Lecture 19 - To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings
recorded by: Yale University
published: Oct. 22, 2010, recorded: April 2008, views: 2612
released under terms of: Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives (CC-BY-ND)
See Also:
Download yalehist119s08_blight_lec19_01.mov (Video - generic video source 426.1 MB)
Download yalehist119s08_blight_lec19_01.flv (Video 184.8 MB)
Download yalehist119s08_blight_lec19_01_640x360_h264.mp4 (Video 153.0 MB)
Related content
Report a problem or upload files
If you have found a problem with this lecture or would like to send us extra material, articles, exercises, etc., please use our ticket system to describe your request and upload the data.Enter your e-mail into the 'Cc' field, and we will keep you updated with your request's status.
Description
Professor Blight uses Herman Melville's poem "On the Slain Collegians" to introduce the horrifying slaughter of 1864. The architect of the strategy that would eventually lead to Union victory, but at a staggering human cost, was Ulysses S. Grant, brought East to assume control of all Union armies in 1864. Professor Blight narrates the campaigns of 1864, including the Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor, and the siege of Petersburg. While Robert E. Lee battled Grant to a stalemate in Virginia, however, William Tecumseh Sherman's Union forces took Atlanta before beginning their March to the Sea, destroying Confederate morale and fighting power from the inside. Professor Blight closes his lecture with a description of the first Memorial Day, celebrated by African Americans in Charleston, SC 1865.
Reading assignment:
Michael P. Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War, part 9, pp. 264-267 and pp. 281-306
E. L. Doctorow, The March
Link this page
Would you like to put a link to this lecture on your homepage?Go ahead! Copy the HTML snippet !
Write your own review or comment: