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70: Epilogue: The Civil War Comes to a Close
After nearly a full year of covering only four years of US history, we are done with the Civil War. It’s time for an epilogue! Greg and Cielle talk b…
5 years, 9 months ago
69: Surrender at Appomattox: The Last Days of the Civil War
“I feel that it is … my duty to shift from myself the responsibility of any further effusion of blood, by asking you to surrender … the army of North…
5 years, 10 months ago
68: Sherman's March to the Sea and the Thirteenth Amendment
“I can make the march, and make Georgia howl!”
This is the story of the March to the Sea and the 13th Amendment.
William Tecumseh “Cump” Sherman descri…
5 years, 10 months ago
67: Ending 1864: The Battles of the Crater, Mobile Bay, Centralia, and Franklin
“Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!”
This is the story of the Civil War in late 1864. Battles of significance are happening all across the country,…
5 years, 11 months ago
66: The Election of 1864: Lincoln's Bid for Reelection
Episode 66
“Johnson is either drunk or crazy,”
This is the story of the fight for the presidency in 1864.
No US President since Andrew Jackson has seen a second t…
5 years, 11 months ago
65: Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign & The Free State of Jones
“War is war, and not popularity-seeking.”
This is the story of the fall of Atlanta. William Tecumseh “Cump” Sherman is leading three armies in an atta…
6 years ago
Bonus: A New Sound for HTDS (Farewell to Josh, Hello to Lindsay Graham & Airship)
After more than two years of putting his blood, sweat, and tears into HTDS, Sound Designer Josh Beatty is moving on. We'll miss him! But we're also e…
6 years ago
64: Grant's Overland Campaign: The Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, & Petersburg
“I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”
This is the story of hard fights and harder losses.
It’s early 1864, and battle-prove…
6 years ago
Bonus: A Chat about Southern Accents w/ Jeremy Collins from "Podcasts We Listen To"
History 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 strai…
6 years ago
63: Wounded and Dying: Nurses, Doctors, and Disease in the Civil War
“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 l…
6 years, 1 month ago