Civil War Study-Week 3

I went from week one to week three, because we were on vacation in Florida last week. When I got home, there was a very large package waiting for me (thanks to my friends holding it for me until I got back). I had requested a Civil War "Education Trunk" from my local State Museum. They have several different kind and it is only $15 to rent for two weeks. Much to my surprise was the size of it! When they said trunk, that's exactly what they meant!

This trunk was FULL of info and went very well with the Civil War Curriculum we are using. There is an entire Union Soldiers uniform-the pants, shirt, jacket, shoes and hat along with a canteen and articles that a soldier would need. I plan to post pics as we get to each one this week.

Here are a few pictures of yesterday's lessons:
First we made little flip pages of soldier's uniforms for both the Union and Confederate soldiers from our Home School in the Woods lesson-here is the bottom page:

Then we used sheet protectors I cut in half and "dressed" the soldiers in thier different uniforms:

Another uniform:

Then we looked through the trunk and looked at the soldier's uniform. It was wool-almost everything except for the shirt, I guess it was light cotton or something! I really didn't expect that-neither did the kids. We had a discussion about how wearing these clothes would effect the men's fighting in different types of weather:

The shoes had to be painful. The top part is soft, but the soles seemed really hard. My husband said he couldn't imagine walking for miles in those and brought to my attention that the soles did not bend-at all!:

Then we had our own uniforms-the boys just happen to have blue jackets and a borrowed hat:
My daughter read about disguide women fighting in the war and decided to play in the uniform:

Private First Class Oldest son:

Private Middle Son:

General Baby Boy-He's convinced he is over everybody!