SIEGE OF PETERSBURG

Essential Question:

HOW WAS THE SEIGE OF PETERSBURG A SIGNIFICANT TURNING POINT IN THE CIVIL WAR?

Objective:  To have students analyze, evaluate, source and annotate primary and secondary source excerpts toward skill building for the A.P. American History exam.

Citations:

The Confederate Capital Falls – Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, Petersburg, VA (3:00 mins)

http://www.history.com/topics/americanb-civil-war/american-civil-war-history/videos/lincoln-the-fall-of-richmond

Oral Histories, Letters and Diaries:

http://www.beyondthecrater.com/resources/lt

Video Clip – Siege of Petersburg (26:36 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?=L11AXKkyjvg

Assault on Petersburg – June 15-18, 1864

http://civilwar.org/battlefields/petersburg.html

Poplar Grove National Cemetery (Beginning of national cemetery system with Union and Confederates buried together)

www.nps.gov/peter/learn/historyculture/poplar-grove-national-cemetery.htm

Petersburg National Battefield (U.S. Park Service)

https://www.nps.gov/pete/index.htm

Willoughby, Laura (2010) Petersburg, Then & Now.  South Carolina:  Arcadia Press (Pgs. ___)

Durham, Suzanne (2003) Petersburg:  Images of America.  South Carolina:  Arcadia Press (Pgs. ____)