A Confederate Winter In Dalton

       This assignment is designed to help students look at the Civil War, and all war, through the eyes of a soldier. Most of the time the lessons we provide concerning such topics contain a list of events, dates, names, and results, and we ask the students to spit it back at us on a multiple choice test. This assignment allows them to discover on their own details they would not have uncovered in a typical Civil War lesson. They must place themselves there, and imagine what the experience was like. They are forced to evaluate the decisions that caused an individual soldier to go to war in the first place, and they must decide whether it was worth the cost.  The entire project should take about a week to complete, and will provide the students with a much deeper understanding concerning the battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga than they could ever garner from a few lines in a textbook. 

Standards

SS8H6 The student will analyze the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Georgia.

b. State the importance of key events of the Civil War; include Antietam, the Emancipation
Proclamation, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Union blockade of Georgia’s coast, Sherman’s
Atlanta Campaign, Sherman’s March to the Sea, and Andersonville.

Credits

The images used in this webquest were found using a Google Search. The key words for that search were , Civil War in Georgia, and then images was selected. 

The standards were located using the Georgia Standards web page.