Benjamin Butler in New Orleans: The Woman Order, Spoons and Sanitation
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After David Farragut's fleet ran past Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip in late April 1862, New O...
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Battle of Glorieta Pass 1862: 80 Burned Wagons End the Confederate West
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In early 1862, Confederate Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley persuaded Jefferson Davis to b...
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John Brown Before Harpers Ferry: Bankrupt Tanner, Hidden Room, Kansas
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Brown was born in Connecticut in 1800 and raised in Hudson, Ohio, where his father Owen ran...
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Fitz John Porter: Runaway Balloon, Second Bull Run and a Cleared Name
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Fitz John Porter was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1822 into a naval family that include...
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Pauline Cushman: The Actress Who Spied for the Union and Faked Illness
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Pauline Cushman was born Harriet Wood in New Orleans in 1833 to a Spanish merchant father and a ...
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Five Forks 1865: The Acoustic Shadow, Willie Pegram and Warren's Firing
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On April 1, 1865, after nearly 10 months of siege at Petersburg, the dirt crossroads of Five For...
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54th Massachusetts Pay Boycott: $7 a Month, a Quaker Oath and Olustee
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The 54th Massachusetts Infantry was raised in early 1863 under the shadow of Jefferson Davis's D...
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Grand Review of the Armies 1865: Meade's Parade, Sherman's Cattle Herd
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In May 1865, one month after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Washington was still draped in bla...
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