Begins with the presidential campaign of 1864 that set Abraham Lincoln against his old commanding general, George McClellan. The stakes are nothing less than the survival of the Union itself. With Grant and Sherman stalled at Petersburg and Atlanta, opinion in the North has turned strongly against Lincoln and the war.
TRC audience:
High School (9-12)
College/Adult
Middle School (6-8)
TRC subject:
Photography
Early Nineteenth Century (1800-1865)
Art of the West
Picturing America Resource
TRC format:
Audio-Visual