Testing and More Testing - Wednesday, December 10

There will be a blog test for the period covering the Revolutionary War to the beginning of the Civil War on Wednesday, December 17. Following that, there will be a Civil War test on Thursday, December 18.

As well, we agreed to Friday, January 9th as a due date for the Civil War essay.

Civil War Essays - Monday, December 8

As discussed in class, you are expected to write a 5 - 7 page research paper covering some aspect of the Civil War that will involve primary historical documents.



Browse the Valley of the Shadow Archive to help you decide the topic for your paper.



http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/choosepart.html



You may use the page below to help you decide on a topic if you like.



http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/teaching/vclassroom/vclasscontents.html#topics
Here are some primary sources for you to use:

http://www.awod.com/gallery/probono/cwchas/firstper.html

Other possible essays:



Was the Civil War inevitable?



Shelby Foote has said the Civil War changed the United States from an "are" to an "is"; as in prior to the conflict, people would say, "The United States are..." and after the conflict they would say, "The United States is..." Agree or disagree with this assessment.



Explain how the South was able to win the war through to 1963. Were the Confederacy's generals so much superior to the Union's? How was the North unable to exploit it's numerical, financial, and technological superiority?


Compare a civil war personality with another historical figure of another era.


Who should get the blame or the credit for military victory at Gettysburg?


How would North America have been changed had the South won its independence?



Any other topic as approved by me. Please ensure that your topic has enough material to allow you to write a substantive paper. Also make sure your topic has a research question to it that allows you to justify a position rather than tell about something.

You may also write a researched short story, much like the novel, "Shiloh," by Shelby Foote.

Civil War - Monday, December 8

We have completed our study of the Civil War period. Continued below you will find the supplemental material that we covered in class:


First Manassas/Bull Run:

http://www.historyanimated.com/BullRunAnimation.html


Birth of the Rebel Yell:


One of the first accounts of the yell was given at the battle of First Battle of Manasses (Bull Run) during then Brig. General Thomas Jonathan Stonewall Jackson's assault at Henry House Hill where the order was given during a bayonet charge to "yell like furies", and was instrumental in routing the Federal forces under General Irvin McDowell back to Washington D.C.

“Then arose that do-or-die expression, that maniacal maelstrom of sound; that penetrating, rasping, shrieking, blood-curdling noise that could be heard for miles and whose volume reached the heavens–such an expression as never yet came from the throats of sane men, but from men whom the seething blast of an imaginary hell would not check while the sound lasted.” -Colonel Keller Anderson of Kentucky's Orphan Brigade

Zouaves

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zouave#Zouaves_of_the_United_States_of_America_and_of_the_Confederate_States

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

http://learn.bowdoin.edu/joshua-lawrence-chamberlain/overview/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Chamberlain





Military Drill (Including moving from Column of Fours to Line of Battle)





http://www.public.asu.edu/~roblewis/ACW/hardee%20toc.htm





Fredericksburg





http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/civilwar/p/fredericksburg.htm





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fredericksburg





Irish Brigade





http://irishvolunteers.tripod.com/irish_brigade_history.htm





http://88ny.net/Battles.htm





http://www.28thmass.org/history.htm





A Civil War Christmas


http://www.awod.com/gallery/probono/cwchas/fredxmas.html

http://www.premiumchristmastree.com/a39/Christmas-During-the-Civil-War/article_info.html

William Pendleton --Artillery Chief of the Army of Northern Virginia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_N._Pendleton

Civil War Music

http://www.civilwarmusic.net/

Origin of the Term "Dixie" to Describe the South

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_(song)





The Emancipation Proclamation



http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/





Symbolism of the Pineapple



http://www.mindspring.com/~sixcatpack/pineappl.htm



Chancellorsville



http://www.civilwaranimated.com/index.php/chancellorsville-east-35



Gettysburg



http://www.civilwaranimated.com/index.php/gettysburg-east-50

http://www.usa-civil-war.com/Gettysburg/g_view_f.html

Iron Brigade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Brigade


Artillery Drill

http://www.melfisher.org/cannonsurvey/firing.htm

http://www.nps.gov/archive/vick/interp/lhcannon.htm


1863-1865 Timeline

http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/e-gov/e-politicalarchive-CivilWar2.htm