![]() ![]() With the advances in the care and movement of the wounded, many who would have surely died in earlier wars returned home to be cared for by a community structure weary from a protracted war and now also faced with the needs of widows and orphans. It was a community adventure and their fighting unit had a community flavor.īy the end of the Civil War, units had become less homogeneous, men from different communities and even different states were forced together by the exigencies of battle where new friendships and lasting trust was forged. Soldiers then were friends, relatives and neighbors who went off to fight–until the next planting or harvest. In previous conflicts the care of the veteran warrior was the province of the family or the community. ![]() In early 1866 the United States of America - now securely one nation again - was waking to the reality of recovery from war, and this had been a much different war.
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