She teaches a class discussing the ways northern middle class women volunteered during civil war. She focuses on Louisa May Alcott. Chronicled in her book called hospital sketches. Its about an hour. All right. Well, welcome. To a class that will focus on women and volunteerism during the u. S. Civil war. You all read a primary source document written by a woman who participated in the civil war. Louisa may alcott. Who worked as a nurse. So were going to start off our class today by looking at hospital sketches. Which all of you should have available to you. And out ready to chat. About the source. So the big question that were posing and investigating today is is how did womens volunteerism shape the choices that they made during the civil war. Theres two questions. And then how did that volunteerism influence the out come or affect the out come of the civil war. Those are our over arching questions that were looking at today. We start with Louisa May Alcott. And her hospital sketches
You all read a primary source document written by a woman who participated in the civil war. Louisa may alcott. Who worked as a nurse. So were going to start off our class today by looking at hospital sketches. Which all of you should have available to you. And out ready to chat. About the source. So the big question that were posing and investigating today is is how did womens volunteerism shape the choices that they made during the civil war. Theres two questions. And then how did that volunteerism influence the out come or affect the out come of the civil war. Those are our over arching questions that were looking at today. We start with Louisa May Alcott. And her hospital sketches. Which was published during the war. It was serialized and published. So americans who read the magazine that it was published in dould read about her experiences in a civil war era hospital. So lets start by id like to hear your thoughts about this account. Of civil war hospitals. What did you think abou
States civil war. All these pieces of legislation were passed, at least in significant measure, because senators absented themselves from the United States congress. And again, because American People voted republicans into office in 1860. Creek part of the civil war . It is an outgrowth of the civil war. It is an outgrowth of the same mechanisms and processes that that burst birthed the civil war, but also features civil war soldiers. United states soldiers on the payroll, who are mustered into the union army. Again, i wasnt being entirely glib when i said yes, i think t is. Is it as central a part of the civil war story as some of the events that others will be talking about here . No, i dont think it is. I dont want to overstate my claim. That is not the kind of historian that i am. But i do think it is a very important story and its worth telling. Thank you all again very much. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national cap
Focus, moving back to the individual soldiers. Lets start with an image we have seen here for a couple times. This is an artist rendition of one of the charges made by the army of the potomac at the 1862 battle of fredericksburg. Wall, top, that low stone and a density of confederate soldiers because the frontage is so limited, they are stacked 6, 7, 8 deep. People in the back are low handing up loaded weapons. They are able to generate a volume of fire comparable to a gun. War i machine more than 10 separate charges try to go up the hill. Remember, by the seventh or eighth charge, the Wounded Soldiers were struggling back and are begging comrades not to go. They think it is suicide. Yet, they keep going. Why do they do that . Thise spring of 1864, cadet and the entire core of the Virginia Military institute were called up to try to block a federal army moving down the shenandoah valley. Ps was initially held in reserve, and at the end of the ,ay with a federate position some strugglin
Cspan is touring cities across the country exploring american history. A look at our visit to salt lake city, utah. Americanatching history tv, all weekend, every weekend. A photograph of the fourth president of the church of jesus christ of latterday saints and arguably the most important historian of the first century. Goodr woodruff was a very journal keeper. He kept journals from the time he joined the church in 1833 and continued keeping them up until his death in 1898. This is his very first journal and it shows you how meticulous he was in his journal keeping. He was stand as much as an hour a day writing in his journal and for very important events he would add a little bit of decoration. Here, for example is the entry for his marriage date. As you can see here, he has decorated it with lots of filigree and other things to make it almost looked like a little marriage certificate by its self. At the end of his journal, he kept statistical accounts of what happened to him in a gi