Civil War Character Role Paper - Camp


What: Character Role Paper

To Do: You are to research a real life soldier of the time from the list of Letters and Diaries below (try to choose a Wisconsin Soldier first). When you choose that role you will acquire that name and portray that role at Camp Belleville.

You are then to write a 2 page paper typed, 12 font, using that name and in 1st person.

LIST OF ROLES YOU MAY CHOOSE FROM:

Surgeon            Calvary-Horse        Ambulance        Sharpshooter         Nurse                         Young Boy/Girl

Photographer    Captain                 Infantry Soldier    Musicians             Artillery                       Spy 

Sulter

Research =  You can find many personal letters and diaries form the following web sites and Reenactors from this list. You can choose a Union or Confederate. Try to select those from Wisconsin first.

WISCONSIN SOLDIERS:

15th Wisconsin Regiment

28th Wisconsin -

         Decendants of soldiers of the 28th Wisconsin

         Stories from Camp

         Find out if you have an ancestor who was in the war

OTHER WISCONISN HISTORY

Wisconsin Regiments

Wisconsin and the Civil War

Wisconsin Civil War -Camp Randall

CIVIL WAR LETTERS AND DIARIES

Civil War Letters/Diaries

Famous Personal Biographies of the War

Medical and Biographies

Letters/Diaries

Confederate letters = ??

GENERAL INFO

Civil War Information on everything you want to know about the Civil War

American Civil War/Maps

Regimental Histories

Photography

Sharpshooter

DRILLING:

REENACTORS TO E-MAIL (Choose 2 or 3 to make sure you get a response

Questions:  Bob Gentilli - Belleville Middle School - Gentillb@belleville.k12.wi.us

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