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Soldiers



 At the start of the war the Confederates had a strength of 50,000 men compared to the 62,000 men that the Union had. Out of the 50,000 men there was a total of missing/dead men of 8,350. By the end of the Second Bull Run the South felt good about their victory, Even with that amount of men gone. 

All the men that fought had volunteered for patriotic reasons of protecting their homes. Most of the men worked on farms.  Uniforms were supplied by Confederate factories called depots in cities such as Atlanta and Columbus, Georgia, Raleigh, North Carolina. Southerns marched with very little on them and preferred wide brimmed hats instead of the gray hats the army issued that looked like the Union hats . They said that it gave them better protection from the sun and rain when marching this all led to the light marching orde r. Most C on federate soldiers did not have shoes so they fought bear-foot and when there was a dead Union soldier with shoes still on, the confederate soldiers would take them.



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