Historian Caroline Janney discusses Abraham Lincoln’s ability to read public opinion and how he understood the connection between the intersections of what happened on the home front, on the political front, as well as on the military front, which he learned over the course of the American Civil War.

Caroline Janney is an author and historian whose scholarship focuses on the Civil War, Memory, and Women and Gender. She holds a B.A. in Government and a PhD in History from the University of Virginia. She is currently the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia, where she also directs the Nau Center for Civil War History. She is the author of Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause; Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, which was awarded the Southern Historical Association’s Charles Sydnor Award and the Museum of the Confederacy’s Jefferson Davis Award and was an honorable mention for the OAH Avery O. Craven Award; and Petersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia. She is a pastpresident of the Society of Civil War Historians and also serves as a coeditor of the University of North Carolina Press’s Civil War America series.

The Apple TV+ series "Lincoln's Dilemma," features insights from journalists, educators and scholars, as well as rare archival materials, that offer a more nuanced look into the life of the Great Emancipator. Set against the background of the Civil War, "Lincoln's Dilemma" also gives voice to the narratives of enslaved people, shaping a more complete view of an America divided over issues including economy, race and humanity, and underscoring Lincoln's battle to save the country, no matter the cost. The series is narrated by awardwinning actor Jeffrey Wright ("Angels in America") and features the voices of actor Bill Camp ("The Night Of") as Lincoln and Leslie Odom Jr. ("Hamilton") as Frederick Douglas.

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Chapter Markers:
00:00 Introduction
00:07 The assault on Fort Sumter
06:00 Lincoln’s estimation of Southern loyalties
08:26 The Union Army and strategy in 1861
16:47 The First Battle of Bull Run
19:58 Lincoln’s use of the telegraph
21:25 Lincoln’s growing confidence
22:55 George B. McClellan & Lincoln
31:57 The Peninsula Campaign of 1862
35:12 Robert E. Lee
39:10 Ulysses S. Grant & Lincoln
45:15 The Second Battle of Bull Run
47:55 The military situation & emancipation
51:44 The Battle of Antietam
58:39 The Battle of Fredericksburg
1:03:20 Hard War
1:06:28 The Battle of Chancellorsville
1:07:29 Lee’s 1863 northern advance
1:08:44 The Battle of Gettysburg
1:16:08 Lincoln’s disappointment at General Meade
1:18:05 The Siege of Vicksburg
1:19:20 Grant becomes Lieutenant General of the Union Army
1:24:10 The election of 1864
1:28:06 Sherman’s March to the Sea
1:30:02 Appomattox Court House
1:34:10 Lincoln’s visit to Richmond after its fall

Caroline Janney, Historian, University of Virginia
Interview Date: December 02, 2020
Interviewed by: Jackie Olive and Barak Goodman

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