CIVIL WAR
Mural Project
American History
Introduction
In American History, murals are an important vehicle for culture expression. Through
this lesson, you learn some of the history of mural making, explore symbolism, and then
create our own mural. Students will also write a short essay on the event or person they
selected and will be expected to present their mural pictures and essay information to the
class. (Presentation is 10% of the overall grade.)
Objectives:
1. The students will discuss what happened before, during, and after the Civil War.
2. The students will research the Civil War and take notes on the causes, events, and
conclusion of the war.
3. The students will make a Civil War mural showing the events.
4. The students will present their part of the mural to the class in an oral presentation.
5. Learn about murals, their history, and their importance as a form of artistic expression.
6. Identify visual symbolism in murals and design their own symbols.
7. Become more aware of visual art in the local community.
Materials
 Images of murals printed from the web, as slides, scenes from American Family,
postcards, posters, photographs or in your local neighborhood
 Art supplies
 Computer with Internet access
Lesson Procedures:
1. The students will engage in a class discussion of the Civil War. The teacher should
remind students that the Civil War had many causes, events, battles, and a harsh
conclusion.
2.In collaborative learning groups the students will present their mural project using
research to show the Civil War from 1860-1877. They will illustrate the timeline/mural
by using pictures from Internet sites that their teacher has provided and/or they may draw
pictures on the mural.
3. Students will present their 3-5 pictures and ORIGINAL essay to the class. After the
presentation, the pictures and essay
Information gatherer(s) will collect information about Civil War from 1860-1877.
Presenter(s) will tell the class about their Civil War event or person by referring to the
mural their pictures and completed essay.
NO WIKIPEDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Basic Site
metacrawler.com
Historian
http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/american-history/1800/civil-war
http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/index.htm
http://civilwar.com/
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war
www.about.com/Civil+War+Historical+Sites
http://www.civil-war.net/
http://www.civilwarhome.com/hist2.htm
http://www.verybestsites.com/civil-war-history-websites/
http://www.americancivilwarstory.com/list-of-civil-war-battles.html
loc.gov
(Photos and primary documents)
SPECIFICALLY SEARCH YOUR TOPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Biographer
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/biographies/barton.html
bio.com
Your Topic is: _______________________________________________________
My project is due when class begins on April 28th, 2014!
All late projects will lose 5% of their grade for each day.
All projects not presented to the class will lose 10%. (10% of your grade is for
presenting it to you classmates.
Topics
CIVIL WAR RESEARCH TOPICS
_ Black Soldiers (54th Massachusetts Regiment)
_ Native Americans in the Civil War (Ely Parker)
_ Irish Americans in the Civil War (Irish Brigade)
_ Camp Life of a Confederate Soldier (nickname - Johnny Reb)
_ Camp Life of a Union Soldier (nickname - Billy Yank)
_ Mosby’s Rangers (John Mosby)
_ Mathew Brady (Photographer of the Civil War)
_ Drummer boys of the Civil War (John Clem – most well known)
_ Civil War Prisons (Treatment of prisoners of war)
- Southern Prisons (Andersonville Prison)
- Northern Prisons (Elmira Prison) ***
_ Walt Whitman (Poets/Poetry of the Civil War) ***
_ Medical Care / Civil War Hospitals
_ Civil War Menu
_ Civil War Music
_ Men’s Uniforms (Clothing)
_ Women’s fashion during Civil War Era
_ Ironclad ships
_ Hot air balloons
_ Weapons used in the Civil War
_ New York City Draft Riots (conscription) ***
_Fort Sumter
_Emancipation Proclamation
Important Events By Civil War Dates
1861
April 12-15: Fort Sumter, South Carolina
July 21: First Manassas, Virginia (Bull Run)
August 10: Springfield, Missouri (Wilson's Creek)
September 12-20: Lexington, Missouri
October 21: Ball's Bluff, Leesburg, Virginia (Edward's Ferry, Harrison's Landing)
November 7: Galveston Harbor, Texas
December 20: Dranesville, Virginia
1862
January 19-20: Mill Springs, Kentucky (Logan's Cross Roads)
February 8: Roanoke Island, North Carolina
February 12-16: Fort Donelson, Tennessee
March 6-8: Pea Ridge, Arkansas
March 8-9: Hampton Roads, Virginia
March 23: Winchester, Virginia (First Kernstown)
March 26, 28: Glorieta Pass, New Mexico (Apache Canon)
April 6-7: Shiloh, Tennessee (Pittsburg Landing)
April 18-28: Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Louisiana
April 29-30: First Corinth, Mississippi
May 31-June 1: Fair Oaks, Virginia
June 8: Cross Keys, Virginia (Union Church)
June 9: Port Republic, Virginia
June 27: Gaines' Mill, Virginia
June 27: First Cold Harbor, Virginia
June 27: Chickahominy, Virginia
July 1: Malvern Hill, Virginia
August 9: Cedar mountain, Virginia (Slaughter Mountain, Cedar Run, and
Mitchell Station)
August 28-30: Second Manassas, Virginia (Bull Run)
August 30: Richmond, Kentucky
September 1: Chantilly, Virginia
September 13-15: Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
September 17: Antietam, Maryland (Sharpsburg)
September 19-20: Iuka, Mississippi
October 3-4: Second Corinth, Mississippi
October 8: Perryville, Kentucky
December 7: Prairie Grove, Fayetteville, Arkansas
December 11-13: Fredericksburg, Virginia
December 28-29: Chichasaw Bayou, Vicksburg, Mississippi
December 31-January 2: Stones River, Tennessee (Murfreesboro)
1863
January 1: Galveston, Texas
February 3: Fort Donelson, Tennessee (Cumberland Ironworks)
March 4-5: Unionville, Tennessee (Spring Hill, Thompson's Station)
May 1: Port Gibson, Mississippi
May 1-3: Chancellorsville, Virginia
May 18-July 4: Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi
June 9: Brandy Station, Virginia
June 17-20: Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville, Virginia
June 23-30: Rosecrans's Campaign: Murfreesboro to Tullahoma, Tennessee
July 1-3: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
July 10-September 6: Siege of Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina
September 18-20: Chickamauga, Georgia
November 17-December 4: Siege of Knoxville, Tennessee
November 24-25: Chattanooga, Tennessee
1864
April 8-9: Mansfield and Pleasant Hills, Louisiana and Texas
May 5-6: Wilderness, Virginia
May 7-September 2: Atlanta Campaign
May 8-18: Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
May 9-13: Sheridan's Cavalry Raid, Virginia
May 13-16: Resaca, Georgia
May 15: New Market, Virginia
May 23-26: North Anna River, Virginia
May 25-29: Dallas, Georgia (Pickett's Mill, New Hope Church, and Allantoona
Hills)
June 1-12: Second Cold Harbor, Virginia
June 10: Brice's Crossroads, near Guntown, Mississippi
June 15-April 1: Siege of Petersburg, Virginia
June 27: Kennesaw Mountain, Marietta, Georgia (Big Shanty)
July 22: Atlanta, Georgia
July 23-24: Kernstown and Winchester, Virginia
July 28-September 3: Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
August 4-23: Mobile Bay, Forts Gaines and Morgan, Alabama
August 31-September 1: Jonesboro, Georgia
September 19-22: Winchester and Fisher's Hill, Virginia
September 26-27: Ironton, Missouri (Pilot Knob)
September 28-30: New Market Heights, Virginia (Laurel Hill)
October 19: Cedar Creek, Virginia
November 29-30: Spring Hill and Franklin, Tennessee
December 24-January 13: Fort Fisher, North Carolina
1865
February 5-7: Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, Virginia
February 27-March 25: Sheridan's raid into Virginia
March 26-April 9: Siege of Mobile, Alabama
April 1: Five Forks, Virginia
April 2: Fall of Petersburg, Virginia
April 3: Fall of Richmond, Virginia, Confederate Capital
April 6: Sailor's Creek, Virginia
April 9: Appomattox Court House, Virginia (Lee surrenders to Grant)
April 14: Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
May 10: Irwinsville, Georgia (capture of Jefferson Davis)
May 12-13: Palmito Ranch, Texas
May 26: Final surrender, Lt. General Kirby Smith to Major General Canby
Women in the War Effort
_ Mary Ann Bickerdyke
_ Mary Ashton Livermore
_ Mary Edwards Walker
_ Julia Ward Howe
_ Clara Barton
_ Mary Boykin Chesnut
_ Sara Emma Edmonds
_ Dorothea Dix (concentrate on efforts in the Civil War)
Confederate and Union Spies
_ Loreta Velazquez (alias Harry T. Buford)
_ Elizabeth Van Lew (Crazy Bet)
_ Rose O’Neal Greenhow ("Rebel Rose")
_ Belle Boyd
People
Clara Barton
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
John Wilkes Booth
Mathew Brady
Ambrose Burnside
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Mary Boykin Chestnut
Jefferson Davis
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Frederick Douglass
David Farragut
Nathan Bedford Forrest
U. S. Grant
Ambrose P. Hill
John Bell Hood
Joseph Hooker
Stonewall Jackson
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
James Longstreet
George Brinton McClellan
_George Meade
Ely Parker
_John C. Pemberton
Wendell Phillips
George Pickett
Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Robert Gould Shaw
William Tecumseh Sherman
George Templeton Strong
Jeb Stuart