Civil War Podcast Quote of the Day

Edwin Stanton was born this day in 1814.  He wore out his little bell.

John Buford knew how bad Gettysburg was going to be even before the battle started. He died this day in 1863.

Her talkative lovers found their info delivered to Richmond. On this day in 1862, the spy Belle Boyd was exchanged for fellow female agent Hattie Lawton.

Union General Edwin Stoughton certainly knew who Mosby was after being captured by him!  John Mosby was born on this day in 1833.

He never got to that point. On this day in 1826, George McClellan was born.  Happy birthday, Belated!

Oct 19th, 1864 was the battle of Cedar Creek, where Sheridan saved the day via a long distance gallop.  It was later immortalized in a poem by Thomas Buchanan Read.

John Nicolay died this day in 1901.  His BFF John Hay was probably thinking of Nico when he wrote the quote.

English wit and military observer Arthur Fremantle died on this date in 1901. 

This day in 1862, George McClellan's immobility cost him a decisive battle at Antietam.

On this day in 1888, she became just that.  RIP Little Phil.

She fell. For their participation in the assassination plot, Mary Surratt and the 3 other conspirators were hanged on this day in 1865.

Those words began Pickett's Charge. Gettysburg's third day was fought on this day in 1863.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!  The famed murderer and less famed actor John Wilkes Booth was born on this day in 1838.

Chancellorsville, the battle that cost Jackson his life, began this day in 1863.

C.F. Smith followed his own advice and died in 1862, but it was on this day in that same year the Confederate Congress approved conscription. Now men who didn't volunteer could die for their country, too.

Edwin Stanton bids farewell to Abraham Lincoln, who was shot on this day in 1865.

Elmer Ellsworth was born this day in 1837.