Life of a Civil War Soldier
Resources
Extraordinary or unique resources (human or material) needed to successfully complete this experience:

I have included a list of possible websites. If the teacher would like to localize the learning stations, time will need to be spent finding local documents. County historical societies are a good place to start. It does not hurt to visit neighboring county historical societies especially if your school district is on the borderline. The county clerks’ offices will have census information - number of soldiers from the town and death records if not more. Town offices might also have Civil War records or may know if the town historian has useful information.

Civil War Web Sites

Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War
http://www.ucsc.edu/civil-war-letters/home.html

Internet resources on a variety of Civil War subjects including diaries, letters, material on African-American soldiers, and bibliographies
http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm

The Emancipation Proclamation
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/featured-document/eman/emanproc.html

John Brown Homepage
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/jbrown/master.html

"The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia"
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/letters.html

Civil War Person Papers, Diaries, and Reminiscences
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/personal/personal.war.html

Civil War Diary and Letters of David Humphrey Blair
http://netnow.micron.net/~rbparker/diary/index.html

A large collection of women’s diaries, letters, and person accounts, etc.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html

Civil War Music and Poetry from the Union and the Confederate
http://users.erols.com/kfraser/usongs.htm

http://users.erols.com/kfraser/csongs.htm

Civil War Photographs
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cwphome.html

The Civil War Letters of Galutia York
http://www.snymor.edu/pages/library/local_history/civil_war/

Civil War Music Store
http://bizweb.lightspeed.net/~cwms

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