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American Civil War: Divided Nation

• Teaching the Civil War with Technology Blog
• Teaching the Civil War with Technology Wiki
• VoiceThread: What Stories do these Civil War Photographs Tell?
• Animoto Video: Civil War Day

• Evaluating Blogs for Research Activity
• Evaluating Wikis for Research Activity

Remember to keep the difference between Primary Resources (soldiers' letters and diaries) and Secondary Resources (encyclopedia and wiki articles) in mind as you use these websites.

General Resources & Gateway Sites (with links to many topics)

• American Civil War Glossary
• The Civil War
  
• American Civil War (Dakota State University)
  
• American Civil War Homepage(University of Tennessee- Knoxville)
• Civil War Pictures, Video, Timeline and History
• Civil War
• Home of the American Civil War
• Timeline with Links (History Place)
• Timeline of the Civil War (Library of Congress)
• Eyewitness: American Civil War
• Digital History: The Civil War
• The Civil War for Kids
• Civil War Potpourri
  

African American soldiers

• Blacks in Blue
• The Battle Against Discrimination
• African American Soldiers During the Civil War
• History of African Americans in the Civil War
• African American Soldiers
• African American Odyssey: Civil War
• African American Freedom Fighters: Civil War
• African American Perspectives

Authors

• Michael Shaara
• Father/Son trilogy
• Jeff Shaara Interview
  
• Irene Hunt
• Across Five Aprils: Irene Hunt

Battles

• Battle Summaries by State
• Battle Summaries by Campaign
• What is a Regiment? How the Civil War armies were organized.
• Civil War Artillery Page
• Soldiers at Gettysburg : Map

British Role

• British Involvement
• Arthur Fremantle

Causes of the Civil War

• What Caused the Civil War? (scroll down to read the last three paragraphs)
• Writing the Civil War: The Why and How It Was Fought
• Causes of the Civil War (Safari Montage)
• Civil War: The Cause (Safari Montage)
• Events Leading up to the Civil War (Promethean Flipchart)

Children soldiers

• Civil War Links: Children in the Civil War
• Children of the Civil War
• Boys in the Civil War
• The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier, Virginia, 1863 (Click on Read Diaries Written by - A Union soldier fighting in Virginia in 1863)
• Men in the Union and Confederate Armies

Confederate Army Commanders and Generals

• The Generals of Gettysbug
• Civil War Biographies
• U. S. Civil War Generals
• The American Civil War: Generals   
• General Jubal Early Homeplace
• James Longstreet
• Civil War Commanders: Robert E. Lee (Safari Montage)
• Civil War Players (Promethean flipchart)

Gettysburg

• The Battle of Gettysburg: July 1-3 ,1863  
• Unofficial Visitors Guide to Gettysburg 
• Gettysburg National Military Park 
• Gettysburg Battle Summary

Letters and Diaries (Primary Sources)

• Soldiers' Letters
• Letters about the Civil War
• Dear Sister Emma: letters written by Union soldier A. P Hoadley to his sister Emma
• Civil War Love Letters
• Diaries and Letters of the 114th O.V.I.
  
• Mississippi Soldiers in the Civil War (click on the Documents link for primary sources)

Lincoln and the Civil War

• Lincoln's Call for Troops
• Abraham Lincoln: American Civil War President
• Abraham Licoln's Gettysburg Address
• Abraham Lincoln Biography

Medical Practices in the Civil War

• Medicine During the Civil War
• Civil War Medicine
• Medicine in the Civil War
• Sickness and Suffering: from letters written by Union soldier A. P Hoadley to his sister Emma
• Civil War Medicine
  
• Civil War Links: Casualties
• Hospitals During the Civil War
• Civil War Links: Medicine
• Medicine and Hospitals
• Invalid Corps
• The Development of Union Medical Care
  
• Wounded on the Field of Battle
• Visual Evidence (photos)
• Charles Goddard Letter
• Matthew Marvin Letter

Navies & Ironclads

• Ironclads and the War at Sea
• Civil War Ironclads
• Ironclads and Blockade Runners
• Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack
• American Civil War Naval War

Photography

• Selected Civil War Photographs
• What Story do these Civil War Photographs Tell? (blog)

Poetry and Song

• Poetry and Music of the Civil War
• Poems and Songs of the American Civil War

Prisoner of War Camps

• Conditions at Andersonville Prison
• Echoes of Captivity (movie trailer)
• Seven Prisoners Make a Shadow
• Captured During Longstreet's Charge
• Prisons and Prisoners
• Civil War Prison Camps
• Captured During Longstreet's Charge at Gettysburg

Soldiers in Battle

• Civil War Battle Summaries (by state)
• Civil War Battle Summaries (by campaign)
• Enlisting in a Civil War Army
• Military Aspects of the Civil War
• The Nature of Battle
  
• Official Battle Records
• Why the Civil War Was So Lethal

Soldier's Life

• Civil War: A Soldier's Life was Filled with Hardship (Safari Montage)
• Gettysburg: Camp Life
• Life in a Civil War Army Camp
• Camp Life
• Entertainment in Camp
• How the Civil War Soldiers Lived
• Camp Life: Civil War Collections
• A Principle of Duty: from letters written by Union soldier A. P Hoadley to his sister Emma
• Civil War Army Rations (Food)
• Food in the Civil War
• Soldier's Pay
• Soldier Talk and Civil War Slang
• Photographs of Civil War Soldiers
• The Union Soldier: Who was "Billy Yank"?
• The Confederate Soldier: Who was "Johnny Reb"?
• A Confederate Soldier's Life
• Typical Confederate Soldier
• Soldiers' Lives
• Men in the Union and Confederate Armies
• The Hidden War: Morale in the Civil War -- includes soldiers' reasons for enlisting, expectations, and actual wartime experiences

Spies in the Civil War

• Civil War Spies
• Spying in the Civil War
• Female Spies - Union
• Female Spies - Confederacy
• Rose O'Neal Greenhow
• History of American Intelligence - Civil War

Uniforms

• The American Civil War: Uniforms
• Uniforms of the Civil War
• Revised Regulations for the Army of the United States,1861 (use the sidebar on the left)

Union Army Commanders and Generals

• The Generals of Gettysbug
• Civil War Biographies
• U. S. Civil War Generals
• The American Civil War: Generals
• Major General John Fulton
  Reynolds
• Ulysses S. Grant Home Page
• Civil War Players (Promethean flipchart)

Weaponry of the Civil War

• Civil War Artillery page
• Civil War Weapons and Artillery
• Civil War Artillery Projectiles
• Weapons of the Civil War

Women in the Civil War

• Women Soldiers of the Civil War
• Women in the Union Armies
• Women Were There
  
• Civil War Women
• Civil War Women

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