Civil War Battles Repository of information about civil war battles, people, a timeline, and a summary. http://www.civil-war-battles.com
Extractions: Link to Us "War is a hellish way to settle a disagreement" Welcome to Civil War Battles . More than 600,000 men gave their lives for their country in this war. This is more lives lost in one war than in all wars and conflicts combined following this period in time. This site is dedicated to educating modern Americans about the struggle and heroism of these men - both in the Blue and the Grey. This site exists to follow the battles of the Civil War. To understand each battle and its place in the War, there is also plenty of high level summary and timeline information about the Civil War. Additionally, I will be adding more information about the people who fought in these Civil War Battles.
MS-CW For anyone with a genealogical, historical, or political interest in the role of Mississippi and its people during the civil war. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Military/MS-CW.html
Civil War Battles Photographs and brief biographies of Northern and Southern high profile civil war military and political personalities. From The American civil war Experience library. http://library.thinkquest.org/3055/netscape/people/
Brothers Bound One of the darker sides of the civil war was the fate of those people, men and some women, captured and taken prisoner in the line of duty. This site is dedicated to the memories of all our ancestors whose lives were touched by these dark places. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~south1/bound.htm
Extractions: Brothers Bound A Source Page for Information on the Civil War Era Prisoner of War Experience One of the darker sides of this war was the fate of those people, men and some women, captured and taken prisoner in the line of duty. Conditions in these institutions were often terrible, in both Confederate and Union facilities. About 56,000 men were prisoners of war, and it is estimated that about 14% of all captives died while incarcerated. This site is dedicated to the memories of all our ancestors whose lives were touched by these dark places, and we hope to shed some light on a subject that is often neglected. General Information on POW Institutions including links to sites on Union and Confederate prisons
John S. Mosby In The Shenandoah Valley Offers a biography, photos and extensive background material including external links. http://www.angelfire.com/va3/valleywar/people/mosby.html
Extractions: On December 6, 1833, Virginia McLaurine Mosby, wife of Alfred Daniel Mosby, gave birth to a son and named him John Singleton, after his paternal grandfather. Mosby lived in Nelson County, Va. until the age of six when his father moved to adjoining Albemarle County, four miles from Charlottesville and within viewing distance of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. After showing proficiency in Greek during grade school, he enrolled at the University of Virginia on October 3, 1850. But after shooting a fellow student after a dispute, Mosby was expelled from the University, and took up several months of study in a local law office. He soon passed the bar and set up his own practice in nearby Howardsville, also in Albemarle County. A town visitor, Pauline Clarke, captured Mosby's affection. After courting her, he moved to her hometown of Bristol, on the Tennessee border. On December 30, 1857 they were married. Their first child, a daughter named May, was born on May 10, 1859. When Virginia followed other Southern states and voted to secede from the Union following Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency in 1860, Mosby decided to enlist in the Confederate army.
The American Civil War Homepage s (Main contents page viaSelected civil war Photographs from the Library of Congress; civil war Images civil war Advisory Commission Battle http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/scaffold/CW/warweb.html
Extractions: The American Civil War Homepage gathers together in one place hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War (1861-1865). The page opens a gateway to the Internet's multi-formatted resources about what is arguably the seminal event in American history. Not only was the War the occasion for the abolition of slavery, but by conflict's end the re-United States had emerged as a modern, industrialized power. It is this sense of history, transcending the stale recitation of dates and facts and alive with meaning, to which Lincoln referred when he wrote in 1862, "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history." The links gathered in this Homepage are a metaphor for the interconnections of the War's past with our present and future. Thus, technology reveals the deep-structure of the human experience and helps to explain the continuing American fascination with the struggle between North and South, free and slave. General Resources: Timelines/Overviews, etc.
Sudan Civil War The ongoing civil war has displaced more than 4 million southerners. More than2 million people have died, and more than 4 million are internally http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/sudan.htm
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Uganda Civil War Thousands of children also have been victims of the civil war abducted by both people in the Uganda districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader continue to be http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/uganda.htm
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Civil War Generals, Soldiers And Others Long hated by the people of northwest Georgia for his actions during the From Shotgun s Home of the American civil war page, this tight little bio tells http://americanhistory.about.com/od/civilwarpeople/
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Civil War WebQuest Your assignment is to cover a battle of the civil war from the perspective of ajournalist. It will determine the people you are able to interview. http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/civilwarwq.html
Extractions: Civil War Battles: The Reporter's Perspective A WebQuest Joyce Valenza and Len Arlen Introduction Task Process ... Selected Civil War Photographs 1861-1865 and Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years Introduction The Civil War created a tremendous demand for news. The telegraph made it possible for the public to read about what happened yesterday. For the first time in our history reporters actually traveled to the front, establishing a new breed of journalistthe war correspondent. Welcome new reporters! You are assigned to rather dangerous duty. Your beat is the battlefields of the Civil War. The Task Your assignment is to cover a battle of the Civil War from the perspective of a journalist. Though good journalists make efforts to be impartial in their reporting of the news, the fact that you live in either the North or the South will certainly color the story you tell. It will determine the people you are able to interview. Remember that propaganda has played a part in all wars in our history and journalists have often fueled the "propaganda effort." "The first casualty when war comes is truth." Senator Hiram Johnson, 1917
Plan 4 Students will be able to edit,and correctly rewrite an actual civil war letter . of people who may have written letters during the civil war (soldier and http://www.d300.kane.k12.il.us/EngageII/wcse/lessonplans/plan_4.htm
Extractions: Objectives: Timeline: Materials and Resources: Procedure: Lesson 1: Students can use available resources to complete a T-chart comparing the North and South (student handout 4). Small groups can focus on one area of the chart and share with the class. Students should complete individual charts as others are sharing. Lesson 2: Using the Internet, students will analyze Civil War photographs. Teacher overview and lesson: What Do You See?
Civil War Photos Original American civil war photographs that illustrate some of the key aspects of These are the faces of the people who experienced the war Between the http://www.wildwestweb.net/cwphotos.html
Extractions: Below is selection of photographs and links to other materials that were created during the Civil War years. Most of the photos in Part I are among those included in the Library of Congress' outstanding collection of original photographs. (Some photos are digitally restored.) Since I am very much a "people photographer", I lean towards those examples of Civil War photography in which the actual participants appear. These are the faces of the people who experienced the War Between the States firsthand. This very modest collection by no means tells the complete story of the War, but it is an attempt to present key images of several different aspects of the conflict. As it was with so many items, photographic materials were in short supply in the South and thus were reserved primarily for portraiture. The North had no such shortage, but the cumbersome wet plate processes of the day (and long exposures) prevented the photographers from doing the kind of war photojournalism that became so common during the twentieth century. Fortunately for us, they were willing to record everything else in a very thorough manner so that future generations would know the places and people of The War Between the States. Click on a thumbnail for a larger photo. (A new browser window will open.)
Civil War Sites Quotes from Different people of the civil war period. Very resourceful. What we learn about the people from the civil war gives us much more compassion http://oswego.org/staff/cchamber/resources/civilwar.cfm
Extractions: Welcome to the American Civil War web site. It is the intent of the creators of this web site to give the visitor a feel for the war and exactly how costly and tragic it really was. The Civil War Experience is a series of pages designed as a presentation for the visitor. Although it is suggested that the visitor continue on through the Experience in a linear fashion, feel free to explore other factors of the war illustrated at this site. [ Edit Camp Life: Civil War Collections
Extractions: The People of the Shenandoah These pages are dedicated to those people and this beautiful land called the "Daughter of Stars". On the following pages you will find information as well as more than 500 links to pages directly related to the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley. There are more than 100 links to infantry, cavalry, and artillery units of both side in the conflict. Check out the Confederate units that fought in the Valley and Federal Units that Fought in the Shenandoah Valley.
Lesson Plans the causes of the civil war, the people who participated and fought in the Why was Petersburg a target for the Union army during the civil war? http://www.nps.gov/pete/mahan/lessonplans.html
Extractions: Guide ... PNB Home Teachers will find the following lesson plans useful for teaching units about the Civil War. While the lessons are designed to accompany the field trips to the Battlefield, they can also be used independently. All lesson plans are designed to fulfill certain Virginia Standards of Learning Objectives. Teachers can use the information presented in these lesson plans to accomodate varying grade levels. The following lessons explore the state of the country prior to the Civil War including the experiences of southerners and northerners, the causes of the Civil War, the people who participated and fought in the siege of Petersburg, and people's perceptions of this period as reflected in the poetry, music, and literature. Explore lessons that accompany the field trips: Pre-visit Lesson Plan Post Visit Lesson Plan These lessons tell about slave life and plantation life in the south, and how the Civil War forever changed this structure. Study the words of a slave at Appomattox Manor, Dr. Eppes, owner of this plantation in Hopewell, and General Ulysses S. Grant, who occupied this plantation during the Siege of Petersburg. Pre-Visit Lesson Plan Post-Visit Lesson Plan Why was Petersburg a target for the Union army during the Civil War? Discover the "power of place" in these lesson plans, which focus on why people choose to settle in certain areas and the significance of transportation to the success of a city. Finally, discover the importance of supplying an army in the field, and how difficult it can be in the midst of a war.
Gett Kidz- What Were They Fighting About? What caused the civil war? As one portion of the nation grew larger thananother, people began to talk of the nation as sections. http://www.nps.gov/gett/gettkidz/cause.htm
Extractions: Gettysburg National Military Park Kidzpage (Fort Scott National Historic Site) There were many reasons for a Civil War to happen in America, and political issues and disagreements began soon after the American Revolution ended in 1782. Between the years 1800 and 1860, arguments between the North and South grew more intense. One of the main quarrels was about taxes paid on goods brought into this country from foreign countries. This tax was called a tariff . Southerners felt these tariffs were unfair and aimed toward them because they imported a wider variety of goods than most Northern people. Taxes were also placed on many Southern goods that were shipped to foreign countries, an expense that was not always applied to Northern goods of equal value. An awkward economic structure allowed states and private transportation companies to do this, which also affected Southern banks that found themselves paying higher interest rates on loans made with banks in the North. The situation grew worse after several "panics", including one in 1857 that affected more Northern banks than Southern. Southern financiers found themselves burdened with high payments just to save Northern banks that had suffered financial losses through poor investment. In the years before the Civil War the political power in the Federal government, centered in Washington, D.C., was changing. Northern and mid-western states were becoming more and more powerful as the populations increased. Southern states lost political power because the population did not increase as rapidly. As one portion of the nation grew larger than another, people began to talk of the nation as sections. This was called
People The American civil war. people. John Brown, abolitionist, photo; Cagles in thecivil war The Catawba Indians, York County, South Carolina http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/people.htm
Extractions: The American Civil War John Brown , abolitionist, photo Cagles in the Civil War The Catawba Indians, York County, South Carolina Tom Chamberlain, Lawrence's brother, both of the 20th Maine Chinese Serving in the Civil War Civil War Biographies Tom Custer , Rosemary Pardoe The Papers of Jefferson Davis German-Americans in the Civil War , from Indiana-Kentucky Rose O'Neal Greenhow , Confederate spy Hickman Family Hungarians in the American Civil War The Irish in the War , 28th Massachusetts Jews in the Civil War , Leah Berkowitz Kentucky's German Americans in the Civil War Xerxes Knox , Pvt., Co. G, 3rd Iowa Cavalry, history Life Stories of Civil War Heroes John A. Oates , 1st Lt, Co. G, 15th Alabama Volunteer Infantry Soldiers in the Civil War , with photos from the National Archives Thomas B. Reeves , 2nd Lt, 10th Indiana Cavalry, Co. C, includes info on Andersonville, Sultana , Indiana, etc.
North Georgia People Biographies of famous North Georgians or the people that affected them. From his early life in rural North Georgia, to his rule during the civil war, http://ngeorgia.com/people/
Extractions: of North Georgia Each person who appears here is from North Georgia, lived in North Georgia or had a profound effect on the people in the North Georgia area. Charles Henry Smith ("Bill Arp") William Bartram Martha Berry, Georgia educator and founder of Berry College Elias Boudinot, Publisher of the Cherokee Phoenix Braxton Bragg, Confederate General, Commander, Army of Tennessee Joseph "Joe" Brown, Georgia Governor, Senator Patrick Cleburne, Confederate General
Causes Of The Civil War-a North Georgia Perspective Some say simplistically that the civil war was fought over slavery. people arguedabout the meaning of the Constitution since its infancy. http://ngeorgia.com/history/why.html
Extractions: ...and they [Yankees] are marked ... with such a perversity of character, as to constitute, from that circumstance, the natural division of our parties Thomas Jefferson Some say simplistically that the Civil War was fought over slavery. Unfortunately, there is no "simple" reason. The causes of the war were a complex series of events, including slavery, that began long before the first shot was fired. Competing nationalisms, political turmoil, the definition of freedom, the preservation of the Union, the fate of slavery and the structure of our society and economy could all be listed as significant contributing factors in America's bloodiest conflict. Complaints of Georgians Many of the problems Georgians saw more than one hundred fifty years ago are being reiterated today. The "oppressive" federal government. High taxes(tariffs before the war). A growing government unwilling to listen to law abiding citizens. Sound familiar? They were complaints levied from 1816 on in Georgia. Constitutional Questions People argued about the meaning of the Constitution since its infancy. From a legal standpoint, the document defines the relationship between the people of the United States and the federal government, detailing the powers and responsibilities of each. In 1828 Vice-president