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Aug 11, 2026

In this third installment of our series on the strategically significant Eastern campaigns, we take a close look at the prelude, conduct, and postlude of the dramatic Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg), in which Robert E. Lee's first attempt to enter into Pennsylvania was stopped by none other than Federal Maj. Gen. George...


Apr 11, 2023

 In this second installment of our series on the campaigns of the Eastern Theater with significant strategic impact, we'll take a close look at Robert E. Lee's surprising victory at Chancellorsville. How did an operation with great potential for the Union morph into one of the Confederacy's greatest triumphs?...


Oct 17, 2022

This is the first in a series of episodes concentrating on the most strategically significant campaigns of the Eastern Theater of the war.

In this podcast, we take a close look at the Union and Confederate ends, ways, and means in the climactic campaign of summer 1863 that culminated at Gettysburg. We will learn that...


Oct 11, 2022

This is the third in a series of three episodes concentrating on the strategic-level characteristics, geography, and personalities of the three major theaters of war.

In this podcast, we examine the Trans-Mississippi Theater in light of these considerations and briefly discuss its most important campaigns, with a focus...


Sep 7, 2022

This is the second in a series of three episodes concentrating on the strategic-level characteristics, geography, and personalities of the three major theaters of war. In this podcast, we examine the Western Theater in light of these considerations and briefly discuss its most important campaigns, with a focus...