Union soldier The American Civil War

Food for Thought Reading Assignments

Week 7 (March 3-9)

Tuesday, March 5

James M. McPherson, What They Fought For
Ordeal by Fire, pp. 179-226

Thursday, March 7

Excerpts from Carlton McCarthy, Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life
Winfield Scott to George B. McClellan on the Anaconda Plan (1861)
George B. McClellan's Memorandum to President Lincoln (July 7, 1862)
Excerpts from Ulysses S. Grant, Memoirs (1885)
Ordeal by Fire, pp. 227-282

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