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Poor merchants, prostitutea and all kinds of people serving/scavenging from the army would follow the train in those times. /r/askhistorians has a great thread
by jamiek88 8y ago
Poor merchants, prostitutea and all kinds of people serving/scavenging from the army would follow the train in those times.
/r/askhistorians has a great thread on this, will try and find it.
- sherr 8y agoProbably a lot of slaves as well. One has to consider how a large band of soldiers survives "in country". A lot of pillaging, ravaging and general nastiness. Slaves were a fact of life back then.