Albert Woolson: Minnesota Drummer Boy and the Last Union Veteran at 106
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Albert Woolson was born in Antwerp, New York, to Willard and Caroline Woolson. His father was ba...
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CSS Shenandoah: James Waddell's Arctic Whaler Raids After Appomattox
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In October 1864 the Scottish-built tea clipper Sea King left London listed for Bombay while the ...
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Battle of Brandy Station 1863: Fleetwood Hill and a Lone Howitzer's Bluff
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On June 9, 1863, near Brandy Station in Culpeper County, Virginia, about 20,500 men fought for t...
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Freedmen's Bureau: 20 Million Rations, HBCU Roots and Family Records
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands in March 1865 under the W...
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Homestead Act of 1862: 160 Acres, the Dust Bowl and Alaska's Last Claim
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In May 1988 Ken Deardorff received the last land patent issued under a law Abraham Lincoln signe...
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Daniel Sickles: Lafayette Square Killing, Peach Orchard and a Boxed Leg
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Daniel Sickles, born in New York City in 1819, rose through the printer's trade and the law into...
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John F. Reynolds: The General Who Refused Lincoln, Then Fell at Gettysburg
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John F. Reynolds was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1820, nominated to West Point by family...
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Irvin McDowell: Reluctant Bull Run Commander to Presidio Park Builder
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Irvin McDowell, born in Ohio in 1818, studied at the College de Troyes in France and graduated f...
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