Click2History - Unforgettable Sights - America's Civil War - Chapter 3

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>AMERICA'S CIVIL WAR</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 3 - THE MEN WHO FOUGHT</font></b></p> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Who were the fighters of the American Civil War? What was life like for them?</p> <p>The National Archives contain many pictures - mostly of Union soldiers. What follows is a representative sampling:</p> <ul><li>An <a href="http://www.nara.gov/nara/nn/nns/civil008.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Army battery</b></a> stands at drill in Ringgold, Georgia.<br><br></li> <li><a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/4/05-0366a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Company "H"</b></a> of the 44th Indiana Infantry.<br><br></li> <li><a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/6/05-0555a.gif" target="_blank"><b>2nd Maine</b></a> Infantry at a camp site.<br><br></li> <li>The 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery created "<a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/6/05-0579a.gif" target="_blank"><b>havoc</b></a>" with a 32-pound shell at <a href="http://www.nara.gov/nara/nn/nns/civil095.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Fredericksburg</b></a>, Virginia.<br><br></li> <li>Company of 21st Michigan Infantry - also called "<a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/8/05-0721a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Sherman’s Veterans</b></a>."<br><br></li> <li><a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/4/05-0368a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Members</b></a> of the 21st Michigan Infantry.<br><br></li> <li>A Regimental <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/4/05-0306a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Drum Corps</b></a>. <br><br></li> <li>114th Regiment of the Pennsylvania <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/4/3/04-0203a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Volunteers</b></a> - at Headquarters for the Army of the Potomac. 1863.<br><br></li> <li><a href="http://www.nara.gov/nara/nn/nns/civil005.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Army engineers</b></a>, from the 8th New York State Militia, pose in front of a tent.<br><br></li> <li><a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/3/05-0217a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Company "E"</b></a> of the 22nd New York State Militia, near Harpers Ferry, Virginia. (Harpers Ferry, where the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers <a href="http://www.nara.gov/nara/nn/nns/civil110.jpg" target="_blank"><b>converge</b></a>, is now in the state of West Virginia.)<br><br></li> <li>Captain Otis and the <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/3/05-0233a.gif" target="_blank"><b>22nd New York Infantry</b></a> at Maryland Heights, Harpers Ferry.<br><br></li> <li><a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/4/05-0327a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Officers</b></a> of the 164th and 170th New York Infantry.<br><br></li> <li><a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/6/05-0516a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Flag</b></a> of the 8th Pennsylvania Reserves.<br><br></li> <li>At Camp William Penn, Pennsylvania, the 26th U.S. "<a href="http://www.nara.gov/nara/nn/nns/civil006.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Colored Volunteer</b></a> Infantry" was on parade.<br><br></li> <li><a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/4/05-0341a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Headquarters</b></a> of "F" Company, 11th Rhode Island Infantry, at Miners Hill, Virginia.<br><br></li> <li>Men <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/9/05-0815a.gif" target="_blank"><b>in the trenches</b></a> before Petersburg, Virginia.<br><br></li> <li><a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/2/05-0172a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Battery Rodgers</b></a>, a fort on the Potomac River, below Alexandria.<br><br></li> <li>Federal troops <a href="http://www.nara.gov/nara/nn/nns/civil025.jpg" target="_blank"><b>build</b></a> a bridge across the Tennessee River at Chattanooga in March of 1864.<br><br></li> <li><a href="http://www.nara.gov/nara/nn/nns/civil052.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Sailors and Marines</b></a> on board the U.S. gunboat <i>Mendota</i> in 1864.<br><br></li> <li>Men aboard the <a href="http://www.nara.gov/nara/nn/nns/civil057.jpg" target="_blank"><b><i>CSS Manassas</b></i></a>, an armored ram.<br><br></li> <li>Wounded soldiers, <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/4/05-0360a.gif" target="_blank"><b>in the hospital</b></a>, at a time when morphine was widely used for pain. (At the end of the war over 400,000 men had "<a href="http://www.bartleby.com/65/mo/morphine.html" target="_blank"><b>Army Disease</b></a>" - morphine addiction.)<br><br></li> <li><a href="http://www.nara.gov/nara/nn/nns/civil036.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Amputations</b></a> in the field were more common than most people realize.<br><br></li> <li>Interior <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/3/05-0247a.gif" target="_blank"><b>view</b></a> of Carver Hospital, Washington, D.C.<br><br></li> <li><a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/5/6/05-0562a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Convalescent camp</b></a> near Alexandria, Virginia.<br><br></li> <li>When a military tour of duty was finished, the soldier was discharged. Follow the link to an example of a <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/40/19/40-1821a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Civil War Discharge</b></a> from February, 1863.<br></ul> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="civil_war_ch2.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="civil_war_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="civil_war_ch4.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>