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Hard Life for Soldiers  Medical care on battlefield was crude and unsanitary  Surgeons amputated injured arms/legs  Minor wounds became infected  Diseases like pneumonia and malaria killed more men than guns or cannons  Prisoners of war (POWs) died of disease or starvation  Difficult life of soldiers led many to desert