At the Battle of Antietam, 17 September 1862, SGT J.J. McDaniel and the 7th South Carolina arrive on the battlefield at a run. They, alongside the 2nd, 3rd, and 8th South Carolina Regiments advance toward the West Woods and the…
At the Battle of Chancellorsville, Corporal Daniel Crotty, a Color Bearer for the 3rd Michigan in the III Corps Army of the Potomac, recounts the advance of his regiment to the Catherine Furnace on 2 May 1863, the midnight assault…
On 28 and 29 December 1862, COL Hall and the 26th Louisiana fought against General Shermans Army at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou in Mississippi, approximately 10 miles north of Vicksburg. The 26th Louisiana held a heavily entrenched line on…
LT Phisterer of the 2nd Battalion 18th United States Infantry fight alongside other US Infantry Regiments within the Regular Brigade at the Battle of Stones River. On 31 December 1862, the Regular Brigade held a precarious line of battle in…
Source used for this Episode: Edwards, Rev. John E. The Confederate Soldier; Being a Memorial Sketch of George N. and Bushrod W. Harris Privates in the Confederate Army. New York: Bullock & Co., 1868. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu01492306&seq=5.
Sources used for this Episode: Morgan, Thomas J. Reminiscences of Service With Colored Troops in the Army of Cumberland, 1863-65. Providence: Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Historical Society of Rhode Island, 1885. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/t3tt7ms2q&seq=9. Davis, Maj. George B., Perry, Leslie J., Kirkley, Joseph…
Sources for this episode: PVT Bowden Co. B 2nd Georgia Bowden, Rev. John Malachi. Some of My Experiences as a Confederate Soldier, In the Camp and on the Battlefield, In the Army of Northern Virginia. CH Armstrong 50th Pennsylvania…
Introduction to First Person Civil War Podcast Source used for this Episode: Stillwell, Leander. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865. 2nd ed. Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., 1920. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044051051464&seq=9.