Children’s Civil War

Children’s Literature

Nature of Children’s Literature

Confederate Schoolbooks Incorporating War Into Play

Phip Flaxen Contributing to the War Effort

United States Sanitary Commission Children as Victims

Soldiers’ Orphans’ Homes Challenges and Opportunities for African American

Children

Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees, and Abandoned Lands

I) Children’s Literature

“A is America, land of the free, B is a Battle, our soldiers did see; C is a Captain, who led on his men, D is a Drummer Boy, called little Ben; E is the Eagle, that proudly did soar, F is our Flag, that shall wave evermore.”

“In the cause of independence our forefathers sacrificed their lives and fortunes. Let us aim to hand down to latest posterity the priceless heritage of the Union, cemented by their richest blood.”

II) Incorporating War Into Play

Lilly Martin Spencer, “The War Spirit at Home—Celebrating the Victory at Gettysburg” (1866)

Currier and Ives, “The Domestic Blockade”

From Lydia Maria Child,”Nelly’s Hospital,” Our Young Folks (1865)

Girl in uniform

III) Contributing to the War Effort

Eastman Johnson, “Knitting for the Soldiers” (1861)

Nellie Grant as the Little Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe

IV) Children as Victims

Raid on western town.

V) Challenges and Opportunities for African American Children

Black refugees receiving food.

Black refugees

Contraband Camp

Freedman’s Village

Attack on Colored Orphans Asylum, NYC, 1863