Did Anything Good Come Out of the Civil War? (Innovation Through Adversity)
by Philip Steele
In addition to putting an end to the inhumane institution of slavery, the Civil War also spurred important inventions that improved people s lives, such as canned food, pocket watches, federal paper currency, and standard sizes for shoes. Although medical technology lagged behind the development of new weapons that could kill and maim more soldiers than ever, there were advances in amputation techniques and anesthesia delivery. Additionally, the railroad and telegraph systems were hugely benefic...
The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls (Young Palmetto Books)
by Louise Meriwether
A brief biography of the slave who escaped to freedom with his family and other runaway slaves on a captured Confederate gunboat.
Union Infantrymen of the Civil War (Soldier's Life)
by John Langellier
Great Battle of Gettysburg (What Would You Do?)
by Landau, Elaine and Elaine Landau
She Believed She Could So She Did Bullet Journal
by Sasha Ann Good
The True Story of the Emancipation Proclamation (What Really Happened?) (What Really Happened? (Powerkids))
by Willow Clark
The Surrender at Appomattox (Cornerstones of Freedom: Second (Library))
by Tom McGowen
Details the events that led to General Lee's surrender to General Grant at Appomattox Court House, bringing an end to the Civil War.
The Civil War: Gettysburg and Other Eastern Battles 1863-1865 (Civil War: Essential Histories)
by Robert O'Neill and Robert K Krick
Volcano Beneath the Snow, A: John Brown's War Against Slavery
by Albert Marrin
Provides a short history of the Battle of Gettysburg and the commemorative address President Lincoln made there during the Civil War.
Louisa May Alcott is best known for penning Little Women, but few are aware of the experience that influenced her writing most-her time as a nurse during the Civil War. Caring for soldiers' wounds and writing letters home for them inspired a new realism in her work. When her own letters home were published as Hospital Sketches, she had her first success as a writer. The acclaim for her new writing style inspired her to use this approach in Little Women, which was one of the first novels to be se...
Black Civil War Soldiers (Jr. Graphic African American History)
by Susan K Baumann
Georgia During the Civil War (Spotlight on Georgia)
by Samuel Willard Crompton
Marathon, Hastings, Midway -- just a few of the major battles covered in this series, which introduces readers to the wartime engagements that changed the course of human history. Each book gives a historical account of a decisive battle -- its participants, the political climate leading to the engagement, and the deciding factors that ultimately led to a victory or defeat. The furthest northern advance by the Confederates was met with their defeat by Union forces, a defeat that was a harbinger...
Women's Roles During the American Civil War Women Patriots Grade 5 Children's Military Books
The story of the first Confederate victory in Kentucky. Sept 19,1861. Gen Zollicoffers Confederate troops destroy Camp Andrew Johnson, A Union recruitment camp.The first Confederate officer Lt Robert Powell was killed on Sept. 19,1861.
The True Story of the Civil War (What Really Happened?) (What Really Happened? (Powerkids))
by Willow Clark
Who Freed the Slaves? History 4th Grade Children's American Civil War Era History Books
by Baby Professor
Frederick Douglass (Famous African Americans) (Great African Americans S.)
by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack
Describes the life and work of the man who escaped slavery to become an orator, writer, and leader in the anti-slavery movement of the nineteenth century.