Forty Acres and a Mule: Sherman's Field Order 15 and Its Reversal
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The phrase 40 acres and a mule began as a concrete military order. Early in the war Benjamin But...
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Mary Surratt: The Boarding House, a Pickaxe Visitor and the Gallows
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Born Mary Jenkins in Maryland in the 1820s, Mary Surratt converted to Catholicism at a girls' ac...
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Great Locomotive Chase: James Andrews and the First Medals of Honor
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the spring of 1862 civilian spy James J. Andrews proposed to cut the Western and Atlantic Rai...
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Albert Cashier: Irish Stowaway, 95th Illinois Private and a 53-Year Secret
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Born Jennie Irene Hodgers in Clogherhead, Ireland, on December 25, 1843, Albert Cashier crossed ...
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Battle of New Market 1864: 247 VMI Cadets and the Field of Lost Shoes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In May 1864 Ulysses S. Grant's coordinated offensive sent Franz Sigel south up the Shenandoah Va...
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Jonathan Letterman: Ambulance Corps, Triage and Camp Letterman
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1861 a wounded soldier could lie in the mud for days while quartermaster wagons rolled past c...
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Wilson's Creek 1861: Nathaniel Lyon's Fatal Stand on Bloody Hill
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the spring of 1861 Captain Nathaniel Lyon allegedly slipped through a Missouri militia camp d...
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Underground Railroad: Steam Balloons, Charred Bullfrogs and William Still
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1842 a frustrated Washington, D.C. constable named John Zell complained that escaping enslave...
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