Discover the people, battles, and politics of America's bloodiest conflict, and explore its causes, chapters, characters, and consequences
With a topic on every page, Civil War Visual Encyclopedia tells the story of the war using simple explanations and stunning photographs. Profiles on decisive battles, strategic maps, political leaders, military commanders, naval vessels, uniforms, weapons, and equipment shine a light on the key events and other turning points during the five years of fighting.
Inside the pages of this children’s civil war book, you’ll discover:
• Full-page profiles about key figures and battles
• Civil War-era photography and illustrations depicting important events and artifacts
• Accurate historical information, faithful presentation of African American history in the context of the Civil War
• Unusual and remarkable stories such as the Thanksgiving drummer boys and accounts of the war through personal letters
Children will be excited to learn about famous figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Robert E. Lee, battles such as Gettysburg, and gain insight into reasons for the war and the viewpoints of the opposing sides. This book also provides children with a fascinating history of how railways, the telegraph were used to fight the war and literature and music that this conflict produced.
More lives were lost in the Civil War than in any other in American history. Filled with vivid insights into this historic conflict - from a day in the life of a plantation worker in the south to a personal diary entry of a Union soldier on the action-packed front lines - Civil War Visual Encyclopedia invites young readers to witness the war unfold in a striking new way. This is the ultimate guide for children to the war that changed the USA forever.
Author(s): DK
Edition: 1
Publisher: DK Children
Year: 2021
Language: English
Commentary: Vector PDF
Pages: 160
City: New York, NY
Tags: Children; History
CONTENTS
The Civil War
The course of the War
CHAPTER 1 BEFORE THE WAR
What caused the War?
The North-South Divide
Free and slave states
Slavery
Abolitionists
Eyewitness: Frederick Douglass
The sale of enslaved people
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Dred Scott decision
Harriet Tubman
The Underground Railroad
John Brown attacks Harpers Ferry
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Slave power
Lincoln becomes president
Southern states leave the Union
CHAPTER 2 THE WAR
The War starts
The attack on Fort Sumter
West Point Military Academy
Civil War flags
Recruiting soldiers
The First Battle of Bull Run
Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
Eyewitness: Charles William Dustan
Railroads in the War
Union blockade
The armed forces
Confederate uniforms
Union uniforms
Forts Henry and Donelson
The clash of the Ironclads
The Battle of Shiloh
Drummer boys
Ulysses S. Grant
David Glasgow Farragut
Using guns
The bombardment of Fort Pulaski
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign
Life on the front lines
Susie King Taylor
Louisa May Alcott
The Peninsula Campaign
Balloon Corps
The Second Battle of Bull Run
Eyewitness: Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley
Civil War music
Robert Edward Lee
The Confederacy’s use of slave labor
Civil War literature
The Maryland Campaign
The Battle of Antietam
George Brinton McClellan
The Emancipation Proclamation
The War’s women
Fighting in disguise
Jonathan Letterman
Medicine
Medical equipment
The Battle of Fredericksburg
Eyewitness: Mary Boykin Chesnut
The Battle of Stones River
The Battle of Chancellorsville
Eyewitness: J. E. B. Stuart
The Combahee Ferry raid
The Battle of Gettysburg
Field artillery
Camp Letterman
The Siege of Vicksburg
United States Colored Troops
US Colored Troops flags
Eyewitness: Robert Gould Shaw
The New York City draft riots
The Telegraph
The Battle of Chickamauga
Civil War news
George Henry Thomas
The Chattanooga Campaign
Immigrant outfits
Photography
A national holiday: Thanksgiving
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
The Western Theater
Civil War currency
Eyewitness: John Ross
American Indians in the War
Andersonville prison
The Battle of the Wilderness
The Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse
The Battle of Cold Harbor
Confederate spies, raiders, and scouts
Union spies, detectives, and scouts
The Siege of Petersburg
Early’s incursion into Maryland
The Battle of Mobile Bay
Taking Franklin and Nashville
The Atlanta and Savannah Campaigns
Confederate commanders
Union commanders
The Thirteenth Amendment
The fall of Richmond
Eyewitness: James Henry Gooding
Lee surrenders at Appomattox
Civil War stamps
The assassination of Lincoln
CHAPTER 3 AFTER THE WAR
The aftermath
The South in ruins
The African American struggle
Memorial Day
Eyewitness: Jourdon Anderson
Constitutional amendments
Grant elected president
Hiram Rhodes Revels
CHAPTER 4 REFERENCE SECTION
Battle facts
Remembering the War
GLOSSARY
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
