Bonus ECW Podcast: Armchair-Generalling the Battle of Franklin (with Joe Ricci and Lee White)
For anyone who needs an extra dose of Civil War while you’re out doing Black Friday shopping, we have a special gift just for you: a bonus episode of the Emerging Civil War Podcast!
The battle of Franklin unfolded 160 years ago this weekend, beginning with the affair at Spring Hill. We’ve asked ECW’s two top Franklin experts, Lee White and Joe Ricci, to spend a little time arm-chairing the campaign. (It’s like Monday-morning quarterbacking but for the Civil War!)
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Co-hosted by Chris Mackowski and a revolving cadre of ECW’s contributors, The Emerging Civil War Podcast taps into an award-winning line-up of historians from a wide variety of backgrounds with a wide variety of interests on a wide variety of topics.
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And don’t forget about our first Franklin-related post this week, an exclusive interview with Battle of Franklin Trust CEO Eric Jacobson, who offered a great history of the battlefield’s amazing success story:
ECW Podcast: The Battle of Franklin Trust (with Eric Jacobson)
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