1. Choosing Sides
   1. main readings
      1. (introductory New York Times assignment)
      2. United States at War: "Baltimore Riots"  (2 pages)
      3. United States at War: "Union Civil Liberties in the American Civil War"  (2 pages)
      4. United States at War: "Ex parte Merryman (1861)"  (2 pages)
   2. suggested readings
      1. DAH: "Civil War"  (section on "Enlistment and Conscription" only; about 1 page)
      2. EBO: "Delaware: History: Civil War and Aftermath" 
         (1 paragraph)
      3. EBO: "Kentucky: History: Civil War and Its Aftermath" 
         (first paragraph)
      4. EBO: "Maryland: History: The State"  (last paragraph)
          
2. "The Big Picture"
   1. main readings
      1. DAH: "Civil War"  (section on "Comparative Advantages" only; about 2 pages)
      2. United States at War: "Industrial Revolution"  (2 pages)
      3. United States at War: "Logistics in the American Civil War" 
         (5 pages)
      4. United States at War: "Anaconda Plan"  (1 page)
   2. suggested readings
      1. EBO: "American Civil War: The Military Background of the War: Comparison of North and South"  (1 page)
      2. DAH: "Civil War"  (section on "Military Strategy and Administration" only; about 1 page)
          
3. "First Blood"
   1. main readings
      1. United States at War: "Minie Ball"  (3 pages)
      2. American History: "First Battle of Bull Run"  (1 page)
   2. suggested readings
      1. United States at War: "Battle of Bull Run I (Manassas I)" 
         (3 pages)
      2. DAH: "Civil War"  (section on "The Early War" only;
         about 1 page)
      3. EBO: "American Civil War: The Land War: The War in 1861"
         (1 page)
          
4. Stalemate in the East
   1. main readings
      1. American History: "Second Battle of Bull Run"  (1 page)
      2. American History: "Stonewall Jackson"  (2 pages)
      3. American History: "Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862" 
         (1 page)
      4. ANB: "McClellan, George B."  (6 pages)
      5. DAH: "Emancipation Proclamation"  (2 pages)
      6. American History: "Ambrose Burnside"  (2 pages)
   2. suggested readings
      1. EBO: "American Civil War: The Land War: The War in the East in 1862"  (1 paragraph) and "The Peninsula Campaign"
         (1 page) and "Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) and Antietam" (1 page) and "Fredericksburg" (1 paragraph)
      2. American History: "Army of the Potomac"  (4 pages)
      3. American History: "Army of Northern Virginia"  (4 pages)
      4. ANB: "Jackson, Thomas Jonathan"  (3 pages)
          
5. The War in the West
   1. main readings
      1. United States at War: "Tennessee River: American Civil War"  (1 page)
      2. American History: "Fall of Forts Henry and Donelson" 
         (half a page)
      3. American History: "Battle of Shiloh"  (2 pages)
      4. American History: "Albert S. Johnston"  (2 pages)
      5. United States at War: "Battle of Island Number 10"  (3 pages)
      6. United States at War: "New Orleans: American Civil War" 
         (1 page)
   2. suggested readings
      1. EBO: "American Civil War: The Land War: The War in the West in 1862: Operations in Kentucky and Tennessee"  (2 pages)
      2. EBO: "American Civil War: The Land War: The War in the West in 1862: Trans-Mississippi Theatre and Missouri"  (1 page)
      3. DAH: "Civil War"  (section on "Union Progress in the Western Theater" only; about 1 page)
          
6. Life as a Soldier
   1. main readings
      1. United States at War: "Rations in the American Civil War" 
         (2 pages)
      2. American History: "Sanitation Movement"  (2 pages)
      3. United States at War: "Nursing in the Civil War"  (2 pages)
      4. American History: "Civil War Medicine"  (3 pages)

         when you search on this term you will find this article at the bottom of the page listed as a "Spotlight" under "Additional Resources"

   2. suggested readings
      1. National Museum of Civil War Medicine: "Exhibits" 
         (a few pages of text and many pictures)

         	look at the "virtual tours" -- #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, and #6 -- if you are using a high-speed internet connection
         	each of the "tours" is a large ".mov" file; downloading them with a "dial-up" connection is time-consuming

   3. A.P. readings
      1. American History: "Clara Barton"  (2 pages)
      2. United States at War: "Dorothea Dix"  (2 pages)
      3. United States at War: "U.S. Sanitary Commission in the American Civil War"  (1 page)
          
7. The "Home Front"
   1. main readings
      1. American History: "Trent Affair"  (2 pages)
      2. United States at War: "Minnesota Sioux Uprising"  (2 pages)
      3. United States at War: "Class Conflict"  (4 pages)
      4. United States at War: "Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight" 
         (2 pages)
      5. American History: "New York City Draft Riots"  (2 pages)
      6. United States at War: "Immigration during the American Civil War"  (2 pages)
      7. United States at War: "Copperheads"  (2 pages)
      8. United States at War: "Confederate Civil Liberties in the American Civil War"  (2 pages)
      9. United States at War: "Taxation in the American Civil War" 
         (2 pages)
      10. United States at War: "Prisoners of War in the American Civil War"  (4 pages)
      11. United States at War: "Espionage in the American Civil War" 
          (4 pages)
   2. suggested readings
      1. DAH: "Civil War"  (section on "Sustaining the Soldier and Civilian Populations" only; about 2 pages)
      2. DAH: "Inflation in the Confederacy"  (1 page)
      3. DAH: "Confederate States of America"  (7 pages)
      4. DAH: "Sanitary Commission, United States"  (1 page)
   3. A.P. readings
      1. EBO: "Milligan, Ex Parte"  (1 page)
      2. American History: "Jefferson Davis"  (2 pages)

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