1. Civil War Battle Project
With your groups you will be taking your research on you Civil War Battle and putting it on a poster
For your poster you need the following information:
Geographic location (maps help) Outcomes/ Significance is the most important information
Commanders (names, pictures)
Forces involved
Strategies and goals (this will take some writing)
Outcome and casualties (killed and wounded are separate numbers)
Significance-what did this battle do? Did it give one a side a city, did it force a new strategy?
pictures portraying the battle

2. What did the battle show about Grant? Why did they fight there?
Shiloh
What did the battle show about Grant? Why did they fight there?

3. How did it change naval battles?
Battle of Hampton Road
How did it change naval battles?
How did the British and Spanish react when they heard about this battle?
Why did both sides start making ironclad ships?

4. How was the Emancipation Proclamation tied to this battle?
Antietam
How was the Emancipation Proclamation tied to this battle?
How did this change the leadership in the Union Army?

5. How did this change the war?
Vicksburg
How did this change the war?
What was the importance of attacking here?

6. What was Pickett’s charge?
Battle of Gettysburg
What was Pickett’s charge?
How was this massively important for both the North and the South?
How did this change the war?

7. How did it change the war politically? What is total war?
Sherman’s March
How did it start?
How did it change the war politically?
What is total war?

8. Project notes
You will rotate throughout the room to each project and in your notebooks you will copy the following information
Name of battle and head general for each side
Goals/strategies
Outcome
Significance