A Southern View of History
The War for Southern Independence -The Other Side of the Coin
 

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 

 
INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
 
PART I. THE UNION AS CREATED BY THE FOUNDING FATHERS
  1. Breaking Away from Great Britain, A Declaration of Independence
  2. The Articles of Confederation
  3. The Constitution
 
PART II REGIONAL DIFFERENCES
  1. Cultural Differences
  2. The Population Shift
  3. Southern Class Structure
  4. Economic Issues
  5. State's Rights
  6. John Caldwell Calhoun
  7. Independence
 
Part III SERVITUDE, SLAVERY, ABOLITIONISM
  1. Indentured Servitude
  2. The Slavery Issue
  3. Abolitionism
  4. Books That Inflamed Tensions
  5. John Brown
 
PART IV HISTORY OF SECESSION AND COMPROMISES 
  1. Early American Secession Attempts
  2. Compromise Attempts
  3. The Crittenden Compromise
  4. Final Attempts At Compromise
 
PART V. THE ELECTION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
  1. The Republican Nominee
  2. The Democratic Nominees
  3. The Constitutional Union Party Nominee
  4. The Election Outcome
  5. The Morrill Tariff Is Passed
 
PART VI. THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA IS FORMED
  1. The January 9, 1861 Star of the West Incident
  2. The Confederate Constitution
  3. President Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet
  4. Plot to Assassinate President Davis and Cabinet
 
PART VII. THE FORT SUMTER INCIDENT
  1. Lincoln Is Inaugurated
  2. Lincoln Attempts To Re-supply Fort Sumter
  3. Lincoln Declares War On The South
  4. Cadets Resign, Accusations of Treason
  5. Six More States Leave The Union
  6. Southern Perspectives of The War 
 
PART VIII. FLAGS AND SYMBOLS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA 
  1. Flags of the Confederate States of America Government
  2. Origin of The Confederate Battle Flag
  3. Parts of the Battle Flag
  4. Battle Flag Variations of the Southern Cross type
  5. Additional Confederate Military Flags
  6. Heritage Preservation Arguments Regarding Confederate Flags
 
PART IX. CONFEDERATE ALLIES AND NORTHERN POLITICAL INTERVENTIONS
  1. Seven Indian Nations Ally With The Confederacy
  2. The Trent Incident
  3. Lincoln Attempts To Compensate Northern Slave Owners
  4. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
  5. The South's Support By Black Confederates
  6. The South's Support By Hispanics
 
PART X. PRISONERS OF WAR
  1. Prison Camps
  2. Grant Stops Prisoner Exchange Program
  3. The United States' Use of Human Shields
PART XI. NORTHERN TYRANNY
  1. Lincoln's Tyranny: Abuse of the US Constitution
  2. Terror in Missouri, The Jayhawkers, Red Legs, Lane, and Jennison.
  3. The Forced Enlistment and Mistreatment of Southern Blacks Into the U.S. Army
  4. General Benjamin Butler "The Beast" in Louisiana
  5. The Order To Execute Partisan Rangers
  6. Ewing’s General Orders No. 10 & 11
 
PART XII.  NORTHERN ATROCITIES AND WAR CRIMES  
The Massacre At Palmyra, Missouri
The Hanging of Sam Davis
Ivan Turchin, The Robber Colonel
 
PART XIII.  GENERAL SHERMAN'S ATROCITIES AND WAR CRIMES 
The New Manchester and Roswell, Georgia Mills and the Roswell Women
Sherman's March Through The South
Sherman's Bummers
 
PART XIV. AFTER THE WAR
Reconstruction
The Southern Exodus To Brazil and Mexico
The Capture Imprisonment of President Jefferson Davis
The Execution of Major Henry Wirz
 
PART XV. SOUTHERN HEROES
General Robert E. Lee
General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
President Jefferson Davis
Our (Your) Ancestors
 
PART XVI. SUMMARY
Why The Southerner Fought
Why We Should Remember Them Today
The Charge of the Sons of Confederate Veterans
 
SUGGESTED READINGS
IMPORTANT DATES IN CONFEDERATE HISTORY
COURSE ASSIGNMENTS
 
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