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Slavery and the Civil War
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- Did you fight for the North or the South? Under which commanding officer did you serve?
- Many families found that they were split on the issues involved with the Civil War, and had members in each army. Did this happen to your family?
- How did you keep in touch with your friends and family back home during this time? Did you save any letters you or they might have written?
- Describe basic training. Who was your commanding officer? Who were your peers? Where and for how long were you trained, if at all?
- Which weapons were you trained to use? How did you feel about using weapons?
- What were conditions like on the battlefield and in the army camps? Were there times when there wasn't enough food or clothing to go around?
- Which battles did you fight in? Describe the time, place, number of participants, and what happened. How did these battles affect the war as a whole? What role did your unit play in this battle?
- Were you injured in any way? Describe what happened. What kind of treatment did you receive?
- Did you heal quickly and return to battle, or were you sent home? How did it change you in ways that you still noticed years later?
- If you were an African-American, how were you treated in the army? Were conditions worse for you than for the other soldiers? If so, in what ways?
- When did you hear of the surrender at Appomattox? What did you feel at this time? Was this what you wanted? Had your fighting efforts served a purpose?
- After all was said and done, what did you learn from your experiences in the military? Why were these lessons valuable to you? How did they change you and your ideas or values?
- What sort of memorabilia did you save from this time? What did it symbolize to you? What memories and images did it bring back to you and your family in later years?
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