Ep. 0131: Opening Gambits: The Not-So-Civil War Part 1

Drum roll please……………..Here we go — the first podcast installment in a monstrous enterprise, CJ’s White Whale: the Dangerous History Podcast’s coverage of the War Between the States!

In this first installment, we’ll cover the opening moves, from December 1860 to November 1861.

Join CJ as he discusses:

• The secession of the seven states of the Deep South following the election of Abraham Lincoln
• The formation of the Confederate States of America, including its constitution
• The accession to office of the Lincoln Administration
• The firing on Fort Sumter
• Sumter’s impact on the North and the South, including the secession of the Upper South
• Lincoln’s actions to try to keep the Border States in the Union, by any means neccessary
• Preparations for war & early skirmishes
• The Battle of Manassas (or First Bull Run) and its impact
• Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” (written in Nov. 1861) as portent of the total war-crusade to come

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Internal Links

• DHP Ep. 0099: A History of American Slavery Part V (in this episode I give an overview of the politics in the decades leading up to the war)
• DHP Ep. 0124: The American Civil Religion

External Links

• Full text of the ‘Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union’