Soldier Letter/Diary



Civil War soldiers wrote letters and kept diaries. Pretend you are a soldier (you can be either Union or Confederate) and you have just gotten the word of the surrender. Write either a diary entry or a letter to your parents expressing your feelings about getting the news that the war might be coming to an end.




April 9th 1865
























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