Prologue
Was It Worth the Cost?
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Creating Context
The Civil War • Timeline • Concept Vocabulary
Cluster One: 1861–1862: What Were They Fighting For?
Thinking Skill: Analyzing
- Fort Sumter Falls (diary)
- Mary Boykin Chesnut
- Reflections on the Civil War (essay)
- Bruce Catton
- The Pickets (short story)
- Robert W. Chambers
- First Battle of Bull Run (press report)
- William Howard Russell
- The Drummer Boy of Shiloh (short story)
- Ray Bradbury
- Shiloh: A Requiem (poem)
- Herman Melville
- The Colored Soldiers (poem)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
Cluster Two: 1863: A Turning Point?
Thinking Skill: Comparing and Contrasting
- Freedom to Slaves! (eyewitness account)
- James McPherson
- A Debt of Honor (short story)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Great Draft Riots (article)
- Susan Hayes
- Gettysburg (historical fiction)
- Gary Paulsen
- The Gettysburg Address (speech)
- Abraham Lincoln
- William Clarke Quantrill (article)
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Cluster Three: 1864–1865: What Were the Costs of the War?
Thinking Skill: Summarizing
- The Blue and the Gray (short story)
- Louisa May Alcott
- At Chancellorsville (poem)
- Andrew Hudgins
- Lee Surrenders to Grant (eyewitness account)
- Horace Porter
- Farewell Order to the Army of Northern Virginia
(speech)
- Robert E. Lee
- Death of Lincoln (eyewitness account)
- Gideon Welles
Cluster Four: Thinking on Your Own
Thinking Skill: Synthesizing
- Petition from Kentucky Citizens on Ku Klux Klan Violence (petition)
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- Still a Shooting War (excerpt)
- From Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horwitz
- Change of Heart (article)
- Patrick Rogers
- Slavery in Sudan (article)
- Hilary MacKenzie
- At Gettysburg (poem)
- Linda Pastan
