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The American Civil War Some Thoughts in Survey

The American Civil War Some Thoughts in Survey Dr. John Robert Greene Paul J. Schupf Professor, History and Humanities Cazenovia College By Way of Introduction….. 30 th Year… Bachelor’s and Master’s, St. Bonaventure University Ph.D., Syracuse University 15 books ….articles…presentations

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The American Civil War Some Thoughts in Survey

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  1. The American Civil WarSome Thoughts in Survey Dr. John Robert Greene Paul J. Schupf Professor, History and Humanities Cazenovia College

  2. By Way of Introduction….. • 30th Year… • Bachelor’s and Master’s, St. Bonaventure University • Ph.D., Syracuse University • 15 books ….articles…presentations • Most recent publications--Betty Ford: Candor and Courage in the White House; Profiles of an Era: The George H.W. Bush Presidency; Profiles of an Era: The Nixon/Ford Years • Media Pundit--Political Commentary (PBS; MSNBC; C-SPAN; NPR; Ivory Tower Half Hour) • Working this summer on: Profiles of an Era: The George W. Bush Presidency, and America in the 1960s • Chittenango, NY

  3. The important role to the professional historian of the “Civil War Buff”

  4. 1. “The nation had stumbled into armed conflict.” (Gallman, The North Fights the Civil War, 12) • The Inevitability Thesis • Lincoln and……

  5. 2. Fort Sumter (12-13 April 1861)

  6. 3. A Military Survey: 1861-1863

  7. 3A.”On to Richmond,” Lincoln’s Political Problems, and the First Battle of Bull Run (July 16-21, 1861)

  8. 3B. McClellan, the Peninsular Campaign, and the Siege of Yorktown

  9. 3C. Farragut and the Mississippi

  10. 3D. Sam and Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862)

  11. 3e. The Apex of the Marble Man:April-December, 1862-The Seven Days Battle (July 1862)-Second Bull Run (August 30, 1862)-Antietam (September 17, 1862)-Fredericksburg (December 11-12, 1862)

  12. 3f. 1863Vicksburg (February-July, 1863)

  13. 3g. 1863-Chancellorsville (May 1-6, 1863)-Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863)

  14. 4. Some Extra-Military Issues

  15. A. The Growth of the National State…or… …how Salmon P. Chase financed the war.

  16. B. The Two-Party System, Democrats, and Copperheads

  17. C. The “Draft” “Most soldiers fought because they wanted to; most who wished to avoid service probably succeeded.” (Gallman, 71)

  18. D. Photographers Selected Civil War Photographs Home Page

  19. E. The Emancipation Proclamation … …as a military measure.

  20. F. Women in (and by) the War • Not Heavy industryTextiles • Nursing • Dorothea Dix

  21. 5. A Military Survey: 1864--1865

  22. 5A. “Total War” • “Absolute War” (Carl von Clausewicz, On War) • James McPherson, Drawn With the Sword: • “no distinction between combatants and non-combatants”

  23. 5B. 1864 -Grant’s Assessment of “Total War” (103) -The Wilderness (May 8-21, 1864) -Cold Harbor (May 30-31, 1864)

  24. 5C: 1864: Sherman’s March to the Sea

  25. 5D. 1865-Siege of Petersburg (June, 1864-April, 1865)-April 9, 1865—Appomattox Court House

  26. 6. Father Abraham

  27. Your Thoughts.

  28. 6A. The Marble Monument versus Herndon’s Lincoln • William Herndon, Lincoln: The true Story of a Great Life (1888) • Herndon: “Politics were his life” (124) • Then…. • what were his politics?

  29. 6B. Lincoln as “Grecian Tragedy” (Richard Hofstadter, The American Political tradition and the Men Who Made It, 21) • “The greatest of the Lincoln dramatists was Lincoln himself” (Hofstadter, 122)

  30. 6C. What He Was: The Unionist.

  31. 6D. What He was NOT. An Abolitionist. • Hofstadter: “moderately hostile” to slavery (139) • Your View on This?

  32. 6E. What he MIGHT have been, but is very debatable… • …a great military strategist.

  33. 6F. Lincoln’s Ambition • A given. BUT..… • …one cannot, then, be both humble and successful in politics?

  34. 6G. He was a Westerner. • Just like Jackson?? • Jacksonians—property over liberty • Hofstadter—Lincoln's seeing slavery as a “menace to free labor” (153)

  35. 6H. The Gettysburg Address and Lincoln's view of Liberty • Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg(1992) • Wills: “Lincoln was an artist, not just a scholar.” The Gettysburg Address (Library of Congress Exhibition)

  36. 6I. Reconstruction • Ten Percent Plan (1863; Lincoln) • Versus • Wade-Davis Bill (1864; Radical Republicans) • Lincoln Pocket Vetoes • …and had he lived…..?

  37. rgreene@cazenovia.edu

  38. Questions?

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