Audios
To appomattox and beyond: the end of the war and a search for meanings [The civil war and reconstruction era, 1845-1877]
Autor
Blight, David W.
Resumen
Educação Superior::Ciências Humanas::História Presents a class of Professor David W. Blight that uses Herman Melville's poem "On the Slain Collegians" to introduce the horrifying slaughter of 1864. Professor Blight narrates the campaigns of 1864, including the Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor, and the siege of Petersburg. Professor Blight closes his lecture with a description of the first Memorial Day, celebrated by African Americans in Charleston, SC 1865