First Person Civil War Podcast

At the Battle of Cherbourg, 19 June 1864, Seaman Magee aboard the USS Kearsarge spotted the CSS Alabama, commanded by CPT Semmes as it departed the safety of Cherbourg Harbor to do battle in the English Channel. While both sloops-of-war were almost evenly matched in terms of cannon, the USS Kearsarge also had an armored hull, which became a deciding factor in the coming engagement.

Sources used for this episode:

Bradlee, Francis B. C. The Kearsarge-Alabama Battle. The Story as told to the writer by James Magee of Marblehead, Seaman on the Kearsarge. Salem: Essex Institute, 1921. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t2c82qw8g&seq=11&view=1up.

Semmes, Raphael. Memoirs of a Service Afloat, During the War Between the States. Baltimore: Kelly, Piet & Co., 1869. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/34827/pg34827-images.html.

Rush, Richard. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Washington: Government Printing Press, 1896. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924051350829&view=1up&seq=9.

17 Medals of Honor issued to the crew of the USS Kearsarge. https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/lists/civil-war-uss-kearsarge-recipients.

Sources used for this Episode:
Morgan, Thomas J. Reminiscences of Service With Colored Troops in the Army of Cumberland, 1863-65. Providence: Soldiers' and Sailors' Historical Society of Rhode Island, 1885. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/t3tt7ms2q&seq=9.
Davis, Maj. George B., Perry, Leslie J., Kirkley, Joseph W. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. ser. 1, vol. 39, pt. 1: Reports. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924077728297&view=1up&seq=3.
Due to its length, the reports concerning Nathan Bedford Forrest's Raid begin on page 504.

Sources for this episode:
PVT Bowden Co. B 2nd Georgia
Bowden, Rev. John Malachi. Some of My Experiences as a Confederate Soldier, In the Camp and on the Battlefield, In the Army of Northern Virginia. https://repository.duke.edu/dc/bowdenjohnmalachi-000846432/secst0281.
CH Armstrong 50th Pennsylvania
Raul, Hallock F, ed. Letters From a Pennsylvania Chaplain at the Siege of Petersburg 1865. London: The Eden Press, 1961. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015016756986&view=1up&seq=13&q1=hill.

Introduction to First Person Civil War Podcast
Source used for this Episode:
Stillwell, Leander. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865. 2nd ed. Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., 1920. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044051051464&seq=9.

At the Battle of Gettysburg, 3LT Rogers and the 47th North Carolina on 1 July advance through a wood line into an open field. As they march toward McPherson’s Ridge, a line of infantry appears on its crest, CPL Strong and the 121st Pennsylvania, and unleash a withering fire upon the North Carolinians. On 3 July, following the largest artillery barrage of the war, 3LT Rogers and the 47th North Carolina march in the front rank of a three-division assault known as Pickett’s Charge. After enduring Union Artillery, they approach the stone wall on cemetery ridge and in front of them is 1LT Seville and the 1st Delaware.

Sources used for this episode.

Rogers, J. Rowan. “Additional Sketch Forty-Seventh Regiment.” Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-'65. Written by members of the respective commands, vol. 3, edited by Walter Clark, 103-09. Goldsboro: Nash Brothers Book and Job Printers, 1901. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081797668&seq=11&q1=%22forty-seventh%22&view=1up.

Strong, William W. History of the 121st Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, By the Survivors Association. An Account from the Ranks. Philadelphia: Burk & McFetridge Co., 1893. https://www.loc.gov/item/02016606/.

Seville, William P. History of the First Regiment, Delaware Volunteers, From the Commencement of the "Three Months' Service" to the Final Muster-Out at the Close of the Rebellion. Wilmington: The Historical Society of Delaware, 1884. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002040669989&seq=7&view=1up.

Scott, Robert N. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. ser. 1, vol. 27, pt. 1: Reports. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924077699761&view=1up&seq=3.

Scott, OR. Ser. 1, vol. 27, pt. 2: Reports. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924077728255&view=1up&seq=3.