Ep. 0170: Johnny Comes Marching Home: The Not-So-Civil War Part 14

This was originally going to be one giant episode to finish off the series, but then it grew into TOO giant of an episode, so I decided to divide it in order to conquer it.

Here’s the beginning of the end of the Not-So-Civil War series.

Join CJ as he discusses:

• The costs of the war in death & destruction
• Changes wrought by the war
• The fate of the veterans in the decades following the war

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Internal Links

• Ep. 0167: Endgame: The Not-So-Civil War Part 13
• Ep. 0166: Suppressing Dissent, Reinforcing Belief: The Not-So-Civil War Part 12
• Ep. 0161: “Disregarding the Laws of God & Man”: The Not-So-Civil War Part 11
• Ep. 0157: “I was killed”: The Not-So-Civil War Part 10
• Ep. 0147: The Sparring of the Amateur Boxer: The Not-So-Civil War Part 9
• Ep. 0146: The Grunt’s-Eye Perspective: The Not-So-Civil War Part 8
• Ep. 0139: Gettysburg: The Not-So-Civil War Part 7
• Ep. 0137: Gibraltar of the Confederacy: The Not-So-Civil War Part 6
• Ep. 0135: More Valor, Less Judgment: The Not-So-Civil War Part 5
• Ep. 0134: Battle Cry of Freedomishness: The Not-So-Civil War Part 4
• Ep. 0133: Crisis & Leviathans: The Not-So-Civil War Part 3
• Ep. 0132: Upping the Ante: The Not-So-Civil War Part 2
• Ep. 0131: Opening Gambits: The Not-So-Civil War Part 1
• Ep. 0106: A History of American Slavery Part VII: The End of Chattel Slavery

External Links

• Recounting the Dead, by J. David Hacker (2011 NYT piece about how the body count of the Civil War might be significantly higher than previously believed.)
• The Unending Civil War of Ambrose Bierce (an excellent episode of the Inward Empire podcast)
• Voting for Losing Political Candidates Lowers Men’s Testosterone