TABLE
PROLOGUE
WAS
OF
IT WORTH THE COST ?
CONTENTS
MARY BOYKIN CHESNUT
CREATING CONTEXT
The Civil War
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Timeline
9
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Concept Vocabulary
CLUSTER ONE 1861-1862: WHAT WERE THEY FIGHTING FOR?
Thinking Skill
4
21
ANALYZING
Fort Sumter Falls
M ARY B O Y K I N C H E S N U T
diary
22
essay
28
short story
37
press report
44
short story
48
poem
55
poem
56
Reflections on the Civil War
B RUC E C AT T O N
The Pickets
R OB E R T W. C H A M B E R S
First Battle of Bull Run
W IL L I A M H O WA R D R U S S E L L
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
R AY B R A D B U RY
Shiloh: A Requiem
H ER M A N M E LV I L L E
The Colored Soldiers
P AU L L A U R E N C E D U N B A R
Responding to Cluster One
Writing Activity
JUSTIFICATION OF WAR
60
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CLUSTER TWO 1863: A TURNING POINT?
Thinking Skill
61
COMPARING AND CONTRASTING
Freedom to Slaves!
J AM E S M C P H E R S O N
eyewitness account
62
short story
64
article
67
historical fiction
72
A BR A H A M L I N C O L N
speech
76
William Clarke Quantrill
article
78
A Debt of Honor
F. S C O T T F I T Z G E R A L D
The Great Draft Riots
S USA N H AY E S
Gettysburg
G ARY P A U L S E N
The Gettysburg Address
Responding to Cluster Two
Writing Activity
80
A LETTER HOME
CLUSTER THREE 1864-1865: WHAT WERE THE COSTS OF THE WAR? 81
Thinking Skill SUMMARIZING
The Blue and the Gray
L OU I S A M AY A L C O T T
short story
82
poem
98
At Chancellorsville
A ND R E W H U D G I N S
Lee Surrenders to Grant
H OR A C E P O R T E R
eyewitness account
100
Farewell Order to the Army of Northern Virgina
R OB E R T E. L E E
speech
105
eyewitness account
10 6
Death of Lincoln
G IDE O N W E L L E S
Responding to Cluster Three
Writing Activity
SUMMARIZING THE CIVIL WAR
112
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CLUSTER FOUR THINKING
Thinking Skill
ON YOUR
OWN
113
SYNTHESIZING
Petition from Kentucky Citizens
on Ku Klux Klan Violence
petition
114
Still a Shooting War
from Confederates in the Attic
excerpt
TONY HORWITZ
119
Change of Heart
P AT R I C K R O G E R S
article
132
article
137
poem
140
Slavery in Sudan
H I L A RY M A C K E N Z I E
At Gettysburg
L I N D A P A S TA N
Responding to Cluster Four
142
Close Reading
143
Using Textual Evidence
150
Comparing Texts
152
Author Biographies
155
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