Project Questions

1. Construct a narrative of the battle based on these sources. What details do these sources agree on? What don’t they agree on?
2. Identify the audience for each document. How does the nature of each source’s intended audience shape what is included and excluded?
3. What perspectives of the battle not included in this unit would help provide historians with a more complete record of the event?
4. Central Question: How did Americans interpret the battle of Gettysburg, and how did differences in their perspectives affect their depictions of the battle?