The latest episodes of the Capital District Civil War Round Table feature discussions on Civil War pornography, John Bell Hood’s Texas Brigade, and Malta native Colonel Elmer Ellsworth (the first officer killed during the Civil War).
Listen to the podcast here.
In the July episode, host Nick Thony traveled to the Civil War Institute Summer Conference in Gettysburg to interview two authors. Villanova professor Judith Giesberg discussed her book Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality, and Southern Mississippi professor Susannah Ural talked about her book Hood’s Texas Brigade: The Soldiers and Families of the Confederacy’s Most Celebrated Unit.
The latest episode features Town of Malta historian Paul Perreault. Paul discussed the life and death of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth. Ellsworth was born in Malta, New York, and later became close with the Lincoln family. He became famous touring the country with the Chicago Zouaves and when the Civil War broke out, he raised a regiment of New York City firefighters. Ellsworth would become the first officer killed during the war after being shot trying to remove a Confederate flag from a hotel in Alexandria, Virginia.
Photo of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth provided.
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