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'''As mentioned before in McPherson’s piece both the Union soldiers and the Confederates compared themselves to the men who fought in the Revolutionary War. In your opinion, did one side have a stronger argument in comparing themselves to their forefathers?''' –Megan M
  
 
McPherson talks about northern women extolling their husbands to return home, that family was more important then fighting for their country.  Did southern women fell the same way or did they feel as there husbands did. -- R.King
 
McPherson talks about northern women extolling their husbands to return home, that family was more important then fighting for their country.  Did southern women fell the same way or did they feel as there husbands did. -- R.King
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In ''Remembering Slavery'': the importance of song and folk lyrics as their own battlefield: how did the southern blacks use song to demonstrate and spread their own current events knowledge, and what examples in this article struck you most?- A. Askins
 
In ''Remembering Slavery'': the importance of song and folk lyrics as their own battlefield: how did the southern blacks use song to demonstrate and spread their own current events knowledge, and what examples in this article struck you most?- A. Askins
  
McPherson in "Remembering Slavery discusses the recruitment of African Americans in the Union Army and how the inclusion of African Americans soldiers impacted the war. In your opinion, how instrumental was African Americans joining the Union Army in contributing to the Union's victory?-Nick. J
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The readings discuss the recruitment of African Americans in the Union Army and how the inclusion of African Americans soldiers impacted the war. In your opinion, how instrumental was African Americans joining the Union Army in contributing to the Union's victory?-Nick. J
  
The role of Lincoln in the creation of a Civil War memory. Blight touches on the weary president attempting to come to term with the death toll of a war no longer under his control. We talk quite a bit about the roles of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee after the War. Can it be argued that, despite his life being cut short, Lincoln shaped the public memory of the Civil War as much or more than Lee and Davis with the Gettysburg Address? -D. Radtke
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The role of Lincoln in the creation of a Civil War memory. Blight touches on the weary president attempting to come to term with the death toll of a war no longer under his control. We talk quite a bit about the roles of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee after the War. Can it be argued that, despite his life being cut short, Lincoln shaped the public memory of the Civil War as much or more than Lee and Davis with the Gettysburg Address? -D. Radtke -- ''JM--We'll discuss this much more later in the semester.''

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