Union Blockade: Prize Money, British Runners and Egypt's Cotton Bankruptcy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In April 1861 Abraham Lincoln declared a blockade of 3,500 miles of Confederate coastline when t...
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Braxton Bragg: A Shell Under His Cot, Shiloh's Hornet's Nest and a Mutiny
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Braxton Bragg was born in 1817 in Warrenton, North Carolina, the son of a carpenter who grew wea...
1 Okt 21min
Robert E. Lee's Contradictions: Zero Demerits, Granny Lee and Wesley Norris
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Robert E. Lee was born in 1807 to Revolutionary War hero Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III, who ...
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Boston Corbett: The Hat Maker Who Shot Booth Through a Burning Barn
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thomas Corbett was born in London in 1832, grew up in New York, and trained as a hat maker, inha...
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Gatling Gun: Richard Gatling's Life-Saving Idea, the Gorlov and the A-10
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Richard Jordan Gatling, a North Carolina inventor of seed planters and wheat drills, patented hi...
1 Okt 21min
Stand Watie: New Echota Signer and the Last Confederate General to Yield
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Stand Watie, born Degataga in 1806 in the Cherokee Nation in what is now Georgia, was the last C...
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Ambrose Burnside: Jilted at the Altar, His Carbine and Ohio's Order No. 38
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ambrose Burnside was born in Indiana in 1824, apprenticed as a tailor, and reached West Point th...
1 Okt 27min
Samuel Mudd: Booth's Boot, Yellow Fever and a Pardon From Fort Jefferson
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Dr. Samuel Mudd was born in December 1833 in Charles County, Maryland, and raised on Oak Hill, h...
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