Narrative Life Of Frederick Douglass, Sullivan Ballou Letter, Gettysburg Address

Today I am going to talk about The civil war. There are three stories that i am going to talk about. The stories that I am going to talk about are the Narrative life of Frederick Douglass,Sullivan Ballou Letter, Gettysburg Address. The first story talk about a slave that was free after the civil war. The second story talk about a officer that was i the union army. The last stories talk about a speech that a president told. The civil war redefine what it meant to be an American, because it talks about rights that the slaves did not have and how they were treated back then in the civil war. All men were created equal but did not have the same rights.

Frederick Douglass was an American slave that was freed after the civil war. When he was freed he did not get the equal rights that the white people. He was about twelve years old when he thought that he was going to be a slave all his life. When he was freed he was not still equal with the others, he was not able to learn to read and write. He learned to read because he had a book that he will carry with him all the time.
Sullivan Ballou was a officer in the union army.
He wrote a Letter to his wife and in that letter that he wrote to his wife talk about how it was like in the civil war. It that letter he said that if I don't make it back from this war then I would be waiting up here in heaven. As a result he wrote this in his letter. He said Sarah my love for you it is deathless it seems to bind me to you. For expulsion he loved his wife so he wrote this letter to tell her how much he loved her. And in concluding he died for his country and he will not die in
vain.

Gettysburg Address is a speech that Abraham Lincoln said in his speech that all slaves should have equal rights. Abraham Lincoln have gave one of the most famous speech in American history. He talk about that the people that were in the civil war should not die in vain. He said in his famous speech that the dead shall never be forgotten. In his famous speech he said that all men are created equal,but they were not born having equal rights. He says that as a final resting place for those that gave there lives for a chance that the nation might live again.

Frederick Douglass talk about how it was like to be a slave and then be freed after the civil war. Sullivan Ballou talk about his experins being in the civil war and how it was like. He talk about how he died and gave his last letter to his wife. Abraham Lincoln gave a speech talking about how slavery was wrong and that they should have equal rights,but they didn't still get equal rights after they were freed. That is how the civil war was like. Theis stories tell us how it was like and all the thing they been through.