Civil War Women

If you are writing as a woman during the Civil War, submit your journal entry to the comments section for this post. Please explain whether the person writing the journal entry is from the north or the south.

Read the diary of a 16-year-old Southern girl, Alice Williamson

Diary of Carrie Berry, a 10-year-old Southern girl

Diary of Rachel Cormany, a Northern woman

Confederate soldier

If you are writing as a southern (Confederate) soldier, submit your journal entry to the comments section for this post.

Read real diaries:

James Edwards Wilson

Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier

A Confederate Soldier's Life

Union Soldier

If you are writing as a northern (Union) soldier, submit your journal entry to the comments section for this post.

Read real journals:

Elisha Hunt, 2nd Rhode Island Volunteers

Fletcher Pomeroy, a member of Company D, Seventh Kansas Cavalry

Cornelius C. Platter, 81st Ohio Infantry Volunteers

James Laughlin Orr