WoodsUp and the Civil War

Our children’s Web site, WoodsUp.com, provides information, lesson plans and games in the subject areas of the environment, art and music, justice, history, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and faith and values. In the history section, which meets the Indiana Academic Standards for students in fourth and eighth grades, there is a plethora of information about the Civil War.

Some of this material includes information about the final days of the Confederate presidency of Jefferson Davis. On May 10, 1865, Davis was captured by the Union Army. Click here to learn more about his last days in Richmond, Va., and his ultimate capture.

You can learn more about Davis by clicking here.