Personal Narrative: A Soldier As A Soldier Of A Civil War Soldier

I was there around the Gettysburg time. I won't never forget the date ; July 1 , 1863 and ended July 3, 1863.To me it was just like yesterday when I heard the U.S. Model 1861 “Springfield” Rifle Musket was shot.It was something ive never heard before. When I saw one I was so frighten till a young man told me it wasn't loaded. He started talking to me about it and how they don't hardly know how to aim with it so he said they was going to try it out and hopefully they'll win. I´m just a young girl walking around making sure every every soldier has food. I went up to one man to make sure he was alright. He had said ¨ If anything happens to me, make sure my girls will be safe.¨ I nod at the man and said ¨ You have my word¨. At that point of time I felt like he wouldn't make it. But I had told the man he should hold on and wait to at least tell his girls goodbye.I hurried up and went to find his girls and started yelling their names till i heard one of them say ¨Hello, is that you mama¨. I got them and told them that there dad was shot by the other soldiers. By that point they started asking me questions. When it was war time there was ladies that wanted to help so they cut off their hair and dressed up as the man's. …show more content…
Lee awaited the approach of Union General George G. Meade’s forces. We think someone at the campground is working for the other side and took our maps of where we was going to go and where to attack at. Everywhere we went we was attacked. After the war we had an estimated 51,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, captured, or listed as missing after Gettysburg. We had some families crying because we had to tell them the news of what happened with her husband or dad. It was the saddest moment of some people's life. General Robert E. Lee wanted to threaten Northern cities, weaken the North's appetite for war and, especially, win a major battle on Northern soil and strengthen the peace movement in the