Reading Assignments--Week Five:
 
Week Five: McPherson, Chapters, 11-12-13

 

Edwin M. Stanton
Regiment
Political generals
Stephen Mallory
H.L. Hunley
“Alabama”
blockade
“Merrimack”
John Singleton Mosby
Swamp Fox Francis Marion
“minie ball”
tactical defense
five-twenty bonds
First Battle of Bull Run
George B. McClellan
Trent Affair
  
 
Study Questions:
Compare the resources of the South to those of the North.
Why, according to the text, did men fight the Civil War?
Compare Confederate war finances to Union war finances.
What is meant by the “King Cotton Illusion”?