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EPISODE · Nov 12, 2025 · 40 MIN

Ep05: The Carpetbagger

from Company D · host George F. Snell III

Shot four times in battle, Henry H. Shaw of Maine refused to quit. A decorated hero of the Third Maine Infantry, he marched not home but South—into the heart of Reconstruction. In Tarboro, North Carolina, he became a postmaster, a reformer, and the unlikely founder of Princeville—the first incorporated Black town in America. Discover forgotten history on Company D.

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