Grade Range: 5-12Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Primary SourceDuration: 2 MinutesDate Posted: 6/15/2010
Louis Myers, a Union Soldier from West Virginia, describes changes in his perspectives about War.
This video is part of the Price of Freedom learning resources package for use with the Comparing Confederate and Union Soldiers lesson plan. It was produced to accompany the exhibition The Price of Freedom: Americans at War, by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education
Photographs can be powerful connections to the past. Soldiers, for example often had their portra...
Union, conflict, US army, 19th Century, United States army, Confederacy, equipment, war, Confederate, Civil War, material culture, clothing, military, military history, Army, armed forces history, soldier, uniform, battle, costume
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