Category: Civil War
Beefing Up the Hulls of Ships
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/03/22Mar13-Tennessee-River-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)Necessity is the mother of invention. When the Civil War began, it was relatively easy to sink wooden ships, so…
Monks and the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/10/New-Mellary-Abbey-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Who helped supply the Union army’s depot in Galena, Illinois during the Civil War? The monks at this abbey, of…
Die or Betray a Friend?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Sam-Davis-2011-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)Sam Davis had an important choice to make. His decision would determine if he would live or be hung…..
A Story Everyone from Tennessee Knows by Heart
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/09/Sam-Davis-2011-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.0KB)His job was to use his stealth to maneuver through enemy lines and gather as much information as possible for…
Cape Girardeau: Civil War History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Cape-Girardeau-Civil-War.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 1.4MB)Civil War engineers were simply running out of names, but that doesn’t mean the forts here were not important. It’s…
The Battle of Boonville
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/06/Battle-of-Boonville.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)As you may know, we do all of our stories from the actual location where they occur. While we did…
Famous, But Not for Fort Sumter
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/Fort-Sumter-2011.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)One hundred fifty years ago, Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter. The man who returned fire for the Union, became…
Attending a Civil War Reunion
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/02/02Oct09-Civil-War-Reunion-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)75 years after the Battle of Gettysburg, the veterans of the Civil War were still coming here for reunions……
William Quantrill
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/01/William-Quantril.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 1.8MB)Mention the name William Quantrill in Kansas or Missouri, and you’re likely to get stories of Quantrill’s Raiders sweeping into…
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…
Burning the Fields
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Cedar-Creek-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Farmer’s crops can fall prey to the elements of mother nature. Heat, hail, wind and much more can destroy a…
Belle Grove Plantation
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/11/Belle-Grove-Plantation.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Our history books tell us the south had many slave holding plantations in the years leading up to the Civil…
The Freedom House
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Freedom-House-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)I always enjoy the chance to explore Alexandria, Virginia. It’s a historic city and I recently happened upon a new…
The Battle of New Market
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Battle-of-New-Market-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)There was nothing left to do. A group of 15-21 year old students would be forced into battle if there…
Gaining Control of the Breadbasket
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/09/Battle-of-New-Market-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.2KB)Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley is one of the most scenic farming regions in the world. The fertile valley is flanked by…
County Flags of the Civil War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Civil-War-Flags.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.2KB)In the days of the Civil War, many regiments consisted of men all from the same county. Each regiment had…
The Spencer Rifle
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/07/Illinois-Military-Museum-Spencer-Rifle.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 941.4KB)Imagine you had invented a new type of rifle that could be helpful to the U.S. military. How would you…
Freedman’s Village and Arlington National Cemetery
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Section-27-Arlington-Cemetery-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 940.2KB)It was a village inside Arlington National Cemetery, a place where people found refuge during the Civil War. Here’s the…
Arlington National Cemetery’s Section 27
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/06/Section-27-Arlington-Cemetery-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:00 — 938.8KB)Although most visitors to Arlington National Cemetery simply see the Tomb of the Unknowns and perhaps the JFK grave site,…
Civil War Veterans Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2010/04/Confederate-Memorial-Home-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:01 — 945.5KB)The Civil War ended in 1865, but how long did the veterans of that war live? There is some controversy…
