Photos & Perspectives of the Civil War: Lifestyle
Assignment
The features editor for the Lifestyle section has given you an assignment to write a feature article reporting on the lives of soldiers during the Civil War. Select two of the categories listed below and write a 250-300-word article that captures the viewpoint/perspective of your hometown newspaper. Before you write your feature article, you will need to do some research (the Resources section will help get you started).
*Photos courtesy of the Library of Congress. Click each photo to access it's bibliographic record.
*Photos courtesy of the Library of Congress. Click each photo to access it's bibliographic record.
Dining
- Eating & drinking images from the Civil War (from the Library of Congress)
- How the Civil War soldiers lived (from Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War)
- Life In A Civil War Army Camp (from Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War)
- Civil War foodways (from Food Timeline)
- Civil War food (from Harper’s Weekly, November 2, 1861 via Son of the South website)
- A taste of Civil War foods (from the Camden County [NJ] Historical Society via YouTube)
Hospitals
- Hospital images from the Civil War (from the Library of Congress)
- Hospital photographs (from The Civil War Home Page)
- Civil War Medicine (from the National Museum of Civil War Medicine)
- Civil War Medicine (from the Son of the South website)
Prisons
- Prison photographs (from the Library of Congress)
- Prison Times (from Treasures from the New-York Historical Society via the Library of Congress)
- Civil War Prisons (from Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War)
- Discipline in the Civil War Armies (from Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War)
- U.S. Civil War Prison Camps Claimed Thousands (from National Geographic News)
- The prison camp at Andersonville (from the National Park Service)
- Elmira Prison (from Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War)
