I'm reading journals about life in the south during the Civil War. Did you know that more soldiers died of disease than battle wounds? One of the men I researched died of measles before ever seeing the battlefield; one was taken prisoner after the end of the war, marched to Ohio and died in a prison camp of diarreah. The final soldier saw action in many of the major battles of the war only to return home with consumption (TB) and he wasted away for several years before dying.
Life at home was not much better with food shortages, no men for the heavy labor and the threat of Yankee troops. What a life changing event this war was for everyone.
