P.G.T. Beauregard: Sumter Brandy, Corinth's Phantom Trains, Cable Cars
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard was born outside New Orleans into an aristocratic Louisiana Cr...
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Andersonville Prison: The Deadline, the Raiders and a Smuggled Death List
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Camp Sumter, known as Andersonville, opened in Georgia in February 1864 as a 16.5-acre stockade ...
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Civil War Sutlers: Battlefield Merchants, Brass Tokens and Vice Dens
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A sutler, or victualler, was a civilian merchant who followed an army and sold provisions from a...
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Rose Greenhow: Bull Run Spy Drowned by Gold Off Wilmington in 1864
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rose Greenhow, born Maria Rosetta O'Neal around 1813 on a Maryland plantation, lost her father i...
1 Okt 22min
Confederate States of America: King Cotton, Rail Gauges and No Allies
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Confederate States of America drafted a constitution, printed currency and fought a four-yea...
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Belle Boyd: Front Royal Spy, Pinkerton Target and Union Officer's Wife
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Maria Isabella Boyd was born in 1844 in Martinsburg, Virginia, now West Virginia, and sent to a ...
1 Okt 22min
CSS Alabama and Raphael Semmes: 65 Ships Burned and a $15.5M Bill
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1862 the Confederacy, lacking shipyards, sent agent James Bulloch to Birkenhead, across the M...
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Patrick Cleburne: The Irish General Who Proposed Arming the Enslaved
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Patrick Cleburne was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1828, the son of a doctor. Orphaned at 15,...
1 Okt 19min
