Process

Imagine you are one of the people listed below fighting in the Civil in Missouri:

• Union General Nathaniel Lyons
• Union General Franz Siegel
• Union Soldier
• Confederate General Benjamin McCulloch
• Confederate General Sterling Price
• Confederate Soldier
• A soldier assigned to the burial detail

You will choose one these people and keep a journal of your activities and the skirmishes leading up to the battle of Wilson's Creek/Oak Hill and the days following. Your journal may be for as long as a month or more. Include various incidents, but it is not necessary to keep daily entries. Be creative with this journal, using language from the 1860's and make the journal itself look "old." Use the links listed below to gather information you need to complete your journal:

• Wilson's Creek National Battlefield
• Civil War Experiences as Related by my Grandparents
• Forsyth: A Curtain Raiser for Wilson's Creek
• Civil War in the Upper White River Valley
• Wilson's Creek Civil War Reenactment
• Wilson's Creek
• The Battle of Wilson's Creek (Oak Hills)
• The Battle of Wilson's Creek
• Battle of Wilson's Creek
• Wilson's Creek Oak Hills Missouri
• Taney County during the Civil War (go to "historical archives" then to "law and order" and to "Civil War Years" and "Alf Bolin")
• General Sweeney's Museum of Civil War
• Pea Ridge
• Pea Ridge National Military Park