Learn Civil War History Podcast Episodes

The purpose of my podcast is to help you Learn Civil War History. You are invited to learn about a crucial time in the history of the United States. Any and all aspects of the Civil War will be subjects of this podcast. Battles, leaders, soldiers, civilians, before the Civil War, after the Civil War, Reconstruction, abolitionists, slaves, freedmen, the Underground Railroad, politics, politicians, equipment, cavalry, infantry, artillery, medicine, heroes, villains, and scoundrels – any topic related to the Civil War might be covered here.
…Jonathan R. Allen

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A Selection of Civil War Terms From Let...

A Selection of Civil War Terms From Letter N Through Letter Z is Episode 15 of the Learn Civil War History Podcast...

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January 21, 2024

A Selection of Civil War Terms From Let...

The soldiers of the Civil War often had their own unique way of saying things. The words, slang, and phrases of Bi...

00:21:53

January 08, 2024

Civil War Speech and Jargon

Civil War Speech and Jargon The soldiers of the Civil War had their own way of saying things. The words, slang, a...

00:08:16

October 23, 2023

John Burns - The Old Hero of Gettysburg

John Burns - The Old Hero of Gettysburg Robert E. Lee and his invading Army of Northern Virginia brought the Civi...

00:12:38

July 25, 2023

The Story Of Antietam’s Dunker Church...

Immediately after the battle, the Dunker Church served as a makeshift hospital for the wounded. It was not used as...

00:08:35

May 22, 2023

The Story of Antietam’s Dunker Church...

The Battle of Antietam or the Battle of Sharpsburg as the South called it, was fought on September 17, 1862. This ...

00:12:26

May 18, 2023

Elizabeth Van Lew – A Union Spymaster...

Elizabeth Van Lew – A Union Spymaster in Richmond When the Southern states began seceding from the Union after...

00:09:11

May 05, 2023

Belle Boyd, the “La Belle Rebelle” ...

Isabella Maria Boyd ran her father’s hotel in Front Royal, Virginia. Front Royal is at the northern end of the C...

00:10:41

April 19, 2023

Freedman Jourdon Anderson Writes A Lett...

Jourdon Anderson was born a Tennessee slave around 1825. When he was only seven or eight-years-old he was sold by ...

00:10:12

April 10, 2023

Mules In The Civil War

Mules are sturdy, strong, and durable animals and in the Civil War they provided a lot of brute strength to get to...

00:13:11

March 18, 2023

William Faulkner’s Pickett’s Charge...

The Army of Northern Virginia led by General Robert E. Lee made a fateful charge from Seminary Ridge attacking the...

00:08:36

March 09, 2023

What Slave Life Was Like And Slave Quot...

Slaves were not treated as human beings in the slave-holding South. They were treated as animals, nothing more tha...

00:11:21

February 25, 2023

Powhatan Beaty: African-American Civil ...

Powhatan Beaty was born into slavery on October 8, 1837, in Richmond, Virginia. Beaty’s African-American parents...

00:12:42

February 13, 2023

Andrew Johnson Drunk at Lincoln’s Sec...

"Andy ain't a drunkard." - Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural on March 4, 1865 wa...

00:06:42

February 05, 2023

John Brown Quotes

Learn Civil War History from quotes by and about the radical abolitionist John Brown. Was he a hero or a terrorist...

00:16:23

February 02, 2023