Hey everyone, before the official start of this episode, Tracy and I just want to take

a minute to put in a shameless plug for joining the Straffoot Brigade.

Some of you may be new to the podcast and you may hear us talking about the Straffoot

Brigade and aren't sure exactly what we're talking about.

So what is it?

It's the membership program we started for the podcast that gives you all the opportunity

to not just support what Rich and I are doing with this Civil War podcast, but also

to get two extra episodes each month.

Yep, the way it works is you go to the podcast website www.civilwarpodcast.org and you

sign up through PayPal to make recurring monthly payments of just $5 and Presto, your

member of the Straffoot Brigade, and get those extra episodes.

Once this weekend we released members episode number 19 and in it we talk in more detail

about the sad story of Will and Ann Wallace at Shiloh.

And we've covered lots of other interesting topics on the other members episodes.

If you go to the website and go back to those episodes you can see what they were about.

Everything from the great locomotive chase to privateers on the high seas to the western

most battle of the Civil War in New Mexico.

So you'll get those extra episodes, but more importantly you'll also be helping support

the podcast and keep it going.

In just a few weeks the podcast will be three years old, which is kind of hard to believe

until we stop and think about the fact that between regular episodes, bonus episodes,

and member episodes, we've done around 150 shows about the Civil War.

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