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Classroom ConnectionsCivil War Kit Photos
A Soldier's Haversack explores everyday life in the camp (food, housing, and music) and the intensity and misery of battle through letters, pictures, recipes, and artifacts.
The Soldier's Aid Society Package highlights the role of Vermont women during the Civil War. In 1861, Abraham Lincoln issued a plea to the "Loyal Ladies of America" to help provide supplies to the Union Army. This section contains a reproduction package that one of these societies might have sent to the troops.
The Medical Haversack explores medical practices during the Civil War. Here again, Vermont features prominently in this story as Henry Janes, of Waterbury, VT, served as the Head Field Surgeon at Gettysburg. He later became director of the Sloan General Hospital in Montpelier-one of three hospitals built for recuperating Civil War soldiers in Vermont. The Town Archive box represents the typical files that might be found in any Vermont community. An historian has created brief summaries based on the documents in this box to describe common Civil War topics that might be gathered from local sources. The primary source materials and historical summaries can be as self-contained lessons, or to prepare students for fieldwork of their own. Appendices |
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