Ep16: The Poor Little Rich Boy

Born into one of Bath, Maine’s wealthiest families, James H. Tallman enlisted in the Union Army as a private and quickly rose to major. But money and connections couldn’t protect him from his own reckless behavior. Episode 16 traces Tallman’s remarkable rise and fall through two court-martials, scandal, dismissal, and an early death that brought one of Maine’s most prominent families crashing back to earth.