Pretend you are a soldier or nurse in the Civil War. Write a letter home in which you describe/explain at least (4) of the following: the strengths and weaknesses of your side in the war

the military strategies of your side and your personal opinion about them

why you (or your side) are fighting this war

one particular battle and its significance to the whole war

how the war is affecting you personally

how the Civil War is the “first modern war”

Your letter should be carefully written, with complete sentences and paragraphs, an introduction, and a conclusion. Be sure the date on your letter makes sense with the contents.

Here is a link to a website (Links to an external site.) with a collection of actual Civil War Letters. They are in script, but if you select a letter, and scroll down to the "Transcript" button on the lower left, a typed version of the letter will appear.

WORD BANK

secession

Confederate

Union

blockade

Anaconda Plan

Abraham Lincoln

Jefferson Davis

Bull Run 1861

Antietam 1862

Gettysburg 1863

Vicksburg 1863

draft

Emancipation Proclamation 1863

total war

surrender 1865

3 Paragraphs pls

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.

Which if the following can you infer about maggie?