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    Eric Sommers
    Feb 07, 2021

    Future Episode Ideas/Requests

    in Civil War Talk

    Wasn't sure where to post this but what Civil War events, topics and such would we like our favorite podcast hosts to cover at some point?

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    Michael Harrison Grose
    Feb 08, 2021

    Increasing opium dependencies during & after the war.


    Medical advances brought about during the war. Those that we born out of necessity & those that were coming to age before the war, used in the war.


    I haven't listened to the "Carolina Campaign Part 1, so I do not know if it is covered yet, but if it has not been, Fort Fisher & the Capture of Wilmington, NC.


    Burnside's 1862 North Carolina Campaign with the capture of Fort Macon & New Bern.


    Popular Food both in taste or desire & then the necessity during the hard times.


    The "Poor Man's War" with comparisons between the economic rifts of the North & South, including the details involved with the Draft.


    How the War could have been avoided. What would have to happen to stop the War.


    Generals who had the opportunity to redeem themselves & those that shined bright early on only to fade as the War progressed.


    The Bennett Place Surrender involving Sherman & Johnston, Breckinridge & Grant.



    Take Care!


    -----Michael


    Mare
    Mar 06, 2021

    These are awesome ideas! Thanks, Michael!

    theknightirish
    Mar 09, 2021

    On the opium dependency issue I was reading "The Army Disease: Drug Addiction and the Civil War" today - https://www.jstor.org/stable/26098368

    Michael Harrison Grose
    Mar 09, 2021  ·  Edited: Mar 09, 2021

    @theknightirish Thanks for the article. Looking at it now. While reading the abstract, it hit me that the old woman in Cold Mountain gave Inman some laudanum to help ease his pain while he healed from a wound. (Just a side note: After Frazier wrote Cold Mountain, he was forwarded 7 million dollars to write his second Novel: Thirteen Moons. His third, "Varina" is about Jefferson Davis' Wife helping Julia Grant after the war. All three are great books. Thanks again.

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    Eric Sommers
    Feb 08, 2021

    For me it would be:

    Fort Wagner and the 54th Massachusetts

    Women who fought in the Civil War (disguised as men)

    Monitor vs. Merrimack

    Mo