Step 3:Civil War

Gathering, Sorting, and Sifting

TEACHER TIPS & TOOLS

Using the Internet

The Internet offers a wide variety of information on all kinds of topics. Today and tomorrow, you will examine a variety of websites to begin to gather information to answer the questions that you developed as a result of Step One. Be sure to have a copy of those questions available to you as you work.

The following websites may have information that is pertinent to your questions.

Important Notes!!!

Don't forget to look at links on each site, and explore the ones that sound most promising.
Use the back button to return to each original site and explore some more!
Once at a site, remember to scan the information carefully to find answers to the questions that you have listed. Save only those words, phrases, and ideas which are clearly related to your questions.
Paraphrase rather than copy word-for-word from your sources. Keep only the best and most relevant information!
Make sure that you cite the source when you take notes from any
of these or other websites. If you are using MLA format, your citation should look like this:

	"Poetry and Music of the War Between the States."
		09 July 1998 < http://www.erols.com/kfraser/>

Civil War Websites

Following are some suggested topics. Click on a topic in the table below to see some possible Internet links.

Author - Michael Shaara	Civil War Photography	Medical Practices
Battles	Civil War Poetry and Songs	Places
Battle Tactics and Strategies	Civil War Uniforms	Prisoners of War Camps Andersonville
Biography A-L	Gettysburg Address	Role of the British
Biography M-Z and General Biography	Letters and Diaries	Spies in the Civil War
Causes of the Civil War	A Soldier's Life	Technology and Weaponry

Comprehensive ("Mega") Civil War Sites (for all topics)

Search Tools (for conducting your own search for web sites)

Author -
Michael Shaara

BOMC Online: Author Profile

Battles		The Battle of Gettysburg: July 1-3 ,1863
		Battle of Gettysburg Homepage
		Unofficial Visitors Guide to Gettysburg
		Gettysburg National Military Park
		Prelude to the Battle of Chickamauga

Battle Tactics and Strategies

Civil War Artillery Page

Biography A-L		Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Chamberlain Biography
		Jefferson Davis Chronology
		General Jubal Early Homeplace
		Ulysses S. Grant Home Page
		Stonewall Jackson Papers (from VMI)
		Robert E. Lee
		Abraham Lincoln Online
		James Longstreet

Biography M-Z and General Biography Links		George Gordon Meade
		George Edward Pickett
		J.E.B. Stuart: Gettysburg Scapegoat?

		Women and the Civil War
		Civil War Women- Primary Sources

		Civil War Biography Page
		The Generals of Gettysburg

Causes of the Civil War		Causes of the Civil War (as featured in Civil War News)
Causes of the Civil War		Origins of the Civil War Conflict

Civil War Photography		Selected Civil War Photographs , American Memory Project
		The Amazing Picture Machine (Type topic in search window.)
		Mathew Brady

Civil War Poetry and Songs		Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
		Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 from the Library of Congress, American Memory Project
		Civil War Music Store
		Music of the War Between the States

Civil War Uniforms		United States Navy Uniform, 1864
Civil War Uniforms		Civil War Uniforms

Gettysburg Address

The Gettysburg Address

Letters and Diaries

Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War

A Soldier's Life		Civil War Soldiers' Vocabulary
		Civil War Money
		Food in the Civil War

Medical Practices		19th Century Physicians Home Page
		Clara Barton
		Civil War Medicine

Places	Appomattox	The Quiet and Compelling History of Appomattox
	Chicamauga	Prelude to Chickamauga Chickamauga - Civil War
	Fort Sumter	Crisis at Fort Sumter Fort Sumter Battle, April 1861
	Fredericksburg	Fredericksburg Battlefield Virtual Tour
	Gettysburg	Gettysburg, PA Welcome Center (see "History" link)

Prisoner of War Camps/Andersonville

Andersonville Civil War Prison

Role of the British in the Confederate Army

The Alabama Crew (British Sailors and Ships in the Civil War)

Colonel Fremantle's Home Page

An Englishman's Journey Through the Confederacy

Spies of the Civil War		Secret Codes (from Office of Historic Alexandria)
		Rose O'Neal Greenhow (Duke University papers)
		Pro Women in Combat

Technology and Weaponry		The Civil War Artillery Page
Technology and Weaponry		Weapons of the Civil War

"Mega" Civil War Sites (Searchable sites which contain many links on Civil War topics.)		Outline of the Civil War - with Links
		Library of Congress, American Memory Project
		U. S. Civil War Center
		Civil War Virtual Archive Web Ring
		American Civil War Homepage
		History Place - U. S. Civil War

Online Databases & Catalogs

Search full text magazines, newspapers, selected books, maps, radio/TV transcripts, and the Baltimore County Public Library online catalog of books and other materials.

Search Tools on the Internet
	Apply the skills you have learned previously in searching the Internet using search tools. You may choose any of these tools to find additional information still needed for your report, or you may return to any of the previous steps which the tool bar at the bottom of this page.
	Use Search Directories Search with Yahoo! Search with Yahooligans! Search with InfoSeek
	Use Search Engines Search with AltaVista Search with Lycos Search with Excite
	Be sure to continue to cite your sources as you find information on the Internet.

Charge into your research!

Enjoy your maneuvers!




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