The Civil War: Beyond the Battles

Introductory Information

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General Resource Links

General Civil War Websites
  www.civilwar.com/
  www.teacheroz.com/civilwar.htm
  www.historyplace.com/civilwar/
  www.americancivilwar.com/tl/timeline.html

List of Civil War Movies
  http://www.imdb.com/list/O0jVuqC8cDU/

Government Strand Links

The Conscription Act & The New York Draft Riots
  www.vny.cuny.edu/draftriots/Intro/draft_riot_intro_set.html

The Congressional Medal of Honor

Income Taxes

The Emancipation Proclamation
  http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/emancipation-proclamation

Groups & People Strand Links

Andersonville Prison
  www.nps.gov/ande/

Women in the Civil War

Union & Confederate Indians

Spying During the Civil War

Confederate Arson Plot to Destroy New York

Baseball and the Civil War
  http://www.pacivilwartrails.com/stories/tales/baseball-and-the-civil-war
  http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/aubrecht2004b.shtml

The Red Cross
  http://www.redcross.org/about-us/history

The Marine Corps
  http://www.navyandmarine.org/historicalref/Compendium_USMC.htm

The Great Georgia Locomotive Chase

​The Massachusetts 54th
  http://www.us-civilwar.com/54th.htm

Conscientious Objectors

Technology Strand Links

Rifles
  https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/civil_war_history/v056/56.2.hartwig.html
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifles_in_the_American_Civil_War
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifled_musket

The Gatling Gun
  http://www.history.com/topics/gatling-gun

The Telegraph
  http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/30860

Photography

Railroads
  http://www.historynet.com/railroads-critical-role-in-the-civil-war.htm

Canned Food
  http://www.civilwaracademy.com/civil-war-food.html

The Spencer Rifle
  http://www.nramuseum.org/guns/the-galleries...14-union-carbines/us-spencer-lever-action-repeating-carbine.aspx

Naval Mines & Torpedoes
  http://thomaslegion.net/civilwartorpedoescivilwarminesweapons.html

The C.S.S. Hunley

Medicines
  https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/cwsurgeon/cwsurgeon/introduction

Medical Procedures
  http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/civil-war-medicine/civil-war-medicine.html
  http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war-medicine.htm

Ironclad Ships
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​Chemical Warfare
  http://www.newser.com/story/184450/civil-war-soldiers-used-chemical-weapons.html

​Hot Air Balloon Reconnaissance