Custer's Luck Radio Show: Recent Episodes
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Stories and more about the life and military career of George Armstrong Custer and the era in which he lived.
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a show from 2017 where she describes the people and events who were pivotal to disseminating the "breaking news," via telegraph and newspaper accounts on Independence Day 1876, of all that took place at the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25-26.
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a podcast from 2015 discussing how his friends and colleagues remembered him in the years after his death at the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876.
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a previously recorded show about the early life and military career of George Armstrong Custer.
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a previously-recorded show where she describes the New Year's Day receptions at the Executive Mansions in Washington, DC and Richmond, Virginia. Happy New Year!
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a previously recorded show where she discusses how one may research their Civil War-era ancestors using the plethora of online genealogy websites.
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a previously-recorded show about how Union and Confederate soldiers constructed their winter camps and lived in them during the late fall and winter, when snow and bad weather halted most military operations.
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a previously recorded show describing "the rest of the story" behind Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day."
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a previously-recorded show describing the Christmas Truce of 1914 in Europe at the beginning of World War I.
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a previously recorded show describing Christmas celebrations in soldiers' camps, and at the Executive Mansions in Washington, DC and Richmond, Virginia.
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a previously recorded show describing the collaboration and fraternization which took place between Union and Confederate soldiers on and near their lines at the Rappahannock River during the American Civil War.
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto plays a show from 2015 discussing George Armstrong Custer's exploits at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863.
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a show about Thomas Nast, the Civil War era illustrator and cartoonist whose images of Christmas and Santa Claus amid the uncertainty of war brought comfort to Northern homes and foreshadowed 20th century depictions of the Santa Claus we see now.
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a podcast from 2015 describing Christmas customs and celebrations during the American Civil War.
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a podcast about how British and German soldiers laid down their arms and celebrated Christmas 1914 on the Western Front during World War One.
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto offers a show on Christmas Day 2021 describing the "true story" behind Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Poem, "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day." Thank you for listening, and Merry Christmas!
Here is a podcast about how soldiers posted on the Rappahannock River during Christmas 1862 interacted on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Thank you for listening!
Here is a podcast recorded earlier about holiday customs and special gifts sent to soldiers during the American Civil War and World War I.