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The Battle of Forneyburg
Over the next several days in class, you will be learning a great deal of information about the
Civil War, even more than what you have already learned. However, this time, the stakes are
real. This time you will be working with your comrades to take the most prized piece of land in
all of America, Forneyburg.
It has been a long war. Many have died. It has all come down to this last battle located in the
lush green pastures of central Bucks County in the state of Pennsylvania. Morale is low, but
victory at Forneyburg will ensure success in the war. The problem, however, is that
Forneyburg is heavily fortified by both the Union and Confederates, to take this town will take
a lot of effort. Taking the town will mean victory in the entire Civil War. Do you have what it
takes to overcome the odds to take this town? Some may die along the way, but for those who
take the town, the taste of victory will be very sweet.
Rules of the game:
1. The class will be divided up into six groups, three Confederate groups, and three Union
groups.
2. All Union troops will be working together to accumulate points. Also, all Confederate
troops will be working together to accumulate points. Whichever side has the most
number of points at the end of the battle will be declared the winner and will receive
extra credit points. Although you are working together as an army, five points will be
given to the table with the most points, three to the next table, one to the final table.
3. Pay attention to the schedule of events. Depending on the day, different assignments are
due and different things will be contested.
4. On the following page is a schedule of events for the days of the game, as well as what
assignments are due on that day.
5. As always, if you have any questions at all, do not hesitate to ask Mr. Forney.
Schedule of Events: (subject to change!!)
Day 1—Notes on Causes of the Civil War, work day to prepare for unit
competitions (game piece)
Day 2—Game Piece creation for your state, Introduction to the Civil War Unit,
work day to prepare for unit competitions
Day 3— Video-“Secessionitis,” notes, overview
Day 4— Quiz I (Causes of the Civil War 1850-1861), notes, Debate 1, Debate 2
Day 5— Background Info on the Eve of the Civil War worksheet due (both sides),
notes, prepare for unit competitions
Day 6—Debate 3, Competitions-“Name that Tune” and “Name that Civil War
General” or Civil War Card Games
Day 7—Quiz II, Battle Notes
Day 8—Introduce Iron Chef and Marching Drill practice, work on battle sheet
Day 9-- Gettysburg Video and questions, notes, Debate 4
Day 10— Gettysburg Address Competition, Practice Marching Drill competition,
Introduce Town Ball, Civil War Battles Worksheet due
Day 11—Sherman Worksheet due, Math/Science During the War competition
Day 12—Quiz III, Iron Chef Competition (food brought in), notes on the end of war
Day 13— Map Quiz, Practice Marching/Drill, Practice Town Ball (subject to
change)
Day 14— Town Ball Competition, Tent Making Competition (subject to change)
Day 15— Marching Drill Competition, Eraser Game (subject to change)
Day 16—Debate #5, Civil War Test with fast map included!! (subject to change)
Day 17—Begin work and construction of Core Assessment #3 (more info to follow)
Battle of Forneyburg
Competitions/Review Games/Quizzes/Tests
1. Creating a Game Piece/Monument (State)
Your state must design a game piece. This piece must be no larger than 8-1/2” x11”, and 16”
in height. Your game piece must include your state name, 3 facts about your state’s role in the
Civil War or the period leading up to it, and have an element of creativity which sets it apart
from the other states. Your state will brainstorm ideas in class one day, compile information and
materials that night and construct your game piece with the 20 minutes given in class.
2. Debates (Individual, State, Army)
We will be having class debates on the following issues at different days during class. You
will be required to fill out a debate sheet based on your view (Union or Confederate) and will
expected to debate three total times during all five debates.
Debate 1:
Debate 2:
Debate 3:
Debate 4:
Debate 5:
Did the south have the right to secede?
Was John Brown a hero or not?
Who should win the Civil War?
Was the Emancipation Proclamation a worthwhile document?
What punishment should be given to the South after the war?
3. Name that Tune (State)
a. Go to http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/music/index.html
b. Click on either “Songs of the Union” or “Songs of the Confederacy”
c. Click on the music link
d. Listen and memorize.
Union Songs
Always Stand on the Union Side
The Battle Cry of Freedom
Battle Hymn of the Republic
The Faded Coat of Blue
McClellan is the Man
Tenting on the Old Campground
The Grant Pill
Union Dixie
Confederate Songs
All Quiet Along the Potomac
Cheer, Boys, Cheer!
Song of the Confederate Signal Corps
Stonewall Jackson’s Way
The Yellow Rose of Texas
Dixie, the Land of King Cotton
Goober Peas
Flag of the Sunny South
4. Name that Civil War General (State)
a. Go to the class website to view the PowerPoint on the Generals.
Click on “Name that Civil War General With Answers”
b. On the day of the quiz, the names will not be there!
5. Gettysburg Address (Individual, State)
a. One person from your group will be chosen to recite the Gettysburg Address.
b. Points will be awarded based on authenticity, dress, and ability to recite the speech. You
do not need to memorize, but it will certainly help.
6. Quizzes (Individual)
a. There will be four quizzes during the unit, results will not be a part of the competition
7. Iron Chef Competition (Individual, State)
a. Go to the Blackboard website to view the ingredients and recipe.
b. You may add other ingredients, but must use all of the ingredients on the recipe. You may
garnish or add based on your own culinary desires, but be careful, you will be the first
one to test it!!
c. Recipes are to be made at home and brought in on the day of the competition.
d. Teachers/Judges will choose an overall winner on the competition day taking into
consideration both taste and presentation.
8. Math and Science during the War (State)
a. Math and Science are the topics on this day. Speed, angles, trajectory, etc. will need to be
calculated to help your team win this important day in the Battle of Forneyburg.
9. March/Drill (Army)
a. Choose a leader for your army that will lead and conduct the group in an organized
march.
b. Points will be awarded for ability to complete the instructions and how well organized
your army is.
10. Tent Making (State)
a. Work with your unit to construct a sturdy tent faster than any other unit.
b. Points will be awarded for speed and integrity of construction.
11. Town Ball (Army)
a. A game similar to both baseball and cricket, you will compete as an army against the
opposing army for the ultimate bragging rights. Rules and regulations will be explained as
game day approaches. Be prepared to be picked for the ultimate All-Star team.
12. General Knowledge Questions/Review Game (Individual, State)
13. Civil War Test (Individual)
a. As in any test, this will be cumulative at the end of the Civil War Unit. You will take this
test on your own.
b. You will be responsible for all notes, handouts, general knowledge questions from the
eraser games, as well as the locations from the fast map competition.
c. Test results will not be a part of the competition
14. Core Assessment #3 (Individual, State, Army)
a. Information concerning this assessment will be handed out during the unit. There will be a
competition between states to see which state has the most convincing evidence to support your
views.
15. Civil War Card Games (maybe)
a. Soldiers spent much of their leisure time playing cards. There will be a competition to see
which table can collect the most paper clips playing games similar to those of the war.
Background Information on the Eve of the
Civil War (1861)
Category
North
South
1.
2.
3.
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2.
3.
1.Stars and Stripes
2.
1.Stars and Bars
2.
Number of
States
1.
1.
Population
1.
1.
Industrial
Development
1.
1.
Railroad
Mileage
1.
1.
Financial
Resources
1.
1.
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2.
3.
4.
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2.
3.
4.
1.Most were West Point Graduates
2.Few Union Generals were effective in
leading Union armies until Ulysses S.
Grant’s rise during 1862-1864.
1.Perhaps the South’s greatest advantage
2.Brilliant, bold military leaders from
Virginia Military Institute (VMI), West
Point, and other academies
Other
Names
Flag
Leadership
Generals
Background Information on the Eve of the
Civil War (1861)
Category
Strategies
Capital
Naval Power
Cause for
Fighting
Names for
Troops
Intangibles
North
South
1.
1.
2.
2.
3.
3.
4.
4.
1.
1.
1.Large navy which grew even larger as
the war progressed.
1. Virtually no navy at the start of the
war.
1.
1.
2.
2.
1.Federals
2.Yanks
3.Billy Yanks
4.Yankees
5.
1.Battles fought away from home
2.Less skills in the military arts
3.Thousands of immigrants fighting for
no purpose.
4.Farm acreage: 65%, dominant crops
were wheat and corn
5.Divided politically
1.Rebels
6.
2.Rebs
3.Confederates
4.Graybacks
5. Johnnies
1.Traditionally protecting their homes
and way of life
2.Fought on their own land, which they
therefore knew better than their
opponents
3.Military tradition, nearly every male
citizen was skilled at riding horses and
using rifles skillfully
4.Violence was a traditional aspect of
southern society
CIVIL WAR BATTLES
Other Names
Sharpsburg
Manassass
Pittsburg Landing
Leaders
McClellan v. Lee
Anderson v. Beauregard
Meade v. Lee
Grant and Buell v. A.S. Johnston
and Beauregard
Grant v. Lee
Hooker v. Lee
McDowell v . Beauregard and
J. Johnston
Grant v. Pemberton
Significant Results / Outcome
- Grant proves himself as a leader
- Stonewall Jackson killed – huge blow to Confederates
- Lincoln attempts to supply fort and Confederates attack
- Shock to Union – Lincoln calls for 1,000,000 soldiers within 3
days of defeat
- McClellan replaces McDowell
- Pickett’s Charge
- Fort falls to Confederates
- Little and Big Round Top, Devil’s Den, Peach Orchard,
Wheatfield, Cemetery Ridge
- War officially begins
- siege
- 3 day battle and turning point in war
- Emancipation Proclamation issued as a result
- Surrender
- Lee’s greatest victory
- Split Confederacy in two at Mississippi River
- Bloody Lane and bloodiest single day of war
- Lee attacks in North in an attempt to force a peace settlement and
end the war
- 2nd turning point
- Stonewall Jackson earns his nickname
- Lee was trapped
The Gettysburg Address
November 19, 1863
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so
conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We
have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave
their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this
ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our
poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here,
but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to
the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather
for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of
devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this
nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by
the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Scoring:
One person from your group will be chosen to recite the Gettysburg Address.
Points will be awarded based on authenticity, dress, and ability to recite the speech. You do not need
to memorize, but it will certainly help.
Sherman's March to the Sea
It tore through a 60-mile strip of land from Atlanta to Savannah. Entire plantations were
devastated. There were herds of dead livestock left to rot, and once-sturdy government
buildings went up in flames. Sound like the effects of a vicious, tornado? The destruction path of
a horrible hurricane? The evil work of a massive, mechanical, monster from Mars? These acts
of destruction were the result of General William Tecumseh Sherman's "March to the Sea".
Sherman's March to the Sea involved 62,000 Union soldiers going over 250 miles up the east
coast. Along the way he and his army destroyed everything in their path.
For 26 days his soldiers marched in two groups, leaving burning buildings and empty stables in
their wake. Sherman had not prepared his troops with enough food for a month of work, but
instead ordered them to take "whatever is needed," from the farms and plantations they
encountered. The soldiers took every opportunity to do so to the extreme. One woman begged a
soldier to leave her a few chickens to feed her young children with, but the soldier felt no pity on
her. "Madam," he replied, "we're gonna suppress this rebellion if it takes every last chicken in
the Confederacy." And so, eating their way heartily through the heart of Georgia, Sherman's
troops marched on. Food was not the only thing the soldiers were taking. They took
everything from furniture and other valuables, to women's hats which they sometimes wore as
they marched through town. Although General Sherman did not encourage these actions, he
certainly did not discipline the men to stop, and at times seemed amused by them.
Ten miles outside of Macon was where the Battle of Griswoldville took place. This battle turned
out to be a massacre because the city was unable to properly defend itself. Sherman and his
men burned the city and even removed the railroad tracks from the ground. By the time they
reached Fort McAllister in Savannah, they had left a large part of Georgia in ruins. Sherman
named this technique "total war." He had wanted to destroy everything in his path. He figured it
would make the South stop fighting and give up. He may have been right, because after they
had reached the fort, it took them only one night to defeat 10,000 Confederate troops.
Sherman then sat down to write a letter to Abraham Lincoln, offering up Savannah as "a
Christmas Present" for the U. S. President.
Questions:
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
How might the accounts of Atlanta’s destruction been a clue to how Sherman would
conduct this campaign?
Why do you think Sherman’s strategy was called “total war?”
Who where Sherman’s targets? Why?
What benefit did “cutting” a path through the South give Sherman? How did it affect the
people?
How was Sherman able to supply his troops during this campaign? Where did they get
their food, rations, and supplies?
Do you think this strategy was effective? Why or why not?
Why do you think so many historians view Sherman’s March to the Sea as the beginning
of the end of the Civil War?
Debate Sheet—Civil War Project
Name:_________________________
Period: __________
Position: Union (U) or Confederate (C) (Circle One)
Fill out the sheet below for the five Civil War Debates. Use more space if needed. You are encouraged to use this sheet during the
debates when you address the class. Remember that others may have similar information to you; try to come up with as many things
as you can for support.
1.
Did the South have the right to secede?
2.
Was John Brown a hero or not??
3.
Who should win the Civil War?
4.
Was the Emancipation Proclamation a worthwhile document?
5.
What punishment should be given to the South after the war?
a.
b.
c.
a.
b.
c.
a.
b.
c.
a.
b.
c.
a.
b.
c.