Civil War Podcast, Episode 100

MUSIC SPECIAL: Songs of the Civil War

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In which we celebrate our one-hundreth episode with a music special featuring over twenty songs that were popular during the Civil War.

  • Midnight On the Water— Spiritwood Northwoods Ensemble (Superior Solitude)
  • Dixie’s Land—2nd South Carolina String Band (Southern Soldier)
  • The Bonnie Blue Flag—2nd South Carolina String Band (In High Cotton)
  • Maryland, My Maryland—Bobby Horton (Homespun Songs of the CSA, Volume 1)
  • Lorena—2nd South Carolina String Band (Hard Road)
  • Join the Cavalry—Hardtack & Harmony (Call to Arms)
  • Goober Peas—Hardtack & Harmony (Call to Arms)
  • Short Rations—Bobby Horton (Homespun Songs of the CSA, Volume 4)
  • Hard Crackers Come Again No More—2nd South Carolina String Band (Dulcem Melodies)
  • Weeping, Sad and Lonely—Bobby Horton (Homespun Songs of the Union Army, Volume 1)
  • Just Before the Battle, Mother—Bobby Horton (Homespun Songs of the Union Army, Volume 2)
  • All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight—Bobby Horton (Homespun Songs of the CSA, Volume 1)
  • When Johnny Comes Marching Home—2nd South Carolina String Band (Hard Road)
  • Home, Sweet Home—2nd South Carolina String Band (Strike the Tent)
  • Tramp, Tramp, Tramp—Tom Glazer (A Treasury of Civil War Songs Sung by Tom Glazer)
  • Tenting on the Old Camp Ground—2nd South Carolina String Band (Hard Road)
  • Nearer My God to Thee—Chip Mergott (Hymns for the Acoustic Guitar)
  • Go Down Moses—Paul Robeson (Paul Robeson: The Complete EMI Sessions, 1928-1939)
  • Kingdom Coming—2nd South Carolina String Band (Lightning in a Jar)
  • My Country Tis of Thee—United States Air Force Heritage of America Band
  • John Brown’s Body—Tom Glazer (A Treasury of Civil War Songs Sung by Tom Glazer)
  • The Battle Hymn of the Republic—Bobby Horton (Homespun Songs of the Union Army, Volume 2)
  • The Battle Cry of Freedom—2nd South Carolina String Band (Hard Road)
  • We Are Coming Father Abraham, 300,000 More—Bobby Horton (Homespun Songs of the Union Army, Volume 1)
  • Marching Through Georgia—Hardtack & Harmony (Call to Arms)
  • Taps—United States Marine Band
  • Midnight On the Water—Spiritwood Northwoods Ensemble (Superior Solitude)
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Our book recommendation for this episode is Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War by Christian McWhirter.

“No historian has done more than Christian McWhirter to open our ears to Civil War music as a powerful expression of political action. Neither side, as McWhirter brilliantly reveals, was just ‘whistling Dixie’ in camp or on the battlefield.” ~ Peter S. Carmichael

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Civil War Podcast, Episode 99

SIBLEY’S NEW MEXICO CAMPAIGN (Part the Fourth)


In which we wrap-up our discussion of Sibley’s New Mexico Campaign by looking at the Battle of Glorieta Pass (March 28, 1862).



Our book recommendations for this episode are…

The Battle of Glorieta Pass: A Gettysburg in the West, March 26-28, 1862 by Thomas S. Edrington and John Taylor.

Sibley’s New Mexico Campaign by Martin Hardwick Hall.



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Civil War Podcast, Episode 98

SIBLEY’S NEW MEXICO CAMPAIGN (Part the Third)

John Potts Slough (1829-1867)
Gabriel Rene Paul (1813-1886)


In which we continue our discussion of Sibley’s New Mexico Campaign by looking at the Confederates’ capture of Albuquerque & Santa Fe, the epic march of the First Colorado to Fort Union, and the engagement at Apache Pass (March 26, 1862).

Our book recommendations for this episode are

The Battle of Glorieta: Union Victory in the West by Don E. Alberts.

Blue & Gray magazine, June 1994


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Civil War Podcast, Episode 97

SIBLEY’S NEW MEXICO CAMPAIGN (Part the Second)

Henry Hopkins Sibley (1816-1886)

In which we continue our look at Sibley’s New Mexico Campaign by discussing the Battle of Valverde (February 21, 1862).

Edward Richard Sprigg Canby (1817-1873)


Christopher Houston “Kit” Carson (1809-1868)




Our book recommendation for this episode is Bloody Valverde: A Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862 by John Taylor.





America’s Civil War Magazine, January 2013



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Civil War Podcast, Episode 96

SIBLEY’S NEW MEXICO CAMPAIGN (Part the First)

David Emmanuel Twiggs (1790-1862)


In which we set the stage for Sibley’s New Mexico Campaign by discussing Texas’s secession from the Union in February, 1861 and looking at “Baylor’s Buffalo Hunt” (May-July, 1861).

John Robert Baylor (1822-1894)

 

Our book recommendation for this episode is The Civil War in the American West by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.

“Marvelous, original… that great, adventurous, little-known side of the Civil War is all here for the first time: the clash of North and South set in the immense space of the West and peopled with some of the most vivid characters of that vivid time.” ~ David McCullough



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We’re going to wait another day before recording Episode #96. One of us (who shall remain nameless) got sick this past week and lost her voice, but she’s on the mend and, given one more day, thinks she’ll be good to go to record the podcast.

Civil War Podcast, Episode 95

POSTSCRIPT: FORREST’S BREAKOUT

Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877)


In which we talk a bit about Nathan Bedford Forrest’s background and then take a closer look at his escape from Fort Donelson on February 16, 1862.


Our book recommendation for this episode is A Battle from the Start: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest by Brian Steel Wills.

“A Battle from the Start is direct, fast-paced, and totally absorbing.  Nathan Bedford Forrest comes vibrantly alive- not, perhaps, as a man to be loved, but certainly as one who merits the closest consideration.  He is shown to be one of the Civil War’s ablest, most aggressive, and most interesting commanders.” ~ Richard Wheeler, author of On Fields of Fury


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Civil War Podcast, Episode 94

FORTS HENRY & DONELSON (Part the Sixth)

Simon Bolivar Buckner (1823-1914)


In which we conclude our discussion of the Battle of Fort Donelson (February 13-16, 1862).

C.F. Smith leading his division as it assaults the Confederate lines
at Fort Donelson on February 15, 1862.



Our book recommendation for this episode is The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Applachians to the Mississippi by Earl J. Hess.

“A thorough account and compelling analysis of the challenges those in charge of the Union war effort faced in the West and how they overcame them.  Impressively researched and informative, this is an outstanding addition to the Littlefield History of the Civil War Era.” ~ Ethan S. Rafuse


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