The Last Duel
True Weird Stuff
Now! Media
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Today's True Weird Stuff - The Last Duel
The most famous duel in American history was between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr in 1804. The premiere way of settling disputes and upholding unwritten codes of honor, the act of dueling would gradually fall out of favor over the 19th Century. However, dueling was still commonplace in Southern states like South Carolina. That is, until a duel in 1880 between Colonel E.B. Cash and Colonel William Shannon forced the state to ban the practice.
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| 1:00.1 | Hey, true weirdos, we just wanted to take a minute and thank you so much for your support. |
| 1:04.7 | True Weird Stuff has won the best history podcast in the Women in Podcasting Awards, |
| 1:10.0 | and we've also won a Signal Award in the |
| 1:12.6 | paranormal category, and that's only happened because of you, our fellow strange people. Thanks. |
| 1:19.3 | Stick around if you want after the episode for a little bonus content and conversation. |
| 1:26.6 | It's a blink, and you'll miss it. One of those historical mile markers that dot America's |
| 1:33.1 | highways and back roads. This one's been guarding the intersection of Hartsville Highway, |
| 1:38.8 | US 15, and Ashland Stokes Bridge Road in Lee County, South Carolina, for more than 60 years. |
| 1:46.3 | It marks the spot where one man killed another. |
| 1:50.0 | Not murder. |
| 1:51.6 | Not exactly. |
| 1:53.6 | Well, I mean, maybe you should call it murder, even if it was all technically legal. |
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