Secrets of the Civil War: The War Within a War

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Today on Here’s Where It Gets Interesting, we’re going to touch on a war you probably didn’t know happened. During the seemingly all-consuming Civil War, there was another entirely different series of skirmishes and battles happening in America. It only lasted 6 weeks, but had devastating consequences.

Hosted by: Sharon McMahon

Executive Producer: Heather Jackson

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Written and researched by: Heather Jackson, Valerie Hoback, Amy Watkin, and Mandy Reid

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome to episode 8 of Secrets of the Civil War.
0:11.1	Imagine what it may have been like to be a young man or a boy really at age 16 or 17
0:18.9	on his way to enlist in the Union or Confederate Army.
0:24.5	It might have been thrilling for him to romanticize his would-be heroics in the battle action
0:29.8	to come.
0:31.2	For a more pragmatic potential soldier, the unknowns of war must have felt a little more
0:37.7	petrifying.
0:39.7	Either way, about the image of a soldier you pictured was a white, bright-eyed boy wholly
0:47.7	invested in the cause.
0:50.9	But what would have compelled someone outside of those parameters say a Chinese immigrant
0:55.5	or a Cherokee man to fight in the American Civil War?
1:00.3	I'm Sharon McMahon, and here's where it gets interesting.
1:07.2	On July 12, 1863, the New York Times ran a short and surprising headline.
1:13.2	It read, China at Gettysburg.
1:17.7	What followed was a detailed biography of one of the thousands of men who perished at
1:22.4	the Battle of Gettysburg.
1:24.0	Here's an excerpt.
1:25.7	Among the kill that Gettysburg was a young Chinese man known as John Tomny.
1:31.2	He was one of the bravest soldiers in the bravest of Brigades, the Excelsior.
1:37.6	He seemed to not know what fear was and was the universal favorite of all his fellow soldiers.
1:45.1	The Excelsior Brigade was, in fact, very brave.
1:48.8	The Union Military Unit fought at three of the most difficult battles of the Civil War
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