Uniforms
Pictorial envelope depicting Union soldier joining the ranks. Pictorial envelope depicting Union soldier joining the ranks. Uniforms in the Civil War were as varied as the people who wore them. When the Civil War began in 1861, no one expected it to last for more than a few months. The Union army had only 16,000 standing soldiers, and the Confederates had no army at all at first. Both sides held recruiting drives to encourage men to join up. Because neither the North nor the South was prepared...
Civil War Quilts
Although most women weren't fighting on the battlefield during the Civil War, women played a hugely important role supporting the troops and keeping things together back home. As the men left home to fight, women struggled to keep farms going and businesses surviving, and to feed and clothe their families. It was often very difficult, especially for women on small farms who relied on everyone in the family for help. When times were particularly tough and food especially scarce, communities in...
Periscopes
One of the biggest innovations of the Civil War was a change in how war was waged. When the war began, everyone prepared to fight using the same methods that had been used in the past, from the Napoleonic wars and American Revolution to the War of 1812. Weapons in past wars had been so inaccurate and slow to reload that most of the fight- KNOW YOUR SLANG ing was very close. Armies marched toward each other in picket a guard or guard duty formation, then each set up two lines of fighters, the...
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1. In a heavy saucepan, combine molasses, sugar, and water. 2. Cook the mixture over low heat, stirring frequently until the thermometer reads 272 C, or until a small amount of the mixture cracks when dropped in cold water. 3. Remove the saucepan from heat and add butter, baking soda, and salt. Stir until ingredients are just blended. Don't overmix. 4. Pour the mixture into a large, shallow, buttered pan and allow it to cool down enough so that you can handle it. 5. Grease your hands with...
Telegraph And Morse Code
any historians consider the Civil War the first modern war not only because of innovations in I weapons and battle tactics, but also because of advances in communication. In 1844, Samuel Morse, a young New York inventor and successful painter, perfected a way to send coded messages from one location to another using an electromagnetic current, creating the first reliable telegraph. Morse also invented a code using a series of dots and dashes what we now know as Morse code to send messages along...
Popular Music
The most popular music in America during the Civil War was called minstrel music, which was based on two musical traditions African and Celtic Irish and Scottish . Minstrel music featured four main instruments banjos, fiddles, tambourines, and the bones literally, two pig or cow rib bones . Banjos were first brought to America by African slaves in the late seventeenth century, and their music became part of the culture of the South. Most of the white South was settled by Scottish and Irish...
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H Plantation owners would sometimes send slaves with musical talent to New Orleans or up North to be trained on violin so they could play at parties and dances. H Black folk music was also called contraband music, and was music sung or played by slaves on Southern plantations. Many Northerners heard this type of music for the first time during the Civil War and incorporated its style and sound like being sung in a minor key into new musical styles, such as the blues, after the war. H The most...