Civil War Battles Scavenger Hunt

The civil war was long and brutal, with many battles being fought and many lives being lost.  In class we were each responsible to research one battle and note the victor, theater, and other important facts about the battle in a Google Document. You can see my google doc here.  Next, our class put a QR code and a bitly on a piece of paper and hung them all over the school. We took down the information  on a battle and then went to the next battle, which was located somewhere else in the school. Once we had notes on all 20 battles, we came back to class. Next, on Padlet, we wrote about the trends in the war. We wrote about who won the battle, where they won he battle, and why they won.  These facts are important about our understanding in who won the war. Below is the padlet we made in class.

Created with Padlet

It is clear throughout the entire war that the union was the more powerful force. In the Western theater they won most of the battles. They had the same success in the naval theater. In the Eastern theater, the war was more split. The confederacy won the majority of the battles early in the war. Near the end on the war, the Union took control of the eastern theater and won the war.

The union won most of the battles in the western theater mainly because they had more troops. They consistently outnumbered the confederate troops. They consistently had a surplus of supplies which the confederacy didn't allowing them to excel in long battles. In the Battle of Vicksburg and the Chattanooga Campaign the Union outnumbered the Confederacy, forcing them to lose the battles in the end. In the naval theater, the Union also won many of the battles. Again, they had a more supplies and a better strategy than the confederacy. In the battles on Fort Donelson and Fort Henry. They won by great military decisions by Grant, a Union commander. The eastern theater was different. At the beginning of the war, the confederacy won most of the early battles. In the battles of Fairfax County and Prince William County, and the Battle of Fort Sumter, the Confederate soldiers held their positions and battled off the Union soldiers, which was their war plan. Near the end of the war, things changed. In the last battle on the war, the Appomatix Campaign, the Union were victorious. In a final confederate defeat, they slowly escaped some Union forces. The confederacy surrendered on April 9, 1865.

Battle of Chickamauga