Grant at Shiloh: Surprise Attack, Hornet's Nest and a Night in the Rain
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On the morning of April 6, 1862, Ulysses S. Grant was at breakfast in Savannah, Tennessee, on cr...
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Grant's Memoirs: A Ponzi Scheme, Mark Twain and a Race Against Cancer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the summer of 1885, Ulysses S. Grant sat wrapped in blankets on a porch in upstate New York, ...
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Battle of the Wilderness 1864: Burning Thickets and Grant's March South
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In May 1864, Ulysses S. Grant opened his Overland Campaign by crossing the Rapidan River with ab...
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Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Neptune and the Tenfold Growth of the Union Navy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gideon Welles was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, on July 1, 1802, into a family of state offi...
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Battle of Nashville: George Thomas, an Ice Storm and the Rout at Shy's Hill
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In December 1864, Union Major General George H. Thomas held Nashville, Tennessee, with about 55,...
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George McClellan: Quaker Guns, Special Order 191 and an Unused Reserve
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the spring of 1862, the Army of the Potomac, more than 100,000 strong, halted on the Virginia...
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Battle of Franklin 1864: John Bell Hood's Two-Mile Charge on Open Ground
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On the afternoon of November 30, 1864, about 20,000 Confederate soldiers stepped off across two ...
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A.P. Hill: The Red Battle Shirt, a Hidden Illness and a Standing Burial
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ambrose Powell Hill Jr. was born in 1825 in Culpeper, Virginia, into a planter family whose weal...
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