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Dear MA and Pa,           I fought in an important battle today. Maybe the most important. We attacked and destroyed the rebel's capital and pushed them out . They had far fewer men than us but still refused to surrender. We fought them for the last time by sailor's creekand forced them to surrender . We captured the rest of their army. General Grant and General Lee met at an old farmhouse to discuss the surrender terms. President Lincoln came all the way down to see it. The rebel's are to be our countrymen again. They aren't to be punished. All they have to do is promise not to fight anymore. I'm so glad this war is finally over. I've been allowed to come home. In fact I write this as I'm on my way. See you sortly! Love,        Herman

 Dear my luvly wife, The was is now over for the love of God and our nation. Just as Lincoln predicted in his Second Inaugural Address that the war was winding down to a Union Victory, and that he wants to have the Union restored with Confederate states as possiblu.  Richmond, Virginia has fallen and burned to da Union and burned on April 2, 1865. And four days after it, the last battle ov da war occured at Saylor's Creek, and was only a brief one-day engagement was a Union Victory. In da wake of the battle, some 8,000 Confederates surrendered. Roughly one-third of Lee's army ,this is huge of the number of soldiers who surrendered. Finally, on April 9, 1865, General Lee finally surrendered to da Union at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia. The terms of da surrendered were pretty generous: 25,000 rations, soldiers can keep their own things, however, all Confederate issued items and battle flags had to be turned over and keep a promise of not to fight . After the surrender, I

Deer Ma and Pa da war is ovr! and we won da war! da rebels surendrd aftr da batl of saylors creek wer 6000 rebels died. we met at appomattox courthouse wer general mccellan who said dat da rebels get 25000 rations and the rebels had to turn in any wepons oor batl flags and personal horses and guns cod be kept also men had to tak oath not to fite anmore. i will be back hom very soon ma and i luv you. i hope nothing happens to da prez he is a good prez and i bet dat da rebels R a litl salti abot losing da war. luv, james richardson

Dear Pops, As you probably hurd, ol´ Lincoln took his oath for a second term in office . Looks like he´s extending an olive branch out to dem stinkin´ rebs . Guess we´ll see how that works out. Sounds like he´s pretty confedent that this war is gonna end in a union victory . Finnaly! I thought this bloody war was never gonna end! Then there was the battle at Saylor´s Creek . Lee was retreatin´ and we had outnumbered ´im bad . Hurd that bout one third of Lee´s whole army had to surender! Almost had to feel bad for the ol´ man, I mean, my god! His whole army was dissolving ! But our troops held strong and we surronded dem rebs. Nutin´ left to do then for ol´ Lee but surender. He´d be an insane fool if he didn´t! He and General grant met in this ol´ house to negosiate the terms of surender. My troops and I started rejoicin´ an broke out in cheers as General Grant finnally exited with Lee, but Grant silenced us. I guess they´re part of our country again, or at least that´s how Lin

           Dear my lovely wif Elizabeth,    My three- year enlistment for the war was over , but despite how much i love you and want to see our family back again, i'm sorry that i will be reenlisting to join the Union army again. I know that this is a very hard choice, however, you know that i am very religious , and i think God have chosen me to fight fir da sake of our countryy. There was a lot of bad news in the beginning of the year. 137,000 soldiers reenlisted to the Union but a drastic amount of 100,000 soldiers went back home to unite with their famili. This caused us to spread our troops thinly across da country to defend the towns and cities.      Also, the public opinion is turning agaisnt da old man Lincoln. I feel bad to be him, and then now the Confederates want to negotiate for peace with da president if this keeps continuing. However, Grant also took command of the Union Army, which is very good new fur us. Because of dis, Grant can strengths the Union Army&

Dear, Ma i had to go to march with sherman and we strted at atlanta den to da cost . we raded da homs and lit dem on fir . i also had to snek a few buks in da homs even do we were suposed to tak fods or anyding dat we can tak and put in r rations or eat . sum slaves joned us 2 . me beli is ful with sum good good food. i wil tri to sav sum 4 u and da fam. but da owners were mad at us 4 taking dere stuf even do it was good 4 da unin. da felas and i have goten clos and dar lik me fam away from hom. plus with da new genral uylses s grant is gona mak us win wars. tell pops and da rest of da fam dat i mis dem and dat i luv all of u soooo much. luv, james richardson

Deer ma brotha James and ma deer Rebecca, President Lincoln overcam with joy when he found our new gen' Ulyses S. grant . Before dat, Dat old man received his comishon as lewtenant general . Unluky for him, Grant couldn't make it inta Washington ta receave it becus he was in da Army of da Potamac unda General George . Grant is da brightest future we need ta win this war against da horrible South. At May 4, 1864, da battal of da Wilderness began, and the confederates were outnumba'd, but had thick vegetashon , often confusing me and ma soldiers. All of da sudden, da forest catch in fire , burnin' many of ma fellow comrades. It was terribal and forced for us ta retreet. We den met da South once more in Spottslyvania, but we lost to Robert Lee. He did not win becus both of us lost many great men. I intend to make yall proud by comin home with a grand victory. On August 31, 1864, da fired general was chosen ta be da democratic party leader for pres, intending ta cha

Dear Ma and Pa,       Today General Sherman forced us to march through Georgia without any supplies . He told us if we wanted to eat, we took what we needed from the residents . We broke into any and all houses in our way. We marched for miles destroying everything we couldn't take with us. We freed every slave we came across. We were told to kill anyone who stood against us and we did just that. The rebels ran from us but refused to surrender. We took Atlanta quicker than i thought we would. We destroyed Georgia and left the rebels deeply hurt. We made them howl just like the general wanted. We struck a huge blow to the rebels. I believe the end to this horrid war is near. Atlanta gives us a huge advantage over the rebels. But I don't care. I just want to come home. I'm scared. I miss you guys. I feel I may not make it through this.       Love,              Herman