Download Civil War Era – assignments for Michael Shaara`s “The Killer Angels”

Civil War Era – assignments for Michael Shaara’s “The Killer Angels”
- also info from African-Americans in the war packet and film “Glory”
! also – pages 648-665 in McPherson
* double quiz on handouts / book and classnotes / films / videos on Friday 5/22
** EXAM on everything since midterm on Tuesday 5/26
Terms:
1. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
11. Winfield Scott Hancock
2. John Buford
12. Lewis Armistead
3. Robert E. Lee
13. Jeb Stuart
4. James Longstreet
14. George Picket
5. John Reynolds
15. Dan Sickles
6. Buster Kilrain**
16. Little Round Top
7. George Meade
17. Culp’s Hill
8. Thomas Chamberlain**
18. Cemetery Ridge
9. Richard Ewell
19. Big Round Top
10. A.P. Hill
20. Picket’s Charge
!1 Brandy Station
!4 1st Minnesota
!2 Alexander Stephens
!5 fall of Vicksburg
!3 Devil’s Den / Peach Orchard / Wheat Field
Questions:
1. Describe the differences of opinion between Lee and Longstreet when it
comes to fighting at Gettysburg, and at fighting in general:
2. Why is Buford’s role in the battle so important, even though it is the 1st thing
that happens, he is forced to fall back and his brigades are trashed?
3. Why is the loss of Jackson a serious issue going into Gettysburg, and how
might Jackson have acted differently at Gettysburg than his successor does:
4. Describe the whole issue surrounding Jeb Stuart, and why Longstreet wants
to see him court marshaled:
5. Describe why many Union soldiers are not thrilled by their new commander
Gen. Meade, and what he does to make men like Chamberlain even less
thrilled and more disgusted:
6. Who is John Bell Hood and how do his views compare with those of
Longstreet and Lee concerning the fighting on the 2nd day?
7. Describe why the fighting at Little Round Top is so important, and why
Chamberlain’s decisions and actions there are so crucial:
8. Why is Longstreet growing increasingly depressed as the 2nd day goes into
the 3rd? What is he still trying, and failing, to do?
9. What does Lee do after the repulse of Picket’s Charge?
!1 Describe the strategic / psychological impact of the dual losses at Gettysburg
and Vicksburg on the South
Killer Angels + assignments
Friday 5/1 - packet readings (Part 1, and Part 2 up to pg 180 “Several
more…)
Mon 5/4: finish Part 2 of packet; start Killer Angels: foreword
Tue: 5/5: 3-32
Wed 5/6: 33 - 68
Thur 5/7 - 73 - 96
Fri 5/8 - 97 - 145
M 5/11 - 146 - 175
Tue 5/12 - 176 - 205
W 5/13 - 206 - 248
Th 5/14 - 249 - 283
F 5/15 - 284 - 329
M 5/18 - finish, including afterword
Tu 5/19 - finish, and afterword
W 5/20- do McPh reading
Th 5/21 - prep for quiz on F 5/22
F 5/22 and M 5/25- prep for exam on last 2 sheets (2nd Manassas to
Gettysburg / Vicksburg and AA / Mass 54th stuff) on Tu 5/26
Civil War Era - film - “Glory” and packet - African-Americans and the War
"The Civil War and the End of Slavery" handout questions (pt 1 of packet):
1. Who worked tirelessly to get Lincoln and the government to make the extinction
of slavery a war aim?
2. How did the Emancipation Proclamation affect the South?
3. How were slaves (a.k.a. contraband) who fled to the Union lines treated?
4. What happened to blacks who tried to enlist into the Union army when the war
1st started?
5. Why did Lincoln at first oppose African-American enlistments? What changed
his mind going into 1862?
6. Describe the motivations that moved Lincoln to issue the Emancipation
Proclamation:
7. Describe political measures leading up to the Proclamation:
8. Why did African-American soldiers die at a much higher proportion to white
soldiers?
9. Describe some of the examples of discrimination in the Union army that blacks
endured:
10. How was Fort Pillow an example of Confederate military policy toward
African-American prisoners of war?
"The Negro's Civil War" handout questions (part 2...):
1. Describe reasons for reluctance for many blacks when it came to volunteering:
2. What were the arguments that overcame reasons above and saw blacks enlist:
3. Why does F Douglass encourage enlistment despite his reservations? How
committed is he personally to the effort?
4. Describe the atmosphere in Washington DC that black troops encounter:
5. Describe the level of recruitment by October of 1863:
6. Describe the prevalent feeling of many concerning how black troops will perform:
7. Describe Port Hudson:
8. Describe Milliken's Bend:
9. Describe Fort Wagner - why a "Bunker Hill…" for the colored race?
10. Describe Lincoln's open letter to Northern opponents to emancipation and the
raising of colored soldiers:
"Glory" terms and questions for notes:
Terms: 1. Massachusetts 54th Regiment
2. Col. Robert Gould Shaw
3. Fort Wagner
Questions:
1. Describe life among the soldiers of the Mass 54th:
2. Describe the most common reactions of white soldiers to the 54th:
3. What did many soldiers of the 54th fear they would never get a chance to do?
4. Why was the attack on Fort Wagner so important for the future use of black
troops in the Union army? What might have happened if they had not fought so
bravely?