AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SOLDIER LETTERS HOME

MOST SOLDIERS THAT WROTE LETTERS PURCHASED FROM SUTLERS.

• They wrote home to their relatives.
• Soldiers wanted to let their relatives know they were okay.
• Almost all the soldiers that wrote letters asked for better food.

MOST SOLDIERS HAD AN EDUCATION UP TO THE FOURTH GRADE.

• They had incorrect spelling in their letters.
• No one was able to teach the soldiers how to spell nether neatness.
• The soldiers that wrote letters said " I know you can barely read my letter".

SOME SOLDIERS ASKED COMRADES TO WRITE THEIR LETTERS FOR THEM

• Soldiers have better educations now than they did then.
• Most soldiers could neither read or write.
• The letters in the article are hard to read because it is sloppy and lots of words were misspelled.

MOST PARENTS MAILED THE SOLDIERS CLOTHING ITEMS,CANDIES, SOAP AND WRITING PAPER.

• The soldiers would be cold during the night.
• The soldiers wanted food to gain weight or wanted better food in the war.
• The soldiers wanted to write letters to their parents to let them know what was going on.

BY WORLD WAR II COMMUNICATION WAS EASIER BECAUSE A SPEEDY MAIL WAS INVENTED.

• The mail got to its location in about twenty-eight hours.
• It was faster because the soldiers used E-Mail on a computer.
• The soldiers got their messages faster than it used to be back then.