The War in Between

Richard L Burr
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The War in Between In 1990, Congress set up a commission to study every major fight of the Civil War — three hundred eighty-four fields in all — and rank each one by how much it actually weighed on the war. Class A. Class B. You already know most of those: Gettysburg, Antietam, Vicksburg. The War in Between stays entirely in Class C: real fights, real ground, almost none of it known outside the county it happened in. A Union general who broke his own standing orders and missed an entire brigade hiding in the trees three days before Bull Run. A sitting governor who personally commanded troops in a battle — the only time in American history that's happened. A herd of wild horses, mistaken in the dark for enemy cavalry, on a beach in Florida. Episodes run in strict order, one year at a time, coast to coast — Virginia one week, Missouri or Kansas the next — because the war didn't happen in one place at a time, and neither does this show. If you already know the big campaigns, this is the thread that ties them together: the days you skipped on your way to the days everyone else knows by heart. Every episode ends the same way. Know this ground.

  1. Oct 15

    Adairsville, GA

    May 17, 1864, Bartow and Gordon Counties, Georgia. Johnston, retreating from Resaca, hopes to find a valley narrow enough to fight in and finds one too wide. A Confederate rear guard holds an eight-sided house until midnight while Sherman prepares to attack in the morning. That night Johnston splits his army onto two roads, hoping Sherman will split his own. Next: Yellow Bayou, May 18.

  2. Oct 15

    Albemarle Sound, NC

    May 5, 1864, off the mouth of the Roanoke River. A Confederate ironclad built in a cornfield by a nineteen-year-old fights an entire Union fleet to a standstill. One Union captain rams it deliberately; the collision nearly costs him his own ship. Admiral Lee's first report home says the Confederate ram came through unhurt. He was wrong. Next: Port Walthall Junction, May 6.

  3. Oct 15

    Averasborough, NC

    In March of 1865, Confederate Lieutenant General William Hardee set out to slow a Union army with about six thousand men. On a narrow strip of land between the Cape Fear River and the Black River swamps, he dug three lines of earthworks and made a stand at Averasborough, North Carolina.  Next: Lewis's Farm, March 29.

  4. Oct 15

    Berryville, VA

    Berryville — September 3, 1864. Sheridan's army walks into a Confederate column outside Berryville, Virginia, and two future presidents are there. Next: Saltville, First, October 2.

  5. Oct 15

    Buck Head Creek, GA

    On November 28th, 1864, Union Brigadier General Judson Kilpatrick's cavalry rode for its life across Buck Head Creek in eastern Georgia, with Confederate Major General Joseph Wheeler's troopers close behind. Sherman had sent Kilpatrick to burn a railroad bridge and free the Union prisoners at Camp Lawton, and Wheeler saw through the plan.  Next: Honey Hill, November 30.

  6. Oct 15

    Cloyd's Mountain, VA

    May 9, 1864, Pulaski County, Virginia. Crook's raid to destroy a vital Confederate railroad runs into a scratch defense under a general who'd held the post one day. Gunfire sets the battlefield on fire during the fighting, and two future American presidents — one of them still a lieutenant — are both in the thick of it. Next: Yellow Tavern, May 11.

  7. Oct 15

    Columbia, TN

    In late November 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood marched into Tennessee to beat the Union army before it could gather at Nashville. At Columbia, on the Duck River, Union Major General John Schofield reached the bridges just ahead of Hood's cavalry, then crossed and burned them while Hood tried to go around him. Know this ground. Next: Buck Head Creek, November 28.

  8. Oct 15

    Cool Spring, VA

    About five o'clock on the afternoon of July 18, 1864, Union Brigadier General George Crook watched Confederate divisions march toward a Union division across the Shenandoah River. Crook asked Major General Horatio Wright to pull it back, and Wright refused. Union Colonel Joseph Thoburn's division had crossed at Island Ford, and Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Early's army was waiting. Next: 1st Deep Bottom, July 27.

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The War in Between In 1990, Congress set up a commission to study every major fight of the Civil War — three hundred eighty-four fields in all — and rank each one by how much it actually weighed on the war. Class A. Class B. You already know most of those: Gettysburg, Antietam, Vicksburg. The War in Between stays entirely in Class C: real fights, real ground, almost none of it known outside the county it happened in. A Union general who broke his own standing orders and missed an entire brigade hiding in the trees three days before Bull Run. A sitting governor who personally commanded troops in a battle — the only time in American history that's happened. A herd of wild horses, mistaken in the dark for enemy cavalry, on a beach in Florida. Episodes run in strict order, one year at a time, coast to coast — Virginia one week, Missouri or Kansas the next — because the war didn't happen in one place at a time, and neither does this show. If you already know the big campaigns, this is the thread that ties them together: the days you skipped on your way to the days everyone else knows by heart. Every episode ends the same way. Know this ground.

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  • Creator
    Richard L Burr
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    122
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026
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