Army Camps of the American Civil War.

1860-1865




By:Trey Williams and Ohm Patel

aBOUT aRMY CAMPS

• Army camps  were like a big city bustling white canvas.
• Camps were considered temporary throughout the year until winter months.
• Soldiers would also construct wooden huts that would fit several men.
• The logs were taken from a nearby source.
• Logs were placed underneath stones in a rectangle so the huts stay still.

names of some camps

• Camp Morton in Indianapolis was a civil war training camp.
• Andersonville or camp Sumter was built in 1864 and held a lot of prisoners.
• Cumberland in Virginia was an union army camp.
• Confederate winter quarters at Centreville, Virginia.
• Chase camp was a military prison and training camp.

Activities in the camps

• Some of the people did camp drills.
• They also cooked for other soldiers.
• People slept.[We know people took night shifts]
• They practiced firing weapons.
• They also practiced if they got ambushed.

sURPRISING FACTS ABOUT THE cIVIL WAR

• Did you know Camp Sumter held over about 80,000 prisoners?
• Did you know instead of dying regularly people in camps died of diseases? 
• Approximately 625,000 men died in the civil war.
•  One-third of the Union Army were immigrants. 
• One-tenth of the Union Army was African American.