Grade Range: 2-12Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Primary SourceDuration: 2 MinutesDate Posted: 6/15/2010
Willian G. Christie, a Union Soldier from Minnesota, relates his disgust over prejudice against black soldiers in his unit.
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...
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An emotional Civil War story about two soldiers who become friends.
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