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We now have an index of posts, thanks to BobbyLayne:
The Mexican American War
The Wilmot Proviso
The Southern Perspective
Northern perspectives
The Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Political map of the United States (1854)
The Birth of the Republican Party
Abraham Lincoln
Was Abraham Lincoln religious?
Lincoln's 1854 Peoria speech
Bleeding Kansas
The Brooks-Sumner Affair
Lecompton Constitution
John Brown in Kansas
Dred Scott
Election of 1856
The Lincoln/Douglas Debates
1858 Illinois state election results
Dixie (song)
The Pattern 1853 Enfield
Harper's Ferry
Lincoln's Cooper Union Speech
The 1860 Democratic Convention
A history of Charleston
1860 election results
The 1860 Republican Convention
The Election of 1860
A state does not have the right to secede
The federal government has the right to put down a secession or rebellion
The men who voted to secede in South Carolina were not traitors or criminals
The common men and women of South Carolina were not traitors or misguided
Secession
Montgomery
Jefferson Davis
The Confederate Constitution
Confederate States of America - Inaugural Address of the President of the Provisional Government
Lincoln's Cabinet
Lincoln's Journey
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
Federal Arsenals
Fort Sumter
Civil War Snapshot- Abner Doubleday
Introduction to Civil War weapons - infantry, cavalry and artillery
ACW army structure & Introduction to basic offensive/defensive tactics
Battlefiedl functions of leaders
Upper South Reaction to Fort Sumter & Lincoln's Call for 75,000 Volunteers
Artillery and cavalry tactics
The Secession of Virginia
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee's Views on Slavery
Rifles of the Civil War
Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee
The Baltimore Riots
Battlefield Tactics - Infantry
Lincoln vs. Taney
American Civil War Zouave Regiments
Ex Parte Merryman
Missouri
Kentucky
West Virginia
George Brinton McClellan
McClellan vs. Lee
Happy new year, everyone! I'm really not planning on starting this too heavily for a few days, but I thought it would be fine to at least have an introduction post.
This thread will be similar to the World War II thread, an exhaustive examination, narrative, and discussion of the American Civil War. Because I believe the roots of this war are just as important as the war itself, the narrative is actually going to begin around the end of the Mexican-American war, and attempt to review all important events that led up to the battles themselves. Obviously, this will take a great amount of time, and we're not going to rush things. One thing I am hoping for is that many of the aspects of this struggle will result in much discussion and debate. Certainly everyone who is interested in this subject has their own opinions on just about everything, and I certainly welcome as much discussion as possible. Also, as Ozymandias has done in the World War II Thread, if anyone wants to join me in the narrative, you are very welcome.
For my narrative, I will be relying mainly on two sources: James MacPhearson's one volume Battle Cry of Freedom, and Shelby Foote's three volume The Civil War. Of course there are literally hundreds of other sources, dozens of which are on the internet. But as with the World War II thread, I prefer not to cut and paste, because the whole point of doing this is to offer my own opinion and get others.
It is my opinion that of all of the events which have shaped the United States of America, who we are and what we will become, this is the pivotal and defining moment. It really astonishes and saddens me that many, if not most Americans graduate from high school with only the most basic awareness of what this striuggle was all about. My own children are not going to be so uninformed.
The Mexican American War
The Wilmot Proviso
The Southern Perspective
Northern perspectives
The Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Political map of the United States (1854)
The Birth of the Republican Party
Abraham Lincoln
Was Abraham Lincoln religious?
Lincoln's 1854 Peoria speech
Bleeding Kansas
The Brooks-Sumner Affair
Lecompton Constitution
John Brown in Kansas
Dred Scott
Election of 1856
The Lincoln/Douglas Debates
1858 Illinois state election results
Dixie (song)
The Pattern 1853 Enfield
Harper's Ferry
Lincoln's Cooper Union Speech
The 1860 Democratic Convention
A history of Charleston
1860 election results
The 1860 Republican Convention
The Election of 1860
A state does not have the right to secede
The federal government has the right to put down a secession or rebellion
The men who voted to secede in South Carolina were not traitors or criminals
The common men and women of South Carolina were not traitors or misguided
Secession
Montgomery
Jefferson Davis
The Confederate Constitution
Confederate States of America - Inaugural Address of the President of the Provisional Government
Lincoln's Cabinet
Lincoln's Journey
Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
Federal Arsenals
Fort Sumter
Civil War Snapshot- Abner Doubleday
Introduction to Civil War weapons - infantry, cavalry and artillery
ACW army structure & Introduction to basic offensive/defensive tactics
Battlefiedl functions of leaders
Upper South Reaction to Fort Sumter & Lincoln's Call for 75,000 Volunteers
Artillery and cavalry tactics
The Secession of Virginia
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee's Views on Slavery
Rifles of the Civil War
Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee
The Baltimore Riots
Battlefield Tactics - Infantry
Lincoln vs. Taney
American Civil War Zouave Regiments
Ex Parte Merryman
Missouri
Kentucky
West Virginia
George Brinton McClellan
McClellan vs. Lee
Happy new year, everyone! I'm really not planning on starting this too heavily for a few days, but I thought it would be fine to at least have an introduction post.
This thread will be similar to the World War II thread, an exhaustive examination, narrative, and discussion of the American Civil War. Because I believe the roots of this war are just as important as the war itself, the narrative is actually going to begin around the end of the Mexican-American war, and attempt to review all important events that led up to the battles themselves. Obviously, this will take a great amount of time, and we're not going to rush things. One thing I am hoping for is that many of the aspects of this struggle will result in much discussion and debate. Certainly everyone who is interested in this subject has their own opinions on just about everything, and I certainly welcome as much discussion as possible. Also, as Ozymandias has done in the World War II Thread, if anyone wants to join me in the narrative, you are very welcome.
For my narrative, I will be relying mainly on two sources: James MacPhearson's one volume Battle Cry of Freedom, and Shelby Foote's three volume The Civil War. Of course there are literally hundreds of other sources, dozens of which are on the internet. But as with the World War II thread, I prefer not to cut and paste, because the whole point of doing this is to offer my own opinion and get others.
It is my opinion that of all of the events which have shaped the United States of America, who we are and what we will become, this is the pivotal and defining moment. It really astonishes and saddens me that many, if not most Americans graduate from high school with only the most basic awareness of what this striuggle was all about. My own children are not going to be so uninformed.
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