Emerging Civil War

A new biography on Union General Phill Sheridan by Jonathan Noyalas has ECW’s Chris Mackowski on a quest to reconsider the controversial general. In this episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast, he asks historians Kris White, Jim Lewis, and Hampton Newsome to offer their expert assessments. 

General "Little Phil" Sheridan remains a polarizing figure in Civil War history. However, a new Sheridan biography by Jonathan Noyalas of Shenandoah University invites a reconsideration. Sheridan's achievements and legacy, and the reasons we remember them the way we do, may be more complicated than we realize.

Was George Washington a Federal or a Confederate? Historian Abbi Smithmyer joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast to talk about the ways Northerners and Southerners alike tried to lay claim to Washington's memory to give their side more legitimacy during the Civil War.

What were the critical decisions at the battle of Chancellorsville that proved to be "moments of no return"? Historian Sarah Kay Bierle joins the Emerging Civil War Podcast to talk about her new book, "Decisions at Chancellorsville," part of the University of Tennessee Press's "Command Decisions of the Civil War" Series.  

Fr. Bob Miller has compiled the first comprehensive story of the Catholic priests who served in the Civil War—behind the scenes, in the hospitals, and sometimes even on the front lines. The result is a new book, "The Faith of the Fathers."