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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…
5 years, 10 months 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…
5 years, 11 months 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…
5 years, 11 months 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…
5 years, 11 months ago
62: The War in Tennessee: Chickamauga and Chattanooga
“Gloom and unspoken despondency hang like a pall everywhere.”
This is the story of personalities.
Union General William “Old Rosy” Rosecrans takes on C…
6 years ago
61: The Louisiana Native Guard, the 54th Massachusetts & On: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
“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 …
6 years ago
60: Gettysburg
“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 …
6 years ago
59: Stone’s River, Suspending Habeas Corpus, Vicksburg, & Stonewall’s Death at Chancellorsville
“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 …
6 years, 1 month ago
58: Conscription & Riots (“A Rich Man’s War, But a Poor Man’s Fight”)
“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 c…
6 years, 1 month ago
57: Recap of The Civil War's First Half (1861-63)
"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 Ciell…
6 years, 2 months ago