Patrick Gilmore's 1863 Homecoming Song: Pub Tune to Punk and Anime
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1863 a piece of sheet music was deposited in the Library of Congress under the name Louis Lam...
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The Rebel Yell: 1938 Gettysburg Recordings and the Roots of a War Cry
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Confederate battle cry known as the rebel yell sounded nothing like a cowboy's yee-haw. Sold...
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Ulysses S. Grant: Hardscrabble, William Jones and the Butcher Myth Undone
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant was selling firewood on a St. Louis street corner and had...
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Thomas Nast: The Harper's Weekly Cartoonist Who Brought Down Boss Tweed
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thomas Nast was born in Bavaria in 1840, arrived in New York at age six, and was drawing in reve...
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Mary Chesnut's Civil War Diary: Opium, Revisions and a Contested Pulitzer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Mary Boykin Chesnut was born in 1823 at Mount Pleasant plantation in South Carolina, the daughte...
1 Okt 21min
Sarah Emma Edmonds: Private Franklin Thompson, Deserter Poster and Pension
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sarah Emma Edmonds was born in December 1841 in New Brunswick, where an abusive father resented ...
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Winfield Scott Hancock: A Saddle Nail at Gettysburg and the 1880 Election
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Winfield Scott Hancock, born in Pennsylvania in 1824 and named for the War of 1812 hero, graduat...
1 Okt 22min
William Quantrill: The Ohio Schoolteacher Who Taught Jesse James to Raid
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Clarke Quantrill was born in Ohio in 1837, began teaching school at 16 to pay off his la...
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