(A depiction of how the Gettysburg Address and Letter to His Son are similar and different in what Lincoln and Lee are talking about)Thousands of men died in November 1863 Within a couple of days bodies lay strewn across the battlefields while tens of thousands of men were hospitalized. All these men participated in one thing, the Civil War. Fighting for people's rights and what our Constitution stood for. Families and friends had to choose a side, South or North. Everyone had their own reasoning as to why they wanted to fight, but surprisingly their reasoning was similar. Each state was proud to live in a country that had seceded from Great Britain. They marveled at the idea that all men were created, equal, and had certain rights. The Americans were proud. Proud to the point that they never stopped paying attention to everything they did. Proud because they put laws on human beings and reduced them to slavery. In 1861 the people began to take sides. In some ways it was unconstitutional, but in other ways they were fighting for the people. The civil war had begun. The fate of our country was in the hands of the people. On opposite sides of the war, Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee wrote The Gettysburg Address and Letter to His Son, there were three striking similarities and differences in the two works: the people are one, the acts were unconstitutional, and the nation is on a unstable ground. .Lee and Lincoln both wrote about how the people are one, as stated by the founding fathers. In the Constitution it says that all men are created equal. Both sides understood that all white men were equal. The founding father fought for the equality of men. “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived… in the middle of the paper… with a very realistic idea that our country would be destroyed and never be the same again. The populations of the South and North had different ideas about the civil war. There were problems in their country and they wanted to solve them. They knew that the country was created for the people and was run by the people. They wanted the nation to succeed, but one side wanted it to be free for all people, regardless of race, while the southern side wanted to keep slaves. With these completely opposing ideas of thought, the Southern states decided that their only option was to secede from the Union. They split and this left the country confused. Confused about what was in store for the nation they had grown to love. It was no longer clear what the future held for Americans, and it would take a couple of years to move the country along the path to the world we live in today..