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In a mini-podcast, historian Ashley Whitehead Luskey — assistant director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College — chats with co...

In a mini-podcast, Jon Erik-Gilot — curator at the Thomas Espy Post at the Andrew Carnegie (Pa.) Free Library And Music Hall — dishes with...

 In a freewheeling Episode 34 — taped before an audience at the Maryland Campaign Symposium at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music ...

                                  Like this blog on  Facebook  |  My YouTube videos The first call from my friend Nick Picerno came before C...

House in Munfordville built by Union General Thomas Wood's father in 1834.                                      Like this blog on  Face...

In a freewheeling Episode 33 of "The Antietam And Beyond Podcast," podcast hosts Tom McMillan and John Banks discuss Iron Brigade...

The Battle of Salem Cemetery resulted in few casualties.                                       Like this blog on  Facebook  |  My YouTube vi...

Glenn (left), a distant relative of Robert E. Lee, and Charles, the propietor of an  antiques store in Eagleville, Tennessee.              ...

Perry Sanders stands where he unearthed a cannon ball on the Liberty Gap battlefield.                                        Like this blog ...

On Episode 32 of "The Antietam And Beyond Podcast," Antietam battlefield guide and author Jim Rosebrock — a retired U.S. Army offi...

The long-abandoned home of William and Cynthia Officer.                                        Like this blog on  Facebook  |  My YouTube vi...

  Find all episodes here, from author/historian Scott Hartwig to battlefield guides Jim Smith and Jim Buchanan.

On Episode 31 of "The Antietam And Beyond Podcast," historian Rich Condon — editor of the Civil War Pittsburgh web site — talks w...

On Episode 30, 2025 Grammy Award winner Taylor Agan, who has, like, one billion Civil War soldier ancestors, talks with co-hosts Tom McMill...

Jason Saffer of Civil War Trails levels the new sign in Virginia Beach, Virginia.                                       Like this blog on  F...

On Episode 29, Chris Bryan — author of Cedar Mountain to Antietam: A Civil War Campaign History of the Union XII Corps, July-September 1862...

Glen Echo on the Battle Ground Academy campus.                                       Like this blog on  Facebook  |  My YouTube videos My hi...

On Episode 28, Brad Gottfried — Antietam battlefield guide and Antietam Institute board member — talks about his Civil War map books, inclu...

My journey started in Lynnville, Tennessee, the town that suffered a "partial burning" by the Union Army, according to this histor...

On Episode 27 of "The Antietam And Beyond Podcast," Dr. Mike Nickerson — president of the Shepherdstown (W.Va.) Battlefield Prese...

Jimmy Gentry statue near a church in Franklin, Tennessee.                                         Like this blog on  Facebook  |  My YouTube...

Dill Branch Ravine (right) on the Shiloh (Tenn.) battlefield                                    Like this blog on  Facebook  |  My YouTube v...

In a freewheeling Episode 26 of "The Antietam And Beyond Podcast," Antietam guide Jim Smith visits with co-hosts Tom McMillan and...

Ex-Secret Service agent Paul Landis and I visited at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Marshfield, Mo.                                        L...