Caroline Janney
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206 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Apr
Caroline Janney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So many soldiers arrive in Washington, D.C., ready to fight on behalf of the Union that they're sleeping on the floor of the Capitol.
They are being put in any room in any building because there aren't tents yet.
They simply don't have the material to support armies of this size.
Now, the phrase contraband had been used since at least the War of 1812, but this is a new notion of people, of enslaved labor being claimed by the United States as a way of refusing to give back that labor force to the Confederacy.
There had been other generals who tried to free enslaved people in Missouri and in South Carolina.
That doesn't stick at first, but Butler's contraband policy does.
And by the time we get to August of 1861, Congress has passed something called the Confiscation Act that allows the United States Army to confiscate any labor that's being used on behalf of the enemy army, which includes the labor of enslaved people.
The Confederates would call it Manassas.
The United States would call it Bull Run.
People expect that this will be a one and done, one big battle and the war will be over.
And the Confederates win that battle.
They route the United States troops and them rushing back into Washington, D.C.
And it becomes clear at that point that this certainly is going to be more than one battle and it could potentially be a longer war than anyone had imagined.
So the railroad is one of the unsung ways in which the Civil War was absolutely a modern war.
In that first battle, using the railroad to get Confederate troops from the Shenandoah Valley to that junction at Manassas, it's the first time that a railroad had been used in a war.
And this will become part and parcel of how the war is fought, of moving troops, of moving supplies.
The railroad and the telegraph, more than any other technology, transformed the war and helped make the scale as large as it was.
Lincoln's views on slavery as a moral issue don't change.
He always believes that slavery is wrong.
But as a lawyer, as someone who believes firmly in the Constitution, he believes that he is bound to uphold the Constitution and slavery is protected by the Constitution.
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