1. 1863: The Critical Year
   1. main readings
      1. United States at War: "Campaign and Battle of Chancellorsville"  (4 pages)
      2. American History: "J. E. B. Stuart"  (2 pages)
      3. American History: "James Longstreet"  (2 pages)
      4. American History: "George E. Pickett"  (2 pages)
      5. American History: "Winfield Scott Hancock"  (1 page)
      6. DAH: "Gettysburg Address"  (2 pages)

         an article about the speech

      7. DAH: "Gettysburg Address"  (1 page)

         the speech itself

      8. American History: "Vicksburg Campaign"  (2 pages)
      9. United States at War: "African Americans in the Union Army" 
         (2 pages)
      10. American History: "Robert Gould Shaw"  (2 pages)
      11. United States at War: "Confederate African-American Soldiers"  (1 page)
   2. suggested readings
      1. EBO: "Gettysburg, Battle of"  (1 page)

         	there are only three paragraphs of text
         	what I really want you to look at is the four Shockwave animation files in the left column (double-click on them)

      2. American History: "Battle of Gettysburg"  (1 page)
      3. Oxford Companion to American Military History: "Fort Pillow, Battle of  (1864)"  (1 page)
      4. EBO: "American Civil War: The Land War: The War in the West in 1863: Arkansas and Vicksburg"  (1 page) and "Chickamauga and Chattanooga" (1 page)
      5. American History: "U.S. Colored Troops"  (2 pages)
      6. United States at War: "Battle of Fort Wagner"  (2 pages)
   3. A.P. readings
      1. DAH: "Civil War"  (section on "Emancipation and Black Enlistment" only; about 1 page)
      2. Oxford Companion to American Military History: "Colored Troops, U.S."  (2 pages)
          
2. Total War
   1. main readings
      1. United States at War: "Overland Campaign (1864)"  (3 pages)
      2. United States at War: "Battle of the Crater"  (3 pages)
      3. American History: "William T. Sherman"  (4 pages)
      4. United States at War: "Sherman's March to the Sea"  (2 pages)
      5. American History: "Shenandoah Valley Campaign of
         1864-1865"  (1 page)
      6. American History: "Philip H. Sheridan"  (3 pages)
      7. American History: "Nathan Forrest"  (2 pages)
   2. suggested readings
      1. American History: "Total War"  (up through U.S. Civil War;
         2 pages)
      2. EBO: "American Civil War: The Naval War"  (2 pages)
          
3. The Election of 1864
   1. main readings
      1. United States at War: "Election of 1864"  (3 pages)
   2. suggested readings
      1. EBO: "Lincoln, Abraham: Life: Wartime Politics"  (4 pages)
      2. DAH: "Civil War"  (section on "Confederate and Union Politics" only; about 1 page)
          
4. Endgame
   1. main readings
      1. American History: "Surrender at Appomattox Court House" 
         (1 page)
   2. suggested readings
      1. DAH: "Robert E. Lee's Farewell to His Army  (10 April 1865)" 
         (1 page)
      2. EBO: "American Civil War: The Land War: The War in 1864-65: Sherman's Carolina Campaigns"  (1 paragraph) and "The Final Land Operations"  (1 page)
      3. DAH: "Appomattox"  (1 page)
          
5. The Legacy of the War
   1. main readings
      1. United States at War: "Lincoln Assassination"  (1 page)
      2. ANB: "Booth, John Wilkes"  (3 pages)
      3. EBO: "American Civil War: The Cost and Significance of the Civil War"  (2 pages)

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