Robert Smalls and the CSS Planter: A Straw Hat Disguise Past Fort Sumter
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Robert Smalls was born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, in 1839, enslaved by Henry McKe...
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Richard Ewell: Boiled Wheat, a Wooden Leg and the Cemetery Hill Order
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Richard Stoddert Ewell was a bald, bird-like, profane general who lived on hulled wheat boiled i...
1 Okt 25min
Reconstruction: Port Royal, Vagrancy Laws and an Interrupted Revolution
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode argues that Reconstruction began well before Appomattox, with the Port Royal experi...
1 Okt 24min
The Word Tap: Spinal Taps, Vampire Taps, Prison Tap Code and Life's Origins
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode follows a single three-letter word, tap, across medicine, engineering, espionage, g...
1 Okt 24min
First Bull Run 1861: Picnicking Spectators and the Great Skedaddle
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In July 1861, congressmen and Washington socialites rode out in carriages with picnic baskets to...
1 Okt 25min
Chickamauga 1863: Rosecrans's Phantom Gap and Thomas on Horseshoe Ridge
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Battle of Chickamauga in north Georgia, fought on September 19 and 20, 1863, followed one of...
1 Okt 24min
Old Abe the War Eagle: Bought for Corn, Shot at Corinth, Killed by Smoke
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Old Abe was a bald eagle taken from a nest near the Flambeau River in Wisconsin in the spring of...
1 Okt 25min
Elmira Prison Camp: Hellmira, Foster's Pond and Paid Observation Towers
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the summer of 1864, residents of Elmira, New York, could pay 10 or 15 cents to climb a wooden...
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