Portraits of Blue & Grey: The Biographical Civil War Podcast

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Portraits of Blue & Grey: The Biographical Civil War Podcast episodes

November 05, 2017 Stonewall Jackson: Part 1
Portraits of Blue & Grey: The Biographical Civil War Podcast examines the lives of the most prominent, interesting, and influential figures of the United States Civil War Era.

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1 hr 45 min
October 01, 2017 Episode 2: Ulysses S. Grant, Part 4
In the fourth and final installment of our portrait of Ulysses Grant, we look at Grant's post-war role in Reconstruction, the Grant presidency, and Grant's final years after leaving office. Email us at [email protected] with any questions or comments about the show.

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1 hr 23 min
August 30, 2017 Episode 2: Ulysses S. Grant, Part 3
Part 3 of our portrait of Ulysses Grant sees Grant come to the rescue in Chattanooga before being summoned east for his showdown with Robert E. Lee. Email us with any questions or comments about the show at [email protected].

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2 hr 11 min
July 21, 2017 Episode 2: Ulysses S. Grant, Part 2
Grant from Shiloh to Vicksburg.

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1 hr 22 min
June 21, 2017 Episode 2: Ulysses S. Grant, Part 1
Part 1 of our Portrait of U.S. Grant examines Grant's early life, time at West Point and in the Mexican-American War, tough circumstances before the beginning of the Civil War, and the start of his rise to prominence following victories at Belmont and Fts. Henry and Donnelson.

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1 hr 2 min
May 25, 2017 Episode 1: Robert E. Lee, Part 4
In the fourth and final chapter of our portrait of Robert E. Lee, we see Lee reluctantly forced to go on the defensive, as new Union commander Ulysses Grant presses the attack. After ferocious fighting at the Wilderness and Cold Harbor, Lee attempts to withstand the siege of Petersburg, is finally forced to surrender at Appomattox, and spends his post-war years as president of Washington College (now Washington & Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia.

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1 hr 2 min
May 12, 2017 Episode 1: Robert E. Lee, Part 1
Despite his initial misgivings about secession, Robert E. Lee would come to be the figure most commonly associated with the Confederacy. Part 1 of our portrait of Lee looks at the general's family history, childhood and education, service in the United States Army, thoughts about slavery, and decision to join the Southern rebellion.

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56 min
May 12, 2017 Episode 1: Robert E. Lee, Part 2
In Part 2 of our portrait of Robert E. Lee, we see Lee take command of the Army of Northern Virginia after the Battle of Seven Pines. Following successes at the Seven Days' Battles and Second Manassas, Lee gambles on an invasion north of the Potomac River into Maryland, where he has his final showdown with Union General George McClellan near the small Western Maryland town of Sharpsburg, along a sleepy little creek called Antietam.

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1 hr
May 12, 2017 Episode 1: Robert E. Lee, Part 3
In Part 3, Lee earns victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, reorganizes his army after the death of Stonewall Jackson, and makes a fateful decision to journey north of the Mason-Dixon line, where his army collides with the Army of the Potomac commanded by newly promoted Gen. George Meade near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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1 hr 22 min

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Portraits of Blue & Grey, hosted by Christopher Moore, is a biographical Civil War podcast that examines the lives of the most prominent, interesting, and influential figures of the United States…