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Back to SearchEmancipation Proclamation: Contraband, a 100-Day Clock and War Powers
Episode 12938
Before 1865 the Constitution gave a president no power to abolish slavery in peacetime, with the three-fifths compromise, the fugitive slave clause a…
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Elmer Ellsworth: Fire Zouaves, the Marshall House Flag and a Shotgun
Episode 12937
Elmer E. Ellsworth, born in 1837 in Malta, New York, the son of a tailor, swapped his first and middle names as a teenager. After the wealthy father …
22 hours ago
Fort Stevens 1864: Lincoln Under Fire and Montgomery Blair's Whiskey
Episode 12936
In June 1864 Robert E. Lee sent Jubal Early's Second Corps, more than 10,000 veterans, north through the Shenandoah Valley to threaten Washington and…
22 hours ago
Libby Prison: Richmond Warehouse, Tunnel Escape and a Chicago Museum
Episode 12935
Libby Prison began as a three-story brick warehouse on the James River in Richmond, leased by Captain Luther Libby and his son for a ship grocery and…
22 hours ago
Chancellorsville 1863: Hooker's Pullback and Jackson's 12-Mile Flank March
Episode 12934
In early 1863 Joseph Hooker took over a demoralized Army of the Potomac after Fredericksburg, fixed its supply and hospital systems, introduced furlo…
22 hours ago
John Sedgwick: Antietam's West Woods to a Sharpshooter at Spotsylvania
Episode 12933
Major General John Sedgwick, born in 1813 in Cornwall, Connecticut, taught school before graduating 24th of 50 from West Point in 1837. He fought in …
22 hours ago
John Ericsson: The Princeton Gun Disaster, Hot Air Engines and the Monitor
Episode 12932
John Ericsson, born in Sweden in 1803, was a teenage surveyor on the Gota Canal project who carried a footstool to reach his instruments. After build…
22 hours ago
John Buford: Frontier Dragoon, Gettysburg Skirmishers and a Deathbed Rank
Episode 12931
John Buford was born in March 1826 in Woodford County, Kentucky, raised in Rock Island, Illinois, and graduated 16th of 38 from West Point, where his…
22 hours ago
John C. Breckinridge: Youngest Vice President to Expelled Senator in Exile
Episode 12930
John C. Breckinridge was born in Kentucky in 1821, grandson of Thomas Jefferson's attorney general, who introduced the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 a…
22 hours ago
John Bell Hood: Cork Leg, Shattered Arm and the Youngest Army Commander
Episode 12929
John Bell Hood grew up in Kentucky, the son of a doctor who opposed a military career, and reached West Point through an uncle, finishing near the bo…
22 hours ago