John Wilkes Booth: A Palm Reader's Prophecy, a Snagged Spur, a Burning Barn
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Wilkes Booth was born in 1838 in a log house in Bel Air, Maryland, the ninth of ten childre...
1 Okt 21min
Benjamin Butler: The Contraband Ruling, Bermuda Hundred and Butlerism
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in New Hampshire in 1818 to a privateer father who died of yel...
1 Okt 26min
Buffalo Soldiers: Yosemite Patrols, Camp Logan and the 2023 Exoneration
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1866 Congress authorized the first peacetime all-Black regiments, the 9th and 10th Cavalry an...
1 Okt 24min
Sherman's March to the Sea: Census Maps, Bummers and Sherman's Neckties
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the fall of Atlanta in 1864, William T. Sherman proposed cutting his own supply lines and ...
1 Okt 25min
Dixie: Dan Emmett, the Snowden Family Claim and Lincoln's Captured Tune
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Dixie, the song most tied to the Confederacy, was copyrighted in 1860 by Dan Emmett, an Ohio-bor...
1 Okt 20min
Civil War Reenactment on Wikipedia: The Sealed Knot and a Renaissance Link
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode takes an unusual source: the Wikipedia disambiguation page for the term Civil War r...
1 Okt 19min
Appomattox Campaign: Empty Rations at Amelia and a Dish Towel Truce
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the spring of 1865, after nearly 10 months of siege at Petersburg and Richmond, Ulysses S. Gr...
1 Okt 20min
Joshua Chamberlain: Bowdoin Professor, Six Wounds and the Swinging Door
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was born in Maine in 1828, taught himself Greek in an attic to enter...
1 Okt 23min
