PRIMARY SOURCES DURING

THE CIVIL WAR

BY: JACKSON CALLIS

SOLDIERS VIEW: SOUTHERN CAVALRY

THE WAR WAS VIEWED DIFFERENTLY

BY THE DIFFERENT SIDES AND WHERE
PEOPLE WERE IN THAT ARMY
IN 1930, WILLIAM H. NICHOLS WAS
INTERVIEWED
FOUGHT UNDER MORGAN AND LEE

HE BELIEVED THAT DURING THE

WAR THE SOUTH HAD A GOOD
CHANCE OF WINNING, ALTHOUGH
HE KNEW THAT THEY WERE AT A
DISADVANTAGE IN TERMS OF
SUPPLIES
HIS JOB WAS TO CAPTURE OR
DESTROY UNION SUPPLIES,
WAGONS, ETCETERA.

SOLDIERS VIEW: NORTHERN INFANTRY

SOME SOLDIERS OF THE NORTH AND
SOUTH WERE READY TO DIE FOR
THEIR CAUSE
IN 1861, A SOLDIER WHO ONLY
SIGNED THE NAME SULLIVAN
WROTE HIS WIFE ABOUT THE
UNFORTUNATE ODDS OF THE
UPCOMING BATTLE
(THE PICTURE ENCLOSED IS OF
SULLIVAN)

IF IT IS NECESSARY THAT I
SHOULD FALL ON THE
BATTLEFIELD FOR MY COUNTRY, I
AM READY.
THE LETTER FROM WHICH THIS IS
TAKEN ISNT SAD NOR
MOURNFUL, BUT VERY
DEDICATED. IT SHOWS THAT
MOST UNION SOLDIERS KNEW
THEIR FATE AND WHAT THEY
WOULD LEAVE BEHIND, BUT YET
THEY PERSISTED TO KEEP ALIVE
THE MINDSETS ADOPTED BY THE
NORTH

SOUTHERN PROPAGANDA
MOST SOUTHERNERS WERE INTENSELY
INVOLVED IN THE WAR EFFORT, MANY LAYING
DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR THE GOOD OF THE
CONFEDERACY, BUT TO KEEP THEM GOING, AND
GET MORE SUPPORTERS THE SOUTH OFTEN
USED NEWSPAPERS TO CONVEY THEIR OPINIONS
SOME OF THESE NEWSPAPERS, SUCH AS THE
DAILY RICHMOND EXAMINER (PICTURED AT
RIGHT) WOULD HAVE REAL POINTS AND IDEAS,
OR JUST COMPLAIN ABOUT THE NORTH

NORTHERN PROPAGANDA

THE NORTH FOCUSED LESS ON THE EFFORTS

OF EXTINGUISHING SLAVERY IN THEIR
PAPERS, AND MORE UPON WHAT WAS
HAPPENING IN THE WAR, BATTLES BEING
WON AND LOST, ETC.
THE ISSUE OF SLAVERY STILL HAD THE SAME
IMPORTANCE, YET THE WAR WAS THE MOST
IMPORTANT HAPPENING OF THE TIME

A DEPICTION OF THE BATTLE

OF YORKTOWN

SLAVE LETTERS
DURING, OR AFTER THE WAR SLAVES
WOULD WRIGHT TO THEIR FORMER
OWNERS, SOME RUNNING AWAY, OR
BEING FREED LATER ON
SOME OF THE ESCAPE STORIES WERE
QUITE AMAZING, THIS ONE INCLUDED
THE SLAVE BEING SHOT AT QUITE A
FEW TIMES
LETTER WRITTEN BY A PAST SLAVE
NAMED JOURDON IN 1864

ONCE THEY ESCAPED THE SLAVES

COULD GET AWAY TO FREE
STATES AND BE EMANCIPATED

SLAVE NARRATIVES

MANY SLAVES HAD STORIES OF THEIR

TIMES DURING THE WAR, OFTEN TALKING
ABOUT THE EVENTS OF THE TIME, NOT
TALKING MUCH ABOUT HOW THEY WERE
TREATED

AN OLD BLACK WOMAN RECALLED A HYMN

THAT WAS SUNG OFTEN AMONG SHE AND
HER CLOSEST (A STANZA FROM THE
HYMN):

LOVE DE MEMBER, MOVE DAN-U-EL.

LOVE DE MEMBER, MOVE DAN-U-EL.

GOT ON MY STARRY CROWN, DAN-U-EL.

GOT ON MY STARRY CROWN, DAN-U-EL.

ANTI-SLAVERY PROPAGANDA
TO RAISE SUPPORT FOR ABOLITIONIST
AND UNION EFFORTS PROPAGANDA
THROUGH WRITING AND TALKING
WASNT ENOUGH, SO POLITICAL
CARTOONS BECAME EVERYDAY
THINGS IN THE LIVES OF
NORTHERNERS
SOME WERE AGAINST SOUTHERNERS,
SLAVERY, OR IMPLICATION OF
SLAVERY IN A CERTAIN REGION

PRO-SLAVERY PROPAGANDA

PROPAGANDA THAT IS PRO-SLAVERY

IS HARDER TO FIND IN HISTORY, FOR
MOST OF IT WAS VERBAL, BEING
PASSED FROM PERSON TO PERSON IN
THE SOUTH, SOMETIMES PASSED
ALONG BY JUST COMMENTING HOW
EASY IT WAS TO USE SLAVES
SOME CARTOONS DEPICTED SOME
PEOPLES FEARS OF BLACK
SUPREMACY, IF THEY EVER HAPPENED
TO GET ANY POWER

BATTLES
MANY BATTLES WERE FOUGHT, EACH
TIME THEY HAPPENED THEY LEFT
FEWER AND FEWER PEOPLE ALIVE,
ALSO TAKING AWAY THAT PERSONS
KNOWLEDGE AND SOMETIMES
HISTORY, BUT NON THE LESS THERE
ARE STILL PLENTY OF PRIMARY
SOURCES LEFT, AS YOU HAVE SEEN,
AND THEY ARENT GOING TO GO
ANYWHERE FOR A LONG TIME
AT RIGHT IS THE ONLY SURVIVING
PICTURE OF A CIVIL WAR BATTLE, THE
BATTLE OF ANTIETAM

PHOTOGRAPHY
THERE WAS A PHOTOGRAPHER,
MATTHEW BRADY, WHO MADE GREAT
LEAPS IN HIS FIELD AND THROUGH IT
HELPED SHOW THE COUNTRY WHAT WAS
HAPPENING (NOT ONLY IN THE CIVIL
WAR)
BESIDES MATTHEW BRADY THERE WERE
MANY OTHER GOOD PHOTOGRAPHERS,
BUT NONE COULD TOUCH HIS PROWESS
AND ABILITY

WORKS CITED
1. PFEIFFER, ERIC. "LETTER FROM
FORMER SLAVE TO MASTER." YAHOO.
YAHOO, 31 JAN. 2012. WEB. 13 JAN.
2015.
2. FORT, BRUCE. "EMMA CROCKETT."
XROADS. STUDENTS, 1 NOV. 1998.
WEB. 13 JAN. 2015.
3. "THE CIVIL WAR 1862."
SONOFTHESOUTH. N.P., N.D. WEB. 13
JAN. 2015.

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