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Podcast: Addressing Gettysburg
Episode: Appendix #1- The Gettysburg Glossary
Description: Learning about the civil war can be difficult for someone new to the game, especially when it comes to military terminology. While many have casual familiarity with such terms as "regiment", "brigade", "division" and "corps", they often use them interchangeably, seemingly choosing whichever word sounds "cool" to them in the moment, or, to give the novice a little more credit than that, simply confusing them because they are new terms to him or her. But these terms are not interchangeable, as cool as they may sound, and they have very specific meanings. These meanings vary from war to war...