The Department No. 2 Podcast

Dan Masters, author of the forthcoming book on the Battle of Stones River, joins us for Part One to discuss this important Western Theater battle. What myths have survived about this momentous fight, and should we really hate Braxton Bragg as much as we do? 

Darryl talks with Dave Mowery, author of Cincinnati in the Civil War: The Union's Queen City. Cincinnati was the largest producer of goods for the Union Army west of the Appalachian Mountains, and the third largest in the United States.

Andrew Miller sets up the campaign and how the two armies eventually clashed at Mill Springs, which brought the Union its first major victory of the war. The eastern part of Tennessee and Kentucky was a complicated region, and one that both sides had to carefully navigate.

Derrick and Darryl are joined by Dan Masters & Taylor Bishop for the first ever digital Bull Session. They carry on the tradition of an in-person Bull Session with discussions about a variety of Western Theater topics including cavalry raids, comparing Western and Easter armies, Bragg and the Kentucky Campaign, & a few others.