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Topic: Virginia in the American Civil War

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The American Civil War WebQuest Despite their acceptance of slavery, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri did not join the Confederate States and the residents of the western counties of Virginia did not wish to secede and so this section of Virginia was admitted into the union as the state of West Virginia. It was the greatest war in American History, 3 million fought - 600,000 died and it was the only war fought on American soil by Americans. The American Civil War (1861- 1865) WebQuest www.htav.asn.au /webquests/us_civil_war   (776 words)

Timeline Civil War 1861 Maps and Exhibits The bombardment of Fort Sumter was the opening engagement of the American Civil War. This section of Virginia was admitted into the Union as the state of West Virginia on June 20, 1863. Residents of the western counties of Virginia did not wish to secede along with the rest of the state. americancivilwar.com /tl/tl1861.html   (858 words)

Civil War Traveler News A new Virginia Civil War Trail highlights the 1864 adventure of Union Gen. David Hunter as he attempted to capture Lynchburg and disrupt Confederate supply and communication lines west of Robert E. Lee’s army at Richmond and Petersburg. Topics related to the African-American experience during the Civil War, especially the contributions by the United States Colored Troops, are addressed in monthly “First Saturday” lectures at the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum in Washington DC. Three one-day Civil War tours of the New River Valley in West Virginia are included in a new 143-page paperback book, "Civil War in the New River Valley." The tours give directions, historical background and more for Gauley Bridge, Fall of the Kanawa, Droop Mountain, Carnifex Ferry and many more. www.civilwar-va.com /events/news.html   (858 words)

2004 We the People Projects Consultation for a regional Civil War website, guided tours, public programs, and publications concerned with the battlefields and the homefront in the border region of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Laura Kamoie, American University, Washington, D.C. An investigation of the agricultural, industrial and commercial activities of three generations of the Tayloe family of Northern Virginia between 1700 and 1830, illuminating the changing society and economy of Virginia gentry. Crossroads of War: The Civil War and the Homefront in the Mid-Atlantic Border Region www.wethepeople.gov /projects/2004grants.html   (7770 words)

Civil War This site has a script for a short play about Virginia's involvement with the Civil War. The students are to draw an event, symbol, person, or place which depicts slavery during the Civil War as a piece of a freedom quilt. The purpose of this unit is to provide a frame for the students to use in evaluating both points of view in the Civil War. www.42explore2.com /civilwar.htm   (1257 words)

Civil War, Underground Railroad, Slavery, Emancipation Links American Civil War: The Army of Virginia and The Army of the Potomac Digital History and the American Civil War - These projects represent the work of six teams of students at the University of Virginia in HIUS 403 "Digital History and the American Civil War." The projects are fully developed web sites on a topic of importance for the Valley Project. Known as a turning point in our great Civil War, the battlefield is preserved by the National Park Service as a symbol of America's struggle to survive as a nation, and as a lasting memorial to the armies and the soldiers who served in that great conflict. www.sussexcountyettc.org /links_civil_war.htm   (6997 words)

Photos Civil War Photographs, contemporary (mostly) photos of sites related to the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert F. Koch Entrance to Camp Morton, Civil war POW camp, Indianapolis (180 K) Imagebase, Virginia Tech National Civil War Band Festival, July 25-27, 2003, Campbellsville, KY Connecticut CDVs, [CDV = "carte de visite"; French for "visiting card"] homepages.dsu.edu /jankej/civilwar/photos.htm   (77 words)

Civil War Maps - (American Memory from the Library of Congress) Civil War Maps brings together materials from three premier collections: the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia. Most of the items presented here are documented in Civil War Maps: An Annotated List of Maps and Atlases in the Library of Congress, compiled by Richard W. Stephenson in 1989. Civil War Maps - (American Memory from the Library of Congress) memory.loc.gov /ammem/gmdhtml/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html   (156 words)

Gettysburg Master Trivia quiz "The Battle of Gettysburg, 1863: the crossroads of our nationhood and the turning point in the American Civil War. This Union General served in the 'old army' (before the Civil War) in California with Confederate General Lewis A. Armistead. This Virginia Brigadier General commanded the Brigade in Pickett’s division that contained the oldest and most decorated unit in American history, the 1st Virginia Infantry. www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=3518&origin=   (303 words)

The History Buff, Original Historical Autographs & Manucripts Legendary Fanatical Abolitionist whose radicalism and extremism during the late 1850s personified the origins of the American Civil War, from 'Bleeding Kansas,' the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre, to the raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia (now, West Virginia) and whose defeat, trial, and execution there helped set the stage for the U.S. Civil War. during the late 1850s personified the origins of the American Civil War The History Buff, Original Historical Autographs and Manucripts www.ehistorybuff.com /brown_sig.html   (200 words)

ProQuest Information and Learning :: Press Release Numero uno for 2002: Robert Russell Mackey, PhD, "The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861---1865 (Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia)," written in 2000 at Texas AandM University. The uncivil war: Irregular warfare in the Upper South, 1861--1865 (Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia) His family history has roots in the Civil War - both maternal and paternal ancestors fought in what Mackey calls "the only wholly American war" - on opposite sides. www.il.proquest.com /division/pr/03/20030919.shtml   (200 words)

Academic Directory on Military History This University of Virginia research project is an electronic archive of two communities, one Northern and one Southern, in the American Civil War. University of Virginia Electronic Text Center: American Civil War Collection The letters are accompanied by a collection guide with details on the brothers and their family, information about the regiment in which they served, and a description of the themes of the letters. www.alllearn.org /er/tree.jsp?c=21550   (563 words)

Civil War This site has a script for a short play about Virginia's involvement with the Civil War. The students are to draw an event, symbol, person, or place which depicts slavery during the Civil War as a piece of a freedom quilt. Read the memoirs, diary, and about the life of Private Jefferson Moses, who fought in the Civil War. www.42explore2.com /civilwar.htm   (1257 words)

The American Civil War Homepage The American Civil War Homepage gathers together in one place hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War (1861-1865). The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Virginia and Pennsylvania Not only was the War the occasion for the abolition of slavery, but by conflict's end the re-United States had emerged as a modern, industrialized power. edweb.sdsu.edu /people/bdodge/scaffold/CW/warweb.html   (957 words)

Lesson Plan: The Civil War The war has left twelve-year-old Will Page without any immediate family: his father and brother were killed by the Yankees; his sisters died of an epidemic spread from a Union encampment near his Virginia home; and his mother died of grief over these losses. Another is the American Memory web site from the Library of Congress, which offers a collection of American sheet music from 1850-1920, including a page on Civil War songs, and a collection of post-Civil War era sheet music, 1870-1885. The Civil War era is one of the most critical and fascinating in our nation's history. www.smplanet.com /civilwar/civilwar.html   (3050 words)

Virginia Tech Libraries' Special Collections Homepage CIVIL WAR collections Civil war photographs in the American Memory collection at the Library of Congress: "http:/ s6.loc.gov/cwphpme.html" The Civil War is a major collecting focus for the University Libraries. Manuscript collections contain letters and diaries from both Union and Confederate soldiers, homefront letters, memoirs, and contemporary research files. spec.lib.vt.edu /civwar   (528 words)

EyeWitness To The American Civil War A young girl's diary reveals the impact of the end of the Civil War and Lincoln's death on a small Union town. The first major battle of the Civil War took place 20 miles from Washington. Grant and Lee meet to end the Civil War. www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /cwfrm.htm   (247 words)

American Civil War Collection at the Electronic Text Center University of Virginia: HIUS 403: "Digital History and the American Civil War." (1997) Fiction, poetry, essays and historical material relating to the American Civil War, from the Etext Center's Modern English Collection. THE CIVIL WAR: A Newspaper Perspective contains the full text of over 11,000 articles from over 2500 issues of The New York Herald, the Richmond Enquirer, and The Charleston Mercury, published between November 1, 1860 and April 30, 1865. etext.lib.virginia.edu /civilwar   (453 words)

American Civil War Butler, a war hero, had been a member of the Democratic Party, but his experiences during the American Civil War had made him increasingly radical. It was eventually decided to charge General Robert Lee, James Seddon, the Secretary of War, and several other Confederate generals and politicians with "conspiring to injure the health and destroy the lives of United States soldiers held as prisoners by the Confederate States". His plan was to invade Virginia from the sea and to seize Richmond and the other major cities in the South. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAcivilwar.htm   (7528 words)

Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection - American Civil War Map of the seat of war in Virginia. Rare Map Collection - The American Civil War Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection - American Civil War www.libs.uga.edu /darchive/hargrett/maps/civil.html   (292 words)

Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection - American Civil War Map of the seat of war in Virginia. Rare Map Collection - The American Civil War Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection - American Civil War www.libs.uga.edu /darchive/hargrett/maps/civil.html   (292 words)

Rufus Pettit: American Civil War Union Prison Inspector The next year, 1881, he applied for a Civil War pension, based upon a doctor's affidavit that he suffered from "chronic diarrhea, spinal paralysis and cystitis." The application was denied, probably because of the court-martial ruling. Then the Civil War broke out, and he decided to sign up for another stint in the army. This article was written by Thomas P. Lowry and originally published in the October 2001 issue of Civil War Times Magazine. www.thehistorynet.com /cwti/bl-rufus-pettit   (2972 words)

The Dabneys—Black Civil War Spies Extracted from Spies and Spymasters of the Civil War by Donald E. Markle (pp. The account was written by a Union officer in 1863 when the Union Army was encamped on the banks of the Rappahannock River in Virginia. While Negro husband and wife spy teams were rare there is one account of such a team that is worth noting, if for no other reasons than the ingenuity involved. www.duboislc.net /read/Dabneys.html   (894 words)

The Civil War: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence No discussion of intelligence activities by black Americans during the Civil War would be complete without mention of a popular story about a black couple who provided intelligence on Confederate troop movements to the Union during the fighting around Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1863. With the advent of the fighting, she spent the early years of the war assisting with the care and feeding of the massive numbers of slaves who had fled to Union-controlled areas. Markle, Donald E. Spies and Spymasters of the Civil War. www.cia.gov /cia/publications/dispatches/dispatch.html   (4076 words)

CANADIAN REENACTMENT The unit is always looking for reeanactors or people who would like to become reenactors in the American Civil War venue. The U.S. Civil War ended in April 1865 and a new threat to British North America was the Fenian Brotherhood. The original Brockville Company of Light Infantry was formed in 1862, when Canadians feared war would break out between Britain and the U.S., this fear caused a great number of men in the British colonies to volunteer for local militias. www.geocities.com /Yosemite/2069/victorian.html   (773 words)

UNT Department of History: Civil War Web Resources This Civil War Confederate prisoner of war camp commemorates the sacrifices borne by American prisoners not only in the 1861-1865 conflict but in all wars. The National Park Service summary says "Memorial to African Americans Who Served with Union Forces in the Civil War Authorized Oct. 14, 1992, the memorial would contain the inscriptions on stainless steel plaques of some 185,000 names of African-Americans who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. A page on the two big war memorials in Metairie Cemetery: the tumulus of the Army of Northern Virginia, Louisiana Division, and the tumulus of the Army of Tennessee, Louisiana Division. www.hist.unt.edu /web_resources_mil/am_civil_war2.htm   (3281 words)

American Civil War The American Civil War is sometimes called the War Between the States, the War of Rebellion, or the War for Southern Independence. Civil War, American, a military conflict between the United States of America (the Union) and the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) from 1861 to 1865. The Civil War was the central event in the lives of most of the men who served in the armed forces. cjnewsline.com /War/CIVILWAR/AmericanCivilWar.htm   (17628 words)

Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs Letters: American Civil War Collections, Electronic Text Center, U of Virginia Questionnaire: Peter Graham Fulkerson, TN Civil War Veterans Memoir: Michael Hileman, 1820-1915, includes Civil War years as Sgt in 96th Illinois homepages.dsu.edu /jankej/civilwar/diaries.htm   (682 words)

Virginia Civil War Battle Upperville American Civil War Virginia Civil War Battle Upperville American Civil War As cavalry skirmishing diminished, Stuart made the fateful decision to strike east and make a circuit of the Union army as it marched toward Gettysburg. After furious mounted fighting, Stuart withdrew to take a strong defensive position in Ashby Gap, even as Confederate infantry crossed the Potomac into Maryland. americancivilwar.com /statepic/va/va038.html   (129 words)

Genealogy and the American Civil War The American Civil War provided many documents which have information vital for those interested in family history. Tennesseans in the Civil War - Part I and II by the Centennial Civil War Commission of TN. However there were units in the Union Army from all states of the Confederacy and soldiers from Union states sometimes joined the Confederate army. www.illinoiscivilwar.org /cwgeneal.html   (973 words)

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