Slavery and the Civil War

Exploring Amistad Timelines - www.sun.ac.za/forlang/bergman/real/amistad/history/msp/t_wel.htm

Contains much information on the Amistad and other information on slavery.  Some links no longer work, but most do.

Famous American Trials: Amistad Trials 1839-1840 - www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects.ftrials.amistad.amistd.htm

A basic account of the trial, maps of the Amistad voyage, newspaper accounts, biographies

The Peculiar Institution: A Resource Center - www.africana.com/specials/packages/peculiar/asp

Chronological analysis of slavery, the "peculiar institution," from  America's settlement until the abolition of slavery

Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War - www.civilwarletters.com/

A collection of letters sent from a Union Soldier to his friends and family.

Civil War Sites - Biographies, battles, pictures, & etc.

Civil War Battles

Civil War Letters Sites:

http://www.civil-war.net/pages/sullivan_ballou.asp

http://www.civil-war.net/users/samuel_cook/samuel_cook.asp

http://www.civil-war.net/searchlinks.asp?searchlinks=Letters%20and%20Diaries

http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/links/links6.htm

http://www.civilwarletters.com/letters_toc.html

Team S Reading

Library of Congress

Life as a Union Soldier

http://www.nps.gov/gett/gettkidz/yank.htm

http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/other/other/acw_inf.htm

http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/SlaveryAndEmancipation/blackunionsoldiers.html

Life as a Confederate Soldier

http://www.nps.gov/gett/gettkidz/reb.htm

http://www.civilwarhome.com/typicalconfedsoldier.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/1163/rebsoldier.html

Battles

http://www.tulane.edu/~sumter/

http://www.collectorsnet.com/cwtimes/1bullrun.htm

http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/LondonTowneES/Webquests/civwarwbq/cwresources.htm#Anchor-Battles-23240