Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

It's impossible not to cheer at a one-in-a-million shot, whether it's an ace from across the green

or a game-winning half-court basket right at the buzzer people love a long shot.

Well, most people.

You see, a few soldiers in Battery B, first Rhode Island light artillery during the Civil

War, weren't huge fans of a particular hole in one.

They were in Pennsylvania in early July, 1863, to take on the Confederates at the Battle

of Gettysburg.

General Robert E. Lee and his army of Northern Virginia had already defeated the army of

the Potomac at the Battle of Chancellorsville months earlier.

Lee then started moving north from Fredericksburg, Virginia with 75,000 men in tow.

They were feeling pretty good, ready to take over the Northern Territory.

Meanwhile, Major General Joseph Hooker and the Union side was also heading north, but

he wasn't so keen to take on Lee again.

He was still reeling from his defeat at Chancellorsville.

President Lincoln refused to let Hooker carry on in command of the army of the Potomac.

He put Major General George Mead in charge instead, who took control of the 90,000 strong

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