The American Civil War

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General Resources Section

Memorials, Disease and the War, Economics of the War, Sectional Conflict

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General Resources Section

States and Secession: K-12 TLC Guide.

04/27/1865: Sultana Disaster: K-12 TLC Guide.
Abolitionism, Rutgers University Libraries.

American Civil War Center: K-12 TLC Guide:
The American Civil War Homepage, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
American Civil War Resources in the Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
American Civil War Research Database.
AmericanCivilWar.com.
American Wars, Military History, and Military Affairs, The University of North Texas.

Andersonville Prison: K-12 TLC Guide.

The Civil War, The Herald-Mail.
The Civil War: America's Epic Struggle, MultiEducator.
Civil War Anti-War Protests, Ohio Historical Society.
The Civil War for Kids, Pocantico Hills School, NY:
- Civil War Battle Victories.
- Civil War Graphs.
- Civil War Leaders:
  - Page 1.
  - Page 2.
- Map of the United States During the Civil War.
- The North and the South.
- Uniforms of the Civil War.
The Civil War Home Page.
The Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College.
- Civil War Institute Scholarships.
Civil War Sites in the Eastern Theater.
Civil War Monuments in Maryland, State of Maryland.
Civil War Resources, Virginia Military Institute.
CivilWar@Smithsonian.
The Confederate States of America, Fact Monster.
Confederate Submarine Hunley:
- CNN:
  - 08/10/2000: More Delicate Work Ahead.
- C.S.S. Hunley Sinks During Tests, History Channel.
Copperheadism:

Dakota State University.
EX PARTE MILLIGAN (1866): K-12 TLC Guide.
Eyewitness: History through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It.
Gallon Historical Art.
Historical Text Archive.

History Channel:
- U.S. Sanitary Commission.
- 01/14/1860: House Seeks Compromise on Slavery.
- 12/20/1860: South Carolina First to Secede from the Union.
- 01/03/1861: Delaware Legislature Votes to Remain in the Union.
- 02/10/1861: Jefferson Davis Learns He Is Interim President of Confederacy.
- 09/03/1861: Confederates Violate KY's Neutrality by Occupying Columbus.
- 12/09/1861: Congress Creates Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.
- 03/17/1862: U.S. Treasury Sanctions Two Issues of Greenbacks.
- 09/02/1862: Lincoln Restores McClellan to Full Command.
- 12/17/1862: Grant Expels Jews.
- 01/25/1863: Burnside Relieved As Commander of Army of Potomac.
- 09/05/1863: U.S. Foreign Minister Warns the British to Stay Out of the American Civil War.
- 09/02/1864: Sherman's Troops March into Atlanta, GA.
History in Film:
- Gettysburg.
- Gone with the Wind.
The History Place.

Illinois and the American Civil War.
James River Publications Civil War Homepage.
John's Word Search Puzzles.
Library of Congress:
- 01/10/1861: Florida Secedes from the Union.
- The African-American Mosaic:
  - Abolition.
  - Civil War.
  - Reconstruction.
- Andersonville Prison.
- At Christmas Times.
- Civil War (1860-1865).
- The Journals of the Confederate Congress.
- Reconstruction (1866-1877).
Lincoln Papers:

05/26/1862: Lincoln's Letter to Congress Describing the Early Events of the War.

The Mason-Dixon Line: K-12 TLC Guide.
The Museum and White House of the Confederacy.
Muskingum College:

"Civil & Indian Wars Congressional Medal of Honor".
Frontier Forts.
"Medal of Honor: Double Winners".
"Troops in the West".

National Park Service:
- Civil War Archives and Libraries.
- Civil War Books.
- The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System.
- Fort Marcy.
- Symbols in Battle: Civil War Flags.
National Public Radio:
- Civil War Soldier Receives Medal of Honor.
- Confederate Flag as Political Symbol (audio: 19:00).
- The Great War of the Californias (audio: 6:28).
- Tennessee Historians Search for Civil War Relics.
- Virginia's Confederate History Month Offers Fresh Lesson in History's Power to Sting.
National Museum of Civil War Medicine.
Poetry and Music of the War Between The States.
Rare Map Collection - American Civil War, University of Georgia.
Reenactors Page.
The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Museum,
State of South Carolina.
Spartacus Educational.
Suite 101.
Terrell's Texas Cavalry.
Texas Confederate Heroes Day: K-12 TLC Guide.
Texas State Historical Association:

08/20/1866: President Johnson's Proclamation of Peace Ends Civil War in TX.

Trent Affair (1861):
- History Channel.
- Library of Congress.
- Lincoln Log:
Smithsonian Magazine:

Southern California Public Radio:

United States Army Insignia Homepage:
- The CS Army in the Civil War.
- The US Army in the Civil War.
The United States Civil War Center, Louisiana State University.
University of Virginia:
- The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.
- Two Communities in the American Civil War.
West Virginia in the Civil War.
Writer's Almanac:
- 12/20/1860: South Carolina First State to Secede.

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Section on the People of the American Civil War

African-Americans in the Civil War: K-12 TLC Guide.
Texas Confederate Heroes Day: K-12 TLC Guide.

Civil War Dead and Veterans, American Battle Monuments Commission.
Civil War Leaders, Pocantico Hills School, NY:
- Page 1.
- Page 2.
The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, The National Park Service.
Database of Illinois Civil War Veterans.
Famous American Trials, University of Missouri-Kansas City:

1859: The John Brown Trial (links).
1865: Trial of Captain Henry Wirz.

First-Person Narratives of the American South, University of North Carolina
National Public Radio:
- Civil War Soldier Receives Medal of Honor.
Smithsonian Magazine:

05/24/1861: Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth, A Close Friend of President Lincoln, Is the First Union Officer Killed in the Civil War.

Women:

American Women in the Military: K-12 TLC Guide.

American Women's History, Middle Tennessee State University.
Civil War Women, Duke University.
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
National Public Radio:
- Sarah Seelye.
Smithsonian Magazine:
- Elizabeth Van Lew: An Unlikely Union Spy.
- Women Spies of the Civil War
- The Women Who Fought in the Civil War.
Women in American History, Encyclopedia Britannica:
Women of the American Civil War, AmericanCivilWar.com.
Women Were There, Women Veterans.

Barton, Clara: K-12 TLC Guide.
Bowser, Mary Elizabeth: K-12 TLC Guide.
Chestnut, Mary Boykin: K-12 TLC Guide.
Coston, Martha: K-12 TLC Guide.

Dix, Dorothea: K-12 TLC Guide.
Greenhow, Rose O'Neal: K-12 TLC Guide.

Lincoln, Mary Todd: K-12 TLC Guide.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: K-12 TLC Guide.
Tubman, Harriet: K-12 TLC Guide.
Vel�zquez, Loreta Janeta: K-12 TLC Guide.
Walker, Mary Edwards: K-12 TLC Guide.

K-12 TLC Teachable Moments

03/31/1823: Birth Date of Civil War Diarist Mary Boykin Chestnut.

Anderson, "Bloody Bill": K-12 TLC Guide.
Armistead, Brig. General Lewis Addison, C.S.A.
Archer, James: K-12 TLC Guide.
Benjamin, Judah: K-12 TLC Guide.
Brady, Matthew: K-12 TLC Guide.
Brown, John Calvin: K-12 TLC Guide.
Buell, General Don Carlos: K-12 TLC Guide.
Buford, Napoleon Bonaparte: K-12 TLC Guide.
Burnside, Ambrose: K-12 TLC Guide.
Crittenden, John J.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Custer, George Armstrong: K-12 TLC Guide.
Davis, Jefferson: K-12 TLC Guide.
Delany, Martin R.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Early, Jubal: K-12 TLC Guide .
Farragut, David: K-12 TLC Guide.
Forrest, Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford.
Fr�mont, John C.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Grant, Ulysses S.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Greeley, Horace: K-12 TLC Guide

Hanson, Roger Weightman: K-12 TLC Guide.
Hickok, James Butler "Wild Bill": K-12 TLC Guide.
Jackson, Stonewall: K-12 TLC Guide.
Johnston, Albert Sidney: K-12 TLC Guide.
Johnston, Joseph: K-12 TLC Guide.
Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson: K-12 TLC Guide.
Lee, Robert E.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Lincoln, Abraham: K-12 TLC Guide.
Longstreet, James: K-12 TLC Guide.
Magruder, John Bankhead: K-12 TLC Guide.
Maxey, Samuel: K-12 TLC Guide.
McClellan, George: K-12 TLC Guide.
McCulloch, Ben: K-12 TLC Guide.
Mitchell, Ormsby MacKnight: K-12 TLC Guide.
Morgan, John Hunt: K-12 TLC Guide.

Reynolds, John: K-12 TLC Guide.

Scott, Winfield: K-12 TLC Guide.
Sherman, William Tecumseh: K-12 TLC Guide.
Sickles, Daniel: K-12 TLC Guide, History Channel.
Slocum, Henry: K-12 TLC Guide.
Smith, Edmund Kirby: K-12 TLC Guide.
Stanton, Edwin: K-12 TLC Guide.
Steuart, George Hume "Maryland": K-12 TLC Guide.
Stand Watie: K-12 TLC Guide.
Stuart, J.E.B.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Wallace, Lew: K-12 TLC Guide.
Waud, Alfred: A Civil War Sketch Artist, The Library of Congress.
Webb, Alexander Stewart: K-12 TLC Guide.

Wheeler, Joseph, U.S. House of Representatives.
Whiting, William H.C.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Wirz, Henry: K-12 TLC Guide.

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States
&
Secession

Reconstruction: K-12 TLC Guide.

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Chronologies and Timelines

Timelines and Chronologies

1863
Aug 21	Southern Partisans Kill 150 Abolitionists in Lawrence, KS
1866
Aug 20	Andrew Johnson Officially Proclaims the Civil War as Over

K-12 TLC Guide to Civil War Battles.

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Disease
and the War

K-12 TLC Guides:

Diseases.

Home of the American Civil War.
National Museum of Civil War Medicine.
Historical Society for the Town of Greenwich, CT.
Medicine of the Civil War, National Library of Medicine.

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Economics
of the War

Economics: K-12 TLC Guide.

Costs of the War:

Economics History Service.
Financing:

Confederate Bonds and Currency:

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Texas A&M University.
Time.
University of North Carolina Libraries.

National Banking Act:

Federal Resreve Bank of New York.
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Smethport History.

Tax History Museum.
Texas A&M University.

National Park Service.
Southern Cotton Exports and the Union Blockade:

History Cooperatuve.
History of War.
King Cotton, Home of the American Civil War.
Library of Congress.
Lincoln Institute.

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Sectional Conflict

Mexican-American War: K-12 TLC Guide.
Second Fugitive Slave Act: K-12 TLC Guide.
Slavery: K-12 TLC Guide.
Westward Expansion: K-12 TLC Guide.
Slavery: K-12 TLC Guide.

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The Military Units of the American Civil War

Regimental Histories,
James River Publications Civil War Homepage.
Union:
- 7th West Virginia Cavalry.
- 7th West Virginia Infantry Homepage.
- 33rd Illinois Volunteer Regiment Band.
- Indiana: K-12 TLC Guide.
Confederate:
- Mississippi Units: K-12 TLC Guide.

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Historic Documents of the American Civil War

The Emancipation Proclamation: K-12 TLC Guide.
The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: K-12 TLC Guide.
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: K-12 TLC Guide.

Constitution of the Confederate States of America:
- University of Oklahoma.
- The United States Constitution Online.
- University of Tennessee.
- Yale University.
Declaration Of Causes Of Seceding States, University of Tennessee.
The Diaries of William Steinway: K-12 TLC Guide.

Documents of the Confederate States of America, Yale University.
First-Person Narratives of the American South, University of North Carolina
Georgia Ordinance of Secession, University of Georgia

McClellan's Letter to President Lincoln: K-12 TLC Guide.

Letters and Diaries:
- American Civil War Resources, Virginia Tech.
- Civil War Diaries, Augustana College.
- Civil War Resources, Virginia Military Institute.
- Letters from the 126th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
- A Michigan Civil War Physician's Diary, Michigan Historical Center.
- Sullivan Ballou's Letter, U.S. Secretary of State.
Pictures and Photographs:
- Brady, Mathew: K-12 TLC Guide.
- O'Sullivan, Timothy H.: K-12 TLC Guide.
- The Center for Civil War Photography.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Pictures of the Civil War, The National Archives.
- The Library of Congress:
- Son of the South.
- Swedish University Network:
  - General Robert E. Lee.
  - General Sherman.
  - General U.S. Grant.
  - Pickett's Charge, at the Battle of Gettysburg.

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Memorials

Civil War Battles and Battlefields: K-12 TLC Guide.
Memorials and Monuments: K-12 TLC Guide.

African American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation and Museum.
Cape Cod Clipper.
Civil War Home.
Civil War Unknowns, Arlington National Cemetery.
Edinburgh's Civil War Memorial, American Civil War Round Table.
Fieldguide to U.S. Public Monuments and Memorials.
National Civil War Memorial.
Sons of Union Veterans Protect Civil War Monuments, Heritage Preservation.
University of Pittsburgh.
Yahoo!.

By State:

Maryland:

Civil War Traveler.
Maryland Military Monuments Commission.

Michigan:

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.

North Carolina:

Civil War Traveler.

Ohio:

Cincinnati Historical Society Library.

Pennsylvania:

Civil War Traveler.

South Carolina:

Civil War Traveler.

Tennessee:

The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture.

Virginia:

Civil War Traveler.

West Virginia:

Civil War Traveler.

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Music of the American Civil War

19th Century American Music: K-12 TLC Guide.
War Songs: K-12 TLC Guide.

The Battle Hymn of the Republic: K-12 TLC Guide.
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home": K-12 TLC Guide.

American Civil War Society.
"Aura Lee":
- American Civil War Society.
"The Bonnie Blue Flag":

National Park Service.
National Park Service #2.

Bucktails 1st Pennsylvania Rifles.
The Civil War Music Site.
"Dixie's Land":
- Songs of the Confederacy, Poetry and Music of the War between the States.
- Historic American Sheet Music, Duke University.
Field Musicians and Drum Corps:

Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales & America.
"John Brown's Body":

Music of the American Civil War.
Poetry and Music of the War Between the States:
- Songs of the Confederacy.
- Songs of the Union.
Regiment Bands:

33rd Illinois Volunteer Regiment Band.
National Park Service.
University of Wisconsin.

Sheet Music, The Library of Congress.
University of North Carolina.

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Related Literature Section

Logan Library, UT.

Young Adult:
- Across Five Aprils, Irene Hunt.
- Across the Lines, Carolyn Reeder.
- Boys War: Soldiers Talk About the Civil War, Jim Murphy.
- Bull Run, Paul Fleischman.
- Caleb's Choice, G. Clifton Wisler.
- Charlie Skedaddle, Patricia Beatty.
- Civil War on Sunday, Donna Pope Osborne.
- The Ghost Belonged to Me, Richard Peck.
- Harriet Tubman: Secret Agent, Thomas B. Allen.
- An Island Far From Home, John Donahue.
- Mr. Lincoln's Drummer, G. Clifton Wisler.
- North Star to Freedom: The Underground Railroad, Gena K. Gorrell.
- Pink and Say, Patricia Polacco.
- The Root Cellar, Janet Lunn:
- Shades of Gray, Carolyn Reeder.
- Soldier's Heart, Gary Paulsen.
- Till Victory Is Won : Black Soldiers in the Civil War, Zak Mettger.
Adult:
- Catton, Bruce: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Chestnut, Mary: K-12 TLC Guide.
- 10 Best Novels About the US Civil War, Christian Science Monitor.
- 1861: The Civil War Awakening, Adam Goodheart, National Public Radio.
- America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation, David Goldfield, Christian Science Monitor.
- Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey,
  Robert Knox Sneden, Charles F. Bryan Jr., Nelson D. Lankford:
  - Amazon.com.
  - National Public Radio: 12/29/00 (audio: 6:59).
- The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara,
  The Ballantine Publishing Group.
- The Red Badge Of Courage, Stephen Crane.

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Teacher Resources Section

K-12 TLC Teachable Moments

01/19: Confederate Heroes Day in Texas.

02/12/1809: Birth Date of Abraham Lincoln.

03/31/1823: Birth Date of Civil War Diarist Mary Boykin Chestnut.

08/23/1864: Surrender of Fort Morgan and the Battle of Mobile Bay.

11/11: Veterans Day.


Barton, Clara Brady, Matthew Dix, Dorothea Farragut, David Grant, Ulysses S. Lee, Robert E. Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd McClellan, George Powell, John Wesley Sherman, William Tecumseh Stowe, Harriet Beecher Tubman, Harriet Vel�zquez, Loreta Janeta

Grades 3-8:
- The Ghost Belonged to Me,
  Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site.
Grades 4-5:
- Literature of the U.S. Civil War, Thomas E. Holmes,
  Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute:
  - Boys War: Soldiers Talk About the Civil War,
    Jim Murphy.
  - North Star to Freedom, Gena K. Gorrell.
  - Shades of Gray, Carolyn Reeder.
  - Till Victory Is Won, Zak Mettger.
Grade 4-6:
- The Civil War, Small Planet Communications
Grades 5-8:
- Photojournalism: A Record of War,
  Chris Fricke and Glenda Ritz, The Library of Congress.
Grades 5-12:
- History Newspapers, Debbie Prasuhn,
  North Central High School, Northeast Schools.
Grades 6-8:
- Discussion Guide: Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen, Scholastic.
Grades 7-12:
- Civil War Pen Pals, David Rodgers,
  Zionsville Community High School,
  Zionsville Community School Corporation.
Grades 8-12:
- The Historian's Sources, The Library of Congress.
Grade 12:
- Andersonville Prison: An Economic Microcosm,
  University of Omaha.
Other:
- Battle of Manassas: Teacher's Corner,
  National Park Service.
- Civil War Activities, Pocantico Hills School, NY:
  - A Civil War Diary.
  - Fill in the Blank.
  - Word Search.
- The Civil War in Children's Literature,
  Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site.
- National Archives and Records Administration:
  - Black Soldiers in the Civil War.
  - The Civil War of Mathew Brady.
  - Factors that Affected the Civil War.
  - Fugitive from Labor Cases.

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This guide last edited 01/28/2012
This guide last revised 02/22/2010