Questions in the Historical Profession – Letters from Civil War Soldiers or Finding Family after Slavery Assignment III. Sources to Use This assignment asks you to construct a analysis of the C

Running Head: HISTORICAL DISCUSSION QUESTION 0

LETTERS FROM CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS

If you want to analyze Civil War letters, this particular website which includes an endorsement by a prominent Civil War Historian I used to work with at WVU, is pasted below. You will notice that you can look through a random assortment of letters, or that you can specify the letters you find based by allegiance (Union or Confederacy), state, unit, or service branch. You are not required to start an account or log-in in order to navigate this database:

http://www.soldierstudies.org/index.php?action=browse_letters

LAST SEEN: FINDING FAMILY AFTER SLAVERY DATABASE

https://informationwanted.org/items/browse

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