First Person Civil War Podcast
Are you ready for a First Person account of a Civil War battle? Union and Confederate Soldiers and Officers wrote in journals and published books during and after the war. Join Bill Coghlan every week as he retells what these men saw and did on the battlefield.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 52
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Episode 11: 2LT Frederick Tomlinson Peet and the USMC at the Siege of Fort Wagner.
At the Siege of Fort Wagner, 2LT Frederick Tomlinson Peet and a Battalion of Marines arrive at Morris Island after two assaults by the Union Army failed to take Fort Wagner. As Army Engineers begin d…
Episode 10: 1LT Fitch and the 21st Wisconsin Face PVT Watkins and the 1st Tennessee at the Battle of Perryville
At the Battle of Perryville, 1LT Michael H. Fitch of the 21st Wisconsin and PVT Sam Watkins of the 1st Tennessee follow their regiments into the fighting on the northern end of the battlefield. Both …
Episode 9: PVT Edward Young McMorries and the 1st Alabama at the Battle of Franklin
At the Battle of Franklin, 30 November 1864, Private Edward Young McMorries and the 1st Alabama Infantry, on the eastern side of the Confederate Army of Tennessee, advanced upon the Union Army of the…
Episode 8: CPT John McMurray and the 6th U.S.C.T. at the Battle of New Market Heights
At the Battle of New Market Heights, CPT McMurray and the 6th U.S.C.T. assaulted Confederate positions on the morning on 29 September 1864. Their advance was through 50 yards of a recently cut forest…
Episode 7: SGT McDaniel and the 7th South Carolina at the Battle of Antietam
At the Battle of Antietam, 17 September 1862, SGT J.J. McDaniel and the 7th South Carolina arrive on the battlefield at a run. They, alongside the 2nd, 3rd, and 8th South Carolina Regiments advance t…
Episode 6: Corporal Daniel Crotty and the 3rd Michigan at the Battle of Chancellorsville
At the Battle of Chancellorsville, Corporal Daniel Crotty, a Color Bearer for the 3rd Michigan in the III Corps Army of the Potomac, recounts the advance of his regiment to the Catherine Furnace on 2…
Episode 5: COL Winchester Hall and the 26th Louisiana at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou
On 28 and 29 December 1862, COL Hall and the 26th Louisiana fought against General Shermans Army at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou in Mississippi, approximately 10 miles north of Vicksburg. The 26th L…
Episode 4: Frederick Phisterer and the Regular Brigade In the Cedar Forest at The Battle of Stones River
Sources used for this episode:
Phisterer, Frederick. The Regular Brigade of the Fourteenth Army Corps, The Army of the Cumberland, in the Battle of Stone River, or Murfreesboro, Tennessee, From Decemb…
Episode 1: Artillery Experiences at Petersburg
Sources for this episode:
PVT Bowden Co. B 2nd Georgia
Bowden, Rev. John Malachi. Some of My Experiences as a Confederate Soldier, In the Camp and on the Battlefield, In the Army of Northern Virginia. …
Episode 3: George N. Harris 19th Virginia Conspicuous at the Battle of Gaines’ Mill Missing at the Battle of Glendale
Source used for this Episode:
Edwards, Rev. John E. The Confederate Soldier; Being a Memorial Sketch of George N. and Bushrod W. Harris Privates in the Confederate Army. New York: Bullock & Co., 1868.…
First Person Civil War Podcast Introduction
Introduction to First Person Civil War Podcast
Source used for this Episode:
Stillwell, Leander. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865. 2nd ed. Franklin Hudson Publishi…
Episode 2: 14th U.S.C.T. Holds against Forrest’s Cavalry
Sources used for this Episode:
Morgan, Thomas J. Reminiscences of Service With Colored Troops in the Army of Cumberland, 1863-65. Providence: Soldiers' and Sailors' Historical Society of Rhode Island,…