Ransom Slack Thesis
Ransom Slack By: Veda A
The Civil War was gruesome and tough and many people died. The Civil War was a big part of society, without the Civil War there could still be slavery or the states could still be not united. With the loss of a lot of young men made it difficult for everyone. Ransom A. Slack enlisted in the Army when he was 20 years old, he was a soldier in the Civil War. Almost everyone had at least one family member go to war. Boys as young as thirteen joined the war to be a drummer or even fought alongside hundreds of other men.
Ransom Slack’s father was a farmer and his mother stayed at home and cleaned and took care of the kids. His older brother was a laborer. When he was 18 it didn’t say that he had an occupation, but he probably helped his father out …show more content…
In his first battle, they won and on June 29th, 1862 the battle of Savage’s station they lost very badly. There were 1,681 soldiers and 189 were killed or died of wounds, 189 died from disease and 20 were imprisoned and 2 were killed by accident. To fight in each battle it must have felt like it was never going to end and it must have been very tiring. Ransom Slack was wounded at Charles Town on August 21st, 1864. The hospitals weren’t clean, the tools were used from one patient straight to the other and if tools were washed they were just put in bloody tap water. Ransom Slack was wounded and evacuated to a hospital in Baltimore. He was then moved to a hospital in Philadelphia in September before going to Brattleboro where he was mustered out of the army on October 28th 1864. At this time there wasn’t medicine and no one really knew much. There was only a couple of tools and most of the time all they could do was amputate the part that where you had been shot. it caused diseases and infections very easily (6th Vermont Infantry Introduction, par.
The Civil War was gruesome and tough and many people died. The Civil War was a big part of society, without the Civil War there could still be slavery or the states could still be not united. With the loss of a lot of young men made it difficult for everyone. Ransom A. Slack enlisted in the Army when he was 20 years old, he was a soldier in the Civil War. Almost everyone had at least one family member go to war. Boys as young as thirteen joined the war to be a drummer or even fought alongside hundreds of other men.
Ransom Slack’s father was a farmer and his mother stayed at home and cleaned and took care of the kids. His older brother was a laborer. When he was 18 it didn’t say that he had an occupation, but he probably helped his father out …show more content…
In his first battle, they won and on June 29th, 1862 the battle of Savage’s station they lost very badly. There were 1,681 soldiers and 189 were killed or died of wounds, 189 died from disease and 20 were imprisoned and 2 were killed by accident. To fight in each battle it must have felt like it was never going to end and it must have been very tiring. Ransom Slack was wounded at Charles Town on August 21st, 1864. The hospitals weren’t clean, the tools were used from one patient straight to the other and if tools were washed they were just put in bloody tap water. Ransom Slack was wounded and evacuated to a hospital in Baltimore. He was then moved to a hospital in Philadelphia in September before going to Brattleboro where he was mustered out of the army on October 28th 1864. At this time there wasn’t medicine and no one really knew much. There was only a couple of tools and most of the time all they could do was amputate the part that where you had been shot. it caused diseases and infections very easily (6th Vermont Infantry Introduction, par.