Class Schedule
Week 8 (March 10-16)
Tuesday, March 12
Topics of Discussion:
Fighting a Civil War
Battle: Antietam/Sharpsburg
Northern Politics and
Slavery: The Emancipation Proclamation and the Elections of 1862
Readings:
Robert
E. Lee Letter to Jefferson Davis (September 3, 1862)
Emancipation
Proclamation (January 1, 1863)
Horace Greeley's "The
Prayer of the Twenty Millions" (August 19, 1862) and Lincoln's Response
(August 22, 1862)
General
George B. McClellan's General Order No. 163 on the Emancipation Proclamation
(October 7, 1862)
Ordeal by Fire,
pp. 283-324
Thursday, March 14:
MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Food
for Thought for Week 8
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by Hugh Dubrulle, 2002
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