DK - The American Civil War

A VISUAL HISTORY THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR UPDATED AND EXPANDED ...

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DORLING KINDERSLEY Senior Editors Jemima Dunne, Paula Regan Senior Art Editor Gadi Farfour Picture Research Jo Walton dkimages R ...

■^ FORT SUMTER The South’s Challenge The industrialized economy of the North. The South’s agrarian economy and larger land area. ...

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Supply, Transportation, and Logistics Supply trains of 3,000 wagons, 30 miles (48km) long, follow an army. Supply problems in th ...

The Sick Soldier The Smithsonian holds many Civil War-era photographs by noted cameramen Timothy O’Sullivan, George Barnard, Geo ...

Foreword A unifying thread woven indelibly throughout the fabric of America is our compelling need to remember the Civil War. In ...

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AN IMPERFECT UNION 1815 — 1860 As America expanded across the West, the future of slavery split churches, political parties, and ...

hen the South Carolina state convention voted unanimously on December 20, 1860, to secede from the Union, it was the culmination ...

the population and the national wealth. Southern cotton planters and Northern merchants prospered from sales of cotton, from the ...

AN IMPERFECT UNION TIMELINE 1776– AUGUST 1831 Nat Turner leads a slave revolt in Virginia. Some 60 whites are killed before the ...

TIMELINE 1776– APRIL 1854 The Emigrant Aid Society is formed in Massachusetts to help antislavery settlers move to Kansas to ens ...

In 1793, Eli Whitney traveled south to take up a tutoring post on a plantation. Intrigued by the time-consuming manual labor of ...

THE STATE OF THE NATION At the start of the Civil War, about a quarter of U.S. factory workers were women. Five years later, the ...

PIONEERS GAZE IN AWE AT THE NEW WORLD In his iconic painting, Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way (1861), Emanuel Leutze ...