The
American Civil War
8th Grade Newspaper Project
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Below are links to many excellent Civil War websites.
American
Civil War Collections at the Electronic Text Center-
Primary sources from the University of Virginia
http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/
Eyewitness
to the Civil War- personal accounts of battles, information on Lincoln,
John Wilkes Booth and more
http://www.ibiscom.com/cwfrm.htm
The
American Civil War, 1861-1865- Provides links to battle
info., bios from both the North and South, maps, documents, and more
http://militaryhistory.about.com/cs/americancivilwar2/
The
Civil War from KidsKonnect.com- Links to battles, leaders,
personal accounts, and more
http://www.kidskonnect.com/CivilWar/CivilWarHome.html
HarpWeek
19th-century Advertising- Civil War era newspaper ads
http://advertising.harpweek.com/
The
American Civil War Homepage- Includes images, biographies,
battle history and more
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
Shotgun's
Home of the American Civil War- Battles, biographies,
medicine, the Confederacy,soldier's letters, the Naval war, the Armies and
more
http://www.civilwarhome.com/index.htm
The
American Civil War from Dakota State University- Army and home life, battles,
the Cavalry, diaries and letters, generals, Lincoln, maps, Native Americans,
photographs and images, uniforms, women, etc.
http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm
Archeology
at Andersonville- Information on Andersonville Prison
and POWs during the Civil War
http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/andearch.htm
Camp
Life- From Gettysburg National Park. Find out how soldiers
lived in the Civil War, and what they did to relieve boredom
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/index.htm
Civil
War Maps Collection- From The Library of Congress American
Memory collection
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html
Rose
O'Neal Greenhow Papers- From the Special Collections Library, Duke University
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/greenhow/
Crisis
at Fort Sumter- Events leading up to and the start of
the Civil War
http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/CrisisMain.html
Civil
War Battle Summaries by State- From the Heritage Preservation
Services of the National Park Service
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/bystate.htm
Selected
Civil War Photographs- From The Library of Congress American Memory Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
Ulysseus
S. Grant- Companion site to PBS's American Experience
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/
Women
Spies for the Confederacy- Contains information on such famous Confederate
spies as Bell Boyd and Rose Greenbow
http://home.att.net/~smerela/belleboyd.html
The
American Civil War- Includes information on battles, leaders, causes of
the war, food, music
http://www.us-civilwar.com/
A
Divided Nation: Causes of the U.S. Civil War- An in-depth article about
the Civil War from World Book Online
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Feature?id=http://www2.worldbook.com/features/civilwar/html/index.html
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