HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
Lecture 12 - "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies. After finishing with his survey of the manner in which historians have explained the coming of the Civil War, Professor Blight focuses on Fort Sumter.
After months of political maneuvering, the Civil War began when Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, in the harbor outside Charleston, SC. The declaration of hostilities prompted four more states - Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and
Arkansas - to secede. Professor Blight closes the lecture with a brief discussion of some of the forces that motivated Americans - North and South - to go to war.
(from oyc.yale.edu)
Lecture 12 - "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies
Time
Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00]
1. Introduction: The Advent of War
[00:05:06]
2. A Meaningless War? Postwar Thoughts on the Civil War
[00:12:15]
3. April 1861: The Situation at Fort Sumter
[00:24:28]
4. Lincoln's Reaction and the Secession of the Upper South
[00:37:01]
5. Why Did I Go to War? Personal Motivations from the North and South