{"id":993,"date":"2012-09-05T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-gilder\/?page_id=993"},"modified":"2020-02-18T01:23:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T01:23:25","slug":"part-2-why-they-fought","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/course-syllabus-2\/part-2-why-they-fought\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 2:  Why They Fought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8xmgtMgEj6w\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The objective in Part 2 is to explore the motivations of Civil War soldiers and sailors in their own words.\u00a0 One of the great benefits of the digital age is easier access to primary sources.\u00a0 This section offers some especially powerful images and documents from ordinary combatants &#8211;white and black, Union and Confederate&#8211; that can help spark student imagination and provoke deeper engagement into the perennial debate over why they fought.<\/p>\n<p>Featured Image &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/09\/Men-of-Company-E.pdf\">Men of Company E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">House Divided record<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/cwp2003000946\/PP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Library of Congress record<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/deadconfederates.com\/2011\/05\/31\/is-that-you-first-sergeant-henry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blog post by Andy Hall<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Featured Document&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/27324\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pvt. William E. Stoker Letter Home, October 3, 1862<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Handouts&#8211; \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/09\/Handout-Civil-War-Costs.doc\">Civil War Costs<\/a>\u00a0\/\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/09\/Handout-Humiston.doc\">Whose Father Was He?<\/a>\u00a0\/\/<a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/09\/Wilkeson-Story.pdf\">Sam Wilkeson&#8217;s Gettysburg Address<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further Reading&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/gilderlehrman.org\/history-by-era\/american-civil-war\/essays\/american-civil-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gary Gallagher on Civil War<\/a> \/\/\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/stoker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Texas Farmer&#8217;s Civil War<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/gilderlehrman.org\/history-by-era\/american-civil-war\/interactives\/i-take-my-pen-letters-from-civil-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GLI Exhibit: I Take Up My Pen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guest GLI Lecture: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilderlehrman.org\/multimedia#3275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James McPherson on Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief<\/a>\u00a0(30 mins.)<\/p>\n<p>Featured Student Video: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/tjALDF0pniE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Do They Miss Me at Home?<\/a> \u00a0(10 mins.)<\/p>\n<p>Civil War Through American Art:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1326\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/americanart.si.edu\/education\/resources\/documents\/civilwar_teachersguide_final.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1326\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1326\" alt=\"Winslow Homer, &quot;Prisoners from the Front,&quot; (1866)\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/09\/Homer-Prisoners-from-Front-1866.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/09\/Homer-Prisoners-from-Front-1866.jpg 960w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/files\/2012\/09\/Homer-Prisoners-from-Front-1866-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winslow Homer, &#8220;Prisoners from the Front,&#8221; (1866)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The objective in Part 2 is to explore the motivations of Civil War soldiers and sailors in their own words.\u00a0 One of the great benefits of the digital age is easier access to primary sources.\u00a0 This section offers some especially powerful images and documents from ordinary combatants &#8211;white and black, Union and Confederate&#8211; that can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"parent":931,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-993","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/993\/revisions\/1477"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/civilwar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}