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Back to SearchSamuel Mudd: Booth's Boot, Yellow Fever and a Pardon From Fort Jefferson
Episode 13060
Dr. Samuel Mudd was born in December 1833 in Charles County, Maryland, and raised on Oak Hill, his father's tobacco plantation worked by 89 enslaved …
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John Wilkes Booth: A Palm Reader's Prophecy, a Snagged Spur, a Burning Barn
Episode 13059
John Wilkes Booth was born in 1838 in a log house in Bel Air, Maryland, the ninth of ten children of a famous British Shakespearean actor, and as a s…
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Benjamin Butler: The Contraband Ruling, Bermuda Hundred and Butlerism
Episode 13058
Benjamin Franklin Butler was born in New Hampshire in 1818 to a privateer father who died of yellow fever, grew up in his mother's boarding house for…
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Buffalo Soldiers: Yosemite Patrols, Camp Logan and the 2023 Exoneration
Episode 13057
In 1866 Congress authorized the first peacetime all-Black regiments, the 9th and 10th Cavalry and the 24th and 25th Infantry, with Black enlisted men…
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Sherman's March to the Sea: Census Maps, Bummers and Sherman's Neckties
Episode 13056
After the fall of Atlanta in 1864, William T. Sherman proposed cutting his own supply lines and marching about 300 miles to Savannah, a plan that wor…
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Dixie: Dan Emmett, the Snowden Family Claim and Lincoln's Captured Tune
Episode 13055
Dixie, the song most tied to the Confederacy, was copyrighted in 1860 by Dan Emmett, an Ohio-born white performer writing for Bryant's Minstrels in N…
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Civil War Reenactment on Wikipedia: The Sealed Knot and a Renaissance Link
Episode 13054
This episode takes an unusual source: the Wikipedia disambiguation page for the term Civil War reenactment, a page of a few sentences and three links…
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Appomattox Campaign: Empty Rations at Amelia and a Dish Towel Truce
Episode 13053
In the spring of 1865, after nearly 10 months of siege at Petersburg and Richmond, Ulysses S. Grant's army broke the last supply lines and Robert E. …
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Joshua Chamberlain: Bowdoin Professor, Six Wounds and the Swinging Door
Episode 13052
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was born in Maine in 1828, taught himself Greek in an attic to enter Bowdoin College, and became a professor there who ta…
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Pickett's Charge Reexamined: Faulty Fuses, Hunt's Bluff, Cushing's Gun
Episode 13051
The July 3, 1863 assault at Gettysburg known as Pickett's Charge was largely a slow march across nearly a mile of open ground, under the overall comm…
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