Pickett's Charge Reexamined: Faulty Fuses, Hunt's Bluff, Cushing's Gun
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The July 3, 1863 assault at Gettysburg known as Pickett's Charge was largely a slow march across...
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Trent Affair 1861: Charles Wilkes, Mason and Slidell, Prince Albert's Edit
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the autumn of 1861 the Confederacy was counting on King Cotton to pull Britain and France int...
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Battle of the Crater 1864: Pleasants's Tunnel and Ledlie's Drawn Lots
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!During the Siege of Petersburg in 1864, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pleasants, a Pennsylvania minin...
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13th Amendment: The Punishment for Crime Clause and Jones v. Mayer 1968
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1968 Joseph and Barbara Jones were refused a home in St. Louis County by the Alfred H. Mayer ...
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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: The $10 Commissioner Fee and Northern Backlash
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, drafted by Senator James M. Mason of Virginia, was written to cl...
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Henry Wirz: Swiss Exile, Andersonville Commandant and a Fake Noble Witness
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Henry Wirz was born Hartmann Heinrich Wirz in Zurich in 1823, the son of a master tailor, and wa...
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Spencer Repeating Rifle: Lincoln's White House Test and Booth's Carbine
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Christopher Spencer patented his lever-action rifle in 1860, the first military metallic cartrid...
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George H. Thomas: The Virginian Whose Family Turned His Portrait Away
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!George Henry Thomas was born in 1816 in Southampton County, Virginia, to a wealthy plantation fa...
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