Lecture 1. Prelude to war

Lecture 2. The election of 1860

Lecture 3. The lower South secedes

Lecture 4. The crisis at Fort Sumter

Lecture 5. The opposing sides : I

Lecture 6. The opposing sides : II

Lecture 7. The common soldier

Lecture 8. First Manassas or Bull Run

Lecture 9. Contending for the border states

Lecture 10. Early Union triumphs in the west

Lecture 11. Shiloh and Corinth

Lecture 12. The Peninsula campaign.