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Back to SearchAlbert Cashier: Irish Stowaway, 95th Illinois Private and a 53-Year Secret
Episode 12999
Born Jennie Irene Hodgers in Clogherhead, Ireland, on December 25, 1843, Albert Cashier crossed the Atlantic as a stowaway and reached Belvidere, Ill…
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Battle of New Market 1864: 247 VMI Cadets and the Field of Lost Shoes
Episode 12998
In May 1864 Ulysses S. Grant's coordinated offensive sent Franz Sigel south up the Shenandoah Valley toward Staunton, aiming to cut the Virginia and …
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Jonathan Letterman: Ambulance Corps, Triage and Camp Letterman
Episode 12997
In 1861 a wounded soldier could lie in the mud for days while quartermaster wagons rolled past carrying rations and powder. Jonathan Letterman, born …
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Wilson's Creek 1861: Nathaniel Lyon's Fatal Stand on Bloody Hill
Episode 12996
In the spring of 1861 Captain Nathaniel Lyon allegedly slipped through a Missouri militia camp disguised as an old blind woman in a bonnet. Missouri …
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Underground Railroad: Steam Balloons, Charred Bullfrogs and William Still
Episode 12995
In 1842 a frustrated Washington, D.C. constable named John Zell complained that escaping enslaved people must be using steam balloons or some hidden …
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P.G.T. Beauregard: Sumter Brandy, Corinth's Phantom Trains, Cable Cars
Episode 12994
Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard was born outside New Orleans into an aristocratic Louisiana Creole family and spoke only French until about age 12.…
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Andersonville Prison: The Deadline, the Raiders and a Smuggled Death List
Episode 12993
Camp Sumter, known as Andersonville, opened in Georgia in February 1864 as a 16.5-acre stockade of pine logs about 15 feet high, expanded to 26.5 acr…
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Civil War Sutlers: Battlefield Merchants, Brass Tokens and Vice Dens
Episode 12992
A sutler, or victualler, was a civilian merchant who followed an army and sold provisions from a wagon or canvas tent, often close to the front lines…
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Rose Greenhow: Bull Run Spy Drowned by Gold Off Wilmington in 1864
Episode 12991
Rose Greenhow, born Maria Rosetta O'Neal around 1813 on a Maryland plantation, lost her father in 1817 when his valet killed him. Around 1830 she and…
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Confederate States of America: King Cotton, Rail Gauges and No Allies
Episode 12990
The Confederate States of America drafted a constitution, printed currency and fought a four-year war, yet no foreign government ever recognized it. …
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