Civil War | Bind Up the Nation's Wounds | 7 (Ad-free)

De: Wondery

In early 1865, after four long years of bloodshed, the Confederacy was on the brink of defeat. General William Tecumseh Sherman marched his army through South Carolina, where Union soldiers sought vengeance against the secessionist state that started the war. After nine grueling months of siege warfare in Virginia, General Ulysses S. Grant prepared to strike a final blow against Robert E. Lee’s starving, ragged army. Soon, the two commanders would meet at a house in Appomattox, Virginia to finally bring the war to a close. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.©2022 Wondery (P)2022 Wondery

Missing a few things IMO

I appreciated a realistic representation of the issues that brought about the war and the complete evil that was slavery. No sugarcoating what was really at stake. I also like how the complicated battles were explained so someone with no military knowledge (like me) could understand. I would have liked more info on the views of southerners who were opposed to the war or from southern civilians. I think they suffered far more than the average union civilian. One area i thought deserved more discussion was the immediate aftermath of the war- not all of reconstruction but more on what life was like for soldiers returning home, people who were newly freed, and civilians who lost everything in the south. Most of the war was fought in the south and between that and Sherman- not much was left. We spent several episodes on the war and then only like 10
minutes on post-Appomattox. Perhaps that’s another podcast- how the south was rebuilt, how former enslaved people struggled for equality, how the country regained a sense of unity. I’d listen to that!