{"id":2273,"date":"2021-08-30T16:29:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T16:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/?page_id=2273"},"modified":"2024-04-11T18:12:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T18:12:38","slug":"fall-1864-lincolns-re-election","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/course-syllabus\/fall-1864-lincolns-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 1864 &#8211;Lincoln\u2019s Re-Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Warfare &amp; Technology<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_2883\" style=\"width: 639px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-11-at-1.33.23-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2883\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2883\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-11-at-1.33.23-PM-1024x508.png\" alt=\"Minie ball\" width=\"629\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-11-at-1.33.23-PM-1024x508.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-11-at-1.33.23-PM-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-11-at-1.33.23-PM-768x381.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-11-at-1.33.23-PM-900x446.png 900w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-11-at-1.33.23-PM.png 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Burton, minie ball drawings from Harpers Ferry, 1850<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2884\" style=\"width: 639px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-11-at-1.35.20-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2884\" class=\"wp-image-2884 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-11-at-1.35.20-PM-1024x689.png\" alt=\"Petersburg\" width=\"629\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-11-at-1.35.20-PM-1024x689.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-11-at-1.35.20-PM-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-11-at-1.35.20-PM-768x517.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-11-at-1.35.20-PM-900x606.png 900w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-11-at-1.35.20-PM.png 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Captured Confederate railroad artillery piece, Petersburg, VA<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Tuesday, November 8, 1864<\/h2>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><b><span class=\"markkq9yqqfxf\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/03\/Deacon-John-Phillips-photo-FINDAGRAVE.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2569\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/03\/Deacon-John-Phillips-photo-FINDAGRAVE-234x300.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/03\/Deacon-John-Phillips-photo-FINDAGRAVE-234x300.png 234w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/03\/Deacon-John-Phillips-photo-FINDAGRAVE-800x1024.png 800w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/03\/Deacon-John-Phillips-photo-FINDAGRAVE-768x983.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/03\/Deacon-John-Phillips-photo-FINDAGRAVE-900x1151.png 900w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/03\/Deacon-John-Phillips-photo-FINDAGRAVE.png 1174w\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>John<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"mark7kmvueljx\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Phillips<\/span>\u00a0(1760-1865)<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Sturbridge, MA<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Baptist\u00a0<span class=\"mark0yynydd89\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">deacon<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Democrat<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Voting for Washington and Lincoln (1864) and in every election in between except for 1860, when he was too sick to vote<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">F.W. Emmons wrote Lincoln about the episode on November 9, 1864<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Phillips rode two miles with son Edward (age 79) to vote at town hall<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">AL responded on November 21, 1864 expressing his gratitude<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Phillips image was featured in Harper\u2019s, December 10, 1864 with short article<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1><strong>The Meaning of Sherman&#8217;s March(es)<\/strong><\/h1>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2012\/04\/HD_shermanWT2c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-161\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2012\/04\/HD_shermanWT2c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want your negroes or your horses, or your houses or your Lands, or any thing you have, but we do want and will have a just obedience to the Law of the United States.&#8221; (Quoted in Varon, p. 358)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-8.53.37-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2590 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-8.53.37-AM.png\" alt=\"Map\" width=\"1166\" height=\"1098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-8.53.37-AM.png 1166w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-8.53.37-AM-300x283.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-8.53.37-AM-1024x964.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-8.53.37-AM-768x723.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/files\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-8.53.37-AM-319x300.png 319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1166px) 100vw, 1166px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Question<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Historian Mark Neely argues below that Sherman&#8217;s marches in 1864 and 1865 did not truly constitute &#8220;total war&#8221; in the modern sense.\u00a0 If that&#8217;s true, then what was unprecedented about Sherman&#8217;s military campaigns in Georgia and the Carolinas?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-5bBnBy2IHE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warfare &amp; Technology &nbsp; Tuesday, November 8, 1864 John\u00a0Phillips\u00a0(1760-1865) Sturbridge, MA Baptist\u00a0deacon Democrat Voting for Washington and Lincoln (1864) and in every election in between except for 1860, when he was too sick to vote F.W. Emmons wrote Lincoln about the episode on November 9, 1864 Phillips rode two miles with son Edward (age 79) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2273","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2273\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-288pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}