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Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863

David W. BlightPulitzer Prize WinnerYale University

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50:28·2008·introductory level

This lecture details early Union victories at Fort Donelson and Fort Henry, introduces Ulysses S. Grant, and examines the Battle of Shiloh. It further explores George McClellan's Peninsula campaign, Stonewall Jackson's rise, and Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North.

HistoryModern History & GeopoliticsEarly Civil War BattlesUlysses S. GrantPeninsula Campaign

The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119)

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David W. BlightPulitzer Prize Winner

Pulitzer Prize for History · Sterling Professor of History · Yale University

David W. Blight is a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian renowned for his definitive scholarship on the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

1 course · 22 lecturesCanon
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