United States History

The Civil War

The Civil War/Causes
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska Act
Origins of Civil War
Causes of Civil War
Secession
State's Rights
Harper's Ferry Raid
Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Fort Sumter
Weapons/Tactics
Maps
Timeline
Nursing
Medical Treatment
Union Vs. Confederacy
Abolitionists
Underground Railroad
Daily Life of Slaves
Dred Scott Decision
African American Soldiers
Civil War Music Etc...
Civil War Clothing
Why the North Won?
Effects of the War
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John Brown
Clara Barton
Jefferson Davis
Civil War Leaders
Women of the Civil War
Gettysburg Address
Emancipation Proclamation
Internet Search Engines

 


The Civil War/Causes

American Civil War.com

Smithsonian Museum: Civil War

Civil War.com

The American Civil War Homepage

Dakota State University: Civil War Links

Louisianna State University: United States Civil War Center

Fairfax County Public Schools: Civil War Resources

BUBL Link Catalog of Internet Resources: Civil War

Great American History: Table of Contents

US-Civil War.Com

Library of Congress: Civil War Photographs

Educational Communications Board: Impressions of America: Divided and United

 

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Missouri Compromise

Info Please: Missouri Compromise 1820

Answers.Com: Missouri Compromise 1820

History World.Com: Missouri Compromise 1820

Wikipedia: Missouri Compromise

Library of Congress: This Day in History...Missouri Compromise

 

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Compromise of 1850

PBS: Compromise of 1850

Lone Star Junction: Compromise of 1850 September 9, 1850

Infoplease: 1850 Compromise

American Treasures of the Library of Congress

Mountain City Elementary School: The Compromise of 1850

 

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Kansas Nebraska Act

InfoPlease: Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

The History Place: Kansas Nebraska Act

Class Brain.Com: Kansas-Nebraska Act

Shot Gun's Home of the American Civil War: Kansas Nebraska Act

 

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Origins of Civil War

Wikipedia: Origins of the Civil War

Charlotte Public School: Courtesy of U. S. Dept. of Interior

Absolute Astronomy: Encyclopedia:: Origins of the Civil War

Answers.Com: Origins of the Civil War

 

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Causes of Civil War

The American Civil War: Causes of the Civil War

The Social Studies Help Place: What caused the beginning of the Civil War?

Great American History: Causes of the Civil War (A Balanced View)

Civil War Home: Causes from the Southern View

About North Georgia: A North Georgia Perspective: Causes of the Civil War

 

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Secession

Polytechnic School: U. S. History Resources: Secession and Civil War

About.Com: Order of Secession in the American Civil War

Civil War.Com: Secession the Union View

Great American History: The First Wave of Secession: Winter 1860-1861

Suite 101: American Civil War, Causes of the War: Secession

 

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State's Rights

Civil War Ring: The War for States' Rights: Secession Crisis : States' Rights "Powers Reserved To The States"

Info Please: States' Rights

Encyclopedia of American Studies: States' Rights

 

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Harper's Ferry Raid

Civil War Home Page: John Brown's Raid

West Virginia Archives and History: John Browns Harpers Ferry Raid

PBS Judgment Day: The Raid on Harpers Ferry

Spartacus: Harpers Ferry

New York History Net: Harpers Ferry and the Aftermath

African Americans.Com: John Browns' Raid at Harpers Ferry

Wikipedia: Raid on Harper's Ferry

 

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Battle of Bull Run

Spartacus: Bull Run

Civil War Homepage: Battle of Bull Run (1st Manassas) July 21, 1861

Civil War Homepage: Battle of Bull Run (2nd Manassas) August 28-30, 1862

Manassas National Battlefield Park: Homepage

American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run, July 1861

Collectors.Net: Battle of First Bull Run

Collectors.Net: Battle of Second Bull Run

 

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Battle of Gettysburg

The History Place: the Battle Of Gettysburg

Civil War Homepage: Battle of Gettysburg

Rockingham County Public School: Battle of Gettysburg

American Civil War: Gettysburg Battle

Gettysburg Welcome Center: Battle of Gettysburg

Spartacus: Gettysburg

 

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Battle of Shiloh

Spartacus: Shiloh

Civil War Homepage: Battle of Shiloh

Collectors.Net: Battle of Shiloh

National Park Service: American Battlefield Protection Program: Battle Summaries: Battle of Shiloh

Wikipedia: Battle of Shiloh

 

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Battle of Fort Sumter

Spartacus: Fort Sumter

Civil War Homepage: Attack on Fort Sumter

EDSITEment: Crisis at Fort Sumter

U. S. Civil War: Fort Sumter

Wikipedia: Fort Sumter

 

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Weapons/Tactics

Tracey Osborn’s Teacher Oz’s Kingdom of History: Civil War Weapon’s

Weapons of the Civil War

Artillery Pieces of the Civil War

Civil War Home: Weapons of the Civil War

About.Com: Military History: The American Civil War

U. S. Civil War Center: Weapons and Artillery

Civil War Virtual Archives: The Civil War Artillery Page

The American Civil War: The Nature of Battle

Confederate Naval Strategy: Letters of Marque by William C. Lowe

 

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Maps

The History Place: Map of the United States

Culture 4.0: U. S. Map 1861-1865

University of Geiorgia Libraries: Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection: American Civil War

Historical Maps of the United States: Seat of the Civil War

Historical Maps of the United States: The Civil War

Historical Maps of the United States- Scroll down and look for Military History

 

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Timeline

The History Place: Timeline US Civil War 1861-1865

Library of Congress: Civil War Photographs: Timeline

Civil War in America: Timeline of Battles

The History Place: Timeline of the Civil War

Civil War.Com: Timeline

 

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Nursing

Life Stories of Civil War Heroes: Loiusa May Alcott’s Sketch of a Civil War Patient

Civil War Homepage: Angels of the Battlefield: Civil War Nurses

Nurses.Info: The U. S. Civil War 1862-1865

About.Com: Civil War Nursing

Early Illinois Women: Essays on Nursing in the Civil War

Edinborough Press: Our Army Nurses

 

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Medical Treatment

National Museum of Civil War Medicine

Civil War Homepage: Medicine

Society of Civil War Surgeons: Essays on Civil War Medicine

National Park Service: Gettysburg National Park: Medicine in the Civil War

Tracey Osborn’s Teacher Oz’s Kingdom of History: Medicine During the War

U. S. Civil War Center: Medicine

About.Com: Military History: Medicine in the Civil War

 

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Union Vs. Confederacy

American Civil War: Struggle to Preserve the Union

Civil War American History

The Civil War Homepage

The History Place.Com: A Nation Divided

Spartacus: Confederate Army

Wikipedia: Confederate States of America

Civil War Homepage: Confederate States of America

Info Please: Confederate States of America

Conferderate States of America

Wikipedia: Union (American Civil War)

Eric Burnett’s Civil War and Reconstruction

Sir Garnett’s Guide to 19th Century Military History and War Gaming Site by Rober Avery

 

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Abolitionists

Wikipedia: Abolitionism

Smithsonian National Protrait Gallery: Unit 3 Abolition and the Civil War

PBS Judgment Day: Abolitionism

National Park Service: Gettysburg National Military Park: What Were They Fighting About?

El Centro College: Civil War Resources: Abolition and Abolitionists

African Genisis: Abolitionist Index

African Genisis: Abolitionists Short Biographies

U. S. Civil War Center: Abolition and Slavery links

 

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Underground Railroad

American Civil War: Underground Railroad

National Geographic.Com: Underground Railroad

National Park Service: Aboard the Underground Railroad

University of Califorina Davis: Underground Railroad Table of Contents

PBS Judgment Day: Underground Railroad

National Undreground Railroad Freedom Center: Underground Railroad

National Park Service: National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom

 

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Daily Life of Slaves

Spartacus Encyclopeida: Slavery

Library of Congress: American Memory: Slave Naratives from the Federal Writers’ Project 1936-38-
Click on Narator or Subject..Once you have chosen an name click on View page images.

Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives: Alphabetical-
Clck on a Title and then choose HTML file

PBS Judgment Day: Fugitive Slaves and Northern Racism

Long Island University: The African American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom: Slave Codes and Resistance

Smithsonian: American Memory: African American Odyssey: Slavery: The Peculiar Institution

 

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Dred Scott Decision

PBS Judgment Day: Dred Scott

Washington University at St. Louis: The Dred Scott Case

The History Place: The Dred Scott Decision

US Info U. S. Department of State: Dred Scott

From Revolution to Reconstruction: Dred Scott

 

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African American Soldiers

National Park Service: Cvil War Soldiers: History of African Americans in the Civil War

American Civil War: Colored Troops

National Archives and Records Administration: The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War

PBS The Times of the Lincoln’s: African American Soldiers

National Geographic.Com: African Americans in the Civil War: Equality Earned with Blood

Confederate Infantry Private Webpage: African American Confederate Soldiers

 

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Civil War Music Etc...

Underground Railroad Site: Music of the Underground Railroad

Benjamin Robert Tubb’s: The Music of the American Civil War

University of Virginia: Hearts at Home: Women in the Civil War: Music and Poetry

U. S. Civil War Center: Music

Songs of the Civil War Era

Civil War Women: Diaries, Letters and Other Documents

U. S. Civil War Center: Food

Edinborough Press: Civil War Life

 

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Civil War Clothing

USHIst.Com: Civil War Costumes

USHIst.Com: Civil War Uniforms

USHIst.Com: Men’s Civil War Clothing

USHIst.Com: Women’s Civil War Clothing

USHIst.Com: Children’s Civil War Clothing-
Click on Children's Clothing or Boy's or Girl's

USHIst.Com: Military Clothing (Union)

USHIst.Com: Military Clothing (Confederate)

 

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Why the North won?

Social Studies Help Place: Why did the North win the Civil War?

American Civil War.Com: Historical Backround on How the North Won the Civil War

The History Place: Why the South Lost the Civil War

Suite 101.Com: Why the South Lost or How the North Won?: A Perception of the American Civil War

American Civil War: 1864 Timeline of Battles

 

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Effects of the War

Social Studies Help Page: Effects of the War

Fact Monster: U.S. History: Civil War: Aftermath

Answers.com: Reconstruction, the Aftermath of the Civil War

Info Please: Aftermath of the Civil War

 

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Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant Homepage

Wikipedia: Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant Association: Historical Information

Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War: Ulysses S. Grant

 

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Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee Historical Preservation Society: Rober E. Lee Biography

Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War: Robert E. Lee

From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: Robert E. Lee

American Civil War.Com: Robert E. Lee

 

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Abraham Lincoln

The White House.Gov: Abraham Lincoln

The History Place Presents: Abraham Lincoln

Super Computing ‘94 Tour: Abraham Lincoln

Northern Illinois University: Licoln Historical Digitizarion Project

Abraham Lincoln Research Site

Grolier: Welcome to the American Presidency- Scroll down to Abraham Lincoln-
four encyclopedias to choose from

Wikipedia: Abraham Lincoln

Spartacus: Abraham Lincoln

 

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Stephen Douglas

Spartacus/SchoolNet: Stephen Douglas

Biographical Directory of the U. S. Congress: Stephen Douglas

Wikipedia: Stephen Douglas

Illinois in the Civil War: Stephen Douglas

EHistory: Stephen Douglas

 

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates

National Park Service: Lincoln Home: Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Abraham Lincoln Digitization Project: Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

Bartleby.Com: Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Houghton Mifflin: Lincoln-Douglas Debates

 

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Frederick Douglass

University of Rochester: Frederick Douglass Bio by Sandra Thomas

Library of Congress: American Memory: Frederick Douglass Papers

Library of Congress: America’s Story: Frederick Douglass

National Park Service: Frederick Douglass

From Revolution to Reconstruction: Frederick Douglass

Indiana University-Perdue: Frederick Douglass Timeline

Literature at Sunsite: The Live of Frederick Douglass, an Autobiography

 

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Harriet Tubman

New Yourk History Net: Harriet Tubman

PBS: Judgement Day: Harriet Tubman

Library of Congress: America’s Story: Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman Historical Society

Spectrum Biographies: Harriet Tubman

 

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mary Mark’s Celebration of Women Writers: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

American Civil War.Com: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mother’s In Uncle Toms’ America: Harriet Beecher Stowe-Mother, Reformer

Women in History: Harriet Beecher Stowe

University of Wisconsin-Madison: Harriet Beecher Stowe-Uncle Tom’s Cabin

 

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John Brown

PBS Judgement Day: John Brown

University of Virginia: John Brown

The Underground Railroad Site: John Brown

Civil War Home Page: John Brown

Wikipedia: John Brown

 

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Clara Barton

Spartacus: Clara Barton

Civil War Homepage: Clara Barton

American Cvil War Home: Clara Barton

National Park Service: Clara Barton

Spectrum Biographies: Clara Barton

Life Stories of Civil War Heroes: Index to Clara Barton Pages

 

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Jefferson Davis

Spartacus: Jefferson Davis

Civil War HomePage: Jefferson Davis

North Georgia: Jefferson Davis, the Only President of the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis Memorial Home Page

Wikipedia: Jefferson Davis

American Civil War: Jefferson Davis

The American Civil War: Jefferson Davis

 

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Civil War Leaders

About.Com: American HIstory: Civil War Leaders North and South

American Civil War: Southern Leadership

American Civil War: Northern Leadership

Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War: Civil War Biographies

 

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Women of the Civil War

American Civil War.Com: Women of the Civil War

Civil War Women: Diaries, Letters and Other Documents

About.Com: Women and the Civil War

Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Women During the Civil War

The History Net.Com: The All-Girl Rhea County Spartans

History Net.Com: The North’s Unsung Sisters of Mercy

The History Net.Com: Richmond Bread Riot

U. S. National Archives and Records Administration: Women Soldiers of the Civil War

University of Virginia: Hearts at Home: Southern Women in the Civil War

Women in History: Belle Boyd

Civil War Homepage: Elizabeth Van Lew

The War for States’ Rights: Spies, Raiders and Partisans

 

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Gettysburg Address

Library of Congress: Gettysburg Address Exhibits

Wikipedia: Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln Online: Gettysburg Address

USInfo State Department: Introduction to the Gettysburg Address

 

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Emancipation Proclamation

The History Place: Emancipation Proclamation

Library of Congress: American Memory: Emancipation Proclamation

Spartacus: Emancipation Proclamation

National Archives and Records Administration: Emancipation Proclamation

American Revolution: Emancipation Proclamation

 

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