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Back to SearchCSS Alabama and Raphael Semmes: 65 Ships Burned and a $15.5M Bill
Episode 12988
In 1862 the Confederacy, lacking shipyards, sent agent James Bulloch to Birkenhead, across the Mersey from Liverpool, where John Laird Sons & Company…
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Patrick Cleburne: The Irish General Who Proposed Arming the Enslaved
Episode 12987
Patrick Cleburne was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1828, the son of a doctor. Orphaned at 15, he failed the entrance exam for Trinity College of M…
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Grand Army of the Republic: Union Veterans Who Planned Their Own End
Episode 12986
The Grand Army of the Republic began in Decatur, Illinois, on April 6, 1866, when Dr. Benjamin Franklin Stephenson formed a fraternal group for veter…
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Battle of Palmito Ranch 1865: The Last Fight a Month After Appomattox
Episode 12985
On May 12 and 13, 1865, more than a month after Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Union and Confederate troops fought at Palmito Ranch near Brownsville,…
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Sam Watkins and Co. Aytch: A Tennessee Corporal's War From Shiloh On
Episode 12984
Samuel Rush Watkins was born in June 1839 in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee, and was educated at Jackson College. When Tennessee seceded in May 1861, the …
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Oliver Otis Howard: Chancellorsville Rout to the Freedmen's Bureau
Episode 12983
Oliver Otis Howard, born in Leeds, Maine, in 1830, lost his father at nine, graduated from Bowdoin College and finished fourth in the West Point clas…
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Captain Sally Tompkins: Robertson Hospital and 73 Deaths in 1,334
Episode 12982
Sally Louisa Tompkins was born on November 9, 1833, at Poplar Grove, a Virginia tidewater estate. Her father died before she turned five, and in 1842…
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Joseph E. Johnston: 30 Bullet Holes, a Feud With Davis, Sherman's Funeral
Episode 12981
Joseph Eggleston Johnston, born in 1807 into a prominent Virginia family whose mother was a niece of Patrick Henry, graduated from West Point in 1829…
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Second Bull Run 1862: John Pope's Blind Spot and Longstreet's Hammer
Episode 12980
In August 1862, Major General John Pope took command of the new Union Army of Virginia with orders to take the fight to the enemy, while George McCle…
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Grant's Overland Campaign 1864: The Mule Shoe, North Anna and the James
Episode 12979
In May 1864, after two days of fighting in the burning thickets of the Wilderness, the Army of the Potomac expected the usual order to fall back towa…
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