Montgomery Meigs: Capitol Dome Builder Who Put Graves in Lee's Garden
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Montgomery C. Meigs was born in Augusta, Georgia in 1816 and raised in Philadelphia, entering th...
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Missouri Bushwhackers: General Order No. 11, Centralia and Jesse James
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!During the Civil War, guerrilla fighters known as bushwhackers turned rural Missouri into a war ...
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Mary Todd Lincoln: Bonds in Her Petticoats and the 1875 Insanity Trial
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Mary Todd was born in 1818 into a wealthy Lexington, Kentucky family, lost her mother at six, an...
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Robert Anderson at Fort Sumter: Sock Powder Bags and a 34-Hour Barrage
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In December 1860, after South Carolina seceded, Major Robert Anderson, a Kentuckian, commanded 8...
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Antietam: Three Lost Cigars, Miller's Cornfield and Burnside's Bridge
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In September 1862 two Union soldiers resting in a Maryland meadow found three cigars wrapped in ...
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Lew Wallace at Monocacy: The Ben-Hur Author's Defeat That Saved a Day
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In July 1864, with Ulysses S. Grant's armies concentrated around Petersburg, Jubal Early led 14,...
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Gettysburg Address: Smallpox, Everett's Two Hours and Five Manuscripts
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln was asked by organizer David Wills only to offer a few app...
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Edwin Stanton: Fake Rust, the Sickles Defense and a Barricaded Office
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Edwin Stanton, born in 1814 in Steubenville, Ohio, suffered severe asthma, left school at 13 whe...
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