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Monday, June 01, 2026

Podcast: Historian Tom Clemens on Antietam preservation news

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In Episode 63, legendary historian Tom Clemens — longtime president of the Save Historic Antietam Foundation — joins co-hosts Tom McMillan ...
Friday, May 15, 2026

Podcast: Public historian Jake Wynn on the vast hospital in Frederick, Pry House

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In Episode 62, Frederick, Maryland-based public historian Jake Wynn joins co-hosts Tom McMillan and John Banks for a discussion about what ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Podcast: Cannons, maps and memory, live from the Antietam Institute

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In a freewheeling Episode 61, recorded in front of a live audience at the recent Antietam Institute spring symposium in Shepherdstown, W.Va...
Friday, April 17, 2026

Tales from the road: The dead of Falling Waters, a forgotten Gettysburg Campaign battle

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The Donnelly House on the Falling Waters (Md.) battlefield. The remains of a battlefield "witness" tree stand at right.           ...

Podcast: An all-star cast of Antietam historians

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On a special 60th edition of "The Antietam And Beyond Podcast," an all-star lineup of guests — Scott Hartwig, Dr. Jennifer Murray...
Monday, April 13, 2026

A flood of memories: How rising water imperiled Shiloh wounded

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View of U.S. Naval Station at Mound City during the Civil War. ( Library of Congress )                                      Like this blog o...
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Friday, April 03, 2026

Secrets of Nashville's Hospital No. 11, the 'Pest House'

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The Bostick property, site of Hospital No. 11 in Nashville. (Tennessee State Library and Archives)                                      Like...
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Monday, March 23, 2026

'Gobbling up': What happened to 22nd Wisconsin at Brentwood, Tennessee?

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22nd Wisconsin soldiers ( Wisconsin Historical Society )                                     Like this blog on  Facebook  |  My YouTube vide...
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Sunday, March 22, 2026

Then & Now in Columbia, Tennessee: Where the armies slept

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Beechlawn Then & Now: The mansion stands on Pulaski Pike, south of Columbia, Tennessee. The sketch was drawn by 7th Minnesota Chaplain E...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Podcast: Medal of Honor stories, Antietam insights with guide Jess Rowley

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In Episode 58, Antietam battlefield guide Jess Rowley — a former National Park Service ranger — joins co-hosts John Banks and Tom McMillan ...
Thursday, March 12, 2026

A gruesome execution on Granny White Pike in Nashville

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               Like this blog on  Facebook  |  My YouTube videos  | Hat tip: Marty Bertera  Granny White Pike bore witness to its share of C...
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Thursday, March 05, 2026

Podcast: William Griffing of Spared & Shared on transcribing, posting soldier letters

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In Episode 57, William Griffing joins co-host John Banks (with Tom McMillan off this week) for a conversation about his remarkable transcr...

'Fatal blunders': A soldier's letter about Battle of Thompson's Station

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An aerial view of the battlefield and a postwar railroad station.  Midwestern troops   —  the 85th and 33rd Indiana —  retreated from right ...
Thursday, February 26, 2026

Podcast: Author Brad Gottfried compares Antietam, Gettysburg

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In Episode 56, prolific author/historian Brad Gottfried joins co-hosts John Banks and Tom McMillan for a discussion about his latest book, ...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

'Hidden' Fort Donelson: A butcher who returned home in a coffin

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Markers for 45th Illinois commissary sergeant John Travis in Greenwood Cemetery in Rockford, Ill. ( Find A Grave )                          ...

Tales from the road: Remembering 2nd Iowa fallen from Fort Donelson

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On Feb. 15, 1862, the 2nd Iowa attacked Confederates at the outer defenses of Fort Donelson.                                        Like thi...