Homework for Thursday, March 2, 2006
Continue reading D.H. Donald's "The Civil War & Reconstruction" ,Chapters 22 & 23. Also, Gienapp's "The Civil War & Reconstruction: A Documentary History" pp. 293-316. Jay Fitch will summarize for us.
Acouple of questions to throw out there...
1) Have historians over the years overvalued the alleged paltriness of resources and undervalued "disintegrating internal factors," most notably the deterioration of popular morale, as causes of Confederate defeat?
2)Would the South have achieved independence by fighting a guerrilla war?