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121. Digital Collection -Bridesburg Percussion Musket [Online Collection]
Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... main gunpowder charge in the barrel. Civil War soldiers still had to load their ... by pouring and then ramming gunpowder and a bullet down the gun barrel. A ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 424  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/collection/itempage.jsp?itemid=6076&img=1&level=session&transcription=0
122. Send an e-Postcard [Things To Do]
Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... about using this image. Before the Civil War, several forms of lighting were ... in American households. While candles were still regularly used in some homes, most ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 423  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/activities/postcards/make.do?itemid=13964
123. Digital Collection -"A Proclamation For A Day Of Thanksgiving and Praise" [Online Collection]
Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... end of the first half-year of the Civil War which by then had already seen ... casualties among Massachusetts troops. The Sixth Massachusetts Regiment lost four men in Baltimore in ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 423  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/collection/itempage.jsp?itemid=16309&img=0
124. Send an e-Postcard [Things To Do]
Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... : Excerpt from W. Scott Keith's Civil War Military Journal (c) Pocumtuck ... Memorial Association, Deerfield MA. All rights reserved. Contact us for information about ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 423  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/activities/postcards/make.do?itemid=6280
125. V for Victory not Vanity by Angela Lis [Classroom Activities]
... in the factories, victory gardens, civil defense, and other duties such as ... Students will understand that life during the war affected all fronts. They will learn ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 422  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/activity/view.do?activityID=2347
126. First Person Oral Histories - Ray Elliott Timeline [Things To Do]
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... Ray joins the NAACP. He trains Civil Rights Movement workers. Ray teaches adult ... Timeline of Ray Elliott's Life World War I Ray Elliott's father is a soldier ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 422  -  16 Dec 2009  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/activities/oralhistory/elliot/bio.html
127. Digital Collection -"Soldiers Memorial- Company F 34th Regt. Masssachusetts Infty Vols." [Online Collection]
Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... commissioned in the waning days of the Civil War. Listed are most, but ... one of the greatest achievements of the war, in changing a disastrous defeat into ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 422  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/collection/itempage.jsp?itemid=15788&img=0&level=advanced&transcription=1
128. Are You Feeling a Draft? by Matthew Meunier [Classroom Activities]
... from World War I and of the Civil War era draft cylinder. Does a ... 3. View the pictures from World War I and of the Civil War era ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 421  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/activity/view.do?activityID=1656
129. Digital Collection -Rufus Saxton (1824-1908) [Online Collection]
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... Rocky Mountains in 1853. During the Civil War he was a Captain in General ... staff in West Virginia; Brigadier General of Volunteers in 1862; and commander at ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 421  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/collection/itempage.jsp?itemid=17813
130. Digital Collection -Springfield percussion musket [Online Collection]
Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England.
... in Virginia at the beginning of the Civil War (1861-1865.) The Springfield ... in Springfield, Massachusetts, thus became the only United States government small arms manufacturing ...
Terms matched: 2  -  Score: 421  -  URL: http://americancenturies.mass.edu/collection/itempage.jsp?itemid=6075&img=1&level=advanced&transcription=0
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