Bonus: In Their Own Words

1865

Airship / Wondery

Fiction, Drama, Government, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, History

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

It’s New Year’s Eve, 2019, and the entire team behind 1865 wants to wish you a happy new year, with health, prosperity and good listening in 2020. We have high hopes for the coming year, including more from 1865. But today, we’re presenting an episode that’s previously only been available to our subscribers at 1865podcast.com.

It’s a bonus series called “In Their Own Words,” wherein we explore the journals, letters and speeches of some of the major characters in our series, performed by our incredibly talented cast. You’ll hear these historical figures’ unfiltered, unmistakable, often uncomfortable emotions and opinions as they witness and participate in this tumultuous period of history.

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0:00.0	Washington City September 14th, 1866. To Congressman J. M. Ashley. My dear sir, there is indeed
0:13.3	danger ahead. You ask, what are we coming to? What is in store for us? No man can say.
0:19.8	I have four boatings. Perils appear in my visions. These new and augmenting dangers increase
0:26.3	my longings to be free to return to my family, friends and profession, to rest, to have peace.
0:35.4	But is it so to be? Those are the words of Edwin M. Stanton, the protagonist of 1865,
0:43.6	but these words were not written by the creators of the series. These words were written by Edwin
0:48.3	Stanton himself. Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, executive producer of 1865. It's New Year's Eve 2019,
0:55.7	and the entire team behind 1865 wants to wish you a happy new year with health, prosperity and good
1:02.0	listening in 2020. We have high hopes for the coming year, including more from 1865, but today we're
1:08.3	presenting an episode that's previously only been available to our subscribers at 1865podcast.com.
1:14.6	It's a bonus series called In Their Own Words, wherein we explore the journals, letters and
1:19.9	speeches of some of the major characters in our series, performed wire and credibly talented cast.
1:24.8	You'll hear these historical figures unfiltered, unmistakable and often uncomfortable emotions and
1:30.0	opinions as they witness and participate in this tumultuous period of history. I hope you
1:35.2	enjoyed, and if you do, consider becoming a subscriber yourself at 1865podcast.com. You'll gain access
1:42.4	to all these bonus episodes and more, plus early access to what's coming next. Happy New Year!
2:12.9	The election of 1860 was one of the most consequential presidential elections in American history.
2:25.0	Tensions in the country were high, as the nation split over the issue of the expansion of slavery
2:30.8	into the territories. Republicans who lived predominantly in the North campaigned on limiting
2:36.1	slavery's expansion. Democrat Rana campaign of fear-mongering, professing that a Republican
2:41.3	victory would mean an end to slavery and a sure path to the country's rupture. The heightened
2:46.7	passions impaled people to the polls in what would be an 81% turnout the highest in American history
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