About this episode

Jess Rowley discusses Medal of Honor recipients and insights about the Antietam battlefield.

In Episode 58, Antietam battlefield guide Jess Rowley — a former National Park Service ranger — joins co-hosts John Banks and Tom McMillan for a freewheeling discussion about Antietam Medal of Honor recipients, famed Union Army officer Francis Barlow and interacting with the public. Plus, we learn about a New England regiment in which each soldier received a Medal of Honor. 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 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: Jess Rowley

Topics covered

• Medal of Honor
• Antietam
• Civil War
• Union Army
• public interaction

Keywords

• Medal of Honor
• Antietam
• Francis Barlow
• Civil War
• New England regiment

Sponsors

Michigan Civil War Association, Civil War Trails

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