Each group of 5th grade students (about 50 in each) would cycle through each station and get a 8 min. speech about each particular station. There were stations on clothe washing, cooking, Union camping, Confederate camping, engineers, cannons, military drills with wooden guns, blacksmiths, lady spies, flags, sanitary commission, and doctors. The person that drilled the kids really did a good job acting like a military sargent.
I borrowed a uniform jacket and hat from one of the men who had extras.
I love cooking so I readily volunteered to help the cook. I mostly helped with dumping and getting water.
Every two hours or so, the kids would sit on a hill and watch as the mortar and cannon were shot.
The lady on the right talked about how ladies played an important role in capturing important information.
Here is the rebel camp station. On the last day when it rained, the confederate camp was the most popular because of the fire.
Bethany and her friends helped with the washing station. They got to operate some pretty neat stuff.
I bet you thought he was dead and gone. But I'm here to tell you that his replacement is here.
This is a model of the little Derringer that was used to kill Abraham Lincoln.
Abe had some pretty neat stuff on his table which included a slate, some books, even a Bible that was printed around 1861.
And last but not least was the bugler who sounded off calls letting us know when to eat, when the cannon was to be fired, and pretty much anything that you could think of.
Great looking bunch!