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The Civil War Copyright 1993, 1996 by Mark Grimsley
All materials placed on the Web by me are my intellectual property and represent the fruits of many years' labor. This is especially true for the materials linked to this page. If you are a student officially enrolled in History 668.01 at Ohio State University, I would appreciate your consulting or downloading the files exclusively for the purpose of your work in the course. If you are not a student enrolled in the course, these materials are not intended for you and I would appreciate your not making use of them in any way.
In the wake of the battle of Antietam (September 17, 1862), cameramen working under the direction of Mathew Brady took the first photographs of American war dead. Within a few weeks these photographs, published as album cards, were available for viewing and purchase at Brady's well-known photograph gallery on Broadway in New York City. Crowds of people visited the gallery to examine them, among them a reporter for the New York Times who wrote in the issue for October 20, 1862: "Mr. Brady has done something to bring home to us the terrible reality and earnestness of war. If he has not brought bodies and laid them in our door-yards and along streets, he has done something very like it. . . ." Enter the Gallery to view some examples.
On April 24, 1863, the U.S. War Department published General Orders No. 100, the first official guidelines for the conduct of troops in the field. More generally known as Lieber's Code after Francis Lieber, the German-born jurist who was its principal author, General Orders No. 100 remained in effect as late as the Philippine War.
There are no "basic" History 668.01 lectures for the Civil War because it is my area of specialization and I often wing it. Here are some of the lectures I've given over the years:
The files linked to this page are the
final word processor text files for the chapters
Graduate students in particular may be interested in The Grasp of War: The Federal Army and the Crisis of the Union, 1861-1877 These are lectures I gave at the University of Illinois in April 1994. They represent a first, tentative cut at a book project that was, in essence, a companion volume to The Hard Hand of War. I decided to abandon the project when I feared that it might "typecast" me as solely a Civil War historian. The Federal Army and the Crisis of the Union, 1861-1877: An Overview The Transformation of Federal Policy Toward Southern Civilians and Property, 1861-1865 The Army and the Genesis of Free Labor in the South, 1861-1865 The Army, Southern Civilians, and the Crisis of the Union, 1861-1877: A Select Bibliography The U.S. Civil War Center at Louisiana State University maintains a comprehensive (and growing) set of links to all Civil War-related sites on the Web.
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