Civil War Video Clips, Songs, Movies, and Related Literature Video Clips
The Civil War in Four Minutes (excellent for beginning ELL students!!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN85StJ2mTU
America’s Civil War (56:00), Discovery Streaming: http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=A24B478B-832A-435D-9A6F-1F315DB86888&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
America at War: Charge and Defeat (56:00) Discovery Streaming: http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=30F02A0A-A504-4CC9-B964-08EB42F11254&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
The American Civil War, The War Years (1:11:19), Discovery Streaming: http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=91DFC094-352E-485F-8D06-8465F521C50F&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
Christmas and the Civil War (49:02), Discovery Streaming: http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=3CDF7B0F-57FE-457A-ABA8-6BD11FC65260&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
The Bloodiest Year of the Civil War (49:02), Discovery Streaming: http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=C6084BD0-8F70-453D-88E7-1F2CCE325354&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln (14:53), Discovery Streaming: http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=29FD7C32-9E6C-4B29-A33C-6ACF9862AB98&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
Gettysburg (1993) movie clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=VGZ-QU4iDds&feature=related
Glory (1989) first battle of movie clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=BddQvZW2A_s&feature=related
Glory (1989) the last battle of movie clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rawwMraLLl4
North and South Battle at Bull Run Creek mini-series clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1oruoUCy6k
“Letter to His Sister,” Robert E. Lee, April 20 1961. pg. 454-455, History Alive!: The United States Through Industrialism
“Personal Memoirs,” Ulysses S. Grant, 1885. p. 455, History Alive!: The United States Through Industrialism
“A Confederate Soldier: Letter to his sister written near Ripley, Mississippi,” Robert W. Banks, October 1, 1962, p. 456, History Alive!: The United States Through Industrialism
“A Yankee Soldier: Letter to his wife,” Sullivan Ballou, July 14, 1961, pg. 456-457, History Alive!: The United States Through Industrialism
Related Literature
Will S. Hays’ “Drummer Boy of Shiloh” in EMC
Paul Fleischmann’s Bull Run
Gary Paulsen’s Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers
Jim Murphy’s The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War
Seymour Reit’s Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy
Delia Ray’s Behind the Blue and Gray: The Soldier's Life in the Civil War