Historical Insights

By Jordan Collier

Exploring the events of the American Civil War in the Tennessee Valley using official records and surviving eyewitness experiences.... more

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The podcast currently has 41 episodes available.

Historical Insights episodes:

June 28, 2025 November 8 - 11, 1864: Federals regain the upper hand
We will slow down and parse the increasing volume of dispatches related to Lauderdale County, Alabama, in the context of the Civil War in the western theatre. Any information may yet prove crucial, and no one knew where the tide would turn next.
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46min
November 25, 2024 November 6 & 7, 1864 -- Standoff on Shoal Creek
*This is my first episode I've recorded since Spotify eliminated mobile recording. The sound may be different than what you're used to. Feedback will be appreciated as I consider how best to adapt to the transition.

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44min
July 09, 2024 November 1-5, 1864
We will examine the events of a very tense five days at the start of 1864, as General Croxton cautiously watches the alarming Confederate movements at the Shoals, Federal high command scramble to make sense of the developments, and local people find themselves caught up in the events in surprising ways.
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April 22, 2024 Hood crosses the Tennessee
We will examine the details of Hood's movements from October 29 to November 1, 1864, culminating in the Confederates establishing a foothold at Florence, and the at times awkward Federal response. We will hear from surprisingly detailed and insightful first-person sources to these movements who witnessed it all.
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49min
January 27, 2024 Hood goes West
We will follow the frustrated and often inscrutable events that placed General John Bell Hood at Decatur, Alabama in the last week of October 1864.
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57min
December 18, 2023 October 1864: Rising action ahead of Hood's move west
We will examine the tense time between the end of the pursuit of Forrest and the movement of General Hood out of Georgia toward the Shoals. We'll see how reaction, contingency, uncertainty and strategy all coalesced to lay the groundwork for the Shoals to find itself centerstage in the drama to come
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42min
July 11, 2023 Forrest's Raid: Part 2
We will follow Forrest from Elk River to his incredibly daring crossing of the Tennessee at Florence, as he continues his destructive path throughout Middle Tennessee - with wide reaching and unintended consequences.
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50min
July 03, 2023 Forrest's Raid, part 1
We will explore the swift and stunning movement of General Forrest north of the Tennessee River late in September 1864, as the surprised and skeletal Federal garrisons scramble to meet the threat, with disastrous results
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47min
June 04, 2023 September 1864: Wheeler's Raid
We will learn the fate of Atlanta and follow General Wheeler's retreat out of Middle Tennessee and across the Tennessee River at the Shoals. We'll see how the Federals were mired in misinformation, surrounded by disparate rebel groups everywhere they looked, and how local people were impacted by these events.
*correction: At minute mark 17:49 I stated incorrectly that Rowett's regiment was the 9th Illinois. In fact it was the 7th Illinois.
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56min
April 28, 2023 Late summer 1864: Battle at Tupelo and Atlanta
We will follow action in Northeast Mississippi - the largest engagement within 100 miles of the Shoals in the summer of 1864; see how the Union cavalry around Decatur didn't rule the roost unopposed; and visit action at Atlanta, as fateful strategic choices are brewing to bring the Shoals back to the center stage of the action in the climactic days to the war in the west.
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52min

FAQs about Historical Insights:

How many episodes does Historical Insights have?

The podcast currently has 41 episodes available.