S2 – 9: Wounds

Unobscured

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The war was over but the fight to determine the future of the nation continued. And the spirits had much to say. Devastated families cried out for their lost loved ones. Sometimes, the beloved dead answered back.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Unobscured, a production of I Heart Radio and Aaron Minky.
0:10.8	Colonel Crosby died on April 2nd of 1865.
0:14.8	He had been one of the first to march out from Philadelphia with the volunteers at the
0:18.7	start of the war.
0:20.2	He took fire throughout the fighting and at one point was shot in the head.
0:24.7	After he went back into combat, a bullet shattered his arm which was then amputated in
0:28.9	a war hospital.
0:29.9	Still, he was promoted through the ranks, as his fearlessness made him a strange figure
0:35.4	on the battlefield.
0:37.9	Crosby got to know one of the doctors who treated him and they started writing letters
0:41.8	to each other.
0:43.0	His willingness to face fire after such dire injuries must have puzzled the doctor as
0:47.4	much as it impressed his fellow soldiers.
0:50.4	Crosby explained his daring.
0:52.6	You see, he was a spiritualist.
0:55.2	Every time he stepped onto the battlefield, he felt the presence of his spirit friends
0:59.6	all around him.
1:01.2	Their guidance was so real that he lost all awareness of fear.
1:05.6	In his own words, the whizzing of musket balls produced no more trepidation than the falling
1:11.1	rain.
1:13.1	And Crosby wasn't the only soldier to say so.
1:16.4	Other spiritualists in the Union Army claimed that spirits had led them through tremendous
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