Essential Questions Specialty Area 12
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Part I: Northern Leadership
1. Who was Abraham Lincoln and where was he from?
2. Who was Winfield Scott and where was he from?
3. Who was George McClellan and where was he from?
4. Who was Ulysses S. Grant and where was he from?
5. Who was William Tecumseh Sherman and where was he from?
Your Thesis: SO WHAT? While completing your research what conclusions did you draw? Why does this topic matter, how do the events you studied change history? Write a one paragraph thesis that addresses what is important about this subject & what should people remember. |
Part II: Southern Leadership
6. Who was Jefferson Davis and where was he from?
7. Who was Robert E. Lee and where was he from?
8. Who was Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and where was he from?
9. Following the Civil War how were Confederate Generals and Soldiers treated? That is, did they serve jail time, were they hanged as traitors, were they allowed to return to their homes, etc.... Explain. Your Thesis: SO WHAT? While completing your research what conclusions did you draw? Why does this topic matter, how do the events you studied change history? Write a one paragraph thesis that addresses what is important about this subject & what should people remember. |
Web links to Research, Project Helps and Online Presentation Assitance
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The "Project Assistance" button above will give you access to numerous websites that can assist you in creating web based projects. Regardless of your chosen project take a few minutes to review the available web sites, you might find something you were not previously aware of that will be of interest to you!
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The "Willowcreek Library Texts and Tools" button above will link you to the Alexandria Library. Within the Alexandria library any books with the call number starting with "REF" or a number are informational texts, conversely any call number starting with "FIC", "PB", or "SC" are fictional texts. To access books tagged for the Civil war, go to the search page, type in "ness civ war", and hit search. on the top right hand corner click on the "find more" box. To assist in your search, go to the top drop down menu "unsorted" and sort by "Call Number", this will categorize the fiction and informational texts,posting the informational texts (excluding reference texts) on the top; in addition it will indicate the order of the texts on the stacks. Identify the call number to find the text on the stacks.
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Page Numbers in the Text Specialty Area
Call to Freedom
Pages: 492-493 Page: 504. Pages: 469-473 Pages: 478-:503 American History Pages 566-601 |
Discovering Our Past
Chapter 17 |
The War through Lincoln's Eyes
Created by: Kerry Gallagher for the Teaching American History Grant
Instructor Created Materials
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Readings on Abraham Lincoln
Videos & additional info on Abraham Lincoln: http://www.biography.com/people/abraham-lincoln-9382540
Readings on Jefferson Davis
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Readings on George McClellan
Readings on Ulysses S. Grant
Readings on Robert E. Lee
Videos & additional information on Robert E Lee
http://www.biography.com/people/robert-e-lee-9377163 |
Student Created Materials
Student Presentation on the Key leaders of the Civil War written and produced by Makayla. Supporting documentation is posted below.
Key Individuals Part I: Civil War
Suggested Websites for Specialty Area 12
Suggested Novels for Specialty Area 12
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Title: Which Way Freedom?
Author: Joyce Hansen Obi never forgot the sound of his mother’s screams when he was sold away from her. Making plans to run way to find her was a secret game he liked to play with his friend Buka, an old African who lived at the edge of the farm. When the Civil War began, Obi knew it was time to run—or be sold again. If he was caught, he might be killed or worse. But if he stayed, he might never know freedom. Title: True North: a novel of the underground railroad
Author: Kathryn Lasky Two Girls. Two Worlds. One Dream: Freedom. Lucy would rather fish with her grandpa than be a part of her sister’s high society wedding. Hundreds of miles south a young girl named Afrika is willing to risk her life for freedom. Lucy stumbles on a family secret; that many are involved with the Underground Railroad and she too is called into the ranks. Lucy and Afrika grow closer together as they both search for freedom following True North. Title: Behind the lines
Author: Isabelle Holland During the New York Draft Riot of 1863, a young Irish Catholic girl helps an African American make a daring escape from an angry mob. Title: Brady Author: Jean Fritz ; illustrated by Lynd Ward. A young Pennsylvania boy takes part in the pre-Civil War anti-slavery activities.870145550698119371 Puffin Books, New York, 1987, 1960
Title: Bright freedom's song: a story of the Underground Railroad
Author: Gloria Houston In the years before the Civll War, Bright discovers that her parents are providing a safe house for the Underground Railroad and helps to save a runaway slave named Marcus. Title: Eliza's freedom Road: An Underground Railroad diary Author: Jerdine Nolen A 12-year-old slave girl journals her journey via the Underground Railroad from Alexandria, Virginia, to freedom in St. Catherines, Canada.
Title: Freedom stone Author: Jeffrey Kluger With the help of a magical stone from Africa, a thirteen-year-old slave travels to the battle of Vicksburg to clear her father's name and free her family from bondage.
Title: Good fortune Author: Noni Carter Brutally kidnapped from her African village and shipped to America to be a slave, a young girl plots her escape over time to seek freedom in the North.
Title: How I found the strong: a Civil War story Author: Margaret McMullan. Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking.
Title: Mine eyes have seen
Author: Ann Rinaldi. In the summer of 1859, fifteen-year-old Annie travels to the Maryland farm where her father, John Brown, is secretly assembling his provisional army prior to their raid on the United States arsenal at nearby Harpers Ferry. Title: I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly. Dear America The Diary of Patsy a Freed Girl
Author: Joyce Hansen Synopsis: Readers of Patsy's diary will come away with a human portrait of what is was like to be a freed girl in the south during Reconstruction. More importantly, they'll meet a bright, young girl whose love for reading and writing is contagious. Patsy's courageous story of making dreams come true and believing in yourself transcends the place and time of South Carolina in 1865. Title: In My Father's House
Author: Ann Rinaldi Synopsis: For two sisters growing up surrounded by the Civil War, there is conflict both outside and inside their home. Title: Numbering all the Bones
Author: Ann Rinaldi Synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation in 1864, turns to Clara Barton. the eventual founder of the American Red Cross, for help in finding her brother Neddy who ran away to join the Northern war effort is rumored to be at Andersville Title: When will this Cruel War Be Over?; the Civil War DIary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia.
Author: Barry Denenberg Synopsis: The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War. Title: With Every Drop of Blood
Author: Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-Collier, Christopher, 1930- Synopsis: While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by an African-American Union soldier. Title: Wind on the River; a Story of the Civil War
Author: Laurie Lawlore Synopsis: Private John Griffith Allen is a 15-year-old Confederate soldier from South Carolina. He survives the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 only to be captured by Yankee soldiers and sent as a prisoner of war to the notorious death trap called Point Lookout. After taking the oath of allegiance, switching sides, and becoming a "Galvanized Yankee," Griff is sent to remote Fort Rice on the upper Missouri River in Dakota Territory. There, he struggles who he is while surviving the rigors of a hostile new environment and a terrifying Indian War. His encounter with two half-sisters living at Fort Rice challenges his prejudices and forces him to reconsider what it means to be a hero. Title: Before the Creeks Ran Red
Author: Carolyn Reeder Synopsis: Through the eyes of three different boys, three linked novellas explore the tumultuous times beginning with the secession of South Carolina and leading up to the first major battle of the Civil War. (Fort Sumter) |
Title: Harriet Tubman: The Life of an African-American Abolitionist
GRAPHIC NOVEL Author: Shone, Rob.Ganeri, Anita, 1961 A biography, in graphic novel format, of Harriet Tubman Title: Harriet Tubman and the underground Railroad GRAPHIC NOVEL
Author: Martin, Michael, 1948-Hoover, Dave, ill. Anderson, Bill, ill Presents a comic book version of the story of Harriet Tubman, a woman born into slavery who escaped and then risked her freedom to help others along the Underground Railroad. Title: Dear Ellen Bee: a Civil War scrapbook of two Union spies
Author: Mary E. Lyons & Muriel M. Branch. A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew. Elijah of Buxton Author: Christopher Paul Curtis In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Title: Forty acres and maybe a mule Author: Harriette Gillem Robinet Pascal, who is about twelve years old, joins other former slaves in a search for a farm and the freedom that it promises.
Title: Freedom songs: A tale of the Underground Railroad Author: Trina Robbins
Fourteen-year-old Sarah is a slave in Maryland during the 1850s. She knows her only chance at freedom is to head North, where slavery is illegal. To get there, though, Sarah needs help from members of the Underground Railroad. But who can she trust? Title: A house divided
Author: Marshall Poe ; illustrated by Leland Purvis Two brothers, whose goal was to carry on the quest of their deceased abolitionist parents, reunite for a thrilling moment in Lincoln's personal and our country's political history. Title: An unlikely friendship: a novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley
Author: Ann Rinaldi. Relates the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln, raised in a wealthy Virginia family, and Lizzy Keckley, a dressmaker born a slave, as they grow up separately then become best friends when Mary's childhood dream of living in the White House comes true Title: The war within: a novel of the Civil War
Author: Carol Matas. In 1862, after Union forces expel Hannah's family from Holly Springs, Mississippi, because they are Jews, Hannah reexamines her views regarding slavery and the war Title: Amelia's War.
Author: Ann Rinaldi Synopsis: When a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless it pays an exorbitant ransom, twelve-year old Amelia and her friend find a way to save the town. Title: Numbering all the Bones.
Author: Ann Rinaldi Synopsis: Thirteen-year old Eulinda, a slave on a Georgia Plantation, turns to Clara Barton, the eventual founder of the American Red Cross, for help in finding her brother, Neddy who ran away to join the Northern war effort and i Title: A light in the storm; the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin
Author: Karen Hesse Synopsis: In 1860 and 1861, while working gin her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state. Title: Soldier's heart: a novel of the Civil War
Author: Gary Paulsen Synopsis: In June of 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard left his farm and enlisted in the Minnesota Volunteers. He was fifteen. He didn't rightly know what a "shooting war" meant, or what he was fighting for. All he knew is that he wanted a great adventure. Title: Across Five Aprils
Author: Irene Hunt Synopsis: The story of a young boy, his family, and his neighbors who live in a backwoods Illinois community during the period of the Ci Title: Watcher in the Piney Woods
Author: Elizabeth Jones Synopsis: It's 1865. Near the end of the civil War, Cassie Willis learns that her brother Jacob has been killed while fighting in the Confederate army. Torn by grief, she runs to the secret thicket in the Piney woods that she and Jacob loved- and she stumbles smack into the hide-out of a crazed deserter spying on her family, planning to steal from them, or worse... Title: The War Within; a novel of the Civil War
Author: Carol Matas Synopsis: In 1862, after union forces expel Hannah's family from Holly Springs, Mississippi, because they are Jews, Hannah reexamines her views regarding slavery and the war. Title: Abraham's Battle: A novel of Gettysburg
Author: Sara H. Banks Synopsis: In 1863, as a Civil War approaches his home in Gettysburg and he realizes that a big battle is about to being, a freed slave named Abraham decides to join the ambulance corps of the Union Army. |
See Below For Available Films and Podcasts Related to Specialty Areas 29
The American Civil War: The Road to Ft. Sumber
The American Civil War: The Road to Ft Sumter. Published by the History Channel and A&E, 2008. Directed by Mike Eddington
Civil War Journals: Pt 1, Destiny at Ft. Sumter
The American Civil War's origins can be located at Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. The battle itself had no casualties, but the consequences would be documented for centuries to come. Hosted by Danny Glover. Civil War Journals, Published by the History Channel and New Video, 1993
Civil War Journal: The Battle of 1st Bull Run
Both sides learn the horror of war at the First Battle of Bull Run.Hosted by Danny Glover. Civil War Journals, Published by the History Channel and New Video, 1994
The Civil War, by Ken Burns | The Cause, 1861 | Part 1
The stage is set for war as the nation begins to tear apart. Opposition by the North to slavery in the South fuels a bitter debate, and the country wrestles with conflicts between the Union and States' rights. Commanding center stage are twering figures-- Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. From Harper's Ferry to Fort Sumter, the first chapters unfold in a conflict from which there would be no turning back.
The Civil War, by Ken Burns | A Very Bloody Affair, 1862 | Part 2
The war to preserve the Union becomes a war to free the slaves, and political fights become as fierce as those on the battlefield. The chains of slavery begin to crumble while the Confederacy struggles for recognition, and its resourceful army hands the Union critical defeats. New Weapons and strategies emerge, as ironclad ships do battle and Ulysses S. Grant wins at Shiloh. With unprecedented ferocity, the age of modern warfare takes hold.
The Civil War, by Ken Burns | Forever Free, 1862 | Part 3
Dark clouds of defeat hover over the Union Army as President Lincoln prepares the landmark Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves. While Lincoln waits for a victorious moment for this announcement, Union troops lose repeatedly to the brilliant generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. Finally, with a victory at Antietam Creek, the bloodies day of the war gives way to the dawn of emancipation. The definition of freedom in America would never be the same again.
The Civil War, by Ken Burns | Simply Murder, 1863 | Part 4
Their names are etched forever in history-- Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg-- some of the Civil War's stormiest battlegrounds. While life in the South becomes more desperate, Northern opposition to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation also grows. The combat spearheaded by Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee brings the war to a fever pitch, and both sides strain with the weariness of so many years under siege.
The Civil War, by Ken Burns | Universe of Battle, 1863 | Part 5
The turning point of the war is reached at the legendary Battle of Gettysburg, one of the most awesome battles ever waged. While 150,000 men face death in Pennsylvania's fileds, the war spreads westward to Chattanooga and Chickamauga. As the Union drats more soldiers, riots rage in New York, and African American troops join the fight. At Gettysburg's cemetery, President Lincoln articulates the poignant hope "that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
The Civil War, by Ken Burns | Valley of the Shadow of Death, 1864 | Part 6
It's a chess game between two masters-- played out on the board of life. The Union's General Grant and the Confederacy's General Lee are a study in contrasts as they vie for victory. In one month's time, their armies suffer more casualties than in three years of war, but the impasse continues. A standoff at Petersburg and General Sherman's campaign through Georgia push the death toll higher, and hospitals are strained beyond belief. Lincoln's prospects for re-election fade, along with hope for the Union's survival.to edit.
The Civil War, by Ken Burns | Most Hallowed Ground, 1864 | Part 7
The presidential campaign of 1864 finds a nation truly divided against itself, and Lincoln seems doomed to defeat. The Union armies have stalled, and people have turned against the war. Unexpectedly, eleventh-hour victories sway the votes Lincoln's way, and the flame of Confederate independence flickers out. In a personal blow to General Lee, his Virginia mansion is turned into Arlington National Cemetery, to assure that no one would ever live in the home again.
The Civil War, by Ken Burns | War Is All Hell, 1865 | Part 8
Sherman's legendary "March to the Sea" portends the war's end, searing the heartland of Georgia and the Carolinas. Key Southern cities fall under General Grant's command, and General Lee's troops have nowhere left to flee. In the stillness of Appomattox Court House, Lee's dramatic surrender to Grant finally unfolds. As the news echoes through Washington, a plan for the South's revenge is hatched in the angry mind of a man named John Wilkes Booth.
The Civil War, by Ken Burns | The Better Angels of Our Nature, 1865 | Part 9
In the bittersweet days after the war's end, the Union's triumphs quickly turns to sorrow. Just five days after victory, President Lincoln dies by the hand of John Wilkes Booth, and the nation's story is again changed forever. This final episode surveys the fates of the people who left their indelible marks on this remarkable era. And it leaves us with insights into the meaning of a conflict that helped make us the nation we are today.
Shiloh Fiery Trail
The official National Park Service orientation film on the April 1862 Civil War Battle of Shiloh. Produced by the NPS. 2013, Directed and Edited by William Gearry
National Geographic Live! : Winston Groom: The Battle of Shiloh 1862
Author Winston Groom writes that Shiloh was the first battle in the Civil War that shocked Americans into seeing how long and how terrible the war would become. Presented at a National Geographic Conference in Washington D.C. April 23, 2012
Why the Confederacy Lost: The Experiences of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia
Watch video of the talk, "Why the Confederacy Lost: The Experiences of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia."
Excellent view of Northern and Southern Strategies during the War.
Joseph Glatthaar, the Stephenson Distinguished Professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spoke at Vanderbilt University Feb. 8, 2011, as part of a College of Arts and Science-sponsored series of lectures about the Civil War. Glatthaar teaches about the Civil War and is the author of "General Lee's Army: From Victory to Defeat."
Excellent view of Northern and Southern Strategies during the War.
Joseph Glatthaar, the Stephenson Distinguished Professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spoke at Vanderbilt University Feb. 8, 2011, as part of a College of Arts and Science-sponsored series of lectures about the Civil War. Glatthaar teaches about the Civil War and is the author of "General Lee's Army: From Victory to Defeat."
"War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad
The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119)
This lecture probes the reasons for confederate defeat and union victory. Professor Blight begins with an elucidation of the loss of will thesis, which suggests that it was a lack of conviction on the home front that assured confederate defeat, before offering another of other popular explanations for northern victory: industrial capacity, political leadership, military leadership, international diplomacy, a pre-existing political culture, and emancipation. Blight warns, however, that we cannot forget the battlefield, and, to this end, concludes his lecture with a discussion of the decisive Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July of 1863.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction
08:10 - Chapter 2. Resources, Leadership, Diplomacy: Why The North Won
22:16 - Chapter 3. Frail Nationalism? The Loss-of-Will Theory on Why the South Lost
30:42 - Chapter 4. The Bloody Battle of Gettysburg
44:41 - Chapter 5. Union Victory at Vicksburg and Conclusion
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses
This course was recorded in Spring 2008.
This lecture probes the reasons for confederate defeat and union victory. Professor Blight begins with an elucidation of the loss of will thesis, which suggests that it was a lack of conviction on the home front that assured confederate defeat, before offering another of other popular explanations for northern victory: industrial capacity, political leadership, military leadership, international diplomacy, a pre-existing political culture, and emancipation. Blight warns, however, that we cannot forget the battlefield, and, to this end, concludes his lecture with a discussion of the decisive Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July of 1863.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction
08:10 - Chapter 2. Resources, Leadership, Diplomacy: Why The North Won
22:16 - Chapter 3. Frail Nationalism? The Loss-of-Will Theory on Why the South Lost
30:42 - Chapter 4. The Bloody Battle of Gettysburg
44:41 - Chapter 5. Union Victory at Vicksburg and Conclusion
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses
This course was recorded in Spring 2008.
But There Was No Peace: The Aftermath of the Civil War
Uploaded on Sep 10, 2009
President Abraham Lincoln called for "a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." Three years later, after the turmoil and violence of the early Reconstruction years in the South, General Ulysses S. Grant accepted the Republican presidential nomination with the words: "Let us have peace." The apparent irony of the Civil War's commander in chief and the nation's foremost military leader calling for peace illustrates the paradox at the core of what we call the humanities. The pain of warfare and the possibility of peace form the theme of this lecture. The road to a just and lasting peace often leads through violent and relentless war. This lecture explores this paradox with a case study of the Reconstruction era after the American Civil War.
Stanford University:
http://www.stanford.edu/
President Abraham Lincoln called for "a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." Three years later, after the turmoil and violence of the early Reconstruction years in the South, General Ulysses S. Grant accepted the Republican presidential nomination with the words: "Let us have peace." The apparent irony of the Civil War's commander in chief and the nation's foremost military leader calling for peace illustrates the paradox at the core of what we call the humanities. The pain of warfare and the possibility of peace form the theme of this lecture. The road to a just and lasting peace often leads through violent and relentless war. This lecture explores this paradox with a case study of the Reconstruction era after the American Civil War.
Stanford University:
http://www.stanford.edu/
Lecture: Dr. Nina Silber on Women and the American Civil War
Published on Jun 5, 2013
Skip through the two minute introduction. Dr. Nina Silber, author of Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War and Gender and the Sectional Conflict, offers a complex account of the activities and attitudes of women in the North during the Civil War, and compares their role to that of women in the Confederacy. Northern women's wartime participation in partisan politics, and their service as active contributors to the war effort, would prove to be crucial starting points for the late-nineteenth-century feminist struggle for social and political equality.
This event took place at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on February 18, 2012. Video courtesy Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.
www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/video/
Skip through the two minute introduction. Dr. Nina Silber, author of Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War and Gender and the Sectional Conflict, offers a complex account of the activities and attitudes of women in the North during the Civil War, and compares their role to that of women in the Confederacy. Northern women's wartime participation in partisan politics, and their service as active contributors to the war effort, would prove to be crucial starting points for the late-nineteenth-century feminist struggle for social and political equality.
This event took place at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on February 18, 2012. Video courtesy Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.
www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/video/
Women Civil War Soldiers -Educational short
Written and directed by María Agui Carter
Excerpt from the feature documentary Rebel, about Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Civil War soldier and spy. It is estimated about a thousand women disguised themselves as men to fight as soldiers for the Union and for the Confederacy. Countless other women also served as secret agents
Excerpt from the feature documentary Rebel, about Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Civil War soldier and spy. It is estimated about a thousand women disguised themselves as men to fight as soldiers for the Union and for the Confederacy. Countless other women also served as secret agents
Dr. Dennis Denenberg:Elizabeth Blackwell real American hero
Little Bethany cannot grow up to be wonder woman - but she can grow up to be Elizabeth Blackwell. Elizabeth Blackwell was the first US female doctor.
Dr. Dennis Denenberg is a speaker, educator, historian, author, and co-founder of The Heroes Club(www.theHeroesClub.org). He presents ideas for teaching kids with the lessons of real American heroes and the virtues they exemplify. Presented November, 2007
Dr. Dennis Denenberg is a speaker, educator, historian, author, and co-founder of The Heroes Club(www.theHeroesClub.org). He presents ideas for teaching kids with the lessons of real American heroes and the virtues they exemplify. Presented November, 2007
Storyteller Tim Lowry, Clara Barton, Angel of the Battlefield
Published on Mar 14, 2013
Tim, a professional story teller tells of Clara Barton's work on the battlefied serving the Army of the Potomac
Tim, a professional story teller tells of Clara Barton's work on the battlefied serving the Army of the Potomac
Frederick Douglass - From Slave to Abolitionist
Frederick Douglass was a Black African American Slave who became a social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement in the fight for freedom & equality for slaves which lead to Abraham Lincoln's Emaciation proclamation.ere to edit. (Source unknown)
Voices of the Civil War Episode 18: "New York Draft Riot"
The New York City Draft Riot, similar to the Detroit Draft Riot, was caused by the exemption clause of the Enrollment Act of Conscription and racial tensions between African Americans and white citizens. On July 13, 1863, rioters gathered outside of the Provost Marshal office, attacking the officers, setting fire to the building, and eventually burning down the entire block. African Americans throughout the city were beaten, tortured, and even killed. The riot ended on July 16, 1863 after 105 people died and at least 11 black men were lynched.
Published on Jul 18, 2013, Charles H. Wright Museum of Black History
Published on Jul 18, 2013, Charles H. Wright Museum of Black History
Civil War 360 : Civil War Draft Brings Chaos to New York City
Produced by the Smithsonian Network in 2013
Short on volunteers for the Union cause, Congress instituted a military draft, but when the draft wheels arrived in New York City on July 11th, 1863, the poor revolted and riots ensued.
Short on volunteers for the Union cause, Congress instituted a military draft, but when the draft wheels arrived in New York City on July 11th, 1863, the poor revolted and riots ensued.
Civil War Ironclads & Hollywood
This five minute segment from the film "Sahara", by Clive Cussler, directed by Adam Sange, depicts the Ironclads at the end of the war.
