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Bonus: A Chat about Southern Accents w/ Jeremy Collins from "Podcasts We Listen To"
May 06, 2020History can touch on present-day issues, and rather than duck away from such discomforts, Greg has always been stupid enough to try to hit them straight on. Indulging that stupidity today, Greg sat do...
63: Wounded and Dying: Nurses, Doctors, and Disease in the Civil War
Apr 27, 2020“I had never severed the nerves and fibers of human flesh.” This is the story of Civil War medicine. At the start of the war, the wounded sometimes lay on the field of battle for days hoping for help...
62: The War in Tennessee: Chickamauga and Chattanooga
Apr 13, 2020“Gloom and unspoken despondency hang like a pall everywhere.” This is the story of personalities. Union General William “Old Rosy” Rosecrans takes on Confederate General Braxton Bragg out in Tenness...
61: The Louisiana Native Guard, the 54th Massachusetts & On: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
Mar 30, 2020“It is hard to believe that Southern soldiers—and Texans at that—have been whipped by a mongrel crew of white and black Yankees … there must be some mistake.” This is the story of Black Soldiers in th...
60: Gettysburg
Mar 16, 2020“I shall lead my division forward, sir.” This is the story of Gettysburg. It’s summer, 1863, and Robert E. Lee is making a bold move; he’s leading his Army of Northern Virginia into Union territory....
59: Stone’s River, Suspending Habeas Corpus, Vicksburg, & Stonewall’s Death at Chancellorsville
Mar 02, 2020“Grant is my man and I am his the rest of the war.” This is the story of hard fighting—on the battlefield and in the courts. President Abraham Lincoln is making the controversial decision to suspend...
58: Conscription & Riots (“A Rich Man’s War, But a Poor Man’s Fight”)
Feb 17, 2020“Here’s a damned abolitionist! … He’s a Tribune man! Hang the son of a b****!” This is the story of Civil War conscription and riots. Conscription is completely foreign to Americans. They’ve never rel...
57: Recap of The Civil War's First Half (1861-63)
Feb 03, 2020"Keep the details! We love the stories!" After 11 episodes covering the first half of the Civil War, it’s time to digest a bit. Greg, Josh, and Cielle attend to the usual roundtable business (pronunc...
56: The Battle of Fredericksburg and the First Campaign of Vicksburg
Jan 20, 2020“If the world had been searched by Burnside for a location in which his army could be best defeated ... he should have selected this very spot.” This is the story of leadership turnover in the Union a...
55: The Road to The Emancipation Proclamation
Jan 06, 2020“The Proclamation is the drawing of a sword that can never be sheathed again.” This is the story of the Emancipation Proclamation. Anti-slavery, moderate-Republican President Abraham Lincoln has nev...