Correspondents Round 2

Name____________________           Date_________________      Period________

Civil War Letter round #2

Below are the topics and activities for round two.  All of the topics below must be incorporated into your letter.  Remember to write about the events below in character and not in essay style.  Respond in detail to your partner’s letter #1.  Continue to write about on-going personal lives- -romances, finances, family stories and so forth.

Round 2 Topics:  July 4, 1863

• July 4^th; it’s meaning to the cause that you support
• Military progress this spring;; revised predictions
• Death of Stonewall Jackson on May 10; your feelings about it and what it bodes for the future
• The Battle of Gettysburg;  Describe what you experienced in some detail if you either fought in the battle or served in the army in some other function (i.e. nurse).  Write what you have heard about in the newspapers or word of mouth if you were not there.
• The Union begins a military draft.  Your reaction, the reaction of others.  (Note:  NYC Draft Riots will erupt July 11).
• Somewhere you have seen first hand important military/political leader; describe the situation and experience
• The effort of women you know to support the cause.
• A terrible personal loss
• Your wishes for the person to whom you are writing.

Enclosure:  Send a sketch of a battlefront or homefront scene, something that helps your correspondent “see” with your eyes a scene you have experienced.  For Civil War sketches go to the New York Historical-Society collection at American Memory

(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhsarcd.html)

                       Citation

Burns, Ken.  The Civil War by Ken Burns.  PBS.org.       

http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/classroom/lesson_letters.html.  2002.  Web.  March 14, 2012.