Grade Range: 5-12Resource Type(s): Interactives & Media, Primary SourceDuration: 2 MinutesDate Posted: 6/15/2010
Spotswood Rice, an African American Union soldier, threatens the Southern woman who holds his daughter as a slave.
This video is part of the Price of Freedom learning resources package for use with the Comparing Confederate and Union Troops 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...
battle, uniform, armed forces history, soldier, Confederacy, Union, United States army, military history, US army, Confederate, clothing, war, equipment, costume, Army, material culture, military, 19th Century, conflict, Civil War
An emotional Civil War story about two soldiers who become friends.
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