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[Detail] City Point, Va. Brig. Gen. John A. Rawlins...

Lesson Preparation

Materials

• Bull Run by Paul Fleischman (class set)
• Primary Source Analysis Tool (two per student)
• Student computers with internet access (one per student or one per pair of students)
• Gallery of images

Resources

• Selected Civil War Photographs
  • Boy Drummer
  • Children on bridge
  • Children in front of church
  • Military family
  • Portrait of a Boy Soldier

• America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1862
  • Portrait of two children
  • Children of Lt. Meigs
  • Boy seated in chair with child
  • Two girls
  • Portrait of boy and girl
  • Portrait of family
  • Women with boy and girl
  • Wm. Cattell with five boys
  • Seated boy
  • Boy and girl holding books
  • George Stowell
  • Girl with doll
  • Seated girl
  • Portrait of two girls
  • Anne Roberts
  • Mabel Hubbard
  • Girl holding daguerreotype case
  • Three girls
  • T.C.P. Bradhurst
  • Benjamin Family

• Teachers Guide to Using Primary Sources
• Teachers Guide to Analyzing Photographs and Prints