Today’s Agenda Key Leaders FITB notes & videos [30] “Life at War” Presentation & Worksheet [20 min.] Finish major events timelines/foldables [25] Quick Quiz on Major Events of Civil War [15] Write on your notes sheet and/or agenda: Civil War Test Friday (X Day) Mon (Y Day)

Life at War

The Average Soldier

The Average Soldier They were old and young, but mostly young…

The Average Soldier

Why They Fought

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What They Carried

What They Wore

What They Ate Salt pork, bacon, or beef Soft bread, flour, cornmeal, or hardtack Beans or peas Rice or hominy Coffee Tea Sugar Vinegar Molasses

Where They Slept

How They Communicated

When They Weren’t Fighting “first thing in the morning is drill, then drill, then drill again. Then drill, drill, a little more drill. Then drill and lastly drill. Between drills, we drill….” – Union Soldier

Life and Death

Disease and Hygiene Everyone and everything smelled during the Civil War. Diarrhea was the greatest killer during the Civil War. Of the more than 620,000 soldiers who died in the war, more than 400,000 died of sickness and disease.

Weapons technology – The rifled musket killed more soldiers than anything else, except disease. It’s effects also created wounds that were difficult to treat Life and Death

Life and Death When a battle took place, every structure, house, barn, yard and field, could become a hospital…..

Life and Death "You have given your boys to die for their country. Now you can give your girls to nurse them.” -Nurse Mary Stinebaugh

Life and Death

About 2.75 million soldiers fought in the Civil War. More than 620,000 men died in the war, with disease killing twice as many as those lost in battle.

Memories of the War For those who survived, memories of the war were a part of their everyday life.

Where Battles Happen

Six Reasons Why Battles Happened in Certain Places 1.Road Networks 2.Railroad Networks 3.Importance of the Area – Example: The area between Richmond, VA and Washington, DC 4.Waterways 5.Topography or Lay of the Land 6.Reliable Intelligence

For the next 25 minutes, finish your major events of the Civil War timelines/foldables. Major Events (in order) – Election of 1860 – Attack of Fort Sumter [1861] – Battle of Antietam [1862] – Emancipation Proclamation [1863] – Battle of Gettysburg [1863] – Surrender at Appomattox [1865] Remember to explain and draw a picture for each event. At – You’ll write the answers to a quick quiz on the back of your timeline/foldable. – Then, you’ll submit the answers to your quiz and foldable/timeline in to Mrs. Shybunko.

Quick Quiz: {You only need to write the number & answer. Please do so on the back of your timeline or foldable.} 1.First Battle of the Civil War? 2.Bloodiest battle? 3.Turning point for the war? 4.Last battle? 5.Name of the speech that starts with, “Four score and seven years ago…” 6.Who gave that speech? 7.Describe two effects of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Answers 1.Fort Sumter 2.Antietam 3.Gettysburg 4.Appomattox 5.Gettysburg Address 6.Abraham Lincoln 6.Must include at least two of the following: -Freed slaves in rebelling, southern states -Made ending slavery Northern goal -Discouraged foreign aid -allowed for enlistment of African Americans -

Today’s Agenda “Life at War” Presentation & Worksheet [25 min.] Finish major events timelines/foldables [25] Quick Quiz on Major Events of Civil War [15] Key Leaders FITB notes & videos [25] Write on your notes sheet and/or agenda: Civil War Test Fri X Mon Y

Key leaders of the CIVIL war Abraham Lincoln Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee Frederick Douglass Stonewall Jackson

Abraham Lincoln President of the United States during the Civil War, who insisted that the Union be held together, by force if necessary I’m bringin’ sexy back, them other boys don’t know how to act.

Jefferson Davis U.S. Senator who became president of the Confederate States of America

Who will be the victor?

Ulysses S. Grant Union military commander, who won victories over the South after several other Union commanders had failed

Robert E. Lee Confederate general of the Army of Northern Virginia (Lee opposed secession, but did not believe the Union should be held together by force), who urged Southerners to accept defeat and unite as Americans again, when some Southerners wanted to fight on after Appomattox

Frederick Douglass Former enslaved African American who became a prominent abolitionist and who urged Lincoln to recruit former enslaved African Americans to fight in the Union army

Frederick Douglass Throughout Reconstruction ( ), he fought for full civil rights for freedmen and vigorously supported the women's rights movement. Advocated the passage of the 14 th and 15 th Amendments Encouraged the federal government protect the rights of the freedmen Served as ambassador to Haiti!

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson (Add me to your notes, please!) Professor at VMI Confederate Battle of First Manassas  “"Look, men, there is Jackson standing like a stone wall! Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer!“ Died after losing arm at the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863

Next Class You’ll get a study guide for the Civil War test. 6 more days of school until break! Join me on Wednesday from 2:30-3:30 in this room for our first BPHS Multicultural Club meeting this year!