In this episode, I examine the two battles that captured Fort Fisher dooming the city of Wilmington and ending the coastal war as well as the Confederate cause only a few months before the end of the war.

In this episode I examine the capture of Mobile Bay by Admiral Farragut in August of 1864. This was the penultimate port that had to be taken in the coastal war by the Union Navy in order to cripple the Confederate blockade runners and hurt the Confederacy in their fight for independence.

In this episode I continue my examination of the siege of Charleston examining various efforts of the Union to capture Fort Sumter and bring horror to the city as well as how both sides brought new weapons into the siege, weapons that would show how warfare would look like in the 20th Century.

In this episode I look at the first three attempts of the Union to capture Charleston and get their revenge on the city. I examine an attempt to take islands off the city, an attempt to use the Navy to blast through the defenses and an attempt by the US Army to capture Battery Wagner on Morris Island.

In this episode, I return to look at what happened in North Carolina after General Burnside went north in the fall of 1862. I then continue to examine that minor theater until the end of the war in the Spring of 1865.

In this episode, I turn my attention west from North Carolina to the banks of the Mississippi River. Here rested New Orleans, the gateway to the mouth of the Mississippi River and it appeared to be a tough nut to crack. As General Grant slowly moved south to fight on the banks of the Tennessee River at Shiloh, the Union Navy decided to come meet him moving north. In their way stood New Orleans, the Big Easy.

In this episode I begin a look at the campaigns of the Union to capture the Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports and help the blockade.  This episode features the spring 1862 North Carolina campaign of General Ambrose Burnside and how he racked up victory after victory before being pulled away at the cusp of ending the war 3 years early.

In this episode I conclude my look at the Second Battle of Bull Run/Second Manassas showing how a potential Union victory was snatched from the hands of General Pope becoming a very big disaster.

In this episode, I look at the first day of the Second Battle of Bull Run/Second Manassas on August 29. I also look at the ending of the Battle of Thoroughfare Gap and the Battle of Groveton or Brawner’s Farm.

In this episode I look at how General Lee, realizing that the Army of the Potomac was moving to reinforce General Pope and his Army of Virginia did everything in his power to try and attack Pope before McClellan could unite with him, including dividing his smaller army resulting in the Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas