1 / 5

Life in the Camps

Life in the Camps. Civil War Soldiers. Focus Question. Identify five reasons why someone might enlist in the military during wartime. Explain which of these five reasons you believe would be the best reason to enlist. Objectives. After today’s lesson, you will:

ulfah
Download Presentation

Life in the Camps

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Life in the Camps Civil War Soldiers

  2. Focus Question • Identify five reasons why someone might enlist in the military during wartime. Explain which of these five reasons you believe would be the best reason to enlist

  3. Objectives • After today’s lesson, you will: • Examine the conditions faced by Civil War soldiers. • Discuss different approaches toward studies of these conditions

  4. Billy Yank and Johnny Reb • Ultimately more than 3.1 million soldiers served • 2.1 million from the North (one-half of all eligible) • 1 million from the South (4/5th of all eligible) • Total U.S. population in 1860: 31 million • More than 1 million casualties • North suffered 360,000 dead, 275,00 wounded • South suffered 260,000 dead, 137,000 wounded

  5. Summary • If you had to describe the most important thing learned in class this week to an absent classmate, what would it be? Explain in a short, two to three sentence response

More Related