THE CIVIL WAR

Topics include states’ rights and slavery, the North and South before the war, Dred Scott, John Brown, Fort Sumter, Abraham Lincoln vs. Jefferson Davis, Bull Run, the formation of the Confederacy, the battle of the ironclads, the Peninsular Campaign of 1862, Antietam, medical care in the war, the draft, civilians and the war effort, the Emancipation Proclamation, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Grant as commander of the Union Army, Sherman’s March, Lincoln’s Cabinet, the election of 1864, Appomattox, Lincoln’s assassination, the impact of the war, and more.