Apr 2, 2021 America's freedom was won and maintained by its toughest, gruffest citizens--those who would risk everything they had for the country, and what it represents. Yet some of the toughest and gruffest were also some of the most sensitive, and their love as well as their strength is their enduring legacy. This is the Forgotten History of a Soldier's Lullaby. John Caldwell Tidball was a man's man; a soldier's soldier; the sort of hardscrabble commander that Lincoln's Union Army was thankful to have. In fact, Lincoln himself personally thanked him for his heroism at the Battle of Gettysburg. A tough-as-nails veteran who had already been a commissioned officer for 13 years when the Civil War broke out in 1861, Tidball solidified his reputation as a man not to be trifled with when he helped lead the expedition to put down John Brown's revolt at Harper's Ferry two years earlier.