Depends on where you live urban was like today lots of big buildings and lighting but no cars and only trains horses and carriages. Suburan and country had very little or no lighting at all and lived...
for most of time, all it was were drills and setting up camps, 3/4 of time was spent doing those things, most troops tried to find ways for enjoyment by means of alcohol, prostitutes, baseball, any...
Not in the Nazi style, where the express purpose was to kill or starve. But after Grant ended the system of prisoner-exchange in March 1864, there was going to be an awful lot of overcrowding (or...