Custer's Luck Radio Show
Episodes
11 episodes
The Scoop Of The Century
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a show from 2017 where she describes the people and events who were pivotal to disseminating the "breaking news," via telegraph and newspaper accounts on Independence Day 1876, of a...
Remembering George Armstrong Custer: Thoughts From Those Who Knew Him
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a podcast from 2015 discussing how his friends and colleagues remembered him in the years after his death at the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876.
A New Year's Custer's Luck Special
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a previously recorded show about the early life and military career of George Armstrong Custer.
New Year's Day Receptions North and South
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a previously-recorded show where she describes the New Year's Day receptions at the Executive Mansions in Washington, DC and Richmond, Virginia. Happy New Year!
Research Your Civil War-Era Ancestors
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a previously recorded show where she discusses how one may research their Civil War-era ancestors using the plethora of online genealogy websites.
Civil War Winter Camps
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a previously-recorded show about how Union and Confederate soldiers constructed their winter camps and lived in them during the late fall and winter, when snow and bad weather halted most...
The True Story of Pain and Hope Behind "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day"
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a previously recorded show describing "the rest of the story" behind Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day."
Boxing Day Bonus: The Christmas Truce of 1914
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a previously-recorded show describing the Christmas Truce of 1914 in Europe at the beginning of World War I.
Civil War Christmas Celebrations
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a previously recorded show describing Christmas celebrations in soldiers' camps, and at the Executive Mansions in Washington, DC and Richmond, Virginia.
Christmas On The Rappahannock
Custer's Luck Radio Show host Jean Stratton Barto shares a previously recorded show describing the collaboration and fraternization which took place between Union and Confederate soldiers on and near their lines at the Rappahannock River during...