Valley of the Shadow

As discussed in class on Saturday, please visit the Valley of the Shadow and examine the archives from before the war and during the war for both Augusta County, VA and Franklin County, PA. I want you to tease out of these primary sources what the people who lived in these counties were thinking during the years leading up to the war, and then about the war itself.

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[rediet haile]

Valley of the shadow
In the pre-war times it seems that everybody was just saying hello and discussing their private life, we only saw a littel bit of intreast in politics start to appear in peoples letters. But right about the civil war everybodies letter was about the war. In the south most of the letters talk about their need to be left alone. And their confidence to win if a civil war should arise. I also saw resentment toward Abraham Lincoln for they thought he was forcing them to remain in the union.
The northerns where looking forward to victory, to changing the south.Duering the war in most of the letters the men seemed proud to serve in the army. Of all the daries i read one that intreasted me was Joseph Waddell from va, Augusta County, pre cvil war, he told the story of a men who stayed at home. Being to old to serve his state, he became a clerk in the Quartermasters Office. He talkes a lot about his fear of slave uprising at the time. His point of view was quite diffrent, he disaprooved of those who ingratiated themselves with Union commanders and those who flaunted symbols of Confederate patriotism.

[Susan Jelanizada]

In the valley of the shadow I read a few letters of Augusta County from pre-war and during the war. I read that before the war people were writing about the family issues, celebrations, health and all those personal things. Few of them mentioned their interests and political opinions at the end of their letters. It seemed that they were very optimistic and they were showing their support to their favorite politician. However, during the war people mostly write about the war situations and their uncertainty on what is going to happen. In a most of the letters people seem tired and hopeless. But in some letters they seem very brave and confident and they think they win and everything will be in their best interest.

[Juan P. Arze]

The Valley of the Shadow, people in Augusta County, VA were expressing their opinions and ideas during the preamble of the war. People were writing diaries and letters showing how they felt, here is a few conceptions that some individuals may have had on the war. Some of theses characters showed their allegiance to certain political parties and tried to tell what was going on on a daily basis. The wartime letters show us a brief example on what people had in their mind during the war itself. We have to have in mind that most of these letters and diaries were written by memebers of the army. People from Augusta County, VA. explained in their writings what was the situation in the battlefield like, who was winning, and had the most casualties.

[Kwame Sarfo]

When I read about the Franklin county,Pennsyvalnia and Augusta County Virginia in the Valley of the Shadow, after reading i found out that they were much concentrated on church activities in the farms, men and women specified their disposition of their property and how to control it in terms of wills. Also they described financial matters such as sale of land, health of various family members, future travels and their views of slavery where as Lydia Hotchkiss wrote a letter to Jedediah Hotchkiss describing the life of in the south, she said there are no fears in the North. meanwhile grandpa dying from fever and she working hard for almost three weeks in the Fall of 1859.
During the years of war, people were writing about serving in the armies activities in camp, life in the battlefield during war in the Franklin county, the unequal pay of the black soldiers, and also the battle conditions in the home front, crossing from place to place.

[Martha Lorena Marquez]

Franklin county, Pennsylvania
The dairy of Abraham Essick(1849-64. 1883. 1888)
Abraham Essick was born on the 7th day of November 18.
He was a Lutheran minister in 1840.
German was spoken on must of the Lutheran church that he minister.
He had a wife and three children. Nearly to the beginnging of the civil war his wife died in child labor.
He travel constantly preaching the gospel throught the states.
His view of the civil war where as fallows:
At one point as the war was building up he was afraid to cross the Mason and Dixon's Line.
He also stated that the conspirators who where thinking that the love for the old union had died they where terrible wrong!
He was amazed to see five thousand soldiers marching and ready to fight for the union of the country. The soldiers love this country as they love thier mother. He said that the duty of all good christian of that time was to come to the rescue for thier country. Ministers went to preach and pray for the soldiers and he was one of them.
He realized that God did not want to forsake the union.

[OLIVIER BLE]

After reading some of the articles in the newspapers of both Northern and Southern,it appears two greats timelines: the "before the War" et the "During War".
Before war, life was normal. The news in the newspapers most of the news were about daily life, celebrations of marriages and some minors inccidents that happened to some individuals.Churchs activities, conflicts between employees and employers in the north. Life of the slaves in the South.Then progressively arised political tensions between the parties. Election's issues and debates about the rules and stuffs...
These political tensions and small revolts will contribute somehow to the war.During the war, actuality and news are going to be different. Anouncements to encourage young men to join the army,relating events that happened on the battlefields,black soldiers treatments,and some others things related to war. It was all about bravery, strategy of war. The daily activities and events were puted in the second plan.

[Alma Ramsey]

The attitudes of the people in both county before the war seemed to be light and more about day to day living. I did read a letter from a slave who was writing to her husband to inform him about their son being sold and she wanted him to have his master buy her.
A family from Franklin County, PA opted to stay in Canada because they feared that PA would invaded by the Confederate Army. The eventually returned to PA where the husband joined the Union Army. During the war the wife wrote about being bored.

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