Mathew Brady: The Presidents' Photographer Bankrupted by His War Archive
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Mathew Brady gave conflicting accounts of his birth, in Warren County, New York, or in Ireland. ...
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Arlington National Cemetery: A $92.07 Tax, Freedman's Village, Lost Graves
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!George Washington Parke Custis, Washington's step-grandson, began building Arlington House in 18...
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Jennie Wade: Gettysburg's Only Civilian Killed, Shot While Kneading Dough
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Mary Virginia Wade, known as Jenny though her signatures show she preferred Ginnie, was 20 in Ju...
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Philip Kearny: One-Armed Millionaire, Solferino Hero, Killed at Chantilly
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Philip Kearny was born in New York City in 1815 into great wealth: his grandfather John Watts wa...
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Andrew Johnson's Impeachment: Swing Around the Circle and a 35 to 19 Vote
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Andrew Johnson, a self-taught former tailor from Tennessee, was the only Southern senator to sta...
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Copperheads: Liberty-Head Penny Pins, Secret Orders and Ex parte Milligan
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In April 1861 two live copperhead snakes tumbled out of a mailbag at a Washington post office, a...
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Siege of Petersburg: Baldy Smith's Pause, the Crater and the Beefsteak Raid
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After about 50,000 Union casualties in the Overland Campaign, Ulysses S. Grant crossed the James...
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Lincoln's Last Months: A Bullet Through His Hat and Booth's Three-Part Plot
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!One August night in 1864, a rifle shot startled Abraham Lincoln's horse as he rode alone toward ...
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