Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countryside into names we will always remember. In those great battles streams ran red with blood, and the United States was truly born.
Leading Civil War historian Professor Gary W. Gallagher richly details the effects of the Civil War on all Americans. You'll learn how armies were recruited, equipped, and trained. You'll learn about the hard lot of prisoners. You'll hear how soldiers on both sides dealt with the rigors of camp life, campaigns, and the terror of combat. You'll understand how slaves and their falling masters responded to the advancing war. And you will see the desperate price paid by the families so many left behind.
More info Taught by: Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Course Lecture Titles 1. Prelude to War
2. The Election of 1860
3. The Lower South Secedes
4. The Crisis at Fort Sumter
5. The Opposing Sides, I
6. The Opposing Sides, II
7. The Common Soldier
8. First Manassas or Bull Run
9. Contending for the Border States
10. Early Union Triumphs in the West
11. Shiloh and Corinth
12. The Peninsula Campaign
13. The Seven Days' Battles
14. The Kentucky Campaign of 1862
15. Antietam
16. The Background to Emancipation
17. Emancipation Completed
18. Filling the Ranks
19. Sinews of War—Finance and Supply
20. The War in the West, Winter 1862–63
21. The War in Virginia, Winter and Spring 1862–63
22. Gettysburg
23. Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Tullahoma
24. A Season of Uncertainty, Summer and Fall 1863
25. Grant at Chattanooga
26. The Diplomatic Front
27. African Americans in Wartime, I
28. African Americans in Wartime, II
29. Wartime Reconstruction
30. The Naval War
31. The River War and Confederate Commerce Raiders
32. Women at War, I
33. Women at War, II
34. Stalemate in 1864
35. Sherman versus Johnston in Georgia
36. The Wilderness to Spotsylvania
37. Cold Harbor to Petersburg
38. The Confederate Home Front, I
39. The Confederate Home Front, II
40. The Northern Home Front, I
41. The Northern Home Front, II
42. Prisoners of War
43. Mobile Bay and Atlanta
44. Petersburg, the Crater, and the Valley
45. The Final Campaigns
46. Petersburg to Appomattox
47. Closing Scenes and Reckonings
48. Remembering the War
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