1861-1865, civil war

During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.

An eighteen-year-old English girl finds her loyalties divided and all her resources tested as she and her friends experience the terrible physical and emotional hardships of the forty-seven day siege of Vicksburg in the spring of 1863.

Examines the political, cultural, and military aspects of the conflict that tragically divided the United States in the mid-nineteenth century.

Letters, diaries, memoirs, interviews, ballads, newspaper articles, and speeches depict life and events during the four years of the Civil War.

Text recounts the historic Civil War battle at Gettysburg and photographs capture a reenactment of that encounter, performed in 1988 in honor of the 125th anniversary.

Provides a day-to-day chronology of events of the Civil War, describes the weapons used and includes brief biographical information.

Presents the lives of courageous women who served as spies for the North and South during the Civil War, including Belle "The Siren of the Shenandoah" Boyd, Elizabeth "Crazy Bet" Van Lew, and Harriet Tubman.

Uses a variety of contemporary materials to describe and illustrate certain key events of the Civil War that took place during 1863, the third year of the conflict.

Uses a variety of contemporary materials to describe and illustrate the battles fought between January 1864 and April 1865 that led to the end of the Civil War.

Uses a variety of contemporary materials to describe and illustrate the early battles in the Civil War from the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861 to the conflict at Fredericksburg at the end of 1862.