Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War Podcast
1) 095 - After The Sound Of Bugles Faded: The Last Years of Robert E. Lee - Part 2
About this episode: We begin Part II of our post-war story of R. E. Lee. It is early 1867 and, we remind you that in March of that year, there was to be a fund-raising event for Washington College in...Show More
2) 094 - After The Sound Of Bugles Faded: The Last Years of Robert E. Lee - Part 1
About this episode: We begin a two part presentation that tells the story of a man who never truly sought fame and never wanted to be controversial, and yet his destiny casts such a long shadow that ...Show More
3) 093 - Fighting On The Frontier: The American Civil War West Of The Mississippi
About this episode: For this episode, we’ll take the American Civil War to places that far too many dismiss - west of the Mississippi. Sites and confrontations that may not be as well-known as easter...Show More
093 - Fighting On The Frontier: The American Civil War West Of The Mississippi
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4) 092 - A Man Committed: William Tecumsah Sherman, Part 2
About this episode: In the aftermath of the great and bloody battle of Shiloh, we pick up with the life and career of William Tecumseh Sherman. His personal journey continues to be one that spans the...Show More
5) 091 - Finding Himself: William Tecumsah Sherman, Part 1
About this episode: It was a Wednesday, August 11, 1880 and some 5000 Union veterans gathered at the Ohio State Fair. President Rutherford B. Hayes had just finished a speech when another was called ...Show More
6) 090 - Rich In "Guns And Butter": The North In 1860
About this episode: The year was 1859 and future Confederate Secretary of the Navy, Florida Senator Stephen R. Mallory, trumpeted, “It is no more for this country to pause in its career than for the ...Show More
7) 089 - Colonial Status: The World Of The Antebellum South
About this episode: Sometime in 1861, the young Georgia poet Sidney Lanier, a recent Confederate Army enlistee, attended a mock medieval tournament in Kinston, NC. Watching mounted Confederate office...Show More
8) 088 - Death In The Trenches: The Siege Of Petersburg
About this episode: From June 18, 1864 until April 2, 1865, the Union Armies of the James and Potomac laid siege to Peterburg, Virginia - the all-important supply and communication center for Robert ...Show More
9) 087 - Modernizing War: Science And Technology In The American Civil War
About this episode: GPS, drones, laser-guidance—all modern marvels that have served mankind in both peace and war. Nothing new, for there were creations and adaptations for a conflict contested in th...Show More
10) 086 - Sowers Of Dissent: Fire-Eaters Louis T. Wigfall And Edmund Ruffin
About this episode: Revolution and civil war require explosive issues and impassioned men more than willing to make change and, if necessary, to do so violently. This is the story of two such Souther...Show More