Primary sources: 2 letters from Samuel F. Atwill , 1862, 1864 (one letter to his father and the other to his mother)
You are to write a 1 full-page expository essay using the 2 civil war letters (primary source). You are only allowed to use these letters as a source for this essay! (letters files are attached) The 2 letters are from the same person to the family. Make sure you state who the letter is sent to if you can.
Here are some ideas, questions you may explore in
your essay:
2) an explanation of what stands out to you in those letters?
#1 my first impression is that he had a good relationship with his father and talks about hardships not having money for stamps to send his father more letters.
#2 In this letter, he seems to be concerned about his mom. He clearly worried about his mom. Most be really hard to be in the middle of civil war and not getting news about your mother!
3) what questions develop from them that you might explore in a paper
Whats it like to write to your family in the middle of civil war, trying not to worry them but at the same time have to vent out. Or with the high possibility of dying anytime anywhere during that war, he had to let his family know just enough what was happening without scaring them?
Use simple words, easy for your audience to understand!
MLA format, double space, times new roman
Here is Link for the US civil war archive letters that I also attached and what you are to use as a primary source. If doesnt work, try to copy and paste!
Set of 2 letters.
(use both letters in this essay) NO WORKS CITED NEEDED
the links to each set of letter from
1- letter V.M. Institute Sept 2nd 1862 My dear Father- page 3
http://archivesspace.vmi.edu/repositories/3/resources/135 (Links to an external site.)
( letter 2V.M. Institute Sept 2nd 1862 My dear Father)
2- letter V.M. Institute Sept 28th, 1862 My dear Mother- page 7
http://archivesspace.vmi.edu/repositories/3/resources/135 (Links to an external site.)
( letter 2 V.M. Institute
Sept 28th, 1862/ My dear Mother)
