Mrs. Patterson

8th Grade American Studies – Lincoln Public Schools

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Civil War

Civil War Generals

http://www.historynet.com/civil-war-generals

http://www.vmi.edu/archives.aspx?id=3903

Union Generals

http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/uniongenerals/#1

Civil War Biographies

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/

http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/eliot/technology/lessons/civil_war/bio.htm

Women in the Civil War

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-women-who-fought-in-the-civil-war-1402680/#TIFwdgM2Dqab5Bte.99

CIVIL WAR PEOPLE

Matthew Brady

Alexander Gardner

Frederick Douglass

Robert Gould Shaw

Jefferson Davis

Abraham Lincoln (the war years)

Robert E. Lee

Ulysses S. Grant

Henry Wirz

Thaddeus Lowe – hot air balloons

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

Mary Todd Lincoln

Varnia Davis

Pauline Cushman

Sarah Emma Edmonds

Loreta Valazquez

Mary Chesnut

Rose Greenhow

Elizabeth VanLew

Belle Boyd

Clara Barton – Red Cross

AFRICAN AMERICAN MEDAL OF HONOR WINNERS

(There isn’t a lot of information. You’ll need to include pictures of battles they were in.)

William Carney

Powhatan Beaty

Andrew Jackson Smith

Alexander Kelly

Christian Fleetwood

Thomas Hawkins

James Gardiner

Robert Smalls

FAMILY STORIES

Do you have a Civil War family story. See teacher for permission.

Elisabeth Neblett

Mrs. James Devereux

Mrs. Ida Baker

Mrs. Lula Bowers

Wary Ann Lipscomb

Mrs. C. G. Richardson

Carrie Berry Diary

Jennie Hodgers, and she fought as Albert Cashier.

SOLDIERS– DIARIES

Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War

http://www.civilwarletters.com/index.html

Gettysburg

http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/voices.htm

Virginia Tech Libraries– Special Collections Homepage Civil War Collections

http://spec.lib.vt.edu/civwar/

University of Virginia — American Civil War Collection

http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/

University of Virginia – American Civil War Collection

http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/cwlettersbrowse.html

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Southern Historical Collection

http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/exhibits/civilwar/index.html

Fordham University – U.S. Civil War

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook27.html

Library of Congress – Frederick Douglass, contrabands

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart4.html

Minnesota Historical Society — Civil War Letters of the Christie Family — Two brothers from Minnesota who wrote about their experiences during the war

http://www.mnhs.org/library/Christie/intropage.html

Dakota State University, Madison, SD- Diaries, Letters, Memoirs

http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/diaries.htm

Pennsylvania Soldiers Diaries and Histories

http://www.pacivilwar.com/histories.html

University of Chicago — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/333302.html

Louisiana State University Collection of Civil War letters

http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/links/links6.htm

Civil War Links — Diaries, Letters, and Stories and Recollections

http://www.civilwarhome.com/links6.htm

Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences, and Manuscripts of New York Soldiers and Nurses

http://library.morrisville.edu/local_history/sites/letters/

Virginia Military Institute Archives — Records of Civil War Soldiers who were VMI graduates

http://www.vmi.edu/ARCHIVES/manuscripts/msguide2.html

PBS Ken Burns Civil War letters — scroll down for many links

http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/classroom/lesson_letters.html

WOMEN’S DIARIES

Duke University – Rose O’Neal Greenhow

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/greenhow/roseindex.html

Duke University — Civil War Women — Diaries and letters

http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/bingham/guides/cwdocs.html

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html

Middle Tennessee State University — American Women’s History — many links

http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-cwar.html

University of Tennessee-Knoxville – American Civil War homepage

http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

MEDICINE – DOCTORS- DIARIES AND MEDICAL INFORMATION

Michigan Historical Center √ Doctors≠ Diaries

http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17451_18670_18793-52963–,00.html

Virginia Commonwealth University – Various Doctor’s Letters

http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/bibs/cwmed.html

Dr. Robert Hunter Peel

http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/%7Epeel/lettersrhp.html

Dr. John Alexander Ritter, MD

http://gwillritter.tripod.com/

Amputation — How it is performed

http://www.huntermcguire.goellnitz.org/amputation.html

CAMP SUMTER/ANDERSONVILLE PRISON — DIARIES AND PRISON FACTS

Private Samuel Elliot-prisoner

http://www.pa-roots.com/~pacw/reserves/7thres/eliotdiary.html

Alfred H. Voorhees-prisoner

http://library.morrisville.edu/local_history/sites/letters/diary.html

Timeline: Record of Activity

http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/diary.html

Description of Andersonville Prison

http://www.wabash.edu/magazine/index.cfm?news_id=3580

PHOTOS

Scroll down to Civil War √any photo you could want

http://community.webshots.com/user/sfrazier77

Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

DOCUMENTS/MISCELLANEOUS

Yale Law School — Confederate States of America Documents

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/csapage.htm

TeacherNet — The Civil War Links√Information about life for soldiers

http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/civilwar.html#CampLife

Brooklyn Public Library — Great documents, photographs, diaries

http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/civilwar/cw_doc_soldiers.html

Ohio State University — Records, Diaries, and A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/records/default.cfm

Index of Civil War Information Available on the Internet

http://www.civilwarhome.com/indexcivilwarinfo.htm

Civil War Primary Documents, Personal Diaries, Journals, etc

http://www.teacheroz.com/Civil_War_Documents.htm

U.S. Civil War Era Links

http://www.cyberpursuits.com/gen/civlsrch.asp

Kentucky Educational Television – Primary Sources: Civil War Effects

http://www.ket.org/civilwar/primary.html

Civil War Home Page — including Photos, Images, Battles, Documents, Southern Historical Papers, Troops Furnished, Death Stats, Associations, Letters & Diaries, Census of 1860, Maps, Official Records

http://www.civil-war.net/

Abraham Lincoln

http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/speeches.htm

Jefferson Davis

http://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/docs.cfm

Mapping the Civil War

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/cwmconm.html

University of Missouri and eMints — Many good links

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000634.shtml

Mississippi Historical Society √ Many topics

http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/features/feature16/toc.html

Eye Witness to History — You may only use primary source documents. (Look for quotation marks.)