A selection of original Civil War correspondence between soldiers from the battlefields and their family members and friends on the homefront. These letters describe firsthand accounts of battle, reflections on the nature of war and its profound effect on those involved - both on those at the front lines and loved ones who remained anxiously at ...

Teachers: This handout contains excerpts of eyewitness accounts, diary entries, and letters for you to read to your students or to assign to your students as an independent reading activity. Afterwards, have the students imagine that they are Civil War soldiers or civilians.

Civil War Letters As tensions in the United States rose to a fever pitch and civil war broke out in 1861, Union leaders began to develop ways to isolate the mutinous southern states. In addition to erecting a blockade meant to keep supplies from reaching the South, Postmaster General Montgomery Blair cut off mail service to states that had seceded.

Civil War Letters. The letters Ely Parker wrote to his family while he was in the Army during the Civil War are in the collections of the American Philosophical Society, in Philadelphia,...

Letters - browse over 450 letters with personal accounts of life during the Civil War. Timeline - explore the letters by date on a timeline. Map of authors' locations - see where the letters were written plotted on a historical map. Lesson Plans - download lesson plans appropriate for Grade 6 through Undergraduate level.

Chiefly Civil War letters from Federal soldiers throughout the South, in camps, hospitals, and prisons, to family and friends in the North. This collection is made up of unrelated single items or small groups of items.

6 天之前 · The American Civil War Letters and Diaries collection includes the full-text of primary source documents from over 2000 authors during the era of the U.S. Civil War. Search Tips: Search results page lets you limit by:

Letters were an important aspect of the Civil War. They bring us a history that is personal, sometimes even private, yet always revealing. We are able to learn much about the feelings of a person heading into battle, their feelings for a loved one; thoughts on mortality and God.

Informs McGuire that he encountered an enslaved person who declared that he was running away. Suggests where McGuire might look for the enslaved person, and asks that he "say nothing that I told you." Written by Hollett, a member of the 75th Ohio, to his sister Mary.

In early 2023 Shenandoah University's McCormick Civil War Institute (MCWI) began a joint effort with William Griffing to place the thousands of Civil War letters he transcribed over the decades in a central location.