Okay, so the question i'm about to ask is about documents about the civil war. you don't really need to read them but what is a good general/universal answer to this question? 1. how would you characterize the overall emotional impact of these seven readings on the civil war? as a group, how do they document and dramatize the human cost of war? some of the passages that are read are the the gettysburg address, men at war, and letters to his son