Author: Elizabeth R. Varon
I honestly think that this book is one of the most slow and...boring books I've read so far. Many sections are just describing the historical background and the Civil War and the deeds done by other heroes, and it is so long and is taking me such a long time to read. Also, there is a lot of difficult language, and there are so many names and places and events that it all becomes a jumble in my head, and I just feel like going to sleep. This book was made for adults. However, there are some interesting parts that I take notes on, and there are many great quotes that I can use in my report. I just need to sift through all the information I don't need.
Questions:
1.) Discuss 2 things about your person's upbringing and how this may have affected his/her life path.
-When Elizabeth Van Lew was younger, she was sent to a Quaker school in Philadelphia. This affected her life path because it helped her to develop an opinion against slavery even though her father had different a very positive view towards it. If she had not gone to this school, she may have been pro-slavery too, and would not have helped all the people she had.
-Elizabeth's own family had owned 15 slaves in 1840, and she had developed special attachments and built friendships with many. She even had some of them baptized. If she had not had these connections with her slaves, she may have not been so active in assisting the Union.
2.) Discuss a 2cnd unique piece of information about your person.
The Union attempted a very unsuccessful raid on Richmond where Van Lew was living. The young Federal Colonel Ulric Dahlgren had been killed in the raid, and his body had been treated very disrespectfully by the Confederates. They'd first buried his body in a muddy two-foot deep hole, and then dug him up again to display it to the people. His wooden leg had been removed and someone had cut off one of his fingers. The newspapers published horrible false tales about him. After that, his body had been buried in a secret place. Van Lew was so infuriated by these actions that she used her network of spies to discover the location of Dahlgren's corpse, had some men recover it from the earth, and had it sent to a more respectful final resting place. Not everyone would go through so much effort and danger at their own expense to recover a dead body.
I honestly think that this book is one of the most slow and...boring books I've read so far. Many sections are just describing the historical background and the Civil War and the deeds done by other heroes, and it is so long and is taking me such a long time to read. Also, there is a lot of difficult language, and there are so many names and places and events that it all becomes a jumble in my head, and I just feel like going to sleep. This book was made for adults. However, there are some interesting parts that I take notes on, and there are many great quotes that I can use in my report. I just need to sift through all the information I don't need. Questions:
1.) Discuss 2 things about your person's upbringing and how this may have affected his/her life path.
-When Elizabeth Van Lew was younger, she was sent to a Quaker school in Philadelphia. This affected her life path because it helped her to develop an opinion against slavery even though her father had different a very positive view towards it. If she had not gone to this school, she may have been pro-slavery too, and would not have helped all the people she had.
-Elizabeth's own family had owned 15 slaves in 1840, and she had developed special attachments and built friendships with many. She even had some of them baptized. If she had not had these connections with her slaves, she may have not been so active in assisting the Union.
2.) Discuss a 2cnd unique piece of information about your person.
The Union attempted a very unsuccessful raid on Richmond where Van Lew was living. The young Federal Colonel Ulric Dahlgren had been killed in the raid, and his body had been treated very disrespectfully by the Confederates. They'd first buried his body in a muddy two-foot deep hole, and then dug him up again to display it to the people. His wooden leg had been removed and someone had cut off one of his fingers. The newspapers published horrible false tales about him. After that, his body had been buried in a secret place. Van Lew was so infuriated by these actions that she used her network of spies to discover the location of Dahlgren's corpse, had some men recover it from the earth, and had it sent to a more respectful final resting place. Not everyone would go through so much effort and danger at their own expense to recover a dead body.
It's funny to me that the book bores you so much, yet you still know so much about what is happening.
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