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Siteseen: Civil Conflict: Civil War Uniforms: Union Soldiers
Using photographs, article provides facts detailing the Civil War uniforms worn by Union Soldiers.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: American Civil War Battles
Collection of digital resources gathered from public libraries, archives, and museums about American Civil War battles. Explore Civil War military conflicts on land and sea, from Fort Sumter to Appomattox. Use maps and documents to...
Library of Congress
Loc: Photographs of Women During the Civil War
Many pictures of women at different locations during the Civil War.
Library of Congress
Loc: American Memory: Civil War Photographs Bull Run
These are fourteen actual photographs taken during the Civil War at the battlefield of Bull Run.
Library of Congress
Loc: Prints and Photographs: Liljenquist Civil War Photographs
View an entire collection of ambrotype and tintype photographs of Union and Confederate soldiers.
University of Virginia
E Text Center: American Civil War Collection
Collection of primary documents--letters, diaries, photographs, and newspaper articles of both the Union and Confederate.
Cornell University
Cornell University: Library: Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War
This collection of photographs from the Civil War is divided into seven different themes. Along with each picture, there is a lengthy description, the name of the photographer, and the date taken.
Other
Mike Lynaugh: Original Photographs From Civil War
A series of original photos from the Civil War.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: First Ivorian Civil War
This site provides a comprehensive summary of the events leading up to the First Ivorian Civil War (2002-2007) and of those that occurred during the war. Statistics, photographs, and references are featured.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Civil War I: Slaves, Making of African American Identity: V. 1
Photographs of slaves during the Civil War and war memories of former slaves during that conflict. Links to two separate resources can be found here, each focusing on the war memories of former slaves.
Library of Congress
Loc: African American Odyssey: The Civil War
Prints, photographs and documents form the Library of Congress collections tell a story of African Americans and the Civil War including contrabands of war, emancipation, soldiers and missionaries, and fighting for freedom.
Other
Images of the Civil War: Prisoners and Prisons
Photos and brief descriptions of prison and prisoner scenes from the Civil War.
PBS
Pbs: The Civil War, Images
Students can take digital primary source images and using a step-by-step tutorial create an online movie telling a story about the Civil War.
Other
Treasure Net Image Collection: Georgia: Civil War Photos
View four different Civil War Era photos (1863 - 1865) of destruction in Georgia.
Kidport
Kidport Reference Library: Uniforms of the Civil War
Shows actual photographs of the uniforms of the Union and Confederate soldiers in the Civil War.
Civil War Home
Home of the American Civil War: u.s.sanitary Commission and Other Relief Agencies
The origins of the United States Sanitary Commission is discussed and its work in the aid of Union soldiers of the Civil War, trying "to do what the Government could not" for soldiers. From "The Photographic History of the Civil War" by...
Library of Congress
Loc: Prints and Photographs: Glimpses of Soldiers' Lives
A collection of nineteen original photographs of soldiers who served during the Civil War. Each photograph is accompanied by a short essay that includes biographical information about their Civil War experiences and, where possible,...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Abraham Lincoln: The Face of a War
A detailed lesson plan of Abraham Lincoln to celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth. In a PDF file, the complete instructional activity is provided along with visual aides needed for the instructional activity. Draws on...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: A War to End Slavery: Gettysburg, Vicksburg and Children at War [Pdf]
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that takes learners through an investigation of two key battles of the Civil War--Vicksburg and Gettysburg. Students determine why these battles...
Other
Photography Hall of Fame: Biography of Mathew Brady
Resource presents a comprehensive biography on famous photographer Matthew Brady, including examples of his early photographic work and Civil War work.
Library of Congress
Loc: Learning Page: Pre Civil War African American Slavery
Get an overview of slavery in the South, but also see physical evidence in photographs and historical narratives from slaves of the time.
Other
Images of the Civil War: Railroads
This TreasureNet.com site has many pictures of railroads and locomotives and includes descriptions of the pictures.
Virginia Historical Society
Virginia Historical Society: Waging War: The Battlefront: The First Modern War?
Discusses some of the new military and other technologies that were used during the Civil War in Virginia.
Kidport
Kidport Reference Library: Transportation During the Civil War
Here are photographs and short descriptions of the horses, wagons, bridges, railroads, and steamboats used for transportation in the Civil War.