13. Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862

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Teaches the Confederacy's early military successes in 1861-62. David Blight is a Pulitzer and Bancroft prize-winning historian of the era, and this full Yale course is grounded in primary sources and current scholarship.

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Yale Civil War and Reconstruction, lecture 13: The Confederacy's early military successes in 1861-62.

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Part of The Civil War and Reconstruction with David Blight