Civil War

Class Text

Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (American Heritage, 1960)

Course Content

Chapter 1 - A House Divided

Chapter 2 - The Opening Guns

Chapter 3 - The Clash of Amateur Armies

Chapter 4 - Real Warfare Begins

Chapter 5 - The Navies

Chapter 6 - Confederate High-Water Mark

Chapter 7 - A Search for Allies

Chapter 8 - Stalemate, East and West

Chapter 9 - The South's Last Opportunity

Chapter 10 - The Armies

Chapter 11 - Two Economies at War

Chapter 12 - The Destruction of Slavery

Chapter 13 - The Northern Vise Tightens

Chapter 14 - The Politics of War

Chapter 15 - Total Warfare

Chapter 16 - The Forlorn Hope

Chapter 17 - Victory

Chapter 18 - End and Beginning

Chapter 19 - Sound of Distant Drums