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NEH Border War Project

NEH Border War Project Student identification and descriptive writings of individual characters in George Caleb Bingham’s painting of Order # 11 Designed for 4 th Grade Elementary students in Missouri By Warren Soper Reeds Spring Elementary School. George Caleb Bingham’s Order # 11.

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NEH Border War Project

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  1. NEH Border War Project Student identification and descriptive writings of individual characters in George Caleb Bingham’s painting of Order # 11 Designed for 4th Grade Elementary students in Missouri By Warren Soper Reeds Spring Elementary School

  2. George Caleb Bingham’sOrder # 11

  3. Class Preparation • Students will be given a timeline of events leading up to Ewing’s issuing of Order # 11 • Classroom discussion of these events and how the different sides might have viewed them differently • Discussion of the painting by Bingham and what he might have been trying to depict by the roles of various subjects in the painting

  4. - Missouri Compromise - Kansas / Nebraska Act March 30, 1855 Missourians cross State line and cast illegal votes Bogus Legislature elected in Kansas / Black Laws May 24, 1856 Pottawattamie Massacre Aug 14,1863 Jail collapses killing & injuring southern women Aug 21,1863 William Quantrill leads attack on Lawrence, Kansas Aug 25, 1863 Gen. Thomas Ewing issues Order # 11 Border War Timeline

  5. Major Participants John Brown General Thomas Ewing

  6. William C. Quantrill Bloody Bill Anderson

  7. George Caleb Bingham

  8. Raid on Lawrence

  9. Class Activities and Assignments • Students will be broken into small groups of 3 or 4 students. • They will be provided a copy of the painting and be asked to identify specific characters in the painting, 5 or 6 people. • Students will then assign names, family roles, personal data for each of these people

  10. Sample pictorial data • Union soldier • Private George Harrison • Springfield, Illinois • Age 19 • Job: destroying or confiscating household goods of southern sympathizers

  11. Writing Activity • Students will then compose letters to distant family members in another part of the country describing these events associated with Order # 11. • Letters need to include the person’s depicted role in the painting, their emotions and feelings, what they feel will happen to them as a result of these actions.

  12. Sample Letter September 13, 1863 Dear Mother and Family, As you know from my letter of the 5th we are now camped on the western border of the state of Missouri. The war here is much different than I imagined it would be, instead of meeting other armies in the field we are staging a type of border war against Missouri irregulars and their families. Our commanding General named Gen. Thomas Ewing has proclaimed that all citizens must remove themselves from a number of counties in order that aid to these guerilla bands be stopped. Our job is to destroy any remaining goods that might assist these southerners in waging war against the union. I understand what Gen. Ewing is trying to do but waging war on these women and children, burning their homes, and destroying or taking their crops seems somehow wrong. These are God fearing Americans like all of us at home in Illinois and just want to live their lives the way they always have. This war is not the way I thought it would be but we all must do what we can to save the Union I must close for now as I have the duty tonight. Give Anne my most sincere affection and tell Tom not to be in a hurry to enlist as he can do much for you and the country by following the mule in the field. With all my affection, your son G.Harrison

  13. Power Point Presentation This lesson is designed for use with a Smart Board, which is an interactive white board which will allow further investigation of the listed sites. In addition to the power point presentation by the teacher the student groups will be provided with a paper copy of the data and pictures to aid in their small group discussions. Each group will also be given the sample information and letter for a person shown in Bingham’s painting in order to assist them in the written portion of this activity.

  14. Bibliography Books: Earle, Jonathan. John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry, A Brief History with Documents. The Bedford Series in History and Culture, Boston. 2008. Etcheson, Nicole. Bleeding Kansas, Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 2004. Photographs: Anderson, Bloody Bill - http://shs.umsystem.edu Bingham, George Caleb - http://shs.umsystem.edu Brown, John - http://www.historycooperative.org Ewing, General Thomas - http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-thomasewing Order # 11 by George Caleb Bingham - http://www.treasurer.mo.gov/bingham/images/OrderNo11.jpg Raid on Lawrence - http://www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1963/graphics/63_2_quantrill-raid.jpg Quantrill, William - www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk

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