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60: Gettysburg
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2020-03-16
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59: Stone’s River, Suspending Habeas Corpus, Vicksburg, & Stonewall’s Death at Chancellorsville
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2020-03-02
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58: Conscription & Riots (“A Rich Man’s War, But a Poor Man’s Fight”)
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2020-02-17
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57: Recap of The Civil War's First Half (1861-63)
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2020-02-03
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56: The Battle of Fredericksburg and the First Campaign of Vicksburg
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2020-01-20
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55: The Road to The Emancipation Proclamation
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2020-01-06
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54: The Best Opening Scenes in HTDS History
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2019-12-23
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53: A Civil War Christmas with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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2019-12-09
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52: From Second Bull Run, or Second Manassas to Antietam, or Sharpsburg
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2019-11-25
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51: A Change in Command: Seven Days Battles to the Battle of Cedar Mountain
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2019-11-11
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50: Mississippi Valley 1862: The Battles of New Orleans, Corinth, Memphis, and Vicksburg
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2019-10-28
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49: From Little Mac McClellan to Stonewall Jackson: The Peninsula and Shenandoah Valley Campaigns
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2019-10-14
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48: The Battle of Shiloh: “Now boys, pitch in!”
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2019-09-30
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47: Bull Run, Trent Affair, the Merrimack, & Fort Donelson: The Early Days of the Civil War
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2019-09-16
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46: The Civil War Begins: Fort Sumter, Secession, & Raising Armies
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2019-09-02
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45: Volume IV Epilogue
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2019-08-19
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44: Abraham Lincoln Becomes President of the Divided States of America
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2019-08-05
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43: Honest Abe, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, & John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
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2019-07-22
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42: Solomon Northup’s 12 Years a Slave
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2019-07-08
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41: Kansas! (Bleeding Kansas, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, & Caning of Charles Sumner)
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2019-06-24
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