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The Civil War: Beyond the Battles


Introductory Information

• download the CWBB Project Assignment Sheet
• download the CWBB Project Checklist

Other Documents

• download the CWBB Works Cited sheet template
• view the student group presentation schedule

General Resource Links

General Civil War Websites
  www.civilwar.com/
  ww.unknowncivilwar.com/
  www.teacheroz.com/civilwar.htm
  www.historyplace.com/civilwar/
  www.americancivilwar.com/tl/timeline.html
  www.civilwarindex.homestead.com/index.html

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

Government Strand Links

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

The Congressional Medal of Honor
  www.civilwarhome.com/medal.htm

Income Taxes
  
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/warfare-and-logistics/logistics/tax.html

The Emancipation Proclamation
  
http://www.civilwar.org/150th-anniversary/emancipation-proclamation-150.html
  http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/emancipation-proclamation

Groups & People Strand Links

Andersonville Prison
  www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/index.html
  www.nps.gov/ande/

Women in the Civil War
  www.civilwarhome.com/womeninuniform.htm
  womenshistory.about.com/cs/civilwar/index.htm
  www.civilwar.com/linkwom.htm
  www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/american.htm

Union & Confederate Indians
  www.civilwarhome.com/unionconfedindians.htm

Spying During the Civil War
  www.civilwarhome.com/spies.htm
  civilwarhome.com/espionage.htm

Confederate Arson Plot to Destroy New York
  www.historybuff.com/library/refburnny.html
  civilwar.bluegrass.net/SpiesRaidersAndPartisans/newyorkfires.html
  americanhistory.about.com/library/prm/blattackonnewyork2.htm
  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1217472/posts

Baseball and the Civil War
  www.hickoksports.com/history/baseba02.shtml
  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
  
https://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/gallery/marines-american-civil-war
  http://www.navyandmarine.org/historicalref/Compendium_USMC.htm


The Great Georgia Locomotive Chase
  
http://www.andrewsraid.com

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


Conscientious Objectors
  http://www.civilwarhome.com/conscientiousobjectors.htm

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
  http://www.civilwar.org/photos/3d-photography-special/photography-and-the-civil-war.html

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
  http://hunley.org/index.asp

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
  
http://users.wowway.com/~jenkins/ironclads/irontech.htm
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​Chemical Warfare
  
http://www.newser.com/story/184450/civil-war-soldiers-used-chemical-weapons.html

​Hot Air Balloon Reconnaissance
  
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/civil-war-ballooning/civil-war-ballooning.html
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