Shiloh: Battle for the Heartland (with Sean Michael Chick)
The battle of Shiloh represented a whole new scale of war for North and South. Author Sean Michael Chick discusses some of the controversies, personalities, and new things to learn about one the Civil...
7 Apr 1h 3min
Grant and Meade (with Gottfried, Greene, and Murray)
Was the relationship between Ulysses S. Grant and George Gordon Meade a partnership or a rivalry? In this episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast, we'll take a closer look at that relationship with ...
31 Mars 57min
D. H. Hill: A Military Life (with Chris Hartley)
Daniel Harvey Hill was one of the Confederacy's most talented and temperamental commanders. Chris Hartley joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast to talk about his new biography of this complicated offic...
24 Mars 47min
Searching for John Fremont (with Tonya McQuade)
Before the Civil War, John Fremont made a national reputation as "The Pathfinder" for helping to open up America's west coast. Emerging Civil War contributor Tonya McQuade has been on Fremont's trail,...
17 Mars 43min
The Confederacy's Desert Empire (with Pat Kelly-Fischer and Phill Greenwalt)
The 1862 New Mexico Campaign promised huge benefits for the Confederacy if it succeeded, even while offering relatively low risks. What was there to lose? Patrick Kelly-Fischer and Phill Greenwalt joi...
10 Mars 1h 4min
William T. Sherman and His "Demon Spirit" (with Timothy B. Smith)
William T. Sherman and John McClernand started off as effective partners under Ulysses S. Grant, but by the time Grant began his inland campaign against Vicksburg, Sherman considered McClernand his "d...
3 Mars 53min
The Unlikely Occupiers (with Madeline Feierstein)
A military governor and his provost marshal—occupation duty in wartime Alexandria, Virginia, paired two unlikely partners, John Slough and Henry Horatio Wells. As we explore our theme of "Rivalries an...
24 Feb 46min
Soldier of the South (with Edward Hagerty)
The Army of Northern Virginia was led by larger-than-life personalities. So how did the mild-mannered Lt. General Richard Anderson fit in once he rose to corps command? Edward Hagerty joins the Emergi...
17 Feb 1h 14min
