Prompt: Imagine you are a 14-year-old living in Baltimore in 1863. Your father has already gone off to war and now your older br
other, who is 18 hasjust told you that he wants to enlist for a union regiment and fight against the Confederacy. You know that hundreds of thousands of people have already died and the war looks like it may continue for years. What do you do?
Question 1: How would you respond to your brother? (Why would you tell him this)
Question 2: What would be your concerns with him joining? (Why do you have these concerns ?)
Question 3. Would you encourage him to go or would you tell him not to go
Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, continued to fly the United States flag, even as Confederate forces surrounded it. Lincoln decided to send provisions but no additional troops or ordnance to the fort unless resistance was met. Unwilling to tolerate a U.S. garrison in Southern territory, Confederates began shelling the fort in the pre-dawn hours of April 12, 1861, and Union guns responded. The Civil War had begun.
