Click2History - Unforgettable Sights: - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>UNFORGETTABLE SIGHTS:<br> AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="civil_war_ch2.htm">2. A CHANGING LANDSCAPE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="civil_war_ch3.htm"><b>3. THE MEN WHO FOUGHT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="civil_war_ch4.htm"><b>4. CAMP LIFE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="civil_war_ch5.htm">5. "TOP BRASS" - CONFEDERATE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="civil_war_ch6.htm">6. "TOP BRASS" - UNION</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="civil_war_ch7.htm">7. SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="civil_war_ch8.htm">8. LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <blockquote><p><font face="times new roman" size=3><b><i>How oft have I thought of home.<br> That place that I formerly so little appreciated.</i></b><br><br> Thomas D. <a href="http://www.civilwarhome.com/newtonletter.htm" target="_blank"> Newton</a><br> Confederate Soldier<br> May 28, 1862</b></font></p></blockquote> <center> <table width=90%> <tr> <td align=left valign=top><font face="arial, helvetica" size=3 color=000000>Home. It was the place where Americans <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/dhistorymaps/images/ACivilWar/cw1.jpg"><b>fought</b></a> their deadliest war. Mass slaughter ended the lives of 618,000 “Yanks” and “Rebs” who disagreed over issues like states’ rights. About <a href="http://www.harvardmagazine.com/archive/01mj/mj01_rn_3.html" target="_blank"><b>2%</b></a> of the American population died. (That equates to roughly 5 million people today.) <p>Photographs at the U.S. National Archives and the Library of Congress depict the <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/4/2/04-0184a.gif" target="_blank"><b>horror</b></a> (like <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/5/05-0430a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Gettysburg</b></a>) of America’s tragic internal conflict. Thousands of extraordinary pictures have been digitized and are available for unrestricted use.</p> <p>What does some of the best evidence, held by America’s Official Archives, reveal?</p> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="civil_war_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p><br>  </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </table> </table>  </body>