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The American Civil War, Professor Gary W. Gallagher

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The American Civil War

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Professor Gary W. Gallagher

The great courses. History. Modern history

Examines the causes of the American Civil War, why the North won, how military campaigns unfolded, and how the war affected various elements of American society

Prelude to war -- The election of 1860 -- The lower South secedes -- The crisis at Fort Sumter -- The opposing sides: I -- The opposing sides: II -- The common soldier -- First Manassas or Bull Run -- Contending for the border states -- Early Union triumphs in the west -- Shiloh and Corinth -- The peninsula campaign -- The Seven Days' battles -- The Kentucky campaign of 1862 -- Antietam -- The background to emancipation -- Emancipation completed -- Filling the ranks -- Sinews of war-finance and supply -- The War in the west, winter 1862-63 -- The war in Virginia, winter and spring 1862-63 -- Gettysburg -- Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Tullahoma -- A season of uncertainty, summer and fall 1863 -- Grant at Chattanooga -- The diplomatic front -- African-Americans in wartime, I -- African-Americans in wartime, II -- Wartime reconstruction -- The naval war -- The river war & Confederate commerce raiders -- Women at war, I -- Women at war, II -- Stalemate in 1864 -- Sherman versus Johnston in Georgia -- The wilderness to Spotsylvania -- Cold Harbor to Petersburg -- The Confederate home front, I -- The Confederate home front, II -- The Northern home front, I -- The Northern home front, II -- Prisoners of war -- Mobile Bay and Atlanta -- Petersburg, the Crater, and the Valley -- The final campaigns -- Petersburg to Appomattox -- Closing scenes and reckonings -- Remembering the war

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