The blockade became one of the biggest things that caused turmoil between the advancement of the the South in comparison to the North, and the amount of help the South would be able to get during the Civil War. With northern states being more advanced, they would tend to have all of the adequate equipment needed to treat patients. The blockade also caused the government to be unable to supply the southern hospitals with the supplies they needed.
Because these hospitals were unable to provide for every solider who was injured or caught an illness, most of those fighting in the war, decided to flee, in groups. Their choice not to go to the hospitals, was to avoid getting let down by caregivers, and being provided with the best fit care that their wives could give them at that time. Most soldiers who chose to go to the hospitals, were not provided with clean clothes, mattresses to sleep on, bandages, and other necessities. Therefore, their lives at the beginning of war, were being repeated with lack of care because of an overflow on wounded soldiers. With a lot of soldiers dieing and not being able to return to war zone, the only logical choice they had was to return home.
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