St. Alban's Raid | Little Blue River | Byram's Ford | Second Independence

In the weeks after Fort Sumter, the Union Navy moved to close the Chesapeake Bay and cut Virginia off from the sea. At Gloucester Point and Sewell’s Point, unfinished Confederate batteries faced Union...

2 Okt 40min

Benjamin Butler was one of the Civil War’s most controversial figures. A failed battlefield commander who became “Beast Butler” in the South, helped turn escaped slaves into free people, ruled New Orl...

25 Sep 1h 22min

The 20th Maine is remembered for its desperate stand and bayonet charge at Little Round Top, but its story stretched far beyond Gettysburg. Follow the regiment from its formation in 1862 through Frede...

18 Sep 1h 1min

The Red River Campaign was supposed to crush Confederate resistance in Louisiana and capture Shreveport. Instead, poor planning, divided command, and one devastating defeat turned it into a complete d...

11 Sep 1h 18min

Fort Sumter was more than the first battle of the American Civil War. It was the breaking point that turned months of secession, threats, and failed negotiations into open war. Follow Major Robert And...

4 Sep 35min

Shot 5 times at Antietam, John Brown Gordon rose from an untrained captain to one of Robert E. Lee’s last corps commanders. But his controversial postwar life left behind a legacy far darker than his ...

28 Aug 1h 38min

Stonewall Jackson’s legendary flank attack shattered the Union XI Corps at Chancellorsville, but his greatest triumph would also become his last.

21 Aug 48min

For decades, compromise kept the United States together while slavery and sectional division pulled it apart. This episode follows the crises, violence, and political collapse that brought the country...

14 Aug 1h 10min