Cecily N. Zander, author of The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era

Intro: This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...The Civil War was fought almost entirely by vast armies of volunteer citizen soldiers, who dwarfed the tiny US regular army. The minor role that the regular Army played during the war has obscured its political significance before the war, when Republican politicians saw it as a tool of the southern slave power. And then after the war, when those same Republican's anti-military views had unintended effects on the course of reconstruction and westward expansion. Professor Cecily N. Zander describes these effects and more in 'The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era.' We'll talk with her tonight, on Civil War Talk Radio.

Scott Hippensteel, author of Sand, Science and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat

Gerry's Monologue - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio, Members of the Civil War Talk Radio community, you and me, we are generally well read on the subject of Civil War battles. We usually know where they happened, and who won. What the tactics and weapons were, what the key terrain features were, but I didn't know and you might not either, because what kind of rock lies under the surface of the Civil War battlefield? What happened millions of years earlier to shape that landform? And how the geology of a historic site can contain clues about what happened there 160 years ago, someone who does know all that is professor of Earth Sciences, Scott Hippensteel, author of 'Sand, Science and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat.' We'll talk with him tonight on Civil War Talk Radio.

Harold Holzer, author of Brought Forth on this Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration

Gerry's Monologue - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,...Nearly 10 million immigrants have upended the demography, culture and voting patterns of the nation, especially in its teeming urban centers. In the wake of such overwhelming change, resistance to immigration and immigrants metastasized, determined not only to restrict foreigners from entering the country, but to disenfranchise, demonize and occasionally terrorize those who have already arrived, settled and earned citizenship here. Now in recent years, I mean 1830 to 1860, and the rest of what I just said isn't quoted from 2024 website. It's from Harold Holzer's newest book 'Brought Forth on this Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration.' We'll talk with the author tonight on Civil War Talk Radio.

Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction.

Gerry's Monologue - This is Gerry Prokopowicz, with Civil War Talk Radio,......as listeners to this show already know, the Civil War didn't end at Appomattox Courthouse. We know about the rebel armies of Johnston and North Carolina, Kirby Smith and the Trans-Mississippi. We also know that the reconstruction years that followed were marked by so much political violence that some scholars consider it consider it a guerrilla continuation of the war. But less well known is what happened when the Federal government, under President Ulysses S. Grant, muster the political will to suppress that violence. In 1871, the US Army was deployed to South Carolina to destroy a large scale terrorist operation. We'll learn the result from Fergus M. Bordewich, author of 'Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction,' that's tonight on Civil War Talk Radio.

Jonathan D. Sarna, author of When General Grant Expelled the Jews (Jewish Encounters Series)

Matthew Christopher Hulbert, author of Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War

Andrew Lang, A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism

Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

Howell Raines, Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta–and Then Got Written Out of History

John Banks, A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime: Antietam, Gettysburg, and Beyond