What caused the high number of deaths amongst captive soldiers in a US civil war camp?
The laws in the bible covered the basics of where to site your toilets, down stream of where you camped, so that sewage and used washing water did not contaminate drinking water. When I went to the USA I visited a Civil War camp memorial and cemetery.
I was struck by the way Clara Barton (the US equivalent of England's Florence Nightingale) had brought order to recording the burial sites so that families knew for certain who had died and where. Definite information enabled them to stop searching and hoping their relatives were alive. The widows and children could mourn and move on emotionally.
Importantly, they would also have the legal right to inherit and remarry. (In modern times the case of missing Lord Lucan has affected the right of the son to inherit the father's title and property.)
You can visit the Clara Barton birthplace museum and buy a book about her.
Clara Barton also involved in fund raising and distributing relief for the people of Galveston, the island off the south coast of Texas. Many people from he East End of London landed here in the South, instead of New York, under the encouragement of the writer Israel Zangwill, author of Children of the ghetto, called the Jewish Mark Twain).
http://clarabartonbirthplace.org/site/?q=node/14
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, researcher, author, speaker.
The laws in the bible covered the basics of where to site your toilets, down stream of where you camped, so that sewage and used washing water did not contaminate drinking water. When I went to the USA I visited a Civil War camp memorial and cemetery.
I was struck by the way Clara Barton (the US equivalent of England's Florence Nightingale) had brought order to recording the burial sites so that families knew for certain who had died and where. Definite information enabled them to stop searching and hoping their relatives were alive. The widows and children could mourn and move on emotionally.
Importantly, they would also have the legal right to inherit and remarry. (In modern times the case of missing Lord Lucan has affected the right of the son to inherit the father's title and property.)
You can visit the Clara Barton birthplace museum and buy a book about her.
Clara Barton also involved in fund raising and distributing relief for the people of Galveston, the island off the south coast of Texas. Many people from he East End of London landed here in the South, instead of New York, under the encouragement of the writer Israel Zangwill, author of Children of the ghetto, called the Jewish Mark Twain).
http://clarabartonbirthplace.org/site/?q=node/14
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, researcher, author, speaker.
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