Emancipation Proclamation: Contraband, a 100-Day Clock and War Powers
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before 1865 the Constitution gave a president no power to abolish slavery in peacetime, with the...
1 Loka 22min
Elmer Ellsworth: Fire Zouaves, the Marshall House Flag and a Shotgun
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Elmer E. Ellsworth, born in 1837 in Malta, New York, the son of a tailor, swapped his first and ...
1 Loka 24min
Fort Stevens 1864: Lincoln Under Fire and Montgomery Blair's Whiskey
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In June 1864 Robert E. Lee sent Jubal Early's Second Corps, more than 10,000 veterans, north thr...
1 Loka 21min
Libby Prison: Richmond Warehouse, Tunnel Escape and a Chicago Museum
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Libby Prison began as a three-story brick warehouse on the James River in Richmond, leased by Ca...
1 Loka 20min
Chancellorsville 1863: Hooker's Pullback and Jackson's 12-Mile Flank March
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In early 1863 Joseph Hooker took over a demoralized Army of the Potomac after Fredericksburg, fi...
1 Loka 23min
John Sedgwick: Antietam's West Woods to a Sharpshooter at Spotsylvania
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Major General John Sedgwick, born in 1813 in Cornwall, Connecticut, taught school before graduat...
1 Loka 22min
John Ericsson: The Princeton Gun Disaster, Hot Air Engines and the Monitor
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Ericsson, born in Sweden in 1803, was a teenage surveyor on the Gota Canal project who carr...
1 Loka 26min
John Buford: Frontier Dragoon, Gettysburg Skirmishers and a Deathbed Rank
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Buford was born in March 1826 in Woodford County, Kentucky, raised in Rock Island, Illinois...
1 Loka 19min
