VICKSBURG (Part the Third)
In which we continue to look at the background to the Vicksburg Campaign.
Our book recommendation for this episode is “Pemberton: A Biography” by Michael B. Ballard.
Listen to Episode 279: VicksburgPartThird
VICKSBURG (Part the Second)
In which we continue to look at the background to the Vicksburg Campaign.
Our book recommendation for this episode is “Echoes of Glory: Illustrated Atlas of the Civil War” by the Editors of Time-Life Books.
Listen to Episode 278: VicksburgPartSecond
VICKSBURG (Part the First)
In which we start to look at the background to the Vicksburg Campaign.
Our book recommendation for this episode is “The Campaign for Vicksburg” (3 volumes) by Edwin Bearss.
Listen to Episode 277: VicksburgPartFirst
“MOUNTAINEERS ARE ALWAYS FREE”: How West Virginia Became a State (Part the Second)
In which we wrap-up the story of how West Virginia, in the midst of the Civil War, became the thirty-fifth state of the Union.
Our book recommendation for this episode is “A House Divided: A Study of Statehood Politics and the Copperhead Movement in West Virginia” By Richard Orr Curry.
Listen to Episode 276: WestVirginiaPartSecond
“MOUNTAINEERS ARE ALWAYS FREE”: How West Virginia Became a State (Part the First)
In which we start to look at the story of how West Virginia became the thirty-fifth state of the Union.
Our book recommendation for this episode is “West Virginia and the Civil War” by Mark Snell.
Listen to Episode 275: WestVirginiaPartFirst
DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON
In which we look at the wounding and death of Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson (1824-1863).
Our book recommendation for this episode is “The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson: The Mortal Wounding of the Confederacy’s Greatest Icon” by Chris Mackowski & Kristopher D. White.
Listen to Episode #274: DeathStonewallJackson
CHANCELLORSVILLE (Part the Sixteenth)
In which Hooker retreats, Lee stews, and we wrap-up our discussion of the Chancellorsville Campaign.
Our book recommendation for this episode is “Where Valor Proudly Sleeps: A History of Fredericksburg National Cemetery” by Donald C. Pfanz.
Listen to Episode 273: ChancellorsvillePartSixteenth
CHANCELLORSVILLE (Part the Fifteenth)
In which we see Robert E Lee fail in his attempt to “demolish” Sedgwick on May 4, 1863.
Our book recommendation for this episode is “The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies” by Peter S. Carmichael.
Listen to Episode 272: ChancellorsvillePartFifteenth
CHANCELLORSVILLE (Part the Fourteenth)
In which we look at the fighting at Salem Church on May 3, 1863.
Our book recommendation for this episode is Blue & Gray Magazine, Volume 30 Issue 1
Listen to Episode 271: ChancellorsvillePartFourteenth
CHANCELLORSVILLE (Part the Thirteenth)
In which we shift our focus to the fighting that took place east of Chancellorsville, at Fredericksburg and Salem Church.
Our book recommendation for this episode is “Chancellorsville’s Forgotten Front: The Battles of Second Fredericksburg and Salem Church- May 3, 1863” by Chris Mackowski & Kristopher D. White.
Listen to Episode 270: ChancellorsvillePartThirteenth