Historical Map from World Book Online -

• American Civil War: Divided Nation

Articles from Student Resource Center Junior -

• A Soldier's Life - Be sure to have a look at the list of Related Items at the bottom of this article; these are links to many primary source documents and pictures.
• The Common Soldier's View of Combat (primary source: diary)
• African American Troops

• Use the Primary Resources (Soldiers' Letters and Diaries) as models for the writing of your Civil War soldier's journal.
• Remember that you will need to write from the point of view of EITHER a Union soldier or a Confederate soldier in a particular situation.

General Resources

• American Civil War Glossary
• Enlisting in a Civil War Army
• Writing the Civil War:
  The Why and How It Was Fought
• Lincoln's Call for Troops
  
• 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
• What Caused the Civil War? (scroll down to read the last three paragraphs)
• Illinois During the Civil War: Soldiers' Lives
• Typical Confederate Soldier
• A Confederate Soldier's Life
• The Confederate Soldier: Who was "Johnny Reb"?
  
• The Union Soldier: Who was "Billy Yank"?
• What is a Regiment? How the Civil War armies were organized.
• Soldier's Pay
• Soldier Talk and Civil War Slang
• Photographs of Civil War Soldiers

Soldier in camp

• Gettysburg: Camp Life
• Life in a Civil War Army Camp
• Camp Life
• Entertainment in Camp
• How the Civil War Soldiers Lived
• A Principle of Duty: from letters written by Union soldier A. P Hoadley to his sister Emma
• Civil War Army Rations (Food)

Soldier in battle

• Civil War Battle Summaries (by state)
• Civil War Battle Summaries (by campaign)
• Military Aspects of the Civil War
• The Nature of Battle
  
• Battles 1861-1865
• Official Battle Records
• Why the Civil War Was So Lethal

Prisoner of war

• Conditions at Andersonville Prison
• Echoes of Captivity (movie trailer)
• Seven Prisoners Make a Shadow
• Prisons and Prisoners
• Civil War Prison Camps

African American soldier

• 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

Child soldier

• Civil War Links: Children in the Civil War
• Children of the Civil War
• Boys in the Civil War
• Gus Bowles Goes to War
• Lewis McBride Joins the Union Army
• 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)

Woman soldier

• Women Soldiers of the Civil War
  
• Civil War Women
• Women Were There

Wounded soldier

• 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

Primary Sources: Soldiers' Letters and Diaries

• 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.

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