First Corps at Antietam: Historian Darin Wipperman on Hooker, Burnside and Union command

About this episode

Historian Darin Wipperman discusses the roles of generals Hooker and Burnside during the First Corps' involvement at Antietam.

In Episode 55, historian Darin Wipperman breaks down generals Joseph Hooker and Ambrose Burnside and explains the First Corps’ role at Antietam with co-hosts John Banks and Tom McMillan. Wipperman is the author of First for the Union: Life and Death in a Civil War Army Corps from Antietam to Gettysburg and other Civil War books. (Plus, John riffs on a pig that crossed a Duck River railroad bridge in Tennessee in 1878.) This podcast is sponsored by the Michigan Civil War Association and Civil War Trails , which since 1994 has connected visitors with small towns and big stories across a network that now spans six states. Join McMillan and Banks for regular podcasts about Antietam, the Maryland Campaign and the Civil War — the most compelling period in American history. McMillan is author of the recently released The Year That Made America: From Rebellion to Independence and four other books . Banks is author of A Civil War Road Trip Of A Lifetime and numerous magazine articles about the Civil War . Find them on Facebook at Author Tom McMillan and John Banks' Civil War Blog . Banks' popular Civil War blog is here .

People in this episode

Hosts: Tom McMillan, John Banks

Guest: Darin Wipperman

Topics covered

• Antietam
• Civil War
• Union command
• military history
• historical analysis

Keywords

• Antietam
• Civil War
• First Corps
• Joseph Hooker
• Ambrose Burnside
• Darin Wipperman
• military history
• historical podcast

Sponsors

Michigan Civil War Association, Civil War Trails

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: First for the Union: Life and Death in a Civil War Army Corps from Antietam to Gettysburg, The Year That Made America: From Rebellion to Independence, A Civil War Road Trip Of A Lifetime

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