Mr McCarthy's resource page for 7th grade
Civil War photos
- Civil War photos
- Over 1,000 Civil War Images, Photographs and Cartes de Visites including:
Army Life, United States and Confederate Government Officers, Union and Confederate
Generals and Soldiers, Civilians, Battle Field Photos, Casualties, Infantry
Units, Cavalry Units, Artillery Units, Engineering Units, Navy Units and Vessels,
Prisoners, Hospitals and Doctors, Factories, Quartermaster, Lincoln Assassination
Conspirators and much more.
- PBS
archive of Civil War photos A collection of nearly 200 images arranged
by topic.
- Selected
Civil War photographs at the Library of Congress Contains 1,118 photographs.
Includes scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle
after-effects. The collection also includes portraits of both Confederate
and Union officers, and a selection of enlisted men.Searchable by keyword.
Other civil war sites
- Causes
of the Civil War "This site was founded with the intent of collecting
copies of or links to as many primary documents from the period of the secession
crisis as is reasonably possible, with the goal of shedding light on the causes
of secession, hence of the war."
- Eyewitness
to the American Civil War Contemporary accounts of a variety of Civil
War events.
- Civil
war maps at the Library of Congress "Among the reconnaissance, sketch,
and theater-of-war maps are the detailed battle maps made by Major Jedediah
Hotchkiss for Generals Lee and Jackson, General Sherman’s Southern military
campaigns, and maps taken from diaries, scrapbooks, and manuscripts"
- Timeline
of the Civil War (Library of Congress.) Includes images and links to more
detailed information about some of the events and people.
- Another timeline
(from The History Place). Includes some images and links to more images.