Grade Range: K-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, ArtifactsDate Posted: 11/6/2008
Photographs can be powerful connections to the past. Soldiers, for example often had their portraits made before going off to war so that loved ones would have a rememberance of them in the event they did not return. This decorative mat is unusual and suggests the pride the owner may have felt about his status as a fighting soldier.
Many of the surgical sets used during the American Civil War were made to the specifications of t...
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Fleishman's depiction of the first Civil War battle relies on individual voices to give a human f...
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