Lew Wallace After Shiloh: The Shunpike Road, Billy the Kid and Ben-Hur
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Lew Wallace was born in Indiana in 1827, the son of a West Point graduate who became governor an...
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Stones River 1862: Dueling Bands, the Slaughter Pen and 57 Massed Guns
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On the night of December 30, 1862, two armies camped about 700 yards apart near Murfreesboro, Te...
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Ex parte Merryman: Burned Bridges, Roger Taney and Lincoln's Habeas Fight
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In April 1861 Maryland's legislature voted 53 to 13 against secession but refused to reopen rail...
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Elizabeth Van Lew: Richmond Spymaster, Mary Bowser and Ciphers in Eggshells
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Elizabeth Van Lew was born in 1818 to a wealthy Richmond hardware merchant and educated at a Qua...
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George A. Custer: Last at West Point, Belknap Hearings, Little Bighorn
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!George Armstrong Custer grew up in Ohio under a Jacksonian Democrat father who prized toughness,...
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Little Round Top Beyond Chamberlain: Strong Vincent's Ten-Minute Race
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On July 2, 1863, the hill now called Little Round Top had no settled name; soldiers called it Ro...
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Allan Pinkerton: Chartist Exile, John Brown's Backer and the Baltimore Plot
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Allan Pinkerton was born in 1819 in the Gorbals slum of Glasgow, left school at 10 after his pol...
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Fort Donelson 1862: Pillow's Halted Breakout and Grant's Knapsack Clue
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In February 1862, after Fort Henry fell, Fort Donelson sat on a 100-foot bluff above the Cumberl...
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