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Radio War Nerd EP #409 — The US Civil War, Part 16: Women's Civil War Diaries (Patreon)

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2023-11-21 22:50:27
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2026-05-06 14:46:12
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2023-11
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New War NerdUS Civil War installment! This episode we look at civil war diaries by women, starting with the brilliant Frances D. Peter...

Recorded: November 20, 2023

We return with a fresh installment of the War Nerd US Civil War series! This episode we do a general overview of women's civil war diaries, then focus on the diary of a border state YA genius in the making, Frances D. Peter (pictured above at age 3, circled).

FIRST: We briefly survey the day's news in Argentina, Ukraine & northern Israel...

At 24:00 - The Nerd discusses USW women's diaries...

Books mentioned (and those to-be-discussed):-A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky by Frances D. Peter-A Diary from Dixie Mary Boykin Chesnut-Another Year Finds Me in Texas by Vicki Adams Tongate-A Confederate Girl’s Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson-Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone-Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War by JW Macguire-The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism by Fritz Bartel

THE WAR NERD US CIVIL WAR SERIES:

EP #295: The US Civil War, Part 1: Count Adam Gurowski

EP #297: The US Civil War, Part 2: Bleeding Kansas

EP #300: The US Civil War, Part 3: First Battle of Bull Run

EP #303: The US Civil War, Part 4: McClellan, Treason & The Battle of Antietam

EP #307: The US Civil War, Part 5: Vicksburg

EP #311: The US Civil War, Part 6: Buchanan's Treason & The Mormon War

EP #315: The US Civil War, Part 7: German '48ers, with Matt Christman

EP #323: The US Civil War, Part 8: Thomas, Hood & Southern Honor

EP #327: The US Civil War, Part 9: War on the Water

EP #335: The US Civil War, Part 10: Battle of Shiloh 

EP #340: The US Civil War, Part 11: The Culture Wars (Live in Brooklyn)

EP #352: The US Civil War, Part 12: Gen. John Pope & Second Battle of Manassas

EP #362: The US Civil War, Part 13: Civil War Movies, feat. Eileen Jones

EP #378: The US Civil War, Part 14: The USCT (US Colored Troops)

EP #386: The US Civil War, Part 15: Gettysburg Aftermath, Six Million Pounds of Rotting Meat

Total time: 1:10:43

Direct link to this episode's mp3 here

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Comments

Dave Dolle

Congratulations John on your Apartment ! ....Could I sleep on your floor? :).

ElGatoMalandrin

So happy to hear John is finally 'at rest.' We will miss the stories but I'm happy for you sir!!

(American spirit menthol

Don't buy the tofurkey that's the worst fucking one!! Gardein is better but so is nearly anything. Tofurkey started when there was no competition

Aiden

Happy for you Gar-Bear! <3

James Whale

Love to read the book John ! Post on the feed when you release it please . I'd love ebook copy if possible

George P

congrats on the home John!

JoR

I know topical/anniversary topics are potentially cheesy. And it's probably a topic you both are sick of. But could we get a segment or even a 20 minute discussion on the JFK assassination? Not necessarily the assassination itself, but more on the immediate aftermath, how John felt/witnessed it, etc. Maybe it's nor worth it, since we do so much American content already. But since it was the quintessential moment for Americans of that generation (like 9/11 is today), so maybe it'll add perspective for an important moment.

ploob

Secesh has legs!

Demented Avenger

Something that keeps sticking in my craw: there’s a world leader more vulnerable to assassination than Zelensky, and that’s Netanyahu. Think about it: who benefits from Netanyahu being in power now? Certainly not the Palestinians. The Israeli public would pick Bibi over Hamas but not over syphilis. His opposition hates the guy; his coalition partners have to know he’s more trouble than he’s worth. He’s only out of jail right now because he’s actively engaging in outright genocide. His only supporters right now are the US security establishment and American Jewish leaders, and both can accept someone else running the show.

Kevin Hickey

Huzzah for our peripatetic podcaster finally finding his roost!!!

Nosreffej

"Walk all over it" haha 😂

HarshMalarkey

3 cheers for John having a house. HIP HIP-

Jonathan Penn

John and Mark- I am continually impressed and appreciative of your ability to find aspects of the Civil War that are little known (e.g. Count Gurowski, etc.) but whose discussion and exploration add greatly to our understanding of the conflict. Peter's diary just got placed on my reading list. I know it has been done to death, but I look forward to your take on Lee's anabasis from Richmond. Tragic in the conventional sense of the word, but also tragic in the deaths incurred in what everyone knew was a completely and utterly lost cause. Congratulations on the new home, John! Have a loo at the first pages of K. Zuckmayer's autobiography, "A Part of Myself," where he speaks of home and where it is. I hope your new home is as wonderful as his Weissmuhl was to him. Jon P.

James Evans

Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin, if that’s the right gnomic Gaelicism for a new house. Llongyfarchiadau, John.

a clash of purple

All credit to Ames and Dolan, but I think the bigger problem is too many historians being either bad at their jobs or outright sympathetic to the slavers. Or both. I've lived in (northern) Virginia most of my life, I've toured a lot of battlefields and museums, and this RWN series is far more informative on most Civil War-related subjects than anything I ever saw. There's a lot of things that apparently just aren't talked about, even when they come from sources like Mark Twain that are theoretically part of the Anglo canon. I honestly feel like a big part of the problem is that academics refuse to teach anything that might be entertaining. And if they have to cover a topic with some inherent humor or excitement, they do their best to render it into a form that's completely sterile and lifeless. I don't know if it's some weird prudishness, or them just being the kind of people who despise fun, but it makes them actually rather useless for providing a decent education on anything.

Jason Thompson

Everything you say about Borat is true… but I gotta say that even Asad Abukhalil “angryarab dot blogspot” gave it a good review when it came out (he joke-apologized for liking it: IIRC “I have to admit I found Borat very funny… yes yes… I know”). The parts that have aged best I guess are when the Borat character gives USAans a license to reveal our awfulness (“Borat, I wish we could treat women the way you do in your country!”) Of course I doubt Abukhalil would give Sacha Baron Cohen the benefit of the doubt 15 years later after the guy has come out as a massive Israel fan and made 2 specifically anti-Arab and Arab-villain movies. Sometimes the 2000s seems farther away in time than the 1960s

SB

I can hear a different level of energy in John's voice, now that he finally has a place to call home. This is a great change. Congrats on settling down near a Mediterranean beach after all these years of vagrancy!

Funny_Hat

Just flagging 16-18 of this series are not in the collection