American Service Men and Women Tell Their Stories of Survival Show 29 with Host Pamela Clark - The Civil War (Episode 8)

American Service Men and Women Tell Their Stories of Survival Show 29 with Host Pamela Clark - The Civil War (Episode 8)

From New Heights Show on Education by New Heights Show on Education

March 18, 2026 · 29 min · Season 1 · Episode 29

About this episode

Pamela shares survival stories from American service men and women during the Civil War.

In this podcast, Pamela discusses and shares stories of survival from American service men and women. In this episode, Pamela discusses stories about the American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names), which was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"). The South was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve African American slavery, which they saw as threatened because of the election of Abraham Lincoln and the growing abolitionist movement in the North. Reading from "The 19th-Century American" Chapters 13, 14, 15 Sergeant Oats, Prison Life in Dixie: giving a short history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our soldiers by rebel authorities, Chapter 13: Jailed. Radio.NewHeightsEducation.org Info@NewHeightsEducation.org Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/new-heights-show-on-education--4114185/support .

People in this episode

Host: Pamela Clark

Topics covered

  • survival stories
  • American Civil War
  • military history
  • personal narratives
  • treatment of soldiers

Keywords

  • American Civil War
  • survival stories
  • military history
  • Pamela Clark
  • Sergeant Oats

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The 19th-Century American

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