's remains and restoring the vessel as part of a painstaking cleanup operation."
Human remains are found inside H.L. Hunley | Daily Mail Online

 

To clarify, what was found was a crewman's tooth embedded in the solidified debris on the crankshaft. Most of the human remains had already been recovered and properly buried back in 2004.

Edit: You do have to admire the sensationalist headlines the Daily Mail uses...

As if these were actually the first human remains recovered from the CSS Hunley.

 

Yeah, but they didn't claim they were the first remains found.

 

Mmmm...Nor did they claim that a human tooth was found...Not near as attention getting as HUMAN REMAINS.

 

It must have very short legs....

 

Didn't Napoleon coin that term?

 

...he had short legs too

 

That's what I'm getting at my good man....