Virginia Historical Society
Virginia Historical Society: Surviving War: The Home Front
An online exhibition that looks at what life was like for Virginians under military occupation. Many of them became refugees rather than stay while Union troops invaded their lands, stealing crops, burning fields, and taking over homes.
Virginia Historical Society
Virginia Historical Society: The Home Front: How Did Civilians Suffer?
Describes the many hardships that citizens, no matter what their status, faced in Virginia during the Civil War. One town, Winchester, switched hands about seventy-two times during the war. Many people lost loved ones, as well as their...
University of Pittsburgh
Center for American Music Library: Civil War Homefront
A great lesson plan using Stephen Foster's music and lyrics to show what life was like on the homefront during the Civil War.