The Traveling Trunk can be used as a self-contained educational activity or in conjunction with other activities and/or your visit to Wilson's Creek National Battlefield. Each trunk, whether for the United States Regular soldier or the Missouri State Guard soldier, will have a list of contents which should be checked off against the items in the trunk upon receipt and before its return to the park. The list below is provided to give you some idea of the contents of these trunks and as such is more representative than complete. Please feel free to copy any of the printed materials in the trunk.

Outline of Contents:

A. Checklist of contents.

B. List of contents with associated descriptions of items and their historical significance, all bound in a folder.

C. Clothing: including but not limited to different types of coats, shirts, hats, shoes, etc.

D. Personal items: including but not limited to such items as mirrors, wallets, combs, pipes and tobacco, cards and/or dice, writing materials, cooking and eating utensils, soap, tin cups, candles, toothbrushes, etc.

E. Regularly issued military materials: cartridge and/or cap boxes, bayonet scabbard, haversack with hardtack crackers, canteen, etc.

F. Drill manual (Hardee's Tactics), selected excerpts.