27 Civil War Traveler Audio Tours North Carolina Bentonville Fort Fisher West Virginia Harpers Ferry Maryland Monocacy Antietam The Cornfield The Battle for Burnside Bridge The Final Attack Gettysburg PA The Peach Orchard The Wheatfield Pickett’s Charge Little Round Top Devil’s Den Virginia Appomattox Court House VA Cedar Creek Manassas, First (Bull Run) New Market … Read more
Welcome to CivilWarTraveler.com’s multimedia resources. We’ve produced 27 podcasts so far; check out the latest one below; get complete details on the podcast page. And there’s more: Links to more on the Web and the Lee’s Retreat Radio Driving Tour, captured here for your download. African Americans in Civil War Petersburg (Virginia) This two-part podcast … Read more
Walk with a noted historian as your personal audio guide on fields where decisive, dramatic battles took place. The battlefield podcasts are narrated by National Park Service historians and recorded on the battlefields. They feature introductions by John Fieseler and Marc Ramsey and the period music of Southern Horizon, Al Neale, Vaughn and Starbuck, and … Read more
From the first big battle at Manassas/Bull Run in 1861 to the surrender of Lee’s army at Appomattox in 1865, Virginia stayed in the headlines throughout the Civil War. More than 2,000 “military events” were recorded in Virginia during the war, more than any other state. No part of the state escaped, with battles fought … Read more
Bordered on the west by the Allegheny range and the east by the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Shenandoah Valley dramatically combines beautiful landscapes with extraordinary Civil War history. The Valley is described often as an avenue of invasion directed to the head of the Federal government at Washington D.C. More importantly, it was a vital … Read more
Charleston Fort Sumter, Fort Moultrie, the HL Hunley, Charleston Museum, Fort Lamar Heritage Preserve, Magnolia Cemetery, Confederate Museum, Citadel Museum, the Battery, Aiken-Rhett Mansion Beaufort Area Parris Island Museum, the Beaufort Arsenal, St. Helena’s Episcopal Church, McKee/Smalls House, “Secession House,” Beaufort National Cemetery, Hilton Head Museum (Coastal Discovery) Sherman’s Campaign & Central Sites Ehrhardt – … Read more
Visit the Gettysburg National Military Park and follow the Civil War Trail to visit Pennsylvania battlefields & sites on the way to the 1863 battle there, plus the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg. • Gettysburg • Harrisburg • Chambersburg and Area • York and Wrightsville • Hanover • Other Sites • The Gettysburg Campaign … Read more
Georgia took on a critical role early in the war as the state supplied manpower and material to the Confederate armies. As the war wore on, Georgia’s importance increased as the Confederacy’s fortunes faded and the contending armies drew closer to the state. Major fighting came to Georgia’s northwest corner when the main Northern and … Read more
It sometimes seems the Civil War in the West was focused on Vicksburg. The Union efforts to take the Confederate-held Mississippi River bastion took months of maneuvering and thousands of lives on both sides. The drama finally ended July 4, 1863, with the city’s surrender. But there is much more to Mississippi’s Civil War story. … Read more
From Atlantic coastal sites at Forts Fisher and Macon to Union cavalry operations in the western mountains, North Carolina offers a collection of Civil War sites as varied as its landscapes. Blockade running in Wilmington. Ironclads at Kinston and Plymouth. Sherman vs. Johnston battles in 1865. A surrender more than two weeks after Appomattox. “Lee’s … Read more