Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War Podcast
1) 091 - Finding Himself: William Tecumsah Sherman, Part 1
About this episode:Â 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
2) 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
3) 089 - Colonial Status: The World Of The Antebellum South
About this episode:Â 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
4) 088 - Death In The Trenches: The Siege Of Petersburg
About this episode:Â 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
5) 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
6) 086 - Sowers Of Dissent: Fire-Eaters Louis T. Wigfall And Edmund Ruffin
About this episode:Â 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
7) 085 - And The War Began...: Fort Sumter Revisited
About this episode:Â It takes a cast to put on a play and our story this day is filled with characters that emoted passions raging from reasoned deliberation to knee-jerk and violent. And not only for...Show More
8) 084 - Return To The Confederacy's Gibraltar: Fort Fisher Revisited
About this episode:  Some six years ago, we chronicled the Confederacy’s Gibraltar that allowed Wilmington, NC to be the last major Confederate port open to the outside world. 72 episodes later and ...Show More
9) 083 - A Modern-Day Moses: The Life Of Harriet Tubman
About this episode:  She stood only about 5’, yet, in terms of achievement and historical significance, she remains a giant. This is the story of not only a remarkable woman, but human being. This i...Show More
10) 082 - Resistance By Liberation: The Underground Railroad
About this episode:Â Â Its mission and those who willingly took part in it dared to defy the highest law in the land. And in their desire to do what was right, they wrote, spoke and acted out against ...Show More