American Culture: The Civil War

American Culture: The Civil War
An Internet Hotlist on The Civil War

created by marleni.mallol
Lehman College

Introduction
In addition to using books and magazines to find out about The Civil War, why not also use the power of the Internet? The links below will get you started.

The Internet Resources

Slaves in the war - Some served as soldiers, while others took action away from the battlefield. When the Civil War started, the congress passed a low allowing African Americans to serve in the military. It was after the Emancipation Proclamation, although African Americans made up only one percent of the North's population, by war's end nearly ten percent the Union Army was African American.
The civil war in 1896 - Thus, we hear of Lincoln's use of federal troops to make sure that Maryland didn't secede. We don't learn that Confederate troops occupied eastern Tennessee to keep it from splitting from the rest of the state.
civil war and slavery - The Civil War started from 1861-1863 with seven of the southernmost states already seceded from the union.

Content by marleni.mallol, marleni.mallol@gmail.com
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Last revised Sun Jul 12 17:28:29 US/Pacific 2009