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PathFinder:
Using primary and secondary sources, write a research based narrative about the Civil War from the point of view of a local person.

Home of theHiggins Hawks
Using Keen Vision and Fierce Hunting Skills to SOAR
(Seek Out Appropriate Resources)

Massachusetts & The Civil War

South Danvers Wizard - Jan.-July, 1864
A weekly newspaper published in Peabody.

Reminiscences of the 19th
Massachsuetts Regiment

The Harvard Regiment: 20th regiment of Massachsuetts Volunteer

The 15th Massachusetts
Volumnteer Infantry

Great Websites about the Civil War

The United States Civil War Center

The American Civil War Homepage
For standard Civil War information this a comprehensive, easy to use, well-linked site with many links.

The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
Divided into three parts: "The Eve of the War" sets the stage, "The War Years" illustrates its effect on community life based on "Primary Sources" such as Letters and Diaries, Church records, etc.

Coming to Higgins on April 23, 2002
CIVIL WAR ENCAMPMENT in the Library Courtyard
ALL 8th GRADE CLUSTERS WILL VISIT
Civil War Re-enactors Stanley & Linda Tremblay

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Peabody Cultural Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
The Tremblays have participated in several Civil War encampments. Stan portrays a soldier in the Massachusetts 19th Regiment. In particular, he focuses on Peabody soldier Moses Shackley, Jr. Linda represents the women volunteers that supported the troops, such as the women in Peabody's Ladies Soldiers' Aid Society.
Learn more about Moses Shackley, Jr.
and the local Ladies Soldier's Aid Society.

On April 24, the Pegasus cluster will attend a follow-up session in the Cullen Library with Stan Tremblay and Media Specialist S.M. Smoller. Funding provided by the Peabody Education Council.

Abolition and Slavery

The Civil War Center - Links to many sites about abolition and slavery

Art, Music and Entertainment during the Civil War

Poetry and Music of the War Between the States A wealth of information all in one spot on the poetry and music of both Union and Confederacy.	The Civil War Music Music played an important part in the Civil War.
The Civil War Center: Images and Art

Civil War Poems

Poems inspired by the Massachusetts 20th Regiment

Civil War Weaponry

Small Arms

Illustrations of Civil War weapons

Medicine during the Civil War

Civil War Battlefield Medicine

Photographs from the Civil War
Library of Congress: Selected Civil War Photographs
Technological Examples, Communication and Inventions during the Civil War

Balloons with the US Army

Civil War Inventions

Women during the Civil War

Civil War Women - Online Archival Collection	Women's Role in the Civil War
Women in the American Civil War	Clara Barton