Videos

Sam Houston State University professor Brian Matthew Jordan talked about how Union soldiers confronted the thousands of dead men and horses after the 1862 Battle of Antietam. This talk was part…

Virginia Military Institute professor Jonathan Jones talked about how opium and morphine -- common treatments used for wartime injuries -- grew into lifelong drug dependence for many in the…

Historians talked about the Civil War’s Chattanooga Campaign, which took place in the fall of 1863 and resulted in Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant breaking through a Confederate…

Local historians shared stories about Loudoun County, Virginia, during the Civil War. This program was part of a series sponsored by the Loudoun County Museum called “History on Tap.”

Lynn University Professor Robert Watson discussed the Confederacy’s infamous Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, site of the largest jail break of the Civil War. The Andersonville National…

Author Ken Rutherford talks about the early history of landmines, which were used for the first time on a widespread basis during the Civil War. The American Civil War Museum in Appomattox,…

Historian Gordon Rhea discussed the Civil War Battle of Cold Harbor, Confederate Gen. Lee’s last major victory and a bloodbath for the Union army. The National Museum of the Civil War…

Historian Ted Widmer traced Abraham Lincoln’s trip to Washington through a divided country before his first inauguration in 1861. The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech…

Missouri Southern State University professor Megan Bever talked about the temperance movement and alcohol use by soldiers during the Civil War. This virtual program was hosted by the Center…

Ashley Whitehead Luskey, assistant director of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute, talked about elite families in Richmond, Virginia, who hosted parties without refreshments as a symbol…

Historians debated the strengths and weaknesses of Union Generals such as George McClellan, Ulysses Grant, Ambrose Burnside, and Joseph Hooker, and how they each interacted with their…

Matt Atkinson has worked as a ranger at both the Gettysburg and Vicksburg national military parks. He compared those two 1863 campaigns as turning points in the Civil War and explored why Gettysburg…

Historians talked about the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863, considered to be General Robert E. Lee’s greatest victory. Initially, Union General Joseph Hooker planned to envelop the…

Keith Snyder from the Antietam National Battlefield shared personal accounts of soldiers who fought in the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. Through letters, photographs and diary…

Drew Gruber talked about the 1862 Battle of Williamsburg in Virginia - and why it was overshadowed that year by larger and bloodier battles. He also explained why Williamsburg’s colonial history has…

Located in Charleston harbor, Fort Sumter was still held by Union forces in April 1861, despite South Carolina’s secession in 1860. National Park Service historian Mark Maloy described the events of April 12,…

Battlefield guide Jeffrey Harding and Penn State University professor Jon Nese talked about how weather impacted the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. This program was part of Gettysburg…

Peter Carmichael, director of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute, talked about the range of literacy that Confederate soldiers had and how that impacted their communication with the home…

Historians discussed the generals such as Braxton Bragg and John Bell Hood who led the Army of Tennessee, the principle Confederate army west of the Mississippi River. This program was part of…

Melissa Winn of the American Battlefield Trust talked about the rise of portrait photography during the Civil War. She described how it enabled separated families to carry pictures of loved ones…