Table 2: Accouterments of a Civil War Soldier Worksheet

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Accouterments of the Civil War Soldier

Please answer the following questions. When all of them are finished and each of you has completed an answer or comment, please return this sheet to your teacher and prepare to move on to the next table.

1. Name two of the accouterments from this table and explain how they were used, and why there were necessary and important for a soldier to have.
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2. Choose an item from the table that you think was most important to the life of a soldier. Explain why.
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3. A soldier carried between forty and fifty pounds of extra weight with all of these items. If you wanted to lighten your load by ten pounds which items would you discard? Why?
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4. Compare one item from the Civil War era with one modern day item that has been placedon your table. How are they both similar and yet different?

5. More soldiers died from sickness and disease than in battle during the Civil War. How might you have tried to keep yourself healthy as a Civil War soldier with these items? What additional items would have helped?
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6. Create a sentence that describes the food items in your trunk as compared to a meal you had recently.
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