Well, right off the top of my head, I can't say much about the weaponry available, but I will say that, like many, many others of his time, he must have been made of rawhide!
What your or I would call privations and travails seem to have been accepted as normal by the common folk of the day. Can you imagine? Here I sit in my air conditioned office, in my comfortable chair, typing on a computer that brings me all the news of the world in an instant, along with all of the other luxuries of life that, 150 years ago or more, were not even imagined.
And I still complain about what a hard day I had.
Walked for 70 days...