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 * ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Websites __ A Nation Divided-The Battle of Gettysburg-Weaponry-Retrieved January 26th, 2008 http://library.thinkquest.org/17525/weaponry.htm__ __   This specific web page gives valuable information using both written and visual information. For one interested in knowing the kinds of weapons used at the Battle of Gettysburg and how they worked and the damage they could inflict, this is the website to go to. It has pictures and information on the guns, ammunition, and cannons that were used in the battle. American Civil War-Gettysburg-Retrieved January. 26th, 2008 http://www.americancivilwar.com/getty.html __ __ Without a doubt, one of the best websites that offers detailed information on all the aspects of the Civil war, especially the Battle of Gettysburg. With pictures, videos, maps, and lists of books, etc., almost any type of information you need concerning this battle is found here. It also provides links to other websites if you need any additional information. __

Books __   Bilby, Joseph G (2007). //Small Arms at Gettysburg: Infantry and Cavalry Weapons in America's Greatest Battle. // Westholme Publishing.  This book covers all of the individual soldier's weapons--muskets, rifle-muskets, carbines, repeaters, sharpshooter arms, revolvers, and swords--providing a detailed examination of their history and development, technology, capabilities, and use on the field at Gettysburg. Here we learn that the smoothbore musket, although beloved by some who carried it, sang its swan song, the rifle-musket began to come into its own, and the repeating rifle, although tactically mishandled, gave a glimpse of future promise. This is the story of the weapons and men who carried them into battle during three days in July 1863. __ = Freemon, Frank R. (2001). // Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care during the American Civil War // = = Chicago, IL. University of Illinois Press = =  = =  This unusual history of the Civil War takes a close look at the battlefield doctors in whose hands rested the lives of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and at the makeshift medicine they were forced to employ. A medical doctor and a credentialed historian, Frank R. Freemon combines poignant, sometimes horrifying anecdotes of amputation, infection, and death with a clearheaded discussion of the state of medical knowledge, the effect of the military bureaucracy on medical supplies, and the members of the medical community who risked their lives, their health, and even their careers to provide appropriate care to the wounded.Freemon examines the impact on major campaigns - Manassas, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Shiloh, Atlanta - of ignorance, understaffing, inexperience, overcrowded hospitals, insufficient access to ambulances, and inadequate supplies of essentials such as quinine. Presenting the medical side of the war from a variety of perspectives - the Union, the Confederacy, doctors, nurses, soldiers, and their families - "Gangrene and Glory" achieves a peculiar immediacy by restricting its scope to the knowledge and perceptions available to its nineteenth-century subjects. =  Film Gettysburg Battle video from the film “Gettysburg” (htp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGZ-QU4iDds)  The epic film presents one of the most dramatic reenactments of the Battle ever shown in Motion Picture History. This 7 ½ minute clip shows the realistic nature of this horrific event in our Nation’s history. The movie stars Martin Sheen and Tom Berenger (as General Robert E. Lee and Lt. Gen. Joshua Chamberlain, respectively).

Chris Walker

WEBSITES http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/index2.htm This website includes a biographical timeline, essay, photo technique descriptions, and a collection of portraits by the American legend of photography. A valuable resource for those interested in early American photography. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/ This website not only offers a biography, career summary and portrait of Matthew Brady. It also has a good historical timeline of Brady photographs of the Civil War. Included with these photographs is a concise historical account of the photographs themselves. BOOKS Garrison Webb. Brady’s Civil War. A Collection of Civil War Images Photographed by Matthew Brady and his Assistants. The Lyons Press, Connecticut, (2002). Perhaps the definitive book on Brady and his photographic chronicle of the Civil War. In this book we have a vivid and often gruesome pictorial accounting of the horrors of the Civil War. The supporting text is also informative, albeit a distinct Union bias is apparent. A wonderful resource for those interest in Brady or photography. Frassanito William A. Gettysburg: A Journey in Time. Charles Scribner’s & Sons, New York, (1974). A unique example of photographic detective work in which the famous battle is re-created almost as a news event. A tremendous collection of photos of the three day battle gives the reader a sense of real time and place. Panzer Mary. Matthew Brady and the Image of History. Smithsonian, Washington D.C., (2004).  Panzer is the curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. She has not only collected a fine sampling of Brady’s photographs from the Civil War but also has included the portraits of presidents and other dignitaries that brought fame and fortune to Brady before the war.

Chris Umbrell

Web Sites: Civil War Statistics -Retrieved February 16 2009 http://www.phil.muni.cz/~vndrzl/amstudies/civilwar_stats.htm A great website that offers detailed information on all the statistics of casualties, army stregths, and prisoners of war of the Civil war, especially the Battle of Gettysburg. With detailed graphs of every aspect of the war the viewer will have a better understanding the mathamatical side of the war.

__ Statistics on the Civil War and Medicine - Retrieved February 16 2009 http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/features/medicine/cwsurgeon/statistics.cfm__ This specific web page gives valuable information by comparing the civil war to other major American engagements. It breaks down all casualties, the chances of survival during the civil war and the break down all the medical statistics from the civil and what the major causes were. Finally, this website goes over all the statistics of the Top 10 Civil War Battles. __ Gettysburg Battle American Civil War 1863 - Retrieved February 16 2009 http://americancivilwar.com/getty.html__ This website offers detailed information on the three days of battle during the Gettysburg campaing. With pictures, videos, maps, and lists of books, etc., almost any type of information you need concerning this battle is found here. It also provides links to other websites if you need any additional information. __ The Battle of Gettysburg Resource Center – Casualties -Retrieved January 26 2009 http://gburginfo.brinkster.net/casualties.htm__ This web page gives valuable information by a comparative breakdown of the battle of Gettysburg. This in depth website offers the viewer the ability to look at both sides reactions to the high casuality rate at Gettysburg. It also provides a breakdown of the casualty rate each day and by each divison who fought at Gettysburg. __ The Economics of the Civil War -Retrieved January 26 2009 http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/ransom.civil.war.us __ A great website that offers detailed information on all the economics of the Civil war., With detailed graphs of every aspect of the war the viewer will have a better understanding the mathamatical side of the war and how it was financed.