Instructions for Civil War Paper
Analyze at least two of the primary sources you’ve read for this section together and consider what they tell you about the military/ies or about another related aspect of American life.
One key skill we’re working on here is engaging with evidence: that means quoting it and explaining what those quotations mean or reveal; the phrase “this suggests” might be useful to you. Another skill is that of putting evidence together into a wider argument.
Content and Concept: Topic is well-defined, fully described and richly understood. Shows awareness of perspectives and historical contexts; develops reflective interpretation relating specific facts and situations to bigger patterns, ideas, and dynamics.
Argument/Analysis: Features an interesting point, clearly asserted in the thesis, that is amply developed and supported with appropriate reasoning and evidence. Logical and persuasive overall.
Evidence: Broad spectrum of appropriate sources found and effectively used. Accurate evidence directly supports the analysis. Sources are assessed for bias and placed in larger historical context. Use primary sources to support the argument.
Citation: Every point and statement of fact is reliably attributed. Every fact, point, paraphrase and quotation derived from any other source is completely and helpfully documented.
Use Chicago style and provide footnotes correctly.
https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html
Sources:
McClellan to Lincoln, July 7, 1862 (from the “Headquarters Army of the Potomac,” 73-74, https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_War_of_the_Rebellion/yCQta4Z78DwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22for+your+private+consideration,+my+general+views+concerning+the+existing+state+of+the+rebellion%22&pg=PA73&printsec=frontcover
Lincoln to McClellan, October 13, 1862, https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln5/1:1005?rgn=div1;singlegenre=All;sort=occur;subview=detail;type=boolean;view=fulltext;q1=we+shall+never+succeed
Emancipation Proclamation, https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation/transcript.html
Order of Retaliation, 213-214, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Life_and_Works_of_Abraham_Lincoln_State/xCkWAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lincoln+order+of+retaliation+papers+of+abraham+lincoln%22&pg=PA213&printsec=frontcover
James Henry Gooding to Lincoln, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6519/
“An Act for Enrolling and Calling Out the Federal Forces,” https://web.archive.org/web/20100602000908/http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/962.htm
Lieber Code: read Articles 1 – 30 and 149 – 157, https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lieber.asp
Sherman to Calhoun et al, https://cwnc.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/items/show/23
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Chapter XLVII: The Military Situation—Plans for the Campaign, etc. . . . https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch47
JW. McElroy to Zebulon Vance, https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/home-guard
Plain Folk Protest the Burden of War
