Grand Army of the Republic: Union Veterans Who Planned Their Own End
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Grand Army of the Republic began in Decatur, Illinois, on April 6, 1866, when Dr. Benjamin F...
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Battle of Palmito Ranch 1865: The Last Fight a Month After Appomattox
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On May 12 and 13, 1865, more than a month after Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Union and Confede...
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Sam Watkins and Co. Aytch: A Tennessee Corporal's War From Shiloh On
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Samuel Rush Watkins was born in June 1839 in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee, and was educated at Jack...
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Oliver Otis Howard: Chancellorsville Rout to the Freedmen's Bureau
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Oliver Otis Howard, born in Leeds, Maine, in 1830, lost his father at nine, graduated from Bowdo...
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Captain Sally Tompkins: Robertson Hospital and 73 Deaths in 1,334
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sally Louisa Tompkins was born on November 9, 1833, at Poplar Grove, a Virginia tidewater estate...
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Joseph E. Johnston: 30 Bullet Holes, a Feud With Davis, Sherman's Funeral
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Joseph Eggleston Johnston, born in 1807 into a prominent Virginia family whose mother was a niec...
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Second Bull Run 1862: John Pope's Blind Spot and Longstreet's Hammer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In August 1862, Major General John Pope took command of the new Union Army of Virginia with orde...
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Grant's Overland Campaign 1864: The Mule Shoe, North Anna and the James
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In May 1864, after two days of fighting in the burning thickets of the Wilderness, the Army of t...
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