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This podcast provides stories of some of the best-known (and not so well known) leaders of the American Civil War and their impact on the world during and after the war.
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Friday Nov 12, 2021
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Dr. Richard Owen was an educator, geologist, University President and accomplished officer in the Union Army. He was a respected POW camp commander and a POW himself later in the war.
He was so well appreciated by his former Confederate prisoners they commissioned a bust in his honor to be placed in the Indiana capital after the war.
He was the first president of Purdue University and enjoyed a long life of academic pursuits after the war.
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