John C. Breckinridge: Youngest Vice President to Expelled Senator in Exile
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John C. Breckinridge was born in Kentucky in 1821, grandson of Thomas Jefferson's attorney gener...
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John Bell Hood: Cork Leg, Shattered Arm and the Youngest Army Commander
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Bell Hood grew up in Kentucky, the son of a doctor who opposed a military career, and reach...
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J.E.B. Stuart: A Renamed Son, a $5,000 Saber Hook and Yellow Tavern
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!James Ewell Brown Stuart, born in Virginia in 1833, was nicknamed Beauty at West Point for his s...
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The Lost Cause: Pollard's Book Title, the UDC and the 1919 Measuring Rod
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode examines how the defeated Confederacy shaped American memory of the Civil War. The ...
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Anaconda Plan: Winfield Scott's Mocked Blockade and the Mississippi Squeeze
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After Fort Sumter in 1861, George B. McClellan proposed a fast overland march on Richmond by way...
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The 1872 Presidential Nominee Who Died Before the Electoral College Met
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This biography follows a New Hampshire-born editor, born in 1811, who did not breathe for the fi...
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Memorial Day Origins: Charleston Freedmen, Decoration Day and the Indy 500
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!More than 600,000 military deaths in the Civil War shattered the Victorian ideal of a good death...
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Battle of Pea Ridge 1862: Van Dorn's Freezing March and Sigel's 21 Guns
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Battle of Pea Ridge was fought on March 7 and 8, 1862, in northwestern Arkansas, as Earl Van...
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