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第 季第 1 集1 - Prelude to War
2023年8月16日32 分鐘This introductory episode explains the sectional controversies and clashes that set the stage for secession and war.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集2 - The Election of 1860
2023年8月16日31 分鐘The presidential canvass of 1860 was the most important in US history. It resulted in Abraham Lincoln's election as the first Republican to occupy the White House and brought sectional tensions to a head.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集3 - The Lower South Secedes
2023年8月16日31 分鐘Beginning with South Carolina in December 1860, all of the Lower South states seceded by the first week of February 1861. They sent delegates to a convention in Montgomery, Alabama, that established the Confederate States of America.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集4 - The Crisis at Fort Sumter
2023年8月16日31 分鐘From February through April 1861, the United States and the Confederacy eyed each other warily and vied for the support of eight slave states that remained in the Union. As various compromise proposals fell short, United States-held Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor came to be a flash point.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集5 - The Opposing Sides, I
2023年8月16日31 分鐘Was the South fated to lose, as many people think? If the Confederate States of America could have won, when did it come closest to doing so? As fighting began, each side had important advantages. Take a close look at these.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集6 - The Opposing Sides, II
2023年8月16日31 分鐘Did the Confederacy have better generals? Which side had the edge in strategic and political leadership? What were the attitudes of England and France toward the conflict? Which side marshaled its resources and exploited its advantages more effectively?免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集7 - The Common Soldier
2023年8月16日31 分鐘Why did young men join the colors of the North or the South? What made them bear the war's awful dangers and hardships? What was it like to be a soldier in the ranks?免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集8 - First Manassas or Bull Run
2023年8月16日31 分鐘Following the Upper South's secession and the move of the Confederate capital to Richmond, Virginia, both sides geared up for war. Learn the details of General Winfield Scott's brilliant "Anaconda Plan" and the factors that led to the Battle of First Manassas or Bull Run (July 21, 1861), the first big clash of the war.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集9 - Contending for the Border States
2023年8月16日30 分鐘The loyalty of slaveholding states Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Delaware was an object of intense competition in the summer and autumn of 1861. What, in the end, kept those states in the Union?免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集10 - Early Union Triumphs in the West
2023年8月16日30 分鐘Most people looked to Virginia to be the critical military arena, but many leaders on both sides believed the war would be decided in the vast area between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集11 - Shiloh and Corinth
2023年8月16日30 分鐘Early 1862 saw breathtaking Union successes in the West. Ulysses S. Grant took Forts Henry and Donelson and moved south down the Tennessee River, while Don Carlos Buell marched from Nashville. Aiming to crush Grant before Buell arrived, A. S. Johnston struck the unwary Federals near Shiloh Church on April 6, 1862.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集12 - The Peninsula Campaign
2023年8月16日31 分鐘Nine months of relative quiet following First Manassas ended when George B. McClellan started a slow Union drive up the Virginia Peninsula toward Richmond in April. By the end of May 1862, Union forces menaced Richmond from two directions and Confederate prospects looked bleak.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集13 - The Seven Days' Battles
2023年8月16日31 分鐘As Stonewall Jackson marched and fought in the Shenandoah Valley, Joseph E. Johnston attacked McClellan at Seven Pines or Fair Oaks. When Johnston was wounded, Robert E. Lee took command. In the Seven Days' Battles, he seized the initiative and pressed the Federals south to the James. Lee had saved Richmond and offset Union success in the West.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集14 - The Kentucky Campaign of 1862
2023年8月16日30 分鐘The Confederacy faced a difficult strategic situation in July 1862. Jefferson Davis and his generals responded by sending armies into Kentucky and Maryland in the most impressive Confederate strategic offensive of the war. Operations in Kentucky between August and October 1862 culminated in a confused battle at Perryville.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集15 - Antietam
2023年8月16日31 分鐘After besting John Pope at Second Manassas in late August, Lee marched north into Maryland. Lincoln reluctantly returned command to McClellan, whose pursuit of Lee culminated at Antietam on September 17, the bloodiest day in American history. What happened on that battlefield? What did it mean?免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集16 - The Background to Emancipation
2023年8月16日30 分鐘Despite slavery's role in causing the conflict, for at least the first year it remained in the background. As long as restoring the Union remained the sole war aim, there was remarkable unity among Northerners. But what type of Union were they fighting for?免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集17 - Emancipation Completed
2023年8月16日30 分鐘Lincoln came to see emancipation as necessary to victory. But he understood that he lacked the authority to end slavery in loyal areas, and his famous proclamation deliberately casts emancipation as a war measure. What did most Northerners think of it?免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集18 - Filling the Ranks
2023年8月16日30 分鐘How many men served during the war? How were they recruited? How good were the United States and the CSA at putting their military-age men under arms?免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集19 - Sinews of War—Finance and Supply
2023年8月16日30 分鐘War spending went on at an unprecedented scale. Both sides sold bonds, levied taxes, and printed paper money. Despite its weak economy, the Confederacy never lost a battle because its armies ran out of ordnance.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集20 - The War in the West, Winter 1862–63
2023年8月16日30 分鐘While McClellan sat north of the Potomac, Buell slowly followed Bragg's retreat into Tennessee. Lincoln, eager for good war news, named Ambrose E. Burnside to take over the Army of the Potomac and William S. Rosecrans to tackle Bragg. In December, Rosecrans moved, and Grant began his long campaign against Vicksburg.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集21 - The War in Virginia, Winter and Spring 1862–63
2023年8月16日30 分鐘In Virginia, the Union army suffered two setbacks along the Rappahannock. Lee threw back Burnside's costly frontal assaults at Fredericksburg on December 13. The talented, ambitious Joseph Hooker soon took command. He planned a brilliant offensive that began well at the end of April 1863, but Lee and Jackson had other plans.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集22 - Gettysburg
2023年8月16日31 分鐘Gettysburg is often described as the turning point of the war. It took place against a background of uncertainty and unrest in the North and was the result of a major strategic debate in the South. Why did Lee go north? Was his strategic thinking sound? What swung the three-day battle's outcome? How did people on either side view Gettysburg?免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集23 - Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Tullahoma
2023年8月16日30 分鐘In mid-April, Grant boldly ordered the Navy to run past Vicksburg's guns, ferried his troops across the south of the city, marched inland to seize Jackson, Mississippi, and then besieged Vicksburg. With skillful marching, Rosecrans pinned Bragg in Chattanooga.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集24 - A Season of Uncertainty, Summer and Fall 1863
2023年8月16日31 分鐘Although the Union seemed poised for knockout blows both east and west, Meade would not force a full-blown battle, and Grant found himself without a major goal after Vicksburg. Rosecrans ably maneuvered Bragg out of Chattanooga and into north Georgia in early September. Reinforced, Bragg struck back at Chickamauga (September 19-20), the CSA's only major tactical victory in the West.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集25 - Grant at Chattanooga
2023年8月16日30 分鐘With all eyes on Chattanooga, both armies experienced command problems. Grant, named overall Union commander in the West in mid-October, took charge personally. Bragg, meanwhile, conducted an increasingly ineffective siege.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買