letters form the front

• Read Sullivan Ballou’s Love Letter (1861) (Links to an external site.)
• Read James P. Elliott Letter to His Family (1862) (Links to an external site.)
• Read Cornelia Hancok Nurses Soldiers and Contrabands (1863) (Links to an external site.)

Complete the following prompt:

• YOU ARE a soldier/nurse in a Union regiment. Write a short biography about who you are and how you came to be in the Union Army. Maybe some of you are women hiding your gender, maybe some of you have brothers fighting in the Confederacy, maybe some of you are immigrants, and maybe some of you come from a long line of military veterans. However you decide on your character, you then need to write a letter home about your opinion of Lincoln and the war. Try to stay in character.
• 400 words minimum