Category: National Battlefield
A Chaplain in the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/03Jul14-Gettysburg-Chaplain-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In the fall of 1861, Father William Corby, a Notre Dame educated priest, not yet 30 years old, joined the…
A Small Rock Marking a Big Impact
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/02Jul14-Gettysburg-Chaplain-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are hundreds of monuments here at Gettysburg National Battlefield. Many times it’s difficult to know the story behind each…
The Role of Chaplains in the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/01Jul14-Gettysburg-Chaplain-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you are a student of the Civil War, you probably know some of the important names like Generals Lee…
The Importance of Faith in Battle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2014/05/30Jun14-Gettysburg-Chaplain-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A soldier needs many resources in battle. One of those items is perhaps most important, yet intangible. It’s the importance…
Gettysburg Week: The General (Most of) America Forgot
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/06/01Jul13-Gettysburg-Meade.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.7MB)In the three days leading up to Indpendence Day, 1863, Americans waged the greatest of battles against one another at…
The Battle of Cedar Creek
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Cedar-Creek-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)There are nearly 400 national park sites in the United States. Today we visit one of the newest in the…
Antietam Battle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Antietam-Battle-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Even by today’s standards, the cost of this battle was staggering. It was a 12 hour conflict that saw a…
Antietam Battle’s Blood Lane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Antietam-Battle-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.1KB)The fields were filled with ears of corn nearing harvest during September, but the kernels would never be shelled. In…
Knowing Someone Else’s Battle Plan
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Antietam-Battle-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 950.0KB)Imagine going into a battle and having the enemy’s plan of attach in your hands. It sounds like it would…
Battle at Antietam
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/09/Antietam-Battle-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 953.7KB)You may have heard stories of family members fighting against one another during the Civil War. At this famous battlefield,…
The Battle of Gettysburg
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/gettysburg-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 949.4KB)In the three days leading up to Independence Day in 1863, Americans waged the greatest of battles against one another…
