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Civil War, U.S. (A-I)

Civil War, U.S. (J-Z)

  • African-American Regiment: 54th Massachusetts, included a son of Frederick Douglass - (see fifth paragraph)

  • America's Civil War: Unforgettable Sights

  • Amistad Incident:  A North/South disagreement over how to handle captured Africans pushed the United States closer to Civil War

  • Andersonville Prison: Infamous POW camp in Georgia - (see last two bullets)

  • Antietam, Battle of: Deadliest day of war (and in U.S. history)

  • Appomattox Court House: Virginia village was scene of CSA surrender

  • Army Disease: Addiction to morphine - (see fifth bullet from the bottom)

  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Event which stunned the nation

  • Barton, Clara: "Angel of the battlefield" - (see third paragraph)

  • Beauregard, P.G.T.: A hero of battles at Bull Run, Ft. Sumter

  • Bull Run, First Battle of War: A Confederate victory

  • Confederate States: Famous officers

  • Deadly War: Americans killing Americans led to huge casualties

  • Discharge Papers, Union: Example of

  • Draft Laws (1863):  Laws that favored rich over poor

  • Draft Riots (1863):  Deaths in New York City

  • Battle of the Crater:  Death and Destruction at Petersburg

  • Booth, John Wilkes: Capture and death of Lincoln's assassin

  • Burnside, Ambrose: "Not fitted to command an army," according to General Grant - (see fourth and fifth paragraphs)

  • Bull Run:  The First Battle of the Civil War

  • Camp Life:  Civil War soldiers in the field - photographs from the national archives

  • Cave-Dwellers of the Confederacy: Hiding from the South's "Home Guard"

  • Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence: Accepted Confederacy surrender

  • Chancellorsville: Annotated battle maps from U.S. Military Academy - (see bullets)

  • Chancellorsville, Brilliant Strategy: The South's high point of the war

  • Chancellorsville: Robert E. Lee's greatest victory

  • Civil War: Impact on America

  • Coal Miner's Battle Idea: Tunnel under Confederate lines, explode munitions - (see fourth paragraph)

  • Coal Miner's explosion: Union disaster at Petersburg

  • Confederacy School Books: Examples from southern archives

  • Confederate Currency:  Examples of Money Used by the Civil-War South

  • Conspiracy Trial: Plotters accused of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth were tried and executed

  • Fredericksburg: A Union Defeat

  • Fredericksburg: Photographs of mercy and death, from national archives

  • Grant, Ulysses S., Union General: Command Commission

  • Hood, John Bell: Resigned command

  • Home Guard:  Terror in the Confederate States

  • Hooker, Joseph: Union commander made inaccurate predictions, Chancellorsville

  • Irish Brigade: Unit decimated at Chancellorsville