Discover the real reasons behind the Civil War and get a blow-by-blow description of what happened in each major battle with this engrossing and comprehensive course.
Topics Covered:
Topics Covered:
- By This Professor
- 01: Prelude to War
- 02: The Election of 1860
- 03: The Lower South Secedes
- 04: The Crisis at Fort Sumter
- 05: The Opposing Sides, I
- 06: The Opposing Sides, II
- 07: The Common Soldier
- 08: First Manassas or Bull Run
- 09: 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
