The+Civil+War

Read about the South's most famous "fire eater" [|here]

Civil War Homeworks

Look closely at this map and the 1854 map on the slavery page. What differences do you see? Period cartoon of the "Anaconda plan" below



[|Bull Run Map]

[|The Battle for New Orleans 1862]

[|Shiloh Map]

[|The Peninsula Campaign Map]

Confederate general and actor John Magruder

General George B. McClellan (L) and the 5th Corps Headquarters at Harrion's Landing during the Peninsula Campaign (R)

Check out these guns! Click on the drawing for a link to naval artillery during the Civil War.

To complete the Special Order 191 assignment...click on the 2nd photo of the bodies lined up for burial below. [|Antietam Map]

Photo of the dead in the "Sunken Road" at Antietam:

Confederates lined up for burial after the Battle of Antietam: Click on the photo for Special Order 191 Question/Map and the Emancipation Proclamation Questions.

The "Angel of Marye's Heights" at the Battle of Fredricksburg Click here for a great and not uncommon event that happened during the Fredricksburg Campaign- Friendly Pickets

[|Chancellorsville Map]

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

"Visitors to the gravesite frequently leave lemons at the site, remembering Stonewall's supposed fondness for the fruit. In actuality, Jackson had no particular fondness for lemons, he ate whatever fruit was available, which frequently included lemons from captured Federal stores. His favorite fruit were peaches". []



[|Gettysburg Map]

If the link for Gettysburg (above) doesn't work, then click [|here]

[|General Sickle's Leg] Click on the Confederate $ to see where it was found!

Click on the image of the Union cavalryman (10th New York) below to be taken to "The Life of a Soldier" exhibit:

(Mr. J's collection)

Winfield Scott Hancock (Born next to where the Montgomeryville Mall is now) Click on the photo below to learn more about the many "heroes of Gettysburg"

Click on the photo below to read President Lincoln's incredible "Gettysburg Address" The keystone of the South, [|Siege of Vicksburg] [|Click here to listen to an old Confederate veteran do the "Rebel Yell"]

Question: Which of these flags is the Confederate flag? Answer: (Find out in class!)

Gallery of Soldiers

Examples of Union Corps Badges: Circle-1st Clubs-2nd Greek cross-6th Crecent moon-11th Square (cartridge box)-15th Arrow-17th Star-12th and 20th Triangle-4th Maltese Cross- 5th Lozenge-3rd Heart-24th

1st Division is red, 2nd division white, 3rd division blue

Original Corps badge of Captain Patrick Phillips 71st Pennsylvania Volunteers, Co. K (Mr. J's collection)

A Pennsylvania "Buck Tail"

Cartridge box sling with eagle plate: Union belt with belt plate and cartridge box with box plate Model 1842 Sprinfield smoothbore musket Close up of Confederate made rifled musket lockplate and cone Civil War Technology 12 lb Napoleon smoothbore cannon 3 inch Ordnance rifled cannon, many of which were manufactured by the Phoenix Iron Company in Phoenixville, Pa. Two pictures of the Spottsylvania Oak Tree felled by musket fire!

Civil War Battle Statistics [|here]

MMMMH. Good. [|Civil War Food]



Watch this excellent mini documentary on the CSS HL Hunley (first submarine to sink another ship in combat)

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[|Read Mr.Johnson's article on Pvt. Franklin Lebo, 93rd Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry]

Prison Life

History detectives episode...one of the rarest images taken during the Civil War....watch below [|History Detectives]