Primary Source Perspectives of the Civil War: Article Resources

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On the Battlefield
First Battle of Bull Run, 1861

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Battle of Antietam, 1862

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Gettysburg Campaign, 1863

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Petersburg & the War’s End, 1864-65

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War Life
Camps

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Hospitals

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Prisons

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People in the News
Union General Ulysses S. Grant

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Union General George McClellan

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Union General William Tecumseh Sherman

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Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
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Confederate President Jefferson Davis

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Confederate General Robert E. Lee

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Confederate General Stonewall Jackson

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Confederate spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow

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Civil War photographer Mathew Brady

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Civil War Nurse Clara Barton

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African American Soldiers

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