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Choosing Sides: Brother against Brother

January 27th, 2011 by Nicole Godbold

Imagine you are a teenager living in Alabama during the Civil War. Your family moved here 2 years ago from Ohio and you have lots of family in both Alabama and Ohio. It is looking like you are forced to fight on one side or the other and since you are currently living in Alabama, you will be fighting for the South. You have an older brother who is going to fight for the Union. You are 17 years old. How do you come face to face with your brother at the Battle of Shiloh?

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13 Responses

  1. John and Hanna W. Says:

    If you saw your brother on the other side you probably feel like you could not shoot at him and,you probably would cry

  2. Nicholas brooklynn Says:

    Nick says i would try to make peace because were fiting agiants each other.Brooklynn says i would try to break up the battle and make peace agients us.

  3. katlin jacob Says:

    We would feel nerves, and scared because we wouldn’t our side to kill our brothers,and we don’t want to be killed either. I(Jacob) also don’t want my brother to shoot me, and I might get scared that I would shoot him too. I(Katlin) would not want to be shot by my brother either.

  4. Madi Says:

    My Madi and I’m The sister and I have a brother named Leo and we had to fight aginst each other in war the first thing that i thought(madi) is to avoid shooting him and to avoid getting shot or killed :) people who dont wanna get killed say boooo but any way war is not fun at all and thats a factbut i did not want to accedently shoot my brother and i dont want to go to war either and i bet my brother dint want to either alot of people suffer from war i hope that im not one of them

  5. eliana and brock Says:

    Brock says that he would say we are brothers and we shouldn’t fight each other because we are brothers and a family.Eliana says I would say we shouldn’t fight each other because we’re family and we love each other.

  6. mary brennan and Caleb Says:

    You can come face to face with your brother by charging toward him or if it has been a long time you mabe not even remember your brother.

  7. tyler wakefield Says:

    IF I WERE FORCED TO FIGHT MY BROTHER AT THE BATTLE OF SHILOH I WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH IT OR NOT GO TO THE BATTLE.

  8. judah & victoria Says:

    if i saw my brother i wouldnt shoot at him because he is my brother but if i had too i would

  9. Leo Says:

    If me and my brother wer fiting I wood tell him that I wood not fit with him bicos I dont want to loos him I always want to be with ech other for a long tim until he canges his mind.

  10. alana and sam Says:

    if i come face to face with my brother on the battlefield then i would just walk away becouse u never know if there going to kill you or really actrally want to kill you for that matter but i know i would never what to kill my brother even if he wanted to kill me.

  11. ian and damian Says:

    Ian and damian did not want slavery but, there older brothers did. When Ian and Damian last saw there brothers it was in the kitchen telling them that slavery is wrong but, they would not listen to ian and damian. So the next Ian and damian became fuious. There brothers last words were the next time we see eachother will be on the oppisite side of the batlefield. The next day it was war time the batle lasted all day finnaly at midnight the batle was over the union

  12. Zoe and Hannah D Says:

    How do I get face to face with my brother when I get mad I start hiting him because I am so mad that I need something to hit hard so that is why I Need to hit something besies him I can hit the wall. And sometimes I start puching my wall so hard that I brocke my wall IN HALF.

  13. ian and damian Says:

    Ian and damian did not want slavery but, there older brothers did. When Ian and Damian last saw there brothers it was in the kitchen telling them that slavery is wrong but, they would not listen to ian and damian. So the next Ian and damian became fuious. There brothers last words were the next time we see eachother will be on the oppisite side of the batlefield. The next day it was war time the batle lasted all day finnaly at midnight the batle was over the union flag was still hangging it was over slavery had ben outlawed.

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