Embedded Files
This page of the Reform to Equal Rights draft curriculum site links to materials to support the Grades 8-10 Unit: How Civil War Veterans Transformed Disability.
This page of the Reform to Equal Rights draft curriculum site links to materials to support the Grades 8-10 Unit: How Civil War Veterans Transformed Disability.
Maps
Maps
Maps showing people, institutions, and battles related to stories for each of: Washington DC & Northern Virginia, Massachusetts, and National levels.
Short Biographies
Short Biographies
Biographies
Biographies
Institutions
Institutions
United States Sanitary Commission
Private effort formed early in war
Disabled soldiers on garrison duty or serving as cooks, orderlies, or nurses
Massachusetts state home for disabled veterans
The last choice for poor and disabled
Veterans civic and advocacy organization
Eastern Branch National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Dayton, Ohio
Administered a million Union veterans pensions
Government Hospital for Insane Soldiers
National hospital for soldiers and sailors in Washington, DC
Tens of thousands of Civil War amputees wore prosthetics
Other Resources
"Massachusetts and the Experience of Civil War Disability" - Graham Warder, Keene State College
"Massachusetts and the Experience of Civil War Disability" - Graham Warder, Keene State College
Acknowledgements
This program is made possible by a grant from Mass Humanities, state-based affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which provided funding through the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC).
This program is made possible by a grant from Mass Humanities, state-based affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which provided funding through the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC).
Program made possible with a Teaching with Primary Sources grant from the Library of Congress.
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