The Role of African Americans in the Civil War
Integrated Literacy Assignment
Pamala Finger
SST 309-Section 4
Grade Level Content Expectation
8-U5.2.4 Describe the role of African Americans in the war, including black soldiers and regiments, and the increased resistance of enslaved peoples.
Fact-Finding Mission Field Trip
• You are about to venture on a “Fact-Finding Mission Field Trip” to discover the role of African American soldiers during the Civil War, as well as, the slaves and their resistance movement during this period.
• Enjoy your snack, the same snack African American soldiers ate as they waited to enter battle--Hardtack. The soldiers called them “teeth dullers” and “sheet-iron crackers.”
Trade Books
In this book, you can find the recipe
for “Homemade Hardtack” on page
8l.
These books are
at different reading levels.
Big Book: Timeline
Textbook & Supporting Web site
Abolitionists Support Slave Rebellion
Slave Rebellion and Conspiracy Video
• Voices of the Civil War Episode 10: “Slave Rebellion and Conspiracy” Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o2ey__ZtNI
Primary Resources/Video: Contraband
The Forgotten: The Contraband of America and the Road to Freedom video. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35IdcChfoxY
Music of Rebellion
• Slave Spiritual Story-Wade in the Water Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXqMQfpNSes
• Coded Songs and Slavery Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lbsW7ifWYA
• Louis Armstrong-Go Down Moses Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP5EfwBWgg0
Emancipation
Music: Battle Hymn of the Republic
Song used for recruiting African
American Regiments.
54th Massachusetts Infantry
http://www.history.com/topics/the-54th-massachusetts-infantry/videos#gilder-lehrman-massachussetts-54th
Retrieved from
54th Massachusetts Infantry
WILLIAM J. NETSON OF THE 54TH
MASSACHUSETTS.
SERGEANT WILLIAM H. CARNEY RECEIVED
THE MEDAL OF HONOR FOR HIS
PARTICIPATION IN THE BATTLE OF FORT
WAGNER.
PRIVATE ABRAHAM F. BROWN OF THE
54TH MASSACHUSETTS
Primary Resource: Diary Entry
Christian Fleetwood's diary details his actions
during a battle at Chaffin's farm near Richmond, Virginia, on
September 29, 1864, which
led to his receipt of the Congressional
Medal of Honor.
Battle Maps
Movie Clips: Glory
Glory (1989) Part 2/8. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BrlqD5lkP8
Glory (1989) Part 5/8. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-M8avPkPUI
Glory (1989) Part 8/8 Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGPACVNk6ck
Black Soldiers in the American Civil War:
Videos
• Black Soldiers in the American Civil War demonstrate courage of African American patriots video. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjzspHlPlAs
• Louisiana Black Soldiers in the Civil War video. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8z7ADI8KLw
• Overview of African Americans in the Civil War video. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8-GzX4Jz_w
Primary Resources: Photographs
Music of the Soldiers
Arlington, Va. Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry
Poetry
Our Hero by Frances E.W. Harper
Onward to her destination,O’er the steam the Hannah spedWhen a cry of consternationSmote and chilled our hearts with dread.
Wildly leaping, madly sweeping,All relentless in their sway,Like a band of cruel demons,Flames were closing round our way.
Oh! the horror of those moments;Flames above and waves below.Oh! the agony of agesCrowded in one hour of woe.
Fainter grew our hearts with anguishIn that hour with peril rife,When we saw the pilot flying,Terror-stricken, for his life.
Then a man up rose before us-We had once despised his raceBut we saw a lofty purposeLighting up his darkened face.
While the flames were madly roaring,With a courage grand and high,Forth he rushed unto our rescue,Strong to suffer, brave to die.
Helplessly the boat was drifting,Death was staring in each face,When he grasped the fallen rudder,Took the pilot's vacant place.
ArtworkThomas Moran’s
“Slave Hunt, Dismal Swamp, Virginia”
(1862)
Storming of Fort Wagner: Charge of the
54' Mass (Col'd) Rgt. July 18' 1863
Web sites• African American Odyssey. (n.d.). Library of Congress
Retrieved from http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
• The Civil War Trust. Retrieved from http://www.civilwar.org/• “Civil War Unit.” (2012). The Regents of the University of
California. Retrieved from http://historyblueprint.org/• “American Civil War.” (2012) . Neo K12. Retrieved from
http://www.neok12.com/American-Civil-War.htm• “Timeline: African Americans in the Civil War.” (n.d.).
Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/lincolns-soldiers/
Resources• “Assault on Fort Wagner, SC Map.” The Civil War Trust. n.p.,2013. Retrieved
from http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/batterywagner/maps/batterywagnermap.html
• Benoit, P. (2012). The Civil War. New York, NY: Scholastic.• Brown, W. W. (1848). The Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-
slavery Meetings. Boston: Abner Forbes.• “Casualty List of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment from the Assault on
Fort Wagner, South Carolina.” The National Archives Experience Docs Teach. N.p., n.d.
• “Civil War Lesson #6: Emancipation.” (2011). The Regents of the University of California. Retrieved from http://
historyblueprint.org/site/pdf/Civil%20War%20Lesson%206%20(Emancipation)%20Final.pdf
• Davis, W.C. (1998). The Civil War Wall Chart. Lincolnwood, Illinois: Publications International, LTD.
Resources • Harper, F.E.W. (1898 ). Our Hero. In Poems (p. 15). Retrieved from http://
archive.org/stream/poems00harp#page/14/mode/2up • Herbert, J. (1999). The Civil War for kids: a history with 21 activities.
Chicago: Chicago Review Press.• McPherson, J.M. (2002). Fields of fury. New York, NY: Byron Press Visual
Publications, Inc.• Photographs of African-American Soldiers in the Civil War. (n.d.) Retrieved
from http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/civilwar/aasoldrs/photocol.html
• Ray, D. (1991). Behind the blue and gray. New York, NY: Puffin.• “The Civil War’s Black Soldiers.” (n.d.). National Park Service. [Online].
Retrieved from: http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/civil_war_series/2/sec10.htm
• The Civil War Music Site. (n.d.) Retrieved from http://www.civilwarmusic.net/
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