HST 202 Lecture Notes - Fugitive Slaves In The United States, Gettysburg Address, Embalming

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The movie death and the civil war was shown in class and we got a handout with lecture terms. James robert montgomery: private in the confederate army, from mississippi, got a shoulder wound and died. 700,000: estimated number of americans who died during the civil war, higher death toll than any of the past wars combined, half the bodies were never identified. Battle of bull run/manassas: july 21, 1861, 900 men were killed and 2,700 were wounded, lasted 12 hours, at fort sumter, union lost. Camp diseases: killed many soldiers because people didn"t understand how they spread. U. s. sanitary commission: established to deal with death and disease, created database of dead and wounded for families to check, staffed by many volunteers. Clara barton: saw need on the battlefield and lack of adequate hospital procedures, asked the government to take her own materials to the battlefield and care for the soldiers.

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