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Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
History is, indeed, a story. With his unique voice and engaging delivery, historian and veteran storyteller Fred Kiger will help the compelling stories of the American Civil War come alive in each and every episode. Filled with momentous issues and repercussions that still resonate with us today, this series will feature events and people from that period and will strive to make you feel as if you were there.
Episodes
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
043 - The ”Rock”, The ”Sledge”: George Henry Thomas
About this episode: While most history enthusiasts are aware that Virginia was the leading theater of the war, many of those same people are surprised when…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
042 - The Southern Home Front
About this episode: While actual combat was, indeed, nightmarish, being at home - helpless, constantly wondering about loved ones, fending for one’s selves -…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
041 - The Northern Home Front
About this episode: While fighting raged at the front, loved ones back home waged their own battles. While worried about those in uniform, each day brought the…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
040 - July 3, 1863 - Climax - The Third Day at Gettysburg
About this episode: In 1948, the Southern novelist, William Faulkner, wrote in Intruder in the Dust, ”For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
039 - July 2, 1863 - A Rolling Thunder - The Second Day at Gettysburg
About this episode: On Thursday, July 2, 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg tumbled into its second day. What on Wednesday, the 1st, had been a meeting engagement…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
038 - July 1, 1863: A Meeting Engagement - The First Day at Gettysburg
About this episode: From the Battle of Gettysburg, there are as many stories as participants. For this episode, selections from the first day: stories about…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
037 - The Confederacy's "Greatest" Surrender - The Bennett Place
About this episode: It was a Tuesday, April 11, 1865 - only two days after Robert E. Lee had surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia. Down in North Carolina…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
036 - Avenging Angel - John Brown
About this episode: The stage: the town of Alton in southern Illinois. The date of the act committed: the 7th of November, 1837. On that Tuesday, an angry mob…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
035 - Nathan Bedford Forrest - Part 2
About this episode: Thus far, we have offered anecdotal insight as to Bedford Forrest’s humble origins: his makeup and antebellum experiences. We’ve detailed…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
034 - Nathan Bedford Forrest - Part 1
About this episode: Major General William T. Sherman, the officer who disemboweled the Confederacy with his marches across Georgia and through the Carolinas…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
May We Suggest - Bullets And Bandages: The Aid Stations and Field Hospitals at Gettysburg
About: Through our continuing research on The Civil War, we here at Threads From The National Tapestry will come across some truly remarkable works that…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
33 - "The Union Is Dissolved!" - South Carolina Secedes
About this episode: For those in power in the state of South Carolina, the November 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln was the final straw. Convinced that he and…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
32 - The Election of 1860
About this episode: The year was 1860. The nation was coming apart and yet, its political parties made plans to come together - to gather in convention despite…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
31 - Mr. Lincoln's Pilgrimage to the Banks of Antietam Creek
About this episode: A few nights after September the 22nd, 1862, a band came to serenade the 16th president. Moved by the music and supportive crowd, Abraham…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
30 - "No Quarter!" - The Border War Between Kansas and Missouri
About this episode: In a conflict that staged over ten thousand fights, Virginia led as a theater of war. The Volunteer State of Tennessee, second. What…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
29 - The New York City Draft Riots
About this episode: Far too many see the Union war effort in the American Civil War as a monolith - patriotic men across the north from Maine to Minnesota…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
28 - "Useless! Useless!" - The Flight of John Wilkes Booth
About this episode: For John Wilkes Booth, time was ticking down to the moment he knew he would act. At a tavern next to Ford’s Theatre, he asked for a bottle…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
27 - April 14th, 1865
About this episode: Eight decades ago, popular historian Bruce Catton, and journalist/author Jim Bishop wrote works that profoundly affected my life and future…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
26 - Clash In The Ozarks - Pea Ridge
About this episode: E.B. and Barbara Long’s monumental The Civil War Day By Day reveals that there were 10,455 military events during the American Civil War…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
25 - Assassination from the Bottom of the Sea - The Hunley
About this episode: At the beginning of the American Civil War, the Confederate States of America were faced with creating an army and, even more daunting, a…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
24 - Misery at Murfreesboro - the Battle of Stones River
About this episode: For Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, the summer and fall of 1862 was a veritable roller coaster ride of emotion, from glimmering hope…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
23 - Chattanooga - Part 2
About this episode: The Union commander-in-chief, Abraham Lincoln, was beside himself. In the northwestern corner of Georgia, there had been defeat and…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
22 - Chattanooga - Part 1
About this episode: It was fall in the year 1863. Much had changed since the summer. Back in July, a doomed assault on Cemetery Ridge meant Confederate defeat…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
21 - "I Wish I Could Forget Myself" - Mary Ann Todd Lincoln
About this episode: Three of her four children did not live to adulthood, and her husband was assassinated while he held her hand. If anyone ever deserved to…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
20 - In The Shadows: Spies, Raiders, and Intelligence Gathering
About this episode: During the American Civil War, great drama was not exclusive to just the battlefield. There were many instances when what took place behind…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
19 - "Mighty Events Are On The Wing" - Second Manassas
About this episode: In the light of Union frustration after the unsuccessful Peninsula Campaign failed to take Richmond, and the Confederacy’s Seven Days…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
18 - "Hell Has Busted" - The Battle Of The Crater
About this episode: It was the fourth summer of the war, and Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign had sledgehammered its way down to Petersburg, Virginia. It…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
17 - "His Name Might Be Audacity" - The Seven Days Campaign
About this episode: In March of 1862, Major General George B. McClellan began to land his massive army on the Virginia peninsula, created by the York and James…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
16 - Hell On Earth: The Battle Of The Wilderness
About this episode: Since the Battle of Gettysburg in July of 1863, the two, George Gordon Meade and Robert E. Lee, and their respective armies had shadowboxed…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
15 - Shiloh
About this episode: It was April of 1862, and the war was just about to enter its second year. The beginning of that year had been a bleak one for the…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
14 - "With Malice Toward None" - Lincoln's Greatest Speech
About this episode: The Associated Press reported the address would be brief. The day of the speech, Saturday, March 4th, 1865 dawned with steady rain. Streets…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
13 - Thunder On The Rivers Tennessee And Cumberland: Forts Henry And Donelson
About this episode: At 750,000 square miles, the Confederacy was huge, and to put down the rebellion, Mr. Lincoln's armies had to go on the offensive. They…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
12 - The Gibraltar Of The Confederacy - Fort Fisher
About this episode: By late December of 1864, dark waters were closing over the Confederacy. Back in August, David Farragut's fleet successfully bottled up…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
11 - Fredericksburg And The Winter Of 1862-'63
About this episode: Fredericksburg, Virginia was a little town with a long history. It was here that a young George Washington roamed. And, there were others…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
10 - Mr. Lincoln Goes To Gettysburg
About this episode: This is the story of a man and his words. It begins in the aftermath of bloody consequences that emanated from the first three days in…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
9 - The Ram Of The Roanoke - The CSS Albemarle
About this episode: This is the story of the Ram Of Roanoke - The CSS Albemarle, an ironclad constructed not in a shipyard, but incredibly, in a Halifax…
Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War8 - Sheer Unadulterated Violence: The Battle Of Antietam
About this episode: This is the story of the Battle of Sharpsburg, of Antietam, the bloodiest single day in the history of this nation. It was an engagment…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
7 - Little Mac: Letters From George B. McClellan
About this episode: It's been written that Helen of Troy possessed "the face that launched a thousand ships." Well, may I introduce to you Ellen Marcy…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
6 - The Plains Of Manassas
About this episode: In the first months after war began, both North and South mobilized. Men were needed to fill the ranks. In the North, the 16th President…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
5 - "Stonewall" - Part 02
About this episode: His journey had been nothing short of remarkable. From an orphan from western Virginia to matriculation to West Point where, there, along…
Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War4 - ”Stonewall” - Part 01
About this episode: “Stonewall” Jackson would’ve been the perfect protagonist for Greek or Shakespearean tragedy; a commanding officer struck…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
3 - Lee And Grant - Their Finest Hour
About this episode: It was a conflict that stretched four years. It began in April and, that same month four years later, so began the beginning of the end. In…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
2 - Call To Duty: The Common Soldier - 1861
About this episode: Perhaps, the last time Americans volunteered en masse was in the days and weeks immediately following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor…
- Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
1 - Flashpoint 1861 Fort Sumter
About this episode: For the United States and North Korea, with each verbal jab between respective leaders, with each thrust and parry by diplomats, with…