Student’s Visual
Organizer (Union side) Student’s Visual Organizer (Confederate
side) Letter
as a Word Document
August
30, 1862
Dear
Charlie,
I got your letter. Pope’s been pushing us real hard and the
battle’s tough. How’s Mom and Dad? Aunt
Amelia is fine. My education is good and
getting better.
There are 60,000 soldiers, 75,000
federals, on my side. That might seem
like a lot when you are one of the 60,000 soldiers. I am an Artillery. An Artillery is a person trained to fight
using a cannon. Other soldiers fought
using riffles or swords. You already
know this; I wear a navy blue uniforms with a sack coat and a slouch hat. My leader is general John Pope. As I watch soldiers fall all around me, I let
out a shot from the cannon and thought about what would happen if we never saw
each other again.
When night falls, I have supper. We eat meats that are salted or smoked, sugar
and a hard biscuit called Hardtack. We
also eat fruits and vegetables that are dried or canned. Mostly we eat this or less than this. I also have a canteen to put water. After, we sleep. We sleep in small tents on a blanket that has
rubber on one side and canvas on the other. This blanket is called a gum blanket.
I agree with the cause of this war
because slaves should not be treated like property, they should be treated like
people. I would not want to switch sides
because if I switched sides it would mean I believed in slavery.
Hope to see you after the battle.
Sincerely,
Thomas
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