Students should work from the full size, completed map page shown with the link from this section's main index page.  Emphasize neatness from the beginning!

   Tell students to complete the map details before doing the shading of the states.  Use dark blue color pencil for the rivers, and light blue for the Great Lakes.  Be sure students add the label for Sherman's March by using either a #2 pencil or an erasable red ink pen.  Color pencils do not do very well with small lettering, and a mistake made with a regular ink pen can't be corrected.  The Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico should be shaded light blue as the last step.
 
   Once all the details are on, students should very lightly shade the states of the Union and the states of the Confederacy, and add the colors to the map key at the top.

   Remind students that there were hundreds of battles during the years of the Civil War.  It would take a very large and very detailed map to show them all.