Military Strategy of the American Civil War (Credit Hours for History Teachers)
Guggenheim Memorial Library, Room #101 400 Cedar Ave, West Long Branch, NJ, United StatesPresented by Christopher DeRosa, Ph.D. This two-hour session traces how Union and Confederate plans for victory evolved over the course of the war. We will look at how American geography, contemporary military thinking, the available technology, and the contestants’ capacity for mobilization influenced their strategic choices. In particular, we will consider the profound struggle between slavery […]