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- Story Listed as: Fiction For Kids
- Theme: Family & Friends
- Subject: Life Experience
- Published: 02/07/2014
Lives of Children during the American Revolution
Born 2000, F, from Georgia, United StatesMy father, a strong man; today he leaves us to join the war. Oh father, why must you leave your family? You have so much to live for, but you waste it in this crazy fight for freedom. Mother told me to not cry as I am now in your spot as the elder child. Oh father, I shall take good care of Mother and Henry.
9/2/1775
“Today, I worked for a long time on the cotton fields, and then walked down to the lake where father and I would skip rocks every night at sun down. I stood there for the longest of time crying, because of how much I miss my father.
Father, please come home, please.”
9/3/
“We got a letter from Father today; it said that he is doing well, and that we are winning the war with the British, but I don’t know if he really is ok. I hear stories about how cold it is where they are. What if he gets sick? What if he gets hurt? I’m so worried.”
9/6/
‘’All I see are cotton fields, hogs, chickens, and cows every single day. I’m so tired of this, it seems to never end. If I’m not picking cotton, I’m ringing chickens necks or milking the cows to get milk for Henry.
Today our neighbors came by with some fresh hog for us to eat, which is one good thing that has happened in a while. I know I now have to act grown, but sometimes I just want to get away from this life, go be a kid again. Looking at Henry makes me realize how much I miss being mama’s little girl.”
9/8/
“Today was really long, but a good kind of long. I fed the hogs, cows, and then the chicks. After all that I went to get what little cotton was left of the harvest. We made a few pairs of clothing for Henry and me, even made a blanket to send to father. All of his favorite colors are on it along with our names, Mother’s first, mine, and then Henry’s.
I hope he loves it, we have worked so hard on it.”
10/7/
“Henry has gone missing! We can’t seem to find him anywhere! Where can my baby brother be?! I have looked in the barn, through the plantation, but WAIT I forgot the lake! I never looked there, but why would he ever need to go so far?”
11/9/
“Today was a bitter day because we lost my sweet baby brother Henry. I found him face down in the river, I don’t know what happened. Did he just go in and drown? Did he fall in? How am I going to tell my father? I know that Mother and I will miss him dearly, but Henry had been stricken with a severe illness before he had gone missing.”
10/13/
‘’Mother is so depressed; losing her baby boy has really put a hurt on her. She hasn’t smiled for days; she just sits and looks out the window all day and stares at the lake. She has not even written back to father to let him know that Henry has passed; I hope Father will be coming home soon. God knows how much Mother needs him. Father wrote to me and told me how he hopes to see me and Henry soon and that all the fighting and deaths there really make him think about home and how much he hopes to see it again.”
11/22/
“We haven’t heard from father in a few weeks, mother has heard that the war is slowing down; and she has written to him to explain what happened to Henry. She is still stricken with grief.”
12/31/
“A man in uniform showed up at our doorstep with a folded up flag and a letter. Our father had been killed by a British soldier. All our hopes of being a normal family were lost with the death of Henry and now Father. I watched as Mother screamed with all the pain she felt in her heart for Father.”
Oh father…Why did you leave us so?
Lives of Children during the American Revolution(May Bivens)
My father, a strong man; today he leaves us to join the war. Oh father, why must you leave your family? You have so much to live for, but you waste it in this crazy fight for freedom. Mother told me to not cry as I am now in your spot as the elder child. Oh father, I shall take good care of Mother and Henry.
9/2/1775
“Today, I worked for a long time on the cotton fields, and then walked down to the lake where father and I would skip rocks every night at sun down. I stood there for the longest of time crying, because of how much I miss my father.
Father, please come home, please.”
9/3/
“We got a letter from Father today; it said that he is doing well, and that we are winning the war with the British, but I don’t know if he really is ok. I hear stories about how cold it is where they are. What if he gets sick? What if he gets hurt? I’m so worried.”
9/6/
‘’All I see are cotton fields, hogs, chickens, and cows every single day. I’m so tired of this, it seems to never end. If I’m not picking cotton, I’m ringing chickens necks or milking the cows to get milk for Henry.
Today our neighbors came by with some fresh hog for us to eat, which is one good thing that has happened in a while. I know I now have to act grown, but sometimes I just want to get away from this life, go be a kid again. Looking at Henry makes me realize how much I miss being mama’s little girl.”
9/8/
“Today was really long, but a good kind of long. I fed the hogs, cows, and then the chicks. After all that I went to get what little cotton was left of the harvest. We made a few pairs of clothing for Henry and me, even made a blanket to send to father. All of his favorite colors are on it along with our names, Mother’s first, mine, and then Henry’s.
I hope he loves it, we have worked so hard on it.”
10/7/
“Henry has gone missing! We can’t seem to find him anywhere! Where can my baby brother be?! I have looked in the barn, through the plantation, but WAIT I forgot the lake! I never looked there, but why would he ever need to go so far?”
11/9/
“Today was a bitter day because we lost my sweet baby brother Henry. I found him face down in the river, I don’t know what happened. Did he just go in and drown? Did he fall in? How am I going to tell my father? I know that Mother and I will miss him dearly, but Henry had been stricken with a severe illness before he had gone missing.”
10/13/
‘’Mother is so depressed; losing her baby boy has really put a hurt on her. She hasn’t smiled for days; she just sits and looks out the window all day and stares at the lake. She has not even written back to father to let him know that Henry has passed; I hope Father will be coming home soon. God knows how much Mother needs him. Father wrote to me and told me how he hopes to see me and Henry soon and that all the fighting and deaths there really make him think about home and how much he hopes to see it again.”
11/22/
“We haven’t heard from father in a few weeks, mother has heard that the war is slowing down; and she has written to him to explain what happened to Henry. She is still stricken with grief.”
12/31/
“A man in uniform showed up at our doorstep with a folded up flag and a letter. Our father had been killed by a British soldier. All our hopes of being a normal family were lost with the death of Henry and now Father. I watched as Mother screamed with all the pain she felt in her heart for Father.”
Oh father…Why did you leave us so?
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