Gary Casteel. Www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~acwunits/ Rare Motion Pictures Show Civil War Veterans at the 75th Gettysburg Battle Anniversary Reunion.
Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos. The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, Prints & Photographs Division Private David C.
Colbert of Company C, 46th Virginia Infantry Regiment. When you look at a soldier’s portrait from the American Civil War, have you ever wondered what that particular person, or his regiment, experienced? For twenty of the Union and Confederate soldiers whose names survived with their photographs in the Liljenquist Collection, you can now get a glimpse of their lives. You’ll find many different stories among these photos, though most of the soldiers were wounded, taken prisoner, killed by enemy or friendly fire, or died from disease, like David Colbert (shown here). Sergeant Cornelius V. Quotations from notes and letters found with the portraits provide some of the most interesting details. Teachers and students take special note!
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Maps. Battles. Misc links. American Civil War. The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars.
Railroads, the telegraph, steamships, and mass-produced weapons were employed extensively. The mobilization of civilian factories, mines, shipyards, banks, transportation and food supplies all foreshadowed the impact of industrialization in World War I. It remains the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 750,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. [N 2] One estimate of the death toll is that ten percent of all Northern males 20–45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40 died.
From 1861 to 1865 about 620,000 soldiers lost their lives.[12] Causes of secession Slavery To settle the dispute over slavery expansion, Abolitionists and proslavery elements sent their partisans into Kansas, both using ballots and bullets. States' rights Main article: States' rights Sectionalism and cotton trade.
Vermont in the Civil War. Documenting the South. Digital collections. Library of Congress. National Archives. The Civil War In Pennsylvania, An Amazing and Astounding Photographic History. The Civil War In Pennsylvania, A Photographic History, Michael G.
Kraus, David M. Neville, and Kenneth C. Turner, Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation, 2012, 312 pp., profusely illustrated, bibliography, index, $35.00. From the June 17, 1843 photograph of the shops at Numbers 46-52 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia to the July 1935 photograph of a veteran waving good-bye through a train window, The Civil War In Pennsylvania, A Photographic History is an amazing and remarkable book. The breadth of the images' subjects presented and the details offered within each image is astounding. In five chapters with 44 sections, the authors have left very few history stones unturned. Every reader will have a list of their favorite and probably previous unseen images. There is no page that readers will not linger over, reading every caption.
Photographs. Books. American Civil War — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts. Discovering the Civil War. For decades, the National Archives has been a great resource for bringing primary sources into the classroom.
In conjunction with "Discovering the Civil War" we would like to point to some of the special materials that can prepare your class for a field trip or that make it easy to use National Archives' records in your own classroom. Educational materials and resources for Discovering the Civil War are generously supported by AT&T. Boeing Learning Center The ReSource Room of the Boeing Learning Center makes a great extension for your visit to the exhibit. The space contains hundreds of facsimiles of records related to the Civil War. ReSource Room staff are prepared to help you locate maps of battlefields, telegrams from President Lincoln, photographs by Mathew Brady and much more. Teaching with Documents National Archives' education specialists have produced a number of articles with companion lesson plans related to Civil War history. Try out our newest online tool kit.
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