I participated in an escape room for my social studies field experience. This particular escape room was titled “Civil War.” Breakout Lawrence, the place that we went to, summarizes the escape room on their website by saying “You and your fellow soldiers have been captured and placed in an enemy bunker. You receive word that there is a way out, but you only have an hour before your captors return from a scouting tour. Act fast, or it's taps for you!” The room consisted of hidden underground tunnels, magnetic maps, a telegraph machine with morse code messages, secret compartments, dimly lit lanterns, eight bottles of moonshine, and lots of historical inaccuracies. Upon entering the dark room, you and your 5 fellow “soldiers” are presented with a table, a bottle of moonshine, multiple softly lit electric lanterns, a mounted deer head, and various framed pictures of generals and their platoon. A scenario similar to this would be unheard of during the civil war. First off, holding cells for prisoners held many more than just 6 men, they most definitely would not have had electric lanterns, and would not have …show more content…
been given moonshine. In actuality, Civil war prisoners were kept in camps with thousands of other men and given barely enough food and water to survive. There would never have been an instance where six prisoners were left all by themselves for a whole hour. Almost every item in the room has some hidden clue or hint to help your group escape, there are coded messages on picture frames, on and in the walls, and magnetically locked compartments behind the pictures.
There are even magnetic maps that, when figurines are placed in certain places, trap doors open up. In civil war times, magnetic maps, trap doors, underground tunnels, and expertly placed escape clues would not have been a possibility. Once all of the puzzles have been solved, all of the codes cracked, and all of the locks unlocked, your group is presented with a rifle that had been locked in a cage along with a drawing of a man shooting a lock on a door with a rifle, clearly indicating what the purpose of the gun is. Each clue is cautiously and intelligently placed, yet in order to actually escape, you must use the loudest and least stealthy escape
device. While my friends and I had a blast working together and were able to escape with four minutes left to spare, we couldn’t help but notice all of the historical inaccuracies that were presented to us as factual. Scented ammunition bags were a very important clue to breaking out of the room, they were presented along with a note that advertised them as a way to avoid alerting enemy soldiers of your presence, yet I could not find any mention of these anywhere on the internet. The plot that is presented is exciting and, to most, all of the props and events described could be perceived as historically accurate, however, they are not. This experience helped expand my awareness of the historical inaccuracies pertaining to the Civil War, that the public believes to be true.
The book HIDEOUT, written by Gordon Korman, begins with an adventurous group of middle school kids that come to the rescue of one of their friends to hide a fierce Doberman before a crooked businessman can bring him harm. The story starts out in the beginning of August, in Cedarville, New York, with the school friends all heading off to summer camps but they did not know they would be sneaking a dog along with them. There are two main characters in each of the summer camps and the story takes place in all three of these camps. These summer camps are in the woods of New York’s Catskill Mountains. They are Camp Ebony Lake, Camp Ta-da and Camp Endless Pines. These three camps may be in the same woods but they are spread out and are miles away from each other. There is a different theme to each camp and it makes the book more interesting because the setting is always changing.
Booth assembled his men;the men he met over the years who were filled with southern pride and anger at the new nation. His conspirators in Lincoln’s assassination and escape were: Lewis Powell, David Herold, John Surratt Jr., Samuel Arnold, Michael O’Laughlen, and George Atzerodt.To prepare, Booth packed his weapons of choice: a .44 caliber pistol and a Rio Grande camp knife just in case. When Abraham and Mary Lincoln arrived at Ford’s Theatre, they were met with loud applause, even though they didn’t send word of their arrival;the crowd never thought that this would be the last night they would see Abraham Lincoln
In the United States, a citizen has rights granted to them under documents such as the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, which gives citizens certain freedoms as long as they obey the law. When someone commits a crime, they are then entitled to aspects such as a speedy trial, a fair jury, an attorney if they wish, and other things, under the sixth amendment. Even if the person is found guilty, as a U.S. citizen they have rights under the eighth amendment which include protection against excessive bail or fines, and cruel and unusual punishment. Since the framers enacted the amendment, the exact definition of cruel and unusual punishment has been difficult to pin down, changing with the times and everyone’s interpretations. Pete Earley’s novel, The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison, depicts the conditions in the United States’ toughest prison, where some prisoner recounts, as well as Earley’s
The American Civil war is considered to be one of the most defining moments in American history. It is the war that shaped the social, political and economic structure with a broader prospect of unifying the states and hence leading to this ideal nation of unified states as it is today. In the book “Confederates in the Attic”, the author Tony Horwitz gives an account of his year long exploration through the places where the U.S. Civil War was fought. He took his childhood interest in the Civil War to a new level by traveling around the South in search of Civil War relics, battle fields, and most importantly stories. The title “Confederates in the Attic”: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War carries two meanings in Tony Horwitz’s thoughtful and entertaining exploration of the role of the American Civil War in the modern world of the South. The first meaning alludes to Horwitz’s personal interest in the war. As the grandson of a Russian Jew, Horwitz was raised in the North but early in his childhood developed a fascination with the South’s myth and history. He tells readers that as a child he wrote about the war and even constructed a mural of significant battles in the attic of his own home. The second meaning refers to regional memory, the importance or lack thereof yet attached to this momentous national event. As Horwitz visits the sites throughout the South, he encounters unreconstructed rebels who still hold to outdated beliefs. He also meets groups of “re-enactors,” devotees who attempt to relive the experience of the soldier’s life and death. One of his most disheartening and yet unsurprising realizations is that attitudes towards the war divide along racial lines. Too many whites wrap the memory in nostalgia, refusing...
The Civil War had a very large affect on all of the States. It changed men from gentlemen that went to church every Sunday and never cussed to people who rarely went to church and cussed all the time. Some of the people in the war were also very corrupt and did not do things as they should be done. The way that the enemy was looked at was even changed. All of these things were talked about in "The Civil War Diary of Cyrus F. Boyd".
There are many different ways in which the war was represented to the public, including drawings, newspaper articles, and detailed stereographs. Stereographs such as John Reekie’s “The Burial Party” invoked mixed feelings from all of those who viewed it. It confronts the deaths caused by the Civil War as well as touches upon the controversial issue over what would happen to the slaves once they had been emancipated. This picture represents the Civil War as a trade-off of lives- fallen soldiers gave their lives so that enslaved black men and women could be given back their own, even if that life wasn’t that different from slavery. In his carefully constructed stereograph “The Burial Party,” John Reekie confronts the uncertainty behind the newly
The Civil War was the bloodiest, most devestating war that has ever been fought on American soil. It began on April 12, 1861, at 4:30 in the morning. The main reason that the war was fought was because Southern states believed that they should have the right to use African-Americans as slaves, and the Northern States opposed that belief.
“All up and down the lines the men blinked at one another, unable to realize that the hour they had waited for so long was actually at hand. There was a truce…” Bruce Catton’s Pulitzer prize winning book A Stillness at Appomattox chronicles the final year of the American Civil War. This book taught me a lot more about the Civil War than I ever learned through the public school system. Bruce Catton brought to life the real day to day life of the soldiers and the generals who led them into battle.
The ethics and rules of war have been a fiercely debated topic for centuries. One facet of war that is particularly divisive is the treatment of prisoners of war. This investigation compares the treatment of prisoners of war in the Andersonville and Rock Island prison camps during the American Civil War. Andersonville and Rock Island are widely regarded as the harshest prison camps of the Confederate and Union armies, respectively. The conditions of each camp will be examined and compared using factors such as nutrition, living arrangements, habits of camp leaders, and death rates.
...son’s idea of fighting a complete defensive war. Creating blockades on coastal lines and controlling railroads were used as well. Even today, similar tactics are used to cut off enemy from supplying their peers. Though Civil War was the deadliest war on American soil, many tactics and strategies are learned from it and improved.
The Underground Railroad consisted of many secret routes that the runaway slaves took to escape to freedom. Although some historians claim that the Underground Railroad was never as effective and organized as people make it to be, the system did exist. It’s conductors were always black and they rescored bands of slaves into the North, relying on both black and white homesteads, called “stations.” At these stations, the runaway slaves would hide and be fed. Harriet Beecher Stowe said that she and her husband hid slaves too, and her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was based on a real-life story of how Eliza Harris and her son escaped to the North.
Spies of the Civil War Spies played an important role during the American Civil War. What does it mean to be a spy? According to the dictionary, it is a person who collects information secretly for the government or a group. It also means to secretly keep watch over people or people. Most spies collect military, industrial, and political information.
A civil war is a war between citizens of the same country. From 1861 to 1865, America was fighting its own civil war. The American Civil War began when several Southern slave states declared their secession. When they seceded, they formed the Confederate States of America which was also known as the confederacy. The states remaining were known as the Union. Before the Civil War, slaves were treated unfairly, like property, rather than people. One court case that proves this is the 1857 court case of Dred Scott v. Sanford. This court case had a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court decided that African Americans are property and could not be American citizens. This case also decided that the 5th amendment protects property, so they cannot ban slavery in any state. For a long time the belief that the slave industry caused the American Civil War has been emphasized by movies and school books. Historians have a more multifaceted interpretation. The Civil War was caused by many motives, not just because of the need for slave labor on southern cotton farms. The American Civil War began due to various simple events which led to a more compounded, complex and far more interesting story. Many arguments, compromises, and decisions like Dred Scott v. Sanford that were made about slavery, tore the United States apart, divided the country and started the civil war.
On February 24, 1864 the first two hundred prisoners of Andersonville Prison arrived at the local train station. The prisoners were then led like cattle to the still unfinished pine stockade. When the prisoners entered the stockade they saw a large open area surrounded on three sides by a large pine wall. There were no shelters of any kind to protect the prisoners from the elements. The underbrush had also not been properly cleared out and there was still vegetation on the ground. The food was issued in small rations, and all food was raw. The cookhouse was still unfinished and there were no pots or pans to cook the rations, so the prisoners had to scavenge some firewood and use whatever implements they could find to cook their first meal(Roberts, 26).
Heidler, David Stephen, and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds. Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: a