Bob Rees - The Civil War

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Burke Davis, The Civil War, Strange and Fascinating Facts , (New York: FairfaxPress, 1982).

Philip Katcher and Rick Scollins, Flags of the American Civil War (Reed InternationalBooks Limited, 1992).

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Harriet Jacobs (writing as Linda Brent)Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.First published January 1861 privately in Boston Mass. Republished Jan 2010 Indo-EuropeanPublishing.

Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself,Cleveland, Hamilton, Rewell & Co. 1883.

Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom 1855. Republished Jan 2010 Indo-EuropeanPublishing.

. Robert Underwood Johnson (Ed.) Battles and Leaders of the Civil War publishedPennsylvania 1887. (originally published in Century Magazine).

. George Skoch Inside Andersonville: An Eyewitness Account of the Civil Wars MostInfamous Prison Published Civil War Times 2007.

. Keppel Hagerman, 1996, Dearest of Captains: a biography of Sally Louisa Tompkins(White Stone, Virginia. Brandylane Publishers, 1996)

. Dolly Sumner Lunt, A Womans Wartime Journal, An Account of the Passage Overa Georgia Plantation of Shermans Army on the March to the Sea, as Recorded in theDiary of Dolly Sumner Lunt. (1918) used in Buel, Clarence, and Robert U. Johnson(eds.), Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol.IV (originally published in CenturyMagazine, 1888; reprint ed., 1982)

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. Verbal information from Mr Robin Wichard, expert Civil War historian and (Confederate)re-enactor.

Heidler, David Stephen, Jeanne T. Heidler, and David J. Coles, eds. Encyclopediaof the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History . Santa Barbara,Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2000.

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Ward, Geoffrey C., Ric Burns, and Ken Burns. The Civil War: An Illustrated History .New York: Knopf, 1990.

www.loc.gov
Visit the website of the Library of Congress. This is the official U.S. government records library, containing a huge collection of original documents and pictures.

www.civilwarhome.com
This huge Civil War website is easy to navigate. Sections include an overview of the war, a list of battles, biographies, medical facts, essays, figures for casualties, letters, naval war details, other site links, strategy and tactics, army details, and stories of army life.

www.americancivilwar.com
This is another very large site about the Civil War that includes indexes, original works, biographies, direct access to battle information, a Kids Zone, and resource materials.

www.civil-war.net
This website provides thousands of pages, including interactive features, a links database, official records, books and movie recommendations, photos database, battle maps, Union regimental histories, figures for regimental losses, biographies, census information, and personal collections.

www.eyewitnesstohistory.com
This general history site has a section on the Civil War, including letters and diaries from people who were there at the time.

The Civil War (Hollywood, Calif.: PBS Home Video, distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment,2011; originally shown 1990).

A television miniseries by the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, this isa very detailed and thorough account of the war using contemporary photographs andactors speaking the actual words that people like Lincoln, Lee, and Grant said orwrote at the time.

Gettysburg (Burbank, Calif.: Warner Home Video, 2000; originally shown 1993).

Originally made as a television miniseries, this examines the events of the Battleof Gettysburg in great detail. The armies are played by reenactors whose hobby isto accurately re-create events from the Civil War.

Glory (Culver City, Calif.: Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2006; originally released1989).

This movie is one of the few films to depict the participation of African Americansoldiers in the Civil War. It draws from the letters of Robert Gould Shaw, the 25-year-oldson of Boston abolitionists who volunteered to command the all-black 54th MassachusettsRegiment.

The Red Badge of Courage (Burbank, Calif.: Warner Home Video, 2003; originally released1951).

This movie is based on a book written in 1894 by Stephen Crane. It tells the storyof a young man about to go into battle for the first time. He worries about how hewill behavewill he be a coward? It stars Audie Murphy, who in real life was themost decorated U.S. soldier in World War II.

If you want to find out more about the Civil War and its causes, you could try researchingthe following topics:

• slavery and the slave trade, including reading Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet BeecherStowe
• Shermans March to the Sea
• families split by the Civil War
• the Civil War archives of the Library of Congress.

Catton, Bruce. American Heritage: A Short History of the Civil War . New York: DellPublishing, 1963.

Heidler, David Stephen, Jeanne T. Heidler, and David J. Coles, eds. Encyclopediaof the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History . Santa Barbara,Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2000.

Neil, and Steve Hyslop. Eyewitness to the Civil War: The Complete Historyfrom Secession to Reconstruction . Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2006.

Miller, Francis Trevelyan, Robert S. Lanier, and Henry Steele Commanger, eds. ThePhotographic History of the Civil War . 10 vols. New York: The Review of Reviews,1912.

TimeLife Books. The Civil War . 28 vols. Alexandria, Va.: TimeLife Books, 1987.

Ward, Geoffrey C., Ric Burns, and Ken Burns. The Civil War: An Illustrated History .New York: Knopf, 1990.

The Library of Congress
www.loc.gov

The American Civil War Home Page
www.civilwarhome.com

The American Civil War.com
www.americancivilwar.com

Spartacus Educational
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk

The Civil War Home Page
www.civil-war.net

Eyewitness to History
www.eyewitnesstohistory.com