Civil War Camps
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Joshua l.Chamberlain
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Re:Civil War Camps
Thanks Kerflumoxed very educational.
"There stands Jackson like a stone wall! Let us be determined to die here and we will conquer!"
-Brig.Gen. Bernard Bee, Henry House
-Brig.Gen. Bernard Bee, Henry House
Re:Civil War Camps
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Here's some great useless information. The average horse will produce about 2.5 gallons of urine and 30 lbs of manure in a day.
I'm sure that camps were at their worst when the armies were in battle. Before contact was made with the enemy they were scattered, once contact was made, they condensed and really made the situation nasty.
I imagine that the 3rd and 4th of July were terrible days in Gettysburg - battle aside. You had 150,000 to 200,000 men packed into the immediate vicinity for 2-3 days. They came with tens of thousands of horses. The weather was warm and, by the 3rd, heavy rain had fallen. All that rain flooded the local streams with waste. It must have smelled like a rotting sewer.
In 1860, Baltimore was the 4th largest city in the United States at 212,000. That means that for 3 days in 1863, Gettysburg was the 4th largest city in the country with essentially no infrastructure to cope with needs of its population.
As my six year old would say ... YUCK!
Here's some great useless information. The average horse will produce about 2.5 gallons of urine and 30 lbs of manure in a day.
I'm sure that camps were at their worst when the armies were in battle. Before contact was made with the enemy they were scattered, once contact was made, they condensed and really made the situation nasty.
I imagine that the 3rd and 4th of July were terrible days in Gettysburg - battle aside. You had 150,000 to 200,000 men packed into the immediate vicinity for 2-3 days. They came with tens of thousands of horses. The weather was warm and, by the 3rd, heavy rain had fallen. All that rain flooded the local streams with waste. It must have smelled like a rotting sewer.
In 1860, Baltimore was the 4th largest city in the United States at 212,000. That means that for 3 days in 1863, Gettysburg was the 4th largest city in the country with essentially no infrastructure to cope with needs of its population.
As my six year old would say ... YUCK!