August 27

Re-Imagining North and South 

• Staunton (Va.) Vindicator, 30 November 1860 

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September 1

American Contexts

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 3-46 

• William Lloyd Garrison, "The Liberator" 

• Alexis de Tocqueville, from Democracy in America: 

  • "Of Individualism in Democratic Countries"

  • "Why the Americans are so Restless...." 

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September 3

Disputes and Compromises

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 47-116 

• U.S. Grant, Causes of the Mexican War 

• Abraham Lincoln, "Spot Resolutions" 

• Alexander H. Stephens, "The Honor of This Country"

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September 8

Unexpected Tensions

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 117-153 

• Charles Sumner, "The Crime Against Kansas" 

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September 10

A House Dividing

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 153-201 

• Albany (N.Y.) Evening Journal, 24 May 1856 

• Springfield Illinois State Register, 26 May 1856 

• Charleston (S.C.) Mercury, 28 May 1856 

• Louisville (Ky.) Journal, 28 May 1856 

• Richmond (Va.) Whig, 31 May 1856 

• James Henry Hammond, "Cotton is King" 

 

September 15

Elections of 1860

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 202-233 

• National Democratic Party Platform, 1860 

• Constitutional Democratic Party Platform, 1860 

• Republican Party Platform, 1860 

• Constitutional Union Party Platform, 1860 

• George Templeton Strong, "whether I am a Republican" 

• The Presidential Election, 1860 

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September 17

The First Wave of Secession

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 234-252 

• South Carolina, "The Immediate Causes of Secession" 

• Date of Secession Compared to 1860 Black Population 

• Staunton (Va.) Spectator, 13 November 1860

• Staunton (Va.) Spectator, 27 November 1860

• Staunton (Va.) Vindicator, 30 November 1860

• Alexander H. Stephens, "Let us, therefore, reason together" 

 

September 22

Complications of the Secession Winter and Spring 

• Apostles of Disunion 

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 252-264

• John Crittenden, Compromise Proposal, December 1860 

• Peter Turney's Resolutions, 24 February 1861

• I. T. Carr's Resolutions, 24 February 1861

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September 24

The Realities of Division

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 264-307

• Alexander H. Stephens, "Cornerstone Speech" 

• Jefferson Davis, "Our Cause is Just" 

• Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address 

• Population of the Future Confederate States, 1860 

• Population of the Border Slaveholding States, 1860 

• Distribution of Farms by Acreage, 1860

• Distribution of Slaveholders by Size of Holdings, 1860 

• Percentage of Urban Population, 1790–1860 

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September 29

First mid–term examination 

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October 1

Amateurs Go To War

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 308-350 

• Animated map of the First Battle of Bull Run

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October 6

U. S. Grant and the War in the West 

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 392-422 

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October 8

Lee's Second Chance

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 423-427; 454-489  

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October 13 

The Lessons of Antietam 

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 533-545; 557-567 

• Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, 3 September 1862 

• Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation 

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October 15

Along Three Rivers in the Winter of 1862-1863  

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 568-590 ​​

 

October 20

Internal Resistance 

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 591-625 

• Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Chiefly about War Matters"

• George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, 7 July 1862 ​​

 

October 22

Fall Break

 

October 27

The Vicksburg Campaign​

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 626-638 

• Vicksburg Campaign, March–July 1863

 

October 29

At the Height of the Offensive-Defensive

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 638-665  

• Robert E. Lee, General Orders, No. 73 

• Gettysburg, 1 July 1863 ​​

 

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November 3​​

​​Gettysburg's Planned Battles and Aftermath​

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 638-665 

• Lee and His Generals, pp. 47-76

• Gettysburg, 2 July 1863

• Gettysburg, 3 July 1863

• Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, 31 July 1863

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November 5

​Middle Tennessee & the Battles for Chattanooga

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 666-688

• Tullahoma Campaign, 24 June-3 July 1863

• Battles for Chattanooga, November 1863​

  • Battle of Lookout Mountain, 24 November 1863​

  • Battle of Missionary Ridge, 4 p.m., 25 November 1863

  • Battle of Missionary Ridge, 5 p.m., 25 November 1863

  • Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address ​

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November 10

Second mid–term examination ​

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November 12

Grant and Lee, 1864

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 718-743 

• Lee and His Generals, pp. 77–98 

• U.S. Grant, Meeting President Lincoln 

• U.S. Grant, Command of the Army of the Potomac 

• U.S. Grant, Plans for the 1864 Campaign 

• Map of 1864 Union military plans

• Map of the Overland Campaign, 1864

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November 17

The Atlanta Campaign & Elections of 1864​

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 743-750; 751-773; 803-806

• Cleburne, et al., to Johnston, et al., 2 January 1864

• Johnston to Hardee, et al., 31 January 1864 

• Atlanta Campaign, May–September 1864 

• Kennesaw Mountain, 27 June 1864 

• Democratic Party Platform, 1864 

• Republican Party Platform, 1864 

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November 19

In "Union Territory"

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 807-830  

• W. T. Sherman, Letter to ... Atlanta 

• W. T. Sherman, Special Field Orders, No. 120

• W. T. Sherman to Henry W. Halleck, 24 December 1864 

• W. T. Sherman, Special Field Orders, No. 15, [1865] 

• The Attack on Union Scout William Huddleston

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November 24 & 26

Thanksgiving holiday

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December 1

​Confederate Collapse

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 831-844  

• Robert E. Lee to Andrew Hunter, 11 January 1865 

• Charleston (S.C.) Mercury, 13 January 1865 

• 56th Va. Reg't. to Richmond Whig, 14 February 1865 

• Thirteenth Amendment, 1865 

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December 3

The South's War at Home​

• Mothers of Invention  

 

December 8

Concluding Complications

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 844-852

• Appomattox Campaign, March–April 1865 

• Carolinas Campaign, September 1864–April 1865 

• Edwin M. Stanton to U.S. Grant, 3 March 1865 

• U.S. Grant, Meetings with Robert E. Lee, 9–10 April 1865 

• Sherman to Grant or Halleck, 18 April 1865 

• W.T. Sherman, First Agreement...., 18 April 1865 

• Edwin M. Stanton to U.S. Grant, 21 April 1865 

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December 10

War's Remembrance

• Battle Cry of Freedom, pp. 853-862

• Lee and His Generals, pp. 199–226 

• Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, 1865 

• Robert E. Lee, "Farewell to Army of Northern Virginia" 

• Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, 20 April 1865 

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December 13

Final examination, 7:00-9:00 p.m.​​

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