Letter To Scott Newman Analysis

This is letter was written on the 11th of August, in 1863 in helena arkansas by a soldier. The man who wrote this letter was Scott Newman a soldier who was currently in helena arkansas on his way to Little rock. Newman was a private in company A of the 36th infantry, and had a high amount of collected letters documented over his three year period of serving from 1862-1865. These letters not only go deep into what life was like as a Iowa soldier but also life in the union camps. Newman mentions the “boys of monroe county”. The first time any of this evidence and documents were posted publicly was in August of 1994.
The circumstances the Newman was in during the time period of this letter being made consisted of being in Helena Arkansas on the day of their departure of a trip across Arkansas to Little rock. He created the letter due to the
In the time period that this all took place i do think the intended audience was meant out to only be Cone the reciever of the letter. In today’s intended audience this information can be used for all types of audiences ranging from professors, students, to historians. When created this letter was most definitely effective for the reasons that Cone received all Newton’s letters during the 1860’s as well as having the letters be documented for other uses today. When reading the primary source I completely understood what was going on relevent to the time period. When trying to evaluate and understand the evidence I could not find any evidence to argue with. The letter does state facts that only a primary source would be able to say for example when Newman is telling Cone of the estimate as to how many troops will be leaving Helena with him he states “ about 5000”. The strengths that this source has is the very specifics as to when in time the letter was written and also where exactly the movement of war was