Lawrence Massacre 1863: Quantrill's Raid and the Kansas City Jail Collapse
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before dawn on Friday, August 21, 1863, about 450 Missouri guerrillas under William Quantrill, m...
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Crittenden Compromise of 1860: An Unamendable Amendment to Protect Slavery
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On December 18, 1860, after Abraham Lincoln's election and as Southern states threatened secessi...
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Union Army Balloon Corps: Lowe's Rivals, Hydrogen Wagons and a $3 Pay Cut
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On June 16, 1861, meteorologist Thaddeus Lowe floated 500 feet above the Columbian Armory in Was...
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Thaddeus Lowe After the Balloons: Water Gas, Ice Machines and Echo Mountain
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thaddeus Lowe was born in 1832 in Jefferson, New Hampshire, to a poor farming family and got onl...
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Sullivan Ballou: The Unmailed Letter to Sarah and a Grave at Sudley Church
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sullivan Ballou was born in March 1829 in Smithfield, Rhode Island, into a Huguenot family, and ...
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Stonewall Jackson's 1862 Valley Campaign: 646 Miles and Hotchkiss's Maps
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the spring of 1862, with George B. McClellan's army moving up the Virginia Peninsula toward R...
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Cedar Creek 1864: Gordon's Silent Night March and Sheridan's Ride on Rienzi
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before dawn on October 19, 1864, Union soldiers camped along Cedar Creek in Virginia's Shenandoa...
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George Pickett: The Pig War, New Bern Hangings and a Five Forks Shad Bake
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!George Edward Pickett was born in 1825 into a Richmond planting family whose Turkey Island estat...
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