The Civil War Podcast

I was looking for the source of Walt Whitman’s war reminiscences, and happened upon the Walt Whitman Archive. Not only does it have the published anecdotes, it also offers all his poetry and a trove of letters, too. Whitman’s writing is very readable. I planned to leaf through some of the Memoranda, and wound up [...]

I’m not much of a poetry connoisseur, but I liked the idea behind these works. S. Thomas Summers writes in the voice of ordinary soldiers, basing some of his poems on letters or photos. Union Solider Recounts the Burning of Atlanta A local boy said the smoke was darker than the walls of a heifer’s [...]

I’ve got the Ken Burns series playing in the background as I procrastinate work on some business planning, and just passed the James Symington recitation. Though it’s not about the Civil War, that brother-against-brother theme made me think it’s worth sharing. Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have [...]