Fort Pillow 1864: A Blind-Spot Parapet, a Silent Gunboat and a Massacre
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Fort Pillow stood on a bluff above the Mississippi River in Tennessee, held in April 1864 by abo...
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1863 New York City Draft Riots: The Black Joke Company and the Orphanage
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By the 1860s New York City's merchants and bankers depended on Southern cotton, Mayor Fernando W...
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Henry Halleck: Old Brains, Corinth's Empty Trains and Sherman's Snub
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Henry Wager Halleck, born in 1815 on a farm in Westernville, New York, ran away to an uncle in U...
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Philip Sheridan: Army Auditor, Missionary Ridge and Yellowstone's Guard
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Philip Sheridan, a son of Irish Catholic immigrants raised in Somerset, Ohio, stood about five f...
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Fort Wagner's Sand Walls: A 60-Yard Beach and the End of Prisoner Swaps
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On July 18, 1863, Brigadier General Quincy Gillmore sent Union infantry against Fort Wagner on M...
1 Okt 22min
Bleeding Kansas: Beecher's Bibles, Rigged Ballots and Four Constitutions
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1854 Senator Stephen A. Douglas, seeking to organize territory for a transcontinental railroa...
1 Okt 21min
Stonewall Jackson the Man: Orphan, VMI's Tom Fool, a Unionist Sister
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born in 1824 in Clarksburg, in present-day West Virginia, lost his s...
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Traveller, Robert E. Lee's Horse: Plucked Tail Hairs and Bleached Bones
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Traveller was foaled in 1857 in Greenbrier County, Virginia, sired by the racehorse Grey Eagle o...
1 Okt 24min
