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Ranger-Guided Programs A Slave, A Plantation, A War (A City Point Tour) Grade Level: K - 12th / Time: 75 minutes City Point tells the story of America before, during, and after the Civil War. A tour of the kitchen building, Appomattox Manor, and Grant's cabin provides an insight into the experiences of a slave, a plantation owner, and a war general, respectively, and how the Civil War connected and forever altered their lives. A City Under Siege Grade Level: K - 12th / Time: 75 minutes This program provides students an excellent introduction to Petersburg National Battlefield. Students actively participate in a living map activity, where they learn about troop movements around the city and the significance of Petersburg as a supply depot. Students then explore the grounds where the fighting first began at Petersburg. This tour of Battery Five provides students a visual understanding of how soldiers fought behind trenches and earthworks. Portrait of a Soldier Grade Level: 3rd - 12th / Time: 90 minutes This program begins with a guided tour and story of the events of the Battle of the Crater and its participants. Students examine the reasons that the Union soldiers, including the United States Colored Troops, and the Confederate soldiers were fighting here. Students then explore three stations of props and flags representing each soldier, which provide clues of the lifestyle of these soldiers prior to and during the Civil War. Prisoners of Petersburg Grade Level: K - 12th / Time: 90 minutes Both the Union and Confederate army were "Prisoners of Petersburg" for a nine-and-a-half month long siege. This program explores how soldiers spent their days in the trenches where they fought, slept, ate and passed the time away. This program will provide students a "hands on" approach to army life in our Union encampment. Woe to the Wounded Grade Level: 3rd - 12th / Time: 75 minutes This program examines the challenge of treating the wounded soldiers during the Civil War. Students will role-play a battle, being assigned as a Union or Confederate soldier, wounded or unwounded. After the battle, the unwounded students will assist the wounded to a field dressing station, where they will bandage the wounds. Students will actively learn about the difficulty involved in caring for the number of wounded soldiers with limited medical supplies.