War has an impact on everybody. Joseph E. Holliday examines the impact of the Civil War on the soldiers of Ohio families. How did families receive aid? Where did they get it from? Many relief methods were available at the beginning and end of the war.
The civil war was hard on the soldiers let alone their families. There were many methods tried in trying to relieve the families during the war. Ohio was the third most populous state in the union in 1860, having 2,339,511 people. Most of the information about the relief is located in Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Cincinnati was the largest city in Ohio and west of the Alleghenies. What Holliday is saying we can take the information we have from that city and pretty much assume that this was how it was in many other states and cities. The towns in Ohio were not prepared at all in 1861
Another way which an soldier was able to help his family while away was to assign all or part of this pay to his relatives back home. This method commonly known as the “allotment system.” The navy had already developed an allotment system before the war but the army hadn’t. In the beginning of the war soldiers used a number of informal methods to send the money home. Congress made it possible for the states to establish systems of collection for this purpose. This expected to go great in providing income for the family. The pay of a private soldier was 13 dollars per month, later on in 1864 it was raised to 16 dollars a month. This was low compared to world war II .
A system commonly known as the bounty system was a way used to get aid to families. This system goes all the way back to the colonial wars so it wasn’t new d
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