In this account, Colonel Thomas Livermore, a staff officer of Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, describes the time a joke went wrong while encamped outside Petersburg in 1864.

This Dinner Was A Perfect Godsend

The Civil War Regiments Podcast is a collection of accounts and diary entries of the common soldiers of the American Civil War, along with unit histories and battle narratives, to help educate and offer a better understanding of the daily life of soldiers from 1861-1865.