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Imagine yourself living amid the bloodiest conflict on American soil: an infantry soldier marching into the Gettysburg battlefield in the front lines, a Minnesotan mother whose son responds to Lincoln's call for volunteers, a slave working the fields of a Mississippi plantation when rumors of Emancipation arrive. Drawing on the letters and records of individual soldiers, this compelling course invites you to explore the relationship between events on the battlefield and life on the home front. With more than 600,000 casualties, the Civil War cannot be understood by looking exclusively at famous figures like Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, and Ulysses S. Grant. As you'll see, ordinary people--volunteer soldiers, runaway slaves, civilians in both the North and South--shaped the course of history. Hearing their stories illuminates the causes, consequences, and course of the war. Throughout, you'll pay special attention to the men who served in the ranks on both sides. You'll conclude by looking at the diverse ways that Americans continue to find political relevance in their Civil War past.

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Peter S. Carmichael is the Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and the director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. An expert on 19th-century US history, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and southern history, he is the author of several articles and books, including The War for the Common Soldier, and he has appeared on PBS's American Experience as well as the Emmy-nominated TV show Who Do You Think You Are?. Peter S. Carmichael is the Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and the director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. An expert on 19th-century US history, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and southern history, he is the author of several articles and books, including The War for the Common Soldier, and he has appeared on PBS's American Experience as well as the Emmy-nominated TV show Who Do You Think You Are?.

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