Unit 5:

THE CIVIL WAR

1861-1865

                                             

 


 
Image: A. Lincoln

"...but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive,
and the other would accept war rather than let it perish,
and the war came."

 Image: J. Davis

Abraham Lincoln, 2nd Inaugural Address
4 March 1865

Grant                 Lee

 

CIVIL WAR LINKS:

Civil War Info. & Activities-QUIZ YOURSELF!!!

Gilder Lehrman Exhibits - Civil War Sketchbook

Camp Life: Civil War Collections from Gettysburg

Clara Barton: American Civil War Women

Selected Civil War Photographs

Civil War Timeline

Quotes for Unit 5: The Quote above and...

"...this nation under God shall have a new birth of  freedom; that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth." -President Abraham Lincoln from The Gettysburg Address, 1863-

 

Poem for Unit 5 Write in Script!!

(Go on to back of cover page if no room.)

O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman, 1865

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O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;

  
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;  
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,  
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:  
    But O heart! heart! heart!          5
      O the bleeding drops of red,  
        Where on the deck my Captain lies,  
          Fallen cold and dead.  
  

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O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;

  
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;   10
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;  
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;  
    Here Captain! dear father!  
      This arm beneath your head;  
        It is some dream that on the deck,   15
          You’ve fallen cold and dead.  
  

3


My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;

  
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;  
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;  
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;   20
    Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!  
      But I, with mournful tread,  
        Walk the deck my Captain lies,  
          Fallen cold and dead.

***Written about the death of Abraham Lincoln and the irony that the one person who should be able to rejoice and be proud that the Civil War was over and ended in victory wasn't able to feel the satisfaction of the accomplishment.

 

Other Songs for Unit 5: (This is not for your notebook-Use poem above only!!!!)

1) Battle Hymn of the Republic (Union) -Julia Ward Howe, 1861-

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,

He hath trampled out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.

He hath loosed the fatefu8l lightning of his terrible swift sword.

His truth is marching on.

Glory, glory halleluja.                 Glory, glory halleluja.           

Glory, glory halleluja, his truth is marching on.

                     **During the early days of the Civil War, Howe heard Union soldiers singing John Brown's Body.  The melody stayed with her and she wrote the words to this song in 1861.

2) Dixie (Confederacy) -Daniel D. Emmet, 1859-

I wish I was in the land of cotton, old times there are not forgotten, look away, look away, look away, Dixieland.

In Dixieland where I was born in, early on one frosty mornin', look away, look away, look away, Dixieland.

Then I wish I was in Dixie, hooray, hooray.

In Dixieland I'll take my stand, to live and die in Dixie.

Away, away, away down south in Dixie.

Away, away, away down south in Dixie.

   ***This song was originally written for a traveling minstrel show.  It became popular with Confederate troops during the Civil War.

 

Unit 5 Objectives

 

     

 

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