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The 16th President Learning Activities

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A Learning On-Line Activity by Howard Taylor

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The Civil War
CLICK THESE OBJECTS IN THE PICTURE DISPLAY FOR SPECIAL INFORMATION:
Click the special areas of the pictures below to find out information about Fort Sumter and the start of the great war:

Click the Fort Sumter Objects on the Picture:

Old Glory Blue Field        Old Glory Stripes     Fort --Middle Section--3rd window from left

Sail Boat--main mast      Clouds       Fort--Right Section--4th window from left

Small shed on right     General Sheridan's Saddle       Telegraph Key       Life Mask

Lincoln's top hat  

 

Picture from the Legends of America Timeline

Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.  This fort would be bombarded by the new Southern Confederate forces from the shores.  The fort would be lost and a Confederate flag would replace Old Glory.  The Civil War would now start.

 

Mechanical Telegraph Key, as used during the Civil War

General Phil Sheridan's horse, Winchester, ridden during the Civil War

Bronze life mask of Abraham Lincoln (1860) by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1886

                   Lincoln top hat worn at Ford Theater the night of his assassination,

April 13, 1865

All in the Legacies Collection, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

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CLICK THE "MILITARY OBJECT"    FOR THE CIVIL WAR SUBJECT
 

Abraham Lincoln: Commander & Chief

   

The Air Balloon for spying
The Department of War & the War Room  

The Railroad System
The Generals from West Point   New Weapons
Great Battles lost and won   River and Sea ships, weaponry and the Ironclads
Statistics on Casualties   Surrender and the end
Black Soldiers of the Civil War   The Gettysburg Address

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