they viewed this as a much more far-reaching transformation

他们认为重建从更为深远的意义上来说
in a building really of a new nation,

是一场社会转型建立一个新的国家
when and if they could win the war.

能否赢得战争何时才能取胜
They really were at an impasse.

战争陷入了僵局
Now you know from our previous lectures and your reading

从之前的课和相关阅读中
that the fall of Mobile Bay on August 5,

你们应该知道8月5日联邦攻陷莫比尔港
the same day as the Wade-Davis Manifesto,

同日海军上将法拉格特发表了
Admiral Farragut took Mobile Bay.

韦德·戴维斯宣言
That had a tremendous impact on public opinion.

公众舆论中引起了轩然大波
Then on September 3 or 4 Atlanta fell.

9月3日攻陷亚特兰大
It had an even greater impact on public opinion.

民意更是倒向了林肯一边
And of course you've got the presidential race now happening in the fall,

毫无疑问在这一年秋天的大选中