Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction -- James M. McPherson
	Student Resources

The U.S. Civil War on the Web: Chapter 8

To take a virtual tour of Harper’s Ferry, which is now a national park, see:

http://www.nps.gov/hafe/home.htm

To see pictures of the armory:

http://www.nps.gov/hafe/armory.htm

To see a turn-of-the-century photo of the spot in which John Brown holed up, go to:

http://165.83.219.72/hafe/detail.cfm?Image_No=hf%2D0057

For a more current look:

http://165.83.219.72/hafe/detail.cfm?Image_No=fort%2D95

To see a copy of the note Lee sent Brown demanding his surrender, go to:

http://www.nara.gov/exhall/originals/demand.html

To see Brown’s statement just before being hanged:

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/03/0306001r.jpg

To see an illustration of his hanging:

http://165.83.219.72/hafe/detail.cfm?Image_No=hf%2D0107

To read William Lloyd Garrison’s reaction to Brown’s death:

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/garrison.htm

One of the great fears of slave-owners was that their chattel would rise up against them. To read Harriet Ann Jacobs’ 1861 description of the fear that gripped South Carolina whites after Nat Turner’s rebellion thirty years earlier, go to:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h1519t.html

For a virtual tour of Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace in Kentucky, go to:

http://www.nps.gov/abli/sitesj.htm

To see the re-creation of Salem, Illinois, where Lincoln spent his early adulthood, go to:

http://www.lincolnsnewsalem.com/

For virtual tours of his home in Springfield, Illinois, and the neighborhood around it:

http://www.nps.gov/liho/home/home.htm http://www.nps.gov/liho/neigh.htm

To see the law office he shared with William Herndon in Springfield:

http://www.state.il.us/HPA/Sites/LincolnHerndonFrame.htm

To access Lincoln’s collected works, go to:

http://www.alincolnassoc.com/

To see what a Democratic ballot looked like:

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/staunton/harvest/images/demtick.gif

To hear the songs that Lincoln supporters, also called "Wide Awakes," sang during the 1860 election, go to the following site and click on "Song Database." You need the RealPlayer G2 plug-in to listen:

http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/pilot2.html

The Staunton (Va.) Republican Vindicator argued just days after Lincoln’s election that the South itself had brought on his success:

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/news/art.rv60/rvart41.gif