Digital History
Digital History: Children and the Civil War
Digital History tells the story of children's lives during the Civil War through their own words. The eight sections are titled: Child Soldiers, Conditions in the Contraband Camps, The Southern Homefront, the Northern Homefront, Near the...
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Historical Scene Investigation: Children of the Civil War
Students analyze engaging documents written by children of the Civil War. After studying the documents, they are to complete various tasks as if they were there.
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Score: Not Just a Man's War: Diary of Carrie Berry
The text of diary entries written by Carrie Berry, a 10 year old girl living in Atlanta, Georgia during the Civil War. Her diary gives details of both the course of the war as she knows it, and her daily life. From the Center For...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Civil War Through a Child's Eye
Historical fiction and primary texts provide students with new perspectives on the Civil War era, specifically through the eyes of a child who lived during this time.