| Chapter 7 "Helping Hands" Activities |
Read these interesting facts from "Boys in the Civil War" http://www.civilwarhome.com/boysinwar.htm
Make a bar graph with this information.
More than 2,000,000 Federal soldiers
were twenty-one or under (of a total of some 2,700,000)-
More than 1,000,000 were eighteen or under.
About 800,000 were seventeen or under.
About 200,000 were sixteen or under.
About 100,000 were fifteen or under.
Three hundred were thirteen or under-most of these fifers or drummers, but regularly
enrolled, and sometimes fighters.
Twenty-five were ten or under.
Confederate figures are skimpier,
but one sample of 11,000 men produced
about 8,000, the great majority, between eighteen and twenty-nine.
There was one of thirteen, and three were fourteen;
31 were fifteen;
200 were sixteen;
366 were seventeen; and
about a thousand were eighteen.
Almost 1,800 were in their thirties,
about 400 in their forties, and
86 in their fifties.
One man was seventy, and
another, seventy-three.