Civil War | The Fires at Home | 4

American History Tellers

Wondery

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, History, Education For Kids

4.7 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

As the Civil War raged on, families on the homefront faced increasingly heavy tolls, enduring crippling economic turmoil, food shortages and explosive class tensions.

Meanwhile, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis waged their own battles with congressmen and governors over war policies. And in 1863 politics clashed with realities on the ground when hundreds of starving women rioted in Richmond, the Confederate capitol, and the Union draft sparked deadly riots in New York City.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to American History Tellers add free on Amazon Music,
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0:09.6	Imagine it's October 1862, and you're at home on the small farm you share with your husband
0:23.9	John in Southern Arkansas.
0:26.2	Your pulley up carrots, wondering how you'll put together a decent supper.
0:30.2	A severe drought this summer ruined your corn crop.
0:33.5	And since the war against the North started last year, food prices at the General's
0:37.8	store have soared, you and your husband have been struggling to make ends meet.
0:42.6	As you wipe your brow and walk to the front of your small dilapidated house, you're surprised
0:47.6	to see a man in a grey uniform striding out your front door.
0:52.8	He climbs onto a horse and rides off.
0:55.5	John walks out onto the porch and watches him go.
0:58.8	A day's look on his face.
1:01.0	You climb the porch steps to join him.
1:03.4	Who was that man?
1:04.8	What did he want?
1:06.2	That was the counting enrollment officer.
1:09.4	He came to tell me I've been conscripted into the army.
1:12.9	What do you mean you've been conscripted?
1:15.2	You're 44 years old.
1:17.1	That's much too old to serve.
1:19.7	Did you tell him he's made a mistake?
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