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: Did the south have the right to secede?
Debate 2: Was John Brown a hero or not?
Debate 3: Who should win the Civil War?
Debate 4: Was the Emancipation Proclamation a worthwhile document?
Debate 5: 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 Confederate Songs
Always Stand on the Union Side All Quiet Along the Potomac
The Battle Cry of Freedom Cheer, Boys, Cheer!
Battle Hymn of the Republic Song of the Confederate Signal Corps
The Faded Coat of Blue Stonewall Jackson’s Way
McClellan is the Man The Yellow Rose of Texas
Tenting on the Old Campground Dixie, the Land of King Cotton
The Grant Pill Goober Peas
Union Dixie 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
Other Names / 1.
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Flag / 1.Stars and Stripes
2. / 1.Stars and Bars
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Number of States / 1. / 1.
Population / 1. / 1.
Industrial Development / 1. / 1.
Railroad Mileage / 1. / 1.
Financial Resources / 1. / 1.
Leadership / 1.
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Generals / 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
Background Information on the Eve of the Civil War (1861)
Category / North / South
Strategies
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Capital / 1. / 1.
Naval Power / 1.Large navy which grew even larger as the war progressed. / 1. Virtually no navy at the start of the war.
Cause for Fighting / 1.
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Names for Troops / 1.Federals
2.Yanks
3.Billy Yanks
4.Yankees
5. / 1.Rebels 6.
2.Rebs
3.Confederates
4.Graybacks
5. Johnnies
Intangibles / 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.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
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.