Episode 3: Border States and the War in the West

Key Battles of the Civil War

Society & Culture

4.7 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In the summer of 1861, four slave states had still not seceded. If even two or three joined the Confederacy, the Union would be in big trouble. Lincoln was determined to keep all four in (Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, and Missouri). We will look at...

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0:59.0	The Civil War was the most important event in American history.
1:02.9	That's because it decided what kind of nation America would be and whether or not the promise of universal liberty would really be fulfilled.
1:07.2	And what decided the outcome of the Civil War was its battles.
1:11.4	Welcome to the key battles in the Civil War podcast.
1:27.4	Hi everyone. Welcome to episode three in our survey of the most important battles in the Civil War.
1:31.8	In the previous episode, we looked at the Battle of First Bowl Run, and there was a resounding union defeat there.
1:39.9	This was not going to be a short war, but both sides realized that this could drag on for quite a long time.
1:46.3	But it's not as if when the Civil War began, the first few states secede, that all other states immediately fall in line and everyone on both sides prepares for total war.
1:58.7	There's actually a slow rollout of all the secession of all the
2:02.7	states, and particularly amongst the border states. So that's part of what we're going to be
2:07.0	looking at in this episode, along with the war in the West. So James, can you tell us about what
2:13.2	is happening with the border states? Sure. We'll back up just a second and just let me give the
2:20.9	listeners a little bit of a time frame here. The first state, this is review from last time,
2:25.8	but never hurts to review, right? So the first state to go out of the union was South Carolina
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