Class Schedule
Week 7 (March 3-9)
Tuesday, March 5: Prospectus
for Final Paper due
Topics of Discussion:
A New Kind of War
North vs. South: A
Comparison of Aims and Means
Readings:
James M. McPherson,
What They Fought For
Ordeal by Fire,
pp. 179-226
Thursday, March 7
Topics of Discussion:
1861: Amateurs at War
1862: Amateurs to Veterans
Readings:
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
Food
for Thought for Week 7
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by Hugh Dubrulle, 2002
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