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19. To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings

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The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119)Uploaded 21-11-08Professor 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 1865.00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: Melville's "On the Slain Collegians"05:21 - Chapter 2. Grant's Strategic Changes from the West to the East13:26 - Chapter 3. The Psyche of Robert E. Lee19:17 - Chapter 4. Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Crater: Grant and Lee in 186433:21 - Chapter 5. Sherman's March to the Sea42:23 - Chapter 6. The Beginning of Memorial Day and ConclusionComplete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/coursesThis course was recorded in Spring 2008. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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