Penknife Case Study Answers
War Prisons
1. Carved Chess Set
a. These wooden chess pieces were carved by POWs at Elmira prison camp in New York. Games such as chess, created by hand by the prisoners, were common ways to make time pass in the camps.
2. Prisoner’s petition to Lincoln
a. Prisoners in the Andersonville prison camp signed petitions, emploring Lincoln to do something about the state in which they were kept. However, these petitions never made it to Lincoln, or even past the guards at the camp.
3. Leslie’s Illustrated Paper
Nursing
4. Clara Barton’s Penknife
a. Clara Barton was a nurse for the wounded soldiers of the North during the civil war. She used her penknife to dig bullets out of wounded soldiers on the field. She would go on to found the Red Cross.
5. Dorothea Dix’s …show more content…
First Edition Copy of Little Women
a. Little Women was written by Louisa May Alcott and published in 1868. It chronicled the lives of the four March sisters growing up during the civil war. It was loosely based off Louisa and her sisters’ own life.
The Union During the War Hospital Artifacts
10. Surgeon’s Kit
a. Medical treatment during the civil war was primitive and inefficient, though it was much more sophisticated in the north than in the south. Often a doctor’s best option in saving a wounded soldiers was to amputate. A union surgeon’s kit included such items as cloth for chloroform, the only sedative available, forceps, and a bone saw.
Military Strategy
11. Letter from Lincoln to Winfield Scott
a. President Lincoln and General Scott exchanged many letters over the course of the civil war detailing their strategic plans. In this particular document, Lincoln writes to Scott about the movement of Maryland into the war. “The question has been submitted to, and considered by me, whether it would not be justifiable, upon the ground of necessary defense, for you, as commander in Chief of the United States Army, to arrest, or disperse the members of that body.”
Weapons
12. Springfield
1. Carved Chess Set
a. These wooden chess pieces were carved by POWs at Elmira prison camp in New York. Games such as chess, created by hand by the prisoners, were common ways to make time pass in the camps.
2. Prisoner’s petition to Lincoln
a. Prisoners in the Andersonville prison camp signed petitions, emploring Lincoln to do something about the state in which they were kept. However, these petitions never made it to Lincoln, or even past the guards at the camp.
3. Leslie’s Illustrated Paper
Nursing
4. Clara Barton’s Penknife
a. Clara Barton was a nurse for the wounded soldiers of the North during the civil war. She used her penknife to dig bullets out of wounded soldiers on the field. She would go on to found the Red Cross.
5. Dorothea Dix’s …show more content…
First Edition Copy of Little Women
a. Little Women was written by Louisa May Alcott and published in 1868. It chronicled the lives of the four March sisters growing up during the civil war. It was loosely based off Louisa and her sisters’ own life.
The Union During the War Hospital Artifacts
10. Surgeon’s Kit
a. Medical treatment during the civil war was primitive and inefficient, though it was much more sophisticated in the north than in the south. Often a doctor’s best option in saving a wounded soldiers was to amputate. A union surgeon’s kit included such items as cloth for chloroform, the only sedative available, forceps, and a bone saw.
Military Strategy
11. Letter from Lincoln to Winfield Scott
a. President Lincoln and General Scott exchanged many letters over the course of the civil war detailing their strategic plans. In this particular document, Lincoln writes to Scott about the movement of Maryland into the war. “The question has been submitted to, and considered by me, whether it would not be justifiable, upon the ground of necessary defense, for you, as commander in Chief of the United States Army, to arrest, or disperse the members of that body.”
Weapons
12. Springfield