Daily Life During the Civil War for Non-Combatants

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 7 September 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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More soldiers died in the Civil War than any other American conflict. But how did non-combatants fare? It depends on where you were and your life station. A northerner may barely know a war was going on at all if he did not read the newspaper or supply the foodstuffs to the Union army. But he definitely would if he lived in Missouri—claimed by both the Union and the Confederacy—and was subject to frequent guerilla attacks. A southerner would face impoverishment, the collapse of the regional economy, a flood of refugees, and see whole cotton crops rot. And it only got worse as the war got underway. Learn about everyday life for civilians during the Civil War in this episode. TO HELP OUT THE SHOW Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one. Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher

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1:28.4	Today's question comes from Justin Zelinsky. Justin asks,
1:32.4	I want to ask you about what life was like for your average civilian in both the north and the
1:37.8	south during this of a war. It's hard for me to imagine actual combat happening on American soil,
1:44.4	so I'm curious what the day-to-day life was like for people who were not directly involved in combat.
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