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                                                                                                                                                                                                                            {"data":[{"id":1857,"title":"The 20th Maine's Little Round Top hero had a hardscrabble life","description":"How Joshua Chamberlain saved Andrew Tozier's life \u2014 after the war.","transcription":"This podcast is a HistoryNet article brought to life by an AI voice provided by InstaRead. You can find the original article and many more at HistoryNet.com. As he read the name of the prisoner at Concerned, his mind no doubt wandered to a moment from seven years earlier and 500 miles away during the Battle of Gettysburg, that hellish firefight had made his reputation, eventually propelling him to a general ship and later the very gubernatorial seat he now occupied. One image continually returned to Chamberlain's mind. Through the mist of the battle could be seen our colors planted in the ground and held firmly by our sergeant with musket in his hands. That color sergeant was Andrew Jackson-Tozier of Plymouth, the man and place well named. Now that bold and brave flag bearer was imprisoned. What would Governor Chamberlain do? Born February 11, 1838, Andrew Jackson-Tozier was the fifth of seven children of John and Teresa Tozier of Monmouth, Maine. The Tozier's financial situation was precarious with just $200 property to their name in 1850. Ten years later, they were designated poppers. Older brother Augustus was a sailor and in 1851, young Andrew followed the same path. Half a century later, Andrew's wife explained, he went to see at the age of 13 years and followed the life of a sailor continuously for a decade, except short visits to his parents until he enlisted. Embracing maritime culture, Tozier acquired two tattoos later described as female on right arm and five pointed star in first base of right hand. The second tattoo was likely a nautical star symbolically intended to guide sailors back home. When the Civil War began, Andrew returned home and enlisted in the second Maine on July 15, 1861, about six weeks after the unit's formal mustering in. Not surprising, given his worldly experience, height of six feet and tattoos, Tozier stood out. And despite being a later addition to the unit, he was promoted to corporal in early 1861. June 1862 was a watershed month in Tozier's life, as he suffered the trifecta of disease, battle wound, and capture. The second Maine spent much of June building roads and bridges in the swampy eastern approaches to Richmond. It was back breaking work with severe consequences. William Jones, a member of the second, remembered Tozier, did become disabled by having contracted disease of heart, brought on by heavy lifting and building bridges and corduroy roads, and exposure to miasma in the Chica hominis swamp. Remembered William Foss of the second Maine. Being in the mud and water and hard work, he was taken with heart trouble. He did not go away to the hospital, but stayed with the co. He had fainting spells and would have to be helped to the doctor's tent. He stayed with the co until the battle of Gaines' mill. On June 25, 1862, General Robert E. Lee launched his Virginia offensive known as the Seven Days Campaign. At Gaines' mill, on June 27, he sent 58,000 men against the Union lines. Tozier described the day in his pension file. After fighting from 10 o'clock till after 5 in the afternoon, on June 27, 1862, at the Battle of Gaines' mill, I was wounded through the left hand and just after was shot on the inside of my left ankle and was taken prisoner. The ball did not go through, but lodged and was taken out by a southern doctor the next day. His mobility limited by the lower leg wound, Tozier was one of 50 men from his unit, captured that day. The hand wound was more severe, however, his middle finger requiring amputation at the first joint and those on either side badly damaged. In later years, Tozier's left arm would measure 3\/4 of an While on Bel-Ail, Tozier came across his first cousin, Winfield Norcross of the 7th Maine, who had been wounded at Savage Station on June 29. Despite suffering from chills, fainting spells, and heart problems, Tozier dressed Norcross's wounds and brought him water. Fortunately, Tozier was exchanged on August 28th, 3 and was sent to a hospital in Chester, Pennsylvania, to recover, remaining there until late October. Tozier was promoted to sergeant in late 1862 and then to first sergeant on January 1, 1863. The 2nd Maine had been mustered into state service on May 2, 1861, having signed two-year enlistment contracts as directed by the governor. The regular army officer who accepted them for federal service on May 28, 2021, insisted the men re-sign three-year contracts, though only about 20% did so. Later recruits who joined the unit after May 1861, like Andrew Tozier, signed three-year enlistment papers, but many were promised they would be allowed to go home when the 2nd Maine was mustered out in May 1863 at the end of its two years of service. As spring approached, the men who had signed three-year contracts were anxious about how their situation would play out. The Union army decided that any original members mustered into federal service on May 28, 1861, regardless of what enlistment period document they had signed, would be allowed to go home. The 120 men who had enlisted after that date, however, would be held to the full three years. In Andrew Tozier's case, enlisting six weeks later meant he owed an extra year of service. He and the other men required to stay were sent to the 20th Maine to fulfill their obligation. When the men in that lot were told of their situation on May 23, many mutinied and refused to go peacefully, necessitating their transfer at bayonet point three days later. 40 men continued to protest even after transferring to the 20th Maine, but the rest, Tozier included, fell into line, and appeared at drill on May 27. Tozier immediately caught the eye of the 20th's relatively new colonel. Joshua Chamberlain, who had taken command of the regiment on May 20. Chamberlain was impressed with Tozier's behavior, plus his soldier bearing, plus personal efficiency, an example of all that was excellent as a soldier. The 20th Maine had been engaged at the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, but the regiment was on guard duty in the rear during the Battle of Chancellorsville because of a smallpox outbreak. In early June, a few weeks after its Chancellorsville victory, the Army of Northern Virginia was on the march, hoping to bring the war north of the Potomac River, pursued by the 20th Maine and the Army of the Potomac. During his northward march to destiny, on a rocky hill, Chamberlain was presented with a perfect opportunity to complete the integration of the former second Maine men into their new unit. Proctors in discretion cost him his rank and the position of honor as a color bearer. Chamberlain selected Tozier as the new national flag bearer, partially in recognition of the man's record, partially due to his belief that Tozier would perform the duty well and partially a continuation of his efforts to fully integrate the second Maine men into their new unit. No matter the motivation, it was an inspired decision, and then came Gettysburg, glory at Gettysburg. On July The 20th Maine was placed on the extreme left of Colonel Strong Vincent's Third Brigade, which also included the 16th Michigan, 44th New York, and 83rd Pennsylvania. The brigade occupied a position in the saddle between little and big round top. That meant the 20th was also on the extreme left of the Army of the Potomac. The story is well known. During a 90-minute firefight, the Maine regiment repelled six attacks from the numerically superior 15th Alabama. Holding the colors aloft, Tosier was at the point of that V. A position of extreme exposure so dangerous that one of the color guard assigned to protect him, Melville Day, fell dead with five bullets in him, and another, Charles Reed, would be wounded as well. Later, Reed recounted that after he was wounded, Sartre, Tosier said, Eventually, the severity of Reed's wounds dictated that he seek aid, so Tosier took back the flag, but continued to load and fire Reed's musket simultaneously. This scene became one of the iconic images of the fight. Years later, Captain Ellis Spear wrote, The 20th Maine expended all of its cartridges. Ordering the unit to fix bayonets in charge, Chamberlain took his place next to Tosier. The surprise maneuver worked, and the Manors captured 308 prisoners from five Confederate regiments, securing their position and helping keep the critical height of little round top out of Confederate hands. Tosier had played a significant role in the unit's performance. Immediately after the Battle of Gettysburg, Chamberlain wrote, I offered him a commission for the special gallantry he showed in that battle. He modestly chose to remain color sergeant. 1863 suggests that possibility. At some point previously, he may also have learned of the death of his younger brother, Ezra, in a Confederate prison camp. Between the debacle with the extra year of service, Ezra's treatment and death, and his own deteriorating condition, Tosier may have desired to get out of the army. Before he could return home, however, Tosier would be wounded yet again. On May 26, 1864, at the North Anna River, Tosier wrecked a wound from a ball which struck the left side of head seven inches behind and above the left eye, and part of the ball escaped and part remained in the wound. This wound, along with the heart troubles, would become his biggest health concern. Tosier mustered out on July 15, 1864, receiving $100 in bounty money, plus $30.43 from his unused clothing allowance. He likely returned home via train, arriving in Maine in late July. In May 1863, the original members of the second Maine had returned home to a parade in Bangor, and in June 1865, the 20th Maine received the same treatment in Portland. But Tosier returned home without such closure and with little idea of what to do next. 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                                                                                                                                                                                                                            {"data":[{"id":5097,"title":"Bobby Lee on Joe Rogan | Ajay Thakkar Podcast | Episode 293","description":"In this episode, I recap the 5 set match between Daniil Medvedev and Hubert Hurkacz as well as the aggresive net play exhibited by both at time throughout the match. In news outside of tennis, I discuss the Oscars announce the nominees for their awards and the long awaited return of Tigerbelly and Bad Friends cohost Bobby Lee on the Joe Rogan experience. Enjoy!","transcription":"Hey everyone, my name is Ajay Thakkar, host the Ajay Thakkar Podcast, the only comedy tends podcast that talks about political and societal culture. As a whole, my name is Ajay Thakkar, as name would suggest. Happy Thursday. Hopefully guys are getting ready for you again. Spend time with your family or friends watching the tail end of the Australian Open as well. There's a little bit of news that we get into today in terms of news outside of tennis world. I do want to discuss Bobby Lee on Joe Rogan. If you guys don't know, Bobby Lee appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast for the first time, I assume, I guess. I don't recall an episode of Bobby Lee being on the Joe Rogan podcast with Joe Rogan being present on the podcast. I don't remember the last time that that happened. I'm sure it happened back when, you know, Rogan was back in LA, back in 2010, 2011, back in those years. But recently, Bobby Lee has been missing on the podcast. So it's great to see Bobby Lee on this podcast. Obviously, they get into some talk about COVID and they discuss the reason as to why Bobby Lee should move to Austin, which I'm like, okay, there's no need for me to really partake in that or for me to really care about it. But they did discuss other things that I thought were also very important, which I'll discuss later in the podcast. But overall, I enjoyed it. I liked it. Bobby Lee is just a cult personality kind of figure. He's a guy where most people love him. I do, you know, Bobby Lee is great. You know, who doesn't love Bobby Lee? Back from Matt TV back in those Matt TV days, whether you're a fan of Tiger belly or even now with bad friends. You know, I mean, who doesn't like Bobby Lee? So I will discuss Bobby Lee on Joe Rogan's podcast. The clips are also really good as well. I think there are certain clips of Joe Rogan that he posted on his YouTube channel in terms of Bobby Lee's love for Star Trek, some Hollywood rejection stories that Bobby Lee had to face and go through. So yeah, overall, I'll discuss that. I'll also discuss the Oscars announcing their categories or announcing the nominees for their categories, I should say. A few snubs, a few surprises. I'll discuss the snubs, a few snubs that happen whether in regards to whether it was in poor things with well under phone, I've been nominated for Best Actor, Leo DiCaprio, not being nominated for Best Actor and Coach of the Fire Moon. A few others, obviously, they often in the room are the one that's the biggest snub. According to the internet, it is Margarabi not being nominated for Best Actress and Greta Gerwig for Best Director. For Margarabi, for Best Actress, I didn't watch Bobby. So again, I'm not a guy that you should go for in this opinion or for this opinion, but I feel like with Margarabi, it's often the same character, packaged in a different movie, where I feel like with Margarabi, she just plays different variations of this New Jersey girl, Jersey short kind of girl with this Jersey accent. And that's sort of the running theme with Margarabi. I don't know if it's like that with Bobby, I might be mistaken, but I do feel as if it's very one note. So if you've seen one Margarabi performance, I feel like you've seen all of them. And that's no disrespect to Margarabi. It's just, it is what it is. So again, I don't know where this sort of appreciation, maybe not appreciation, but I don't know where this sort of unbridled support comes from with her performance in Barbie. Especially when you tie into the fact that a lot of people are saying, \"Oh, this is a sexist smear campaign against women.\" I mean, that's what Twitter is saying, which is horrendously wrong. I mean, there's a Best Actress category for a reason. I've been nominated for this award as well. I don't know if I will consider this a sexist smear campaign against Barbie. There have been other women nominated for this same role. Again, the category is for Best Actress. I don't know if it's sexist to say that Barbie not being nominated for Best Actress or Margarabi not being nominated for Best Actress is sexist. I don't know if that's the case. I don't know. It's just the Twitter picks the weirdest hills to die on. Again, as we all know, Twitter is not a good basis to predict what's going to happen in the future or the average consensus of what people's minds are going through at that particular time. So I will discuss that as well with the Oscar's announcing the nominees. I was going to discuss the New Hampshire primary, but again, like we already, I mean, what is there to say about it that's already, hasn't already been said before, right? What am I going to talk about in terms of the New Hampshire primary that hasn't already said, I've been said before. There's nothing that I can really add to the conversation in terms of the presidential election. I know I say this is the only Connie tennis podcast that talks about a political and societal culture as a whole. But at the same time, like, I'm gassed out by it. I'm tired of this being the case. Again, I'm not a Nikki Haley supporter. I'm not a trauma supporter, but I'm just, it just, it just feels as if we're just going through the ebbs and flows of things, you know, it feels as if we're just going through the ebbs and flows of things, you know? If this is just the same song and dance over and over again. And at some point you got to realize, okay, he's the nominee. Just go to March, fast forward to March, make him the nominee for the Republicans. And let's just run with Biden Trump again. It sucks. Right. I don't want that to happen, but it's that if that's the case and that's the case. I don't want that to happen. I think both options are horrendous. But again, I don't want to really talk about the New Hampshire primary. So we'll lay off politics for today. I feel like people are gassed out by it. I feel like people are too too inundated by politics and by political talk recently that if it brings me no joint discussing it, then why bring it on to you, you know? So yeah, we'll only talk about these three things. And obviously I should have mentioned that we'll be talking about tennis as well. And if you guys don't know, Danielle Mevadev, beat Hubert Herkach. And I'm not going to say that this was the best match of all time. And I won't say that this is the best match of the Austrian Open. I won't go as far as to say that. But this was a pretty good match. Again, we still have a lot more matches to go through. This is not the be all end all. And I really dislike when people say this is the best match of the Australian Open because if that's the case, then that's not putting the Austrian Open in a glowing way. I'm sorry. I just failed to think that having two six foot five counter punchers playing against one of their constitutes as a great, as one of the best matches of the major. I failed to identify that with that. And I don't think that that should be the case. But overall, this was a good match. You got to give credit to Danielle Mevadev. Obviously, you got to give credit to Danielle Mevadev for the win. I feel like Danielle Mevadev did really well in times. You know, getting that first set to getting that first match first set in a close way is just impressive to see. You know, who knew that Danielle Mevadev could really be able to pull that out of him in that first set, especially when he sees his recent losses to better competition like Djokovic and Algras. But overall, that first set was great. I mean, it was very competitive. Both players did really well. I felt like Mevadev was more aggressive at times compared to that of, say, her catch. That tiebreaker at four or two tiebreaker where Mevadev was just able to go to the net and just be more aggressive and just get her catch to make callous, callous mistakes was just amazing. That was sort of the running theme with that first set. But also at times of that last set as well, we would see Mevadev really be more assertive when it came to the net. The hold, and now on the flip side to it with her catch, the hold to make it too love in the second was also really good because that featured a great rally for Hubie. There was a tweener being involved in the mix, smashed at the end of it. Just amazing, amazing play by him. Really shows you how her catch can really take command of the court when need be. And again, that was one of the few times where I saw her catch play where I'm like, \"Okay, there is something to it. This is not 2021 Wimbledon. This is an entirely different dynamic to it. He's definitely progressed and changed and developed his game since then. And we're seeing it slowly, but surely, but I feel as if this match was a culmination of all of the improvements that we've seen so far from her catch's play.\" Now the break to make it 4-3 Daniel after the Law won long in the fifth. To me when I see that play I felt like that play was the unceremonious end to the entire match. As we look into the third set, Daniel Mebedo was able to win 6-3. Not that close but still nice effort by her catch. I feel like there was an early break in that third set that really swung things into Mebedep's way. 4th set it was Neck and Neck, but again her catch was able to get it at the end of it. 2 counter punchers go after it, one of them has to change. Both of them did end up changing their style of play in parts of the match. 4th Mebedep was more apparent and more so than say her catch I felt as if Mebedep was more aggressive at times compare...