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Who started the Civil War?: Comparing perspectives on the causes of the war: This lesson plans presents the account of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a confederate spy during the Civil War. Students are encouraged to find confirming and refuting evidence of her perspective on what caused the Civil War by browsing the Documenting the American South Collection of digitized primary sources.; Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies); By Meghan Mcglinn.

Averasboro Civil War Battlefield: Located on N.C. 82, 3 miles east of the town of Erwin, this battlefield museum has artifacts and information about the Civil War Battle of Averasboro.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Cooking in a Civil War camp: Civil War soldiers cook food at an encampment.; Format: image/photograph

Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate soldier: Students read the account of a private from Charlotte who served in the Civil War and grew tired of only hearing about the war from the perspectives of officers. After reading his experiences as a “man behind the gun” students will write their own point-of-view piece. They also have the opportunity to read other diary accounts from the war available through Documenting the American South.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Meghan Mcglinn.

CIvil War ambulance crew: An ambulance crew loads injured men into a horse-drawn ambulance during the Civil War. The date and place of this photo are unknown.; Format: image/photograph

North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction: Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina during the Civil War and Reconstruction (1860–1876). Topics include debates over secession, battles and strategies, the war in North Carolina, the soldier's experience, the home front, freedom and civil rights for former slaves, Reconstruction, and the "redemption" of the state by conservatives.; Format: book (multiple pages)

Civil War soldiers playing cards: At an encampment at Petersburg, Virginia, soldiers of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry play cards in front of their tents during the Civil War.; Format: image/photograph

Removing dead Civil War soldiers: At Cold Harbor, Virginia, African American men gather up the bones of Civil War soldiers killed in battle.; Format: image/photograph

Family at Civil War encampment: Family at an encampment of the 31st Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War in Washington, D.C., near Fort Slocum.; Format: image/photograph

Burned houses in Virginia, Civil War: In Hampton, Virginia, brick chimneys remain where houses have been burned by Union soldiers during the Civil War.; Format: image/photograph

Civil War conscription cartoon: This Civil War-era political cartoon, titled "Southern 'Volunteers'" protests conscription into the Confederate Army.; Format: image/cartoon

Civil War field hospital: A field hospital in Savage Station, Virginia, during the Peninsular Campaign of May–August 1862.; Format: image/photograph

African American soldiers: In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 4.10; After Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, some 180,000 African American soldiers fought for the Union cause in the Civil War.; Format: article

CSS Neuse: An informative website that provides drawings, primary sources, and articles about the CSS Neuse and its role in the Civil War. Also find out about Richard Caswell, the first governor of the independent state of North Carolina.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Historic Stagville: Read about the history of the plantation, the Bennehan and Cameron families who owned the plantation, the slave community, the structures on the plantation, and the effect the Civil War had on Stagville Plantation.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Civil War camp scene showing winter huts and corduroy roads: Photograph of a Union army camp during the Civil War shows winter huts as well as a corduroy road.; Format: image/photograph

Bennett Place: This is Civil War historic landmark was the location of the largest troop surrender of the Civil War.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Civil War nurses and officers of the U.S. Sanitary Commission: Nurses and officers of the U.S. Sanitary Commission pose under a tree in Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 1864, during the Civil War.; Format: image/photograph

Drawing of hanging: Drawing of a Civil War deserter being hanged from a tree.; Format: image/illustration

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