Great Collection of Lesson Plans

A quick post today just to share a resource that I found. I was doing some research for another blog post and came across this great collection of lesson plans related to the Civil War.

The collection is from Fitchburg State College and is called Teaching American History Program : Lesson Plans and Teaching Ideas for Sectionalism, Civil War and Reconstruction

Enjoy!

Free Resources Until April 30th!

The Alexander Street Press is providing FREE access to their online Civil War Collections until April 30th.

You can access the following Collections:

• The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
• The American Civil War Research Database
• Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines
• American Song

Try this, click The American Civil War Research Database then Click on: Analysis at the top of the page then click on Confederate and Union Losses Chart. You can view graphs of various statistics related to the Civil War, research specific regiments and get statistics (oh my) on soldiers.

For example, the following graph shows a comparison of Union and Confederate Losses of those who died or were killed in battle.


Why do you think there was a large increase in the number of Union soldiers killed in the early months of 1864?