Civil War News

These audio podcasts were created and recorded by fifth grade students at New Castle Elementary in the spring of 2007.

Each episode features an event or important aspect of the war.


President Abraham Lincoln

General Ulysses S. Grant
General Robert E. Lee
Economy in the North and the South
Ft. Sumter - the Start of the War
First Battle at Bull Run
Harper's Ferry
The Underground Railroad
Nat Turner
The Monitor and the Merrimack - Battle of the Ironclads
The Emancipation Proclamation - View from the North
The Emancipation Proclamation - View from the South
Surrender at Appomattox
Reconstruction in the South