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Introduction: This lesson is designed to engage students in history. It introduces students to a variety of primary historical sources and show them how to evaluate and anlyze primary and secondary sources aobut the U.S. Civil War. This lesson asks students to look at number of primary sources such as letters pictures and muschis from the Civil War era and to anylzye those sources for clues about what daily life was like for a Civil War Soldier. In addition, this lesson asks students to use their knowledge from the web and class instruction to analyze one Civil War battle.

Conclusion: This activity helps students engage with history and shows them that it is more than a collection of disjointed facts and events. By exploring what Civil War life was like, students can develop a new appreciation for history and approach it from a different perspective.