HIST 70603
Civil War
Readings Seminar
Section 707
Syllabus
Professor: Dr. Steven Woodworth
Office Hours: MTRF 9:30-11:00; MRF 1:30-3:00
Office: RH 310 Phone: 257-6293 E-mail: s.woodworth@tcu.edu Website: http://personal.tcu.edu/~swoodworth
Description
& Objectives
This course will give students practice in writing book reviews and acquaint them with the body of literature in Civil War history.
Evaluation
Grades will be based on class participation (25%), 13 written book reviews (25%), and a final exam (50%).
Book
Reviews
Book reviews will be 600-800 words and will summarize and assess the book being reviewed. At the first meeting of the seminar (Jan. 23), each student will choose (with the professor’s approval) one book in each of the thirteen weekly units listed in this syllabus. Before each meeting of the seminar, the student will submit electronically a review of the book dealing with that day’s unit and will be prepared to present that review orally and discuss it with the seminar. Late book reviews will be penalized one letter-grade per week or portion of a week that they are late.
Note
on Disabilities
If you require accommodations for a disability, please contact the Coordinator for Students with Disabilities, Center for Academic Services, Sadler Hall 11, TCU Box 297710, 817-257-7486. Once you have met with me to deliver and discuss an official accommodations letter from TCU's Academic Services, I will be able to arrange for your modifications related to this course. If you have emergency medical information or need special arrangements in case the building must be evacuated, please discuss this with me as soon as possible.
Tentative
Class Schedule
Jan. 22 Introduction
Jan. 29 The Secession Crisis
Feb. 5 Campaigns: The West, 1861-1863
Feb. 12 Campaigns: The West, 1863-1865
Feb. 19 Campaigns: The East, 1861-1863
Feb. 26 Campaigns: The East, 1863-1865
March 5 The War at Sea
March 19 Strategy, Tactics, and Other Issues
March 26 Generals
April 2 Common Soldiers
April 9 Foreign Policy
April 16 Politics
April 23 The Home Front
April 30 History and Memory
May 7 Final Exam (3:00-5:30)
This schedule is tentative and is subject to change by the professor as announced in regularly scheduled meetings of the seminar.
Bibliography
Dumond, Dwight Lowell, The Secession Movement, 1860-1861 (1931)
Joseph Carlyle Sitterson, The Secession Movement in North Carolina (1939)
Kenneth M. Stampp, And the War Came: The North and the Secession Crisis, 1860-1861 (1950)
W. A. Swanberg, First Blood: The Story of Fort Sumter (1957)
David M. Potter, Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis (1962)
Ralph A. Wooster, The Secession Conventions of the South (1962)
Steven A. Channing, Crisis of Fear: Secession in South Carolina (1970)
Donald E. Reynolds, Editors Make War: Southern Newspapers in the Sectional Crisis (1970)
William L. Barney, The Secessionsit Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860 (1974)
Michael P. Johnson, Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia (1977)
Walter L. Buenger, Secession and the Union in Texas (1984)
Daniel Crofts, Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis (1989)
Robert Hendrickson, Sumter: The First Day of the Civil War (1990)
William C. Davis, A Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy (1994)
James L. Abrahamson, The Men of Secession and Civil War, 1859-1861 (2000)
Campaigns:
The West, 1861-1863
William G. Piston and Richard W. Hatcher III, Wilson’s Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It (2000)
Steven E. Woodworth, Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861-1865 (2005)
Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, The Battle of Belmont: Grant Strikes South (1991)
Benjamin F. Cooling, Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key to the Confederate Heartland (1987)
Stephen D. Engle, The Struggle of the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth (2001)
Thomas L. Connelly, Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee, 1861-1862 (1967)
Steven E. Woodworth, Jefferson Davis and His Generals: The Failure of Confederate Command in the West (1990)
William L. Shea and Earl J. Hess, Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West (1992)
Wiley Sword, Shiloh: Bloody April (1974)
James L. McDonough, Shiloh: In Hell before Night (1977)
Larry J. Daniel, Shiloh: The Battle that Changed the Civil War (1997)
James L. McDonough, War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville (1994)
Kenneth W. Noe, Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle (2001)
Peter Cozzens, The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth (1997)
James L. McDonough, Stone’s River: Bloody Winter in Tennessee (1980)
Peter Cozzens, No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stone’s River (1990)
Warren E. Grabau, Ninety-eight Days: A Geographer’s View of the Vicksburg Campaign (2000)
Campaigns:
The West, 1863-1865
Steven E. Woodworth, Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns (1998)
Peter Cozzens, This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga (1992)
Roger Pickenpaugh, Rescue by Rail: Troop Transfer and the Civil War in the West, 1863 (1998)
Peter Cozzens, The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga (1994)
Wiley Sword, Mountains Touched with Fire: Chattanooga Besieged, 1863 (1995)
Gary Dillard Joiner, One Damn Blunder from Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign of 1864 (2003)
James. L. McDonough, War So Terrible: Sherman and Atlanta (1987)
Stephen Davis, Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions (2001)
Richard M. McMurry, Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy (2000)
Anne J. Bailey, War and Ruin: William T. Sherman and the Savannah Campaign (2003)
Anne J. Bailey, The Chessboard of War: Sherman and Hood in the Autumn Campaigns of 1864 (2000)
Sword, Wiley, Embrace and Angry Wind: The Confederacy’s Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville (1992)
James L. McDonough and Thomas L. Connelly, Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin (1983)
Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Bentonville: The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston (1996)
Bruce Catton, Mr. Lincoln’s Army (1951)
Bruce Catton, Glory Road (1952)
Steven E. Woodworth, Davis and Lee at War (1995)
Ethan S. Rafuse, A Single Grand Victory: The First Campaign and Battle of Manassas (2002)
John Hennessy, The First Battle of Manassas: An End of Innocence (1989)
Robert G. Tanner, Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign Spring 1862 (1976)
Stephen W. Sears, To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign (1992)
Stephen H. Newton, Joseph E. Johnston and the Defense of Richmond (1998)
John J. Hennessy, Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas (1993)
Joseph L. Harsh, Confederate Tide Rising: Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy (1998)
Joseph L. Harsh, Taken at the Flood: Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862 (1999)
Stephen W. Sears, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam (1983)
George C. Rable, Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! (2002)
Ernest B. Furgurson, Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave (1992)
Steven E. Woodworth, Beneath a Northern Sky: A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign (2003)
Stephen W. Sears, Gettysburg (2003)
Bruce Catton, Grant Takes Command (1969)
Bruce Catton, A Stillness at Appomattox (1953)
Mark Grimsley, And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-June 1864 (2002)
Robert Garth Scott, Into the Wilderness with the Army of the Potomac (1985)
Gordon C. Rhea, The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864 (1994)
William D. Matter, If It Takes All Summer: The Battle of Spotsylvania (1988)
Gordon C. Rhea, The Battle for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern (1997)
Gordon C. Rhea, To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13-25, 1864 (2000)
Gordon C. Rhea, Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26 to June 4, 1864 (2002)
William Glen Robertson, Back Door to Richmond: The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, April-June 1864 (1987)
Herbert M. Schiller, The Bermuda Hundred Campaign: Operations on the South Side of the James River—May 1864 (1988)
Richard J. Sommers, Richmond Redeemed: The Siege at Petersburg (1981)
Frank E. Vandiver, Jubal’s Raid: General Early Famous Attack on Washington in 1864 (1960)
Benjamin Franklin Cooling, Jubal Early’s Raid on Washington 1864 (1989)
Jeffry D. Wert, From Winchester to Cedar Creek: The Shenandoah Campaign of 1864 (1987)
February 26
Spencer C. Tucker, A Short History of the Civil War at Sea (2002)
Adrian Cook, The Alabama Claims: American Politics and Anglo-American Relations, 1865-1872 (1975)
George W. Dalzell, The Flight from the Flag: The Continuing Effect of the Civil War upon the American Carrying Trade (1940)
William C. Davis, Duel between the First Ironclads (1975)
James P. Duffy, Lincoln’s Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of Davis Farragut (1997)
Robert G. Elliott, Ironclad of the Roanoke: Gilbert Elliott’s Albemarle (1999)
Chester G. Hearn, Admiral David Dixon Porter: The Civil War Years (1996)
Chester G. Hearn, Gray Raiders of the Sea: How Eight Confederate Warships Destroyed the Union’s High Seas Commerce (1992)
Chester G. Hearn, Mobile Bay and the Mobile Campaign: The Last Great Battle of the Civil War (1993)
Raimondo Luraghi, A History of the Confederate Navy (1996)
William Marvel, The Alabama and the Kearsarge: The Sailor’s Civil War (1996)
Charles M. Robinson, III, Shark of the Confederacy: The Story of the CSS Alabama (1995)
Mark K. Ragan, Union and Confederate Submarine Warfare (1999)
March 5
Frank J. Merli, Great Britain and the Confederate Navy, 1861-1865 (1970)
Murray Morgan, Dixie Raider: The Saga of the C.S.S. Shenandoah (1948)
Frank L. Owsley, Jr., The C.S.S. Florida: Her Building and Operations (1965)
Stephen R. Wise, Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running during the Civil War (1988)
Rowena Reed, Combined Operations in the Civil War (1978)
Rod Gragg, Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisher (1991)
Grady McWhiney and Perry Jamieson, Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage (1982)
Paddy Griffith, Battle Tactics of the Civil War (1989)
Robert G. Tanner, Retreat to Victory (2001)
Herman Hattaway, et al., Why the South Lost the Civil War (1986)
Gary W. Gallagher, The Confederate War (1997)
Andrew Haughton, Training, Tactics, and Leadership in the Army of Tennessee: Seeds of Failure (2000)
Mark Grimsley, The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians (1995)
March
19
Brian C. Melton, Sherman's Forgotten General: Henry W. Slocum (2007)
Jean Edward Smith, Grant (2001)
Brooks D. Simpson, Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph over Adversity, 1822-1865 (2000)
Emory M. Thomas, Robert E. Lee: A Biography (1995)
John F. Marszalek, Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order (1993)
James I. Robertson, Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend (1997)
Roy Morris, Sheridan: The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan (1992)
James P. Jones, Black Jack: John A. Logan and Southern Illinois in the Civil War (1967)
Francis F. McKinney, Education in Violence: The Life of George H. Thomas and the History of the Army of the Cumberland (1961)
William M. Lamers, The Edge of Glory: A Biography of General William S. Rosecrans (1961)
Craig L. Symonds, Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography (1995)
Craig L. Symonds, Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War (1997)
Gary L. Gallagher, Stephen Dodson Ramseur: Lee’s Gallant General (1985)
Grady McWhiney, Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat (1969)
Nathaniel C. Hughes and Roy P. Stonesifer, The Life and Wars of Gideon J. Pillow (1993)
Nathaniel C. Hughes, Jefferson Davis in Blue: The Life of Sherman’s Relentless Warrior (2002)
Nathaniel C. Hughes, General William J. Hardee: Old Reliable (1965)
March 26
Steven E. Woodworth, The Loyal, True, and Brave: America’s Civil War Soldiers (2002)
Michael Barton and Larry M. Logue, The Civil War Soldier: A Historical Reader (2002)
James I. Robertson, Jr., Soldiers Blue and Gray (1998)
Earl J. Hess, The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Oredeal of Combat (1997)
J. Tracy Power, Lee’s Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox (1998)
Larry J. Daniel, Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee: A Portrait of Life in a Confederate Army (1991)
Steven E. Woodworth, While God Is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers (2001)
Bell Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank (1952)
Bell Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb (1943)
Michael Barton, Goodmen: The Character of Civil War Soldiers (1981)
James M. McPherson,
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1997)
Reid Mitchell, The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home (1993)
Gerald Linderman, Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War (1987)
William C. Davis, Lincoln’s Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation (1999)
April
2
Frank L. Owsley, King Cotton Diplomacy (1931)
Jay Monaghan, Diplomat in Carpet Slippers: Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs (1945)
Martin Duberman, Charles Francis Adams (1961)
Kenneth Bourne, Britain and the Balance of Power in North America (1967)
Frank J. Merli, Great Britain and the Confederate States Navy (1970)
Stuart L. Bernath, Squall Across the Atlantic: American Civil War Prize Cases and Diplomacy (1970)
Lynn M. Case and Warren F. Spencer, The United States and France: Civil War Diplomacy (1970)
Brian Jenkins, Britain and the War for the Union (1974)
Norman B. Ferris, Desperate Diplomacy: William H. Seward’s Foreign Policy, 1861 (1976)
Norman B. Ferris, The Trent Affair: A Diplomatic Crisis (1977)
Glyndon G. Van Deusen, William Henry Seward (1967)
Howard Jones, Union in Peril: The Crisis over British Intervention in the Civil War (1992)
Robert E. May, The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim (1995)
Howard Jones, Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War (1999)
Dean B. Mahin, One War at a Time: The International Dimensions of the American Civil War (1999)
R. J. M. Blackett, Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War (2001)
Joseph A. Fry, Dixie Looks Abroad: The South and U.S. Foreign Relations, 1789-1973 (2002)
Frank J. Merli, The Alabama, British Neutrality, and the American Civil War (2005)
April
9
David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (1995)
Harry V. Jaffa, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)
George C. Rable, The Confederate Republic: A Revolution against Politics (1994)
Phillip Shaw Paludan, The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1994)
Allen C. Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (1999)
William C. Davis, Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour (1991)
William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American (1996)
Herman Hattaway and Richard E. Berginer, Jefferson Davis Confederate President (2002)
Brooks D. Simpson, Let Us Have Peace: Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868 (1991)
Harold Hyman and Benjamin P. Thomas, Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln’s Secretary of War (1962)
Hans L. Trefousse, The Radical Republicans: Lincoln’s Vanguard for Racial Justice (1968)
Richard F. Bensel, yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in American, 1859-1879 (1990)
Mark E. Neely, The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (1991)
Mark E. Neely, The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of American (1993)
Mark E. Neely, Southern Rights: Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism (1999)
Brace Tap, Over Lincoln’s Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the War (1998)
April
16
George C. Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (1989)
Stephen Ash, When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865 (1995)
John G. Selby, Virginians at War: The Civil War Experiences of Seven young Confederates (2002)
Edward K. Spann, Gotham at War: New York City, 1860-1865 (2002)
Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996)
J. Matthew Gallman, Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia during the Civil War (1990)
Phillip Shaw Paludan, A People’s Contest: The Union and Civil War, 1861-1865 (1989)
J. Matthew Gallman, The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front (1994)
James W. Geary, We Need Men: The Union Draft in the Civil War (1991)
David Williams, Rich Man’s War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley (1998)
James Marten, Texas Divided: Loyalty and Dissent in the Lone Star State, 1856-1874 (1990)
Richard B. McCaslin, Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging in Gainesville, Texas, 1862 (1994)
Carol Reardon, Pickett's Charge in History and Memory (1997)
Gary W. Gallagher, Lee and His Generals in History and Memory (1998)
Gary W. Gallagher, Lee and His Army in Confederate History (2002)
David W. Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2002)
David W. Blight, Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War (2002)
Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill, The Mosby Myth: A Confederate Hero in Life and Legend (2002)
Thomas A. Desjardin, These Honored Dead: How the Story of Gettysburg Shaped American Memory (2003)
Timothy Smith, This Great Battlefield of Shiloh: History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War National Military Park (2004)
Alice Fahs and Joan Waugh, The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (2004)
Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill, The Myth of Nathan Bedford Forrest (2005)
April 30
Final Exam