With all the information, dates, statistics, and pictures at hand, this makes these documents more credible. The letters play a big role in understanding events and US History as a whole because it has been as many events that has happened throughout time and letters like these help with knowing the full background with what happened. These letters are very specific and has tons of information in them that you can feed off of. Also, pictures of the documents will make you really appreciate what has come before you and for me it has made me more interested into learning about all the different kinds of things that …show more content…
The main idea of this tactic was that it would be easier to get rid of the paper because it was so small. Also, if you got captured with the letter, often the person would swallow the ball but they would immediately have you throw it back up. Some of the captured letters were ultimately taken by the Rebel Army and they contained secret writing to communicate their strategies with each other. Also, both the British and American armies intercepted the saddlebags of mail and they demanded to know the loyalties of the dispatch riders in order to seize the