Civil War Project
Choose your character from a list of ideas listed below. Use the well-know and well-arranged Civil War websites for your information.
Links to start with:
Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War
The Military Man:
Generals from both sides, soldiers, boy soldiers, women as soldiers, guerilla warfare, African-American soldiers, prisoners of war, heroes from different battles
The Economic / Business aspect of the War:
The agricultural side in the South with cotton, the slaves, plantation owners, the business men of the North trying to provide goods and materials for the War
The Social aspect of the War:
The role of the women left behind, what they suffered and what they had to do
Underground Railroad, the slaves who ran and those who helped in the cause
The role of nurses, doctors, the "medical arena" of the battlefield, founding of the American Red Cross
The children during the war
The Artistic aspect of the War:
The photographers (Matthew Brady)
The music of the Civil War
The Maine Aspect of the War:
- Local: Caribou and Maine ((Imagine Maine site - choose Features, then scroll down and choose Maine Studies. Scroll down to the box labeled Civil War) Maine Memory Network
- 20th, 2nd, 7th, 30th Maine regiments (Imagine Maine site - choose Features, then scroll down and choose Maine Studies. Scroll down to the box labeled Civil War | Roots.web listing of the Maine regiments
- Joshua Chamberlain Home Page
- Stories: 16th Maine at Fredricksburg ; First Maine Cavalry; Maine Archive of Stories