Using Primary Sources

ACTIVITY

• Watch the first 1 minute and forty seconds of this youtube video to prompt your thoughts on a soldier's motivation in general. Then review the letters from Joseph J. Hoyle's book analyzing what motivated Hoyle specifically to continue fighting in the Civil War.
  
• Google Lieutenant Joseph J. Hoyle to get some background information on this Confederate soldier.

•  The following letters were written by Lieutenant Joseph J. Hoyle during the Civil War. The first two letters were written in 1862 and the third letter was written in 1863.

• Analyze the letters using the SKIM-C method

• Formulate an opinion on what motivated Hoyle to continue fighting based on the three letters.

• Consider if his motivation changed or deepened from the 1862 letters to the letter from 1863?

• Then, compose a 2-3 page paper on Hoyle's motivation to fight and continue fighting as the Civil War endured based on your analysis of the following primary sources.