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About this episode: For those aboard the fifty-gun USS Congress, it had been a quiet morning. Its crew, as usual, prepared the twenty-year-old vessel for inspection which would be held the next day. Meanwhile, the ship’s quartermaster gazed out over Hampton Roads which glistened under a late winter sun. All seemed normal. And then, at 12:45 p.m., a column of heavy black smoke. Curiosity aroused, the quartermaster turned to a fellow officer, handed him his glass and asked for him to take a look. Their gaze created concern. Indeed, as the quartermaster put it, at last, “that thing is a-comin”. Something no one had ever seen before. Its mission - to change the course of the war. It was Saturday, March 8, 1862, and one vessel, an ironclad, was about to alter centuries of naval warfare. This is the story of technology turning a page. This is the story of the Duel between the Ironclads. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Stephen Mallory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Mallory John Mercer Brooke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mercer_Brooke John L. Porter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Porter Gideon Welles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Welles John Ericsson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ericsson John Worden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lorimer_Worden Additional Resources: Monitor: The Story of the Legendary Civil War Ironclad and the Man Whose Invention Changed the Course of History by James Tertius De Kay https://www.amazon.com/Monitor-Legendary-Ironclad-Invention-Changed/dp/0802713300 Duel Between The First Ironclads by William C. Davis https://www.amazon.com/between-first-ironclads-William-Davis/dp/0807108685 The Blockade: Runners and Raiders (The Civil War Series, Vol. 3) by Time-Life Books https://www.amazon.com/Blockade-Runners-Raiders-Civil-Vol/dp/0809447088 Subscribe to the Threads from the National Tapestry YouTube Channel here https://www.youtube.com/@ThreadsfromtheNationalTapestry?sub_confirmation=1 Thank you to our sponsor, The Badge Maker - proudly carrying affordable Civil War Corps Badges and other hand-made historical reproductions for reenactors, living history interpreters, and lovers of history. Check out The Badge Maker and place your orders here https://www.civilwarcorpsbadges.com/ *Title Image by Ivan Berryman Producer: Dan Irving
About this episode: When exercising power, the 16th President’s stocky and sphinxlike Secretary of War could demonstrate a Jekyll and Hyde personality. Personally honest, he could be unforgiving and given to histrionics when he thought them necessary. And again, when required, warm hearted, selfless and patriotic. In charge of the Union’s land-based operations, he made tough decisions and did so with little regard for those affected by those decisions. His mission was to win the war and he pursued that purpose with relentless fury. In doing so, far too many simply remembered him as the “unloved Secretary of War”. In the pantheon that was Abraham Lincoln’s Cabinet, this is the story of his Mars. This is the story of Edwin McMasters Stanton. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Salmon P. Chase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_P._Chase Daniel Sickles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sickles Simon Cameron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Cameron William Seward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Seward Lorenzo Thomas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Thomas Manton Marble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manton_Marble Additional Resources: Lincoln's Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton by William Marvel https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Autocrat-Edwin-Stanton-America/dp/1469622491 Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary by Walter Stahr https://www.amazon.com/Stanton-Lincolns-Secretary-Walter-Stahr/dp/1476739307 Subscribe to the Threads from the National Tapestry YouTube Channel here https://www.youtube.com/@ThreadsfromtheNationalTapestry?sub_confirmation=1 Thank you to our sponsor, The Badge Maker - proudly carrying affordable Civil War Corps Badges and other hand-made historical reproductions for reenactors, living history interpreters, and lovers of history. Check out The Badge Maker and place your orders here https://www.civilwarcorpsbadges.com/ *Title Image by The McMahan Photo Archive/RMP Archive/Mathew Brady / The Brady Studio Producer: Dan Irving
About this episode: For most of us, our mental snapshot of 19th-century battlefield medicine is captured when Union Major General Carl Schurz recorded a ghastly scene at Gettysburg: “There stood the surgeons, their sleeves rolled up to their elbows … [One] surgeon snatched his knife from between his teeth …, wiped it rapidly once or twice across his bloodstained apron, and the cutting began. The operation accomplished, the surgeon would look around with a deep sigh, and then – 'Next!'” Relying on first-hand accounts, meticulous statistics and research, we share a side of the conflict that few who fought wanted to think about and, particularly, experience. For our 70th episode, we tell the story of Civil War Medicine. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: William A. Hammond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Hammond Jonathan Letterman https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/jonathan-letterman Samuel Preston Moore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Moore Sally Tompkins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Louisa_Tompkins Dorothea Dix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Dix Clara Barton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barton Additional Resources: The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy by Bell Irvin Wiley https://www.amazon.com/Life-Johnny-Reb-Confederacy-Conflicting/dp/0807133256 The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union by Bell Irvin Wiley https://www.amazon.com/Life-Billy-Yank-Political-Traditions/dp/0807133752 Voices of the Civil War by Richard Wheeler https://www.amazon.com/Voices-Meridian-Wheeler-Richard-Reprint/dp/B00DO9BZIK Civil War Medicine 1861-1865 by C. Keith Wilbur https://www.amazon.com/Civil-Medicine-1861-1865-Keith-WILBUR/dp/073942906X Subscribe to the Threads from the National Tapestry YouTube Channel here https://www.youtube.com/@ThreadsfromtheNationalTapestry?sub_confirmation=1 Thank you to our sponsor, The Badge Maker - proudly carrying affordable Civil War Corps Badges and other hand-made historical reproductions for reenactors, living history interpreters, and lovers of history. Check out The Badge Maker and place your orders here https://www.civilwarcorpsbadges.com/ *Title Image by Alexander Gardner Producer: Dan Irving
About this episode: Back in December of 2018, we told the story of an engagement that took place along the banks of the Rappahannock and detailed events that took place afterwards. Now, five years later, we return to that story but with greater detail, and the addition of first person accounts. Once again, we would like to take you back to November and December 1862, when yet another Federal commander wanted Richmond but, in order to do that, had to take a sleepy little town almost halfway between the Southern capital and Washington City. Once again, we return to stories not only about men in battle but men showing compassion for one another - yes, even for those deemed their enemy. This is story of the Battle of Fredericksburg, revisited. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: George B. McClellan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._McClellan Ambrose Burnside https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Burnside William B. Franklin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Franklin William Barksdale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barksdale Richard Kirkland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rowland_Kirkland Additional Resources: Battle of Fredericksburg Overview Subscribe to the Threads from the National Tapestry YouTube Channel here https://www.youtube.com/@ThreadsfromtheNationalTapestry?sub_confirmation=1 Thank you to our sponsor, The Badge Maker - proudly carrying affordable Civil War Corps Badges and other hand-made historical reproductions for reenactors, living history interpreters, and lovers of history. Check out The Badge Maker and place your orders here https://www.civilwarcorpsbadges.com/ *Title Image by Mort Kunstler *Map by Hal Jespersen Producer: Dan Irving
About this episode: By 1864, a desperate Confederacy realized it must resort to desperate measures. Measures not only confined to land battles and trying to break the Union blockade, but the procuring and use of commerce raiders which would scour the oceans to wreak havoc on the North’s vast merchant marine. Anything to create economic hardship. Anything to doom Abraham Lincoln’s chances for reelection. This is the story of one such raider. This is the story of the CSS Shenandoah. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: James Dunwoody Bulloch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dunwoody_Bulloch Thomas Dudley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Haines_Dudley Lord John Russell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Russell,_1st_Earl_Russell James Iredell Waddell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Iredell_Waddell William Conway Whittle https://navylog.navymemorial.org/whittle-william-0 For Further Reading: Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah by Tom Chaffin https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Gray-Around-World-Confederate/dp/0809085046 Subscribe to the Threads from the National Tapestry YouTube Channel here https://www.youtube.com/@ThreadsfromtheNationalTapestry?sub_confirmation=1 Thank you to our sponsor, The Badge Maker - proudly carrying affordable Civil War Corps Badges and other hand-made historical reproductions for reenactors, living history interpreters, and lovers of history. Check out The Badge Maker and place your orders here https://www.civilwarcorpsbadges.com/ Producer: Dan Irving
About this episode: The Native Americans referred to Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley as “Daughter of the Stars.” Yet, both the Federal Union and the Confederacy knew it to be the “Breadbasket of Virginia” - and that made it a theater for military operations. Both sides very aware of “Stonewall” Jackson’s assessment in 1862, “If the Valley is lost, then Virginia is lost.” Played out in 1864, this is the story of the dramatic ebb and flow to control that strategic site. This is the story of the Second Valley Campaign. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: John Imboden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Imboden Franz Sigel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Sigel William E. "Grumble" Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Jones_(general) Philip Sheridan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sheridan Jubal Early https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubal_Early Stephen Dodson Ramseur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Dodson_Ramseur Additional Resources: Map of the Shenandoah Valley Campaigns of 1864 For Further Reading: The Shenandoah in Flames: The Valley Campaign of 1864 by Thomas A. Lewis https://www.amazon.com/Shenandoah-Flames-Valley-Campaign-Civil/dp/0809447843/ref=asc_df_0809447843/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=266004370524&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3972952481559025365&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1021278&hvtargid=pla-655452989021&psc=1 Subscribe to the Threads from the National Tapestry YouTube Channel here https://www.youtube.com/@ThreadsfromtheNationalTapestry?sub_confirmation=1 Thank you to our sponsor, The Badge Maker - proudly carrying affordable Civil War Corps Badges and other hand-made historical reproductions for reenactors, living history interpreters, and lovers of history. Check out The Badge Maker and place your orders here https://www.civilwarcorpsbadges.com/ Producer: Dan Irving
About this episode: This time around, a different delivery, a different approach. Rather than anecdotes and stories from a biography, battle or campaign, this time a series of facts, figures, theories and themes that set the stage for waging civil war. This session: Strategy, Tactics, Arms and Technology - a basis for understanding why our civil conflict was so long and so costly. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Antoine-Henri Jomini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine-Henri_Jomini Carl von Clausewitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz Winfield Scott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfield_Scott Dennis Hart Mahan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hart_Mahan Claude-Étienne Minié https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude-%C3%89tienne_Mini%C3%A9 William J. Hardee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Hardee For Further Reading: Battle Tactics of the Civil War by Paddy Griffith https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Tactics-Civil-Yale-Nota/dp/0300084617/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= The Civil War Dictionary by Mark M. Boatner III https://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-Dictionary-Mark-Boatner/dp/0679733922 Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Subscribe to the Threads from the National Tapestry YouTube Channel here https://www.youtube.com/@ThreadsfromtheNationalTapestry?sub_confirmation=1 Thank you to our sponsor, The Badge Maker - proudly carrying affordable Civil War Corps Badges and other hand-made historical reproductions for reenactors, living history interpreters, and lovers of history. Check out The Badge Maker and place your orders here https://www.civilwarcorpsbadges.com/ Producer: Dan Irving
About this episode: It was over 140 years ago that the American Red Cross was founded. Though most know its founder, few know the details of her lifetime of charity, sacrifice and service. This is an attempt to correct that. This is the story of an American pioneer - an American hero. This is the story of Clara Barton. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Charles Sumner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sumner Frances Gage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Dana_Barker_Gage Dorence Atwater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorence_Atwater Samuel Green https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Abbott_Green Dorothea Dix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Dix For Further Reading: A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War by Stephen B. Oates https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Valor-Clara-Barton-Civil/dp/0028740122 Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Subscribe to the Threads from the National Tapestry YouTube Channel here https://www.youtube.com/@ThreadsfromtheNationalTapestry?sub_confirmation=1 Thank you to our sponsor, The Badge Maker - proudly carrying affordable Civil War Corps Badges and other hand-made historical reproductions for reenactors, living history interpreters, and lovers of history. Check out The Badge Maker and place your orders here https://www.civilwarcorpsbadges.com/ Producer: Dan Irving
About this episode: In the first days of the American Civil War, Winfield Scott, the then 74-year-old Union General-in-Chief, advised a strategy that he believed was key in putting down the Southern rebellion. Derisively tabbed the “Anaconda” Plan, Scott believed: one, the Border States had to be held and used as avenues for invasion; two, Southern ports should be blockaded and, third, to split the Confederacy, the Mississippi River should become a Union highway. This is the story of the incredible campaign that made Scott’s third element reality. This is the story of Ulysses S. Grant’s campaign and siege of Vicksburg. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: David G. Farragut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Farragut John Alexander McClernand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alexander_McClernand John C. Pemberton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Pemberton Earl Van Dorn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Van_Dorn Nathan Bedford Forrest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest Stephen D. Lee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_D._Lee Additional Resources: Assaults on Vicksburg - May 22nd, 1863 Operations against Vicksburg and Grant's Bayou Operations - November 1862 through April 1863 Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Subscribe to the Threads from the National Tapestry YouTube Channel here https://www.youtube.com/@ThreadsfromtheNationalTapestry?sub_confirmation=1 Thank you to our sponsor, The Badge Maker - proudly carrying affordable Civil War Corps Badges and other hand-made historical reproductions for reenactors, living history interpreters, and lovers of history. Check out The Badge Maker and place your orders here https://www.civilwarcorpsbadges.com/ Producer: Dan Irving
About this episode: It was January 1872. In Lexington, Virginia and on the campus of recently re-named Washington and Lee College, former Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early was on a mission: a mission to venerate Robert E. Lee, and to give Southerners a positive spin on their defeat - not only to address the recent past, but to arm them and their descendants with, as he and his disciples put it, a “correct” narrative of the war. This is the story of an ideology that simmers even to this day. This is the story of the creation and foundations of the Lost Cause. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Patrick Cleburne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Cleburne Jubal Anderson Early https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubal_Early James Longstreet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Longstreet Albert Sidney Johnston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Sidney_Johnston Philip Sheridan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sheridan Frederick Douglass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass For Further Reading: The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History by Gary W. Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Lost-Cause-Civil-History/dp/0253222664 Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Subscribe to the Threads from the National Tapestry YouTube Channel here https://www.youtube.com/@ThreadsfromtheNationalTapestry?sub_confirmation=1 Thank you to our sponsor, The Badge Maker - proudly carrying affordable Civil War Corps Badges and other hand-made historical reproductions for reenactors, living history interpreters, and lovers of history. Check out The Badge Maker and place your orders here https://www.civilwarcorpsbadges.com/ Producer: Dan Irving
About this episode: It was May 1864 and Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign was underway. After two days of violence in the Wilderness and a swing to the southeast, weary men from the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac found themselves eyeball to eyeball yet again. The fighting to come: savage, up close, personal, hand to hand. The consequences: bloody, even ghastly. This is the story of the most vicious episode of sustained combat ever to occur on the North American continent. This is the story of Spotsylvania Court House. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Gouverneur Warren https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouverneur_K._Warren Richard S. Ewell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_S._Ewell John B. Gordon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Gordon Wesley Merritt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Merritt Fitzhugh Lee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzhugh_Lee Philip Sheridan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sheridan Additional Resources: Movements, May 7th-8th, 1864 Actions, May 8th, 1864 Situation 4 pm, May 9th, 1864 Actions, May 10th, 1864 Actions, May 12th, 1864 Movements, May 13th-14th, 1894 **Map Images by Hal Jespersen, www.posix.com/CW http://www.posix.com/CW For Further Reading: The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7–12, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea Esq. https://www.amazon.com/Battles-Spotsylvania-Court-Yellow-Tavern/dp/0807130672 Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Subscribe to the Threads from the National Tapestry YouTube Channel here https://www.youtube.com/@ThreadsfromtheNationalTapestry?sub_confirmation=1 Thank you to our sponsor, The Badge Maker - proudly carrying affordable Civil War Corps Badges and other hand-made historical reproductions for reenactors, living history interpreters, and lovers of history. Check out The Badge Maker and place your orders here https://www.civilwarcorpsbadges.com/ Producer: Dan Irving
About this episode: The United States Military Academy has a long and distinguished history. Established in 1802, its stated mission continues to be “to educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United States Army.” Six decades after its creation, that mission took on new and unusual interpretation, for their country was at war with itself. All too often, fellow alums and classmates - all trained on the west bank of the Hudson River - were pitted against one another. This is the story of one prominent class that found itself caught in that tragic dilemma. This is the story of the West Point Class of 1846. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson George B. McClellan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._McClellan Richard Delafield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Delafield Zachary Taylor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Taylor Winfield Scott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfield_Scott Cadmus M. Wilcox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmus_M._Wilcox For Further Reading: The Class Of 1846: From West Point To Appomattox - Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan And Their Brothers by John C. Waugh https://www.amazon.com/Class-1846-Appomattox-Stonewall-McClellan/dp/0446515949/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving
About this episode: It was March of 1865 and the men under William Tecumseh Sherman had punched their way into North Carolina. In this, the Carolinas Campaign, over 60,000 battle-hardened veterans marched, as they had since they left Atlanta, in two columns. To confront the blue surge, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston boldly planned to throw some 21,000 men upon one of the isolated Federal wings. And so would be fought, on low-lying, marshy ground near a small hamlet in southeastern North Carolina, the largest land battle in the history of the Old North State. It would be the last major display of Confederate resistance in the American Civil War. This is the story of that desperate effort. This is the story of the Battle of Bentonville. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: John M. Schofield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schofield Zebulon B. Vance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebulon_Baird_Vance Braxton Bragg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braxton_Bragg Hugh Judson Kilpatrick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Judson_Kilpatrick John A. "Blackjack" Logan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Logan Alpheus S. Williams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpheus_S._Williams For Further Reading: The Battle Of Bentonville: Last Stand In The Carolinas by Mark L. Bradley https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Bentonville-Last-Stand-Carolinas/dp/1882810023 Bentonville: The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. https://www.amazon.com/Bentonville-Battle-Sherman-Johnston-America-ebook/dp/B008BSCSVW/ref=sr_1_4?qid=1680292751&refinements=p_27%3ANathaniel+Cheairs+Hughes+Jr.&s=books&sr=1-4 Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving
About this episode: It was early 1863 and in the very midst of a civil war that challenged the continued existence of the Union, an event that looked to its future. Indeed, a daunting enterprise – the breaking of ground for the Central Pacific Railroad. This is the story of a great undertaking. This is the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Grenville M. Dodge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenville_M._Dodge Theodore D. Judah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Judah Leland Stanford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Stanford Thomas "Doc" Durant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Durant Lewis Clement http://cprr.org/Museum/Lewis_Metzler_Clement.html Charles Crocker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Crocker For Further Reading: Nothing Like it in the World: The Men that Built the Transcontinental Railroad by Stephen E. Ambrose https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Like-World-Transcontinental-1863-1869/dp/0743203178 Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving Thank you to our sponsor Bob Graesser, Raleigh Civil War Round Table's editor of The Knapsack newsletter and the Round Table's webmaster at http://www.raleighcwrt.org http://www.raleighcwrt.org/
About this episode: Shockingly brief given the lives lost, cost, and national trauma, but the American Civil War’s two greatest significances are that the nation was preserved and that slavery was ended. This is the story of a major step in ridding this country's association with “the peculiar institution.” This is the story of the labored steps for the passage of the 13th Amendment. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Horace Greeley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Greeley Lyman Trumbull https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman_Trumbull Edward Bates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bates Thomas Corwin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Corwin James Mitchell Ashley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mitchell_Ashley Thaddeus Stevens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaddeus_Stevens Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving Thank you to our sponsor Bob Graesser, Raleigh Civil War Round Table's editor of The Knapsack newsletter and the Round Table's webmaster at http://www.raleighcwrt.org http://www.raleighcwrt.org/
About this episode: There are some sixteen accounts about the life of the President of the Confederacy. Unlike his counterpart, Abraham Lincoln, this President, from the perspective of most historians, has not fared well. Brittle, ill-tempered, one who held grudges, possessed poor political skills. In short, a second-rate leader who loved bureaucracy and was unable to grow with responsibility. When asked why the Confederacy lost the war, Southern-born David Potter, a professor of history at both Yale and Stanford Universities, commented that this Chief Executive should shoulder much of the blame. Writing some two decades ago, another historian and biographer, William Cooper, Jr., wrote that we should look at a man from his time and not condemn him for not being a man of our time. Though that seems to fly in the face of current sensitivities and agendas, that is what we, now, shall attempt to do. This is the story of a man, like Robert E. Lee, who is a marquee figurehead for a short-lived nation whose Constitution supported states’ rights and slavery. A man subjected to the bolts of lightning flung his way for being its elected leader. This is the story of the first and only President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson F. Davis. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Joseph Davis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Emory_Davis Franklin Pierce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Pierce Howell Cobb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howell_Cobb William L. Yancey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lowndes_Yancey Leonidas Polk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas_Polk Braxton Bragg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braxton_Bragg For Further Reading: Jefferson Davis, American by William J. Cooper, Jr. https://www.amazon.com/Jefferson-Davis-American-William-Cooper/dp/0375725423 Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving Thank you to our sponsor Bob Graesser, Raleigh Civil War Round Table's editor of The Knapsack newsletter and the Round Table's webmaster at http://www.raleighcwrt.org http://www.raleighcwrt.org/
About this episode: It was a Thursday, March 10, 1864, when the brand-spanking new General-in-Chief of all US forces arrived at Brandy Station, Virginia where Major General George Gordon Meade made his headquarters. Fully aware the most pressing military matter was for the Army of the Potomac to forcefully campaign, Lieutenant General U. S. Grant arrived from Washington City to do what he believed he had to do - find a new man to lead the that eastern army. The Pennsylvanian, Meade, expected as much and opened their conversation by offering to uncomplainingly step down and serve in a subordinate role if Grant desired one of his own - perhaps a westerner like Sherman. Instead, Meade’s candor impressed Grant and, whatever the Lieutenant General originally thought about the Army of the Potomac’s commander, the two hit it off. They sensed they could work together. Up in Washington City, the 16th President of the United States felt certain that, after three years of trial and bloody error, he finally had found his general. This is the story of his learning curve and role as the nation’s top military official. This is the story of Abraham Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Elmer Ellsworth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_E._Ellsworth Irvin McDowell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvin_McDowell Henry Halleck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Halleck Simon Cameron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Cameron Joseph Hooker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hooker Elihu B. Washburne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu_B._Washburne For Further Reading: Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief by Geoffrey Perrett https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-War-Americas-President-Commander/dp/0375507388 Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving Thank you to our sponsor Bob Graesser, Raleigh Civil War Round Table's editor of The Knapsack newsletter and the Round Table's webmaster at http://www.raleighcwrt.org http://www.raleighcwrt.org/
About this episode: The former Confederate general entered the ruined city of Richmond from the south and in the midst of a heavy April shower. His route took him through the portion of city that was most thoroughly burned in the evacuation fires of April 2nd. People stopped and stared or pointed as he made his way up Main Street. To them, he tipped his hat. Eventually, he turned and stopped in front of a three-story red brick house at 707 East Franklin. There, he dismounted Traveller, gave the reins to another, opened the iron gate, walked to the eight steps to the portico, climbed them, turned, took off his muddy hat, bowed to those that had gathered, opened the door and disappeared. And that, I feel certain, was the way he would have liked it - to move past the war and, for the rest of his days, be a constructive and positive citizen. However, it seems history won’t let him. This is the story of a man - a marble man who, as of late, has become a lightning rod. This is the story of the last days of Robert E. Lee. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Jefferson Davis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis Jacob M. Howard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_M._Howard Richard S. Ewell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_S._Ewell William Lloyd Garrison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lloyd_Garrison George Peabody https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Peabody Woodrow Wilson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson For Further Reading: Robert E. Lee: A Biography by Emory M. Thomas https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Lee-Biography-Emory-Thomas/dp/0393316319 Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving Thank you to our sponsor Bob Graesser, Raleigh Civil War Round Table's editor of The Knapsack newsletter and the Round Table's webmaster at http://www.raleighcwrt.org http://www.raleighcwrt.org/
About this episode: Just some fifteen miles south of Chattanooga - there in the northwest corner of Georgia - there runs a creek with a harsh name. Indeed, its Cherokee or Creek origin means “River of Death.” That name was never more appropriate than in mid-September 1863 when Union and Confederate armies fought as if the entire war hinged on its outcome. In the end, it may well have, for all the circumstances that flowed from the battle’s outcome. This is the story of the second bloodiest day of the American Civil War. This is the story of the Battle of Chickamauga. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: William Rosecrans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rosecrans Braxton Bragg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braxton_Bragg Ambrose Burnside https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Burnside George H. Thomas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Henry_Thomas Leonidas Polk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas_Polk James A. Garfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield Additional Resources: Morning, September 19th, 1863 Early Afternoon, September 19th, 1863 Late Afternoon to Dark, September 19th, 1863 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., September 20th, 1863 11 a.m. to Mid-Afternoon, September 20th, 1863 Mid-Afternoon to Dark, September 20th, 1863 Defense of Horseshoe Ridge and Union Retreat, Brigade Details For Further Reading: This Terrible Sound: The Battle Of Chickamauga by Peter Cozzens https://www.amazon.com/This-Terrible-Sound-Chickamauga-Trilogy/dp/0252065948/ref=asc_df_0252065948/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312021455910&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18143856743442700613&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9009667&hvtargid=pla-562608992587&psc=1 Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. **Title Image by Keith Rocco **Map Images by Hal Jespersen, www.cwmaps.com http://www.cwmaps.com Producer: Dan Irving Thank you to our sponsor Bob Graesser, Raleigh Civil War Round Table's editor of The Knapsack newsletter and the Round Table's webmaster at http://www.raleighcwrt.org http://www.raleighcwrt.org/
About this episode: The two were quite famous. One went to war with weapons and men, and the other could do the same with words and wit - yet their separate paths became one. During this country’s great and terrible civil war, U. S. Grant saved the nation. After the war, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) would save U. S. Grant. This is the story of their remarkable friendship. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Ferdinand Ward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Ward William Henry Vanderbilt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Vanderbilt Richard Watson Gilder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Watson_Gilder Robert Underwood Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Underwood_Johnson George Childs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_William_Childs George Washington Cable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Cable For Further Reading: Grant and Twain: The Story of an American Friendship by Mark Perry https://www.amazon.com/Grant-Twain-Story-American-Friendship/dp/0812966139 Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving Thank you to our sponsor Bob Graesser, Raleigh Civil War Round Table's editor of The Knapsack newsletter and the Round Table's webmaster at http://www.raleighcwrt.org http://www.raleighcwrt.org/
About this episode: Since its creation, this nation has so embraced several of its victorious generals that it elected them as presidents. Up until the American Civil War, most notably George Washington, Andrew Jackson and Zachary Taylor come to mind. This, in the aftermath of war, is the story of another - a man who, like the president he served, came from the humblest of origins and found himself in this nation’s highest elected office. A man, who in many ways, found his political campaigns just as challenging - perhaps even more so - than his military ones. With a tip of the cap in particular to William McFeely’s biography, this is the story of Ulysses S. Grant, who not only was instrumental in winning the American Civil War, but in trying to win the peace that followed. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Andrew Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson Philip Sheridan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sheridan Julia Grant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Grant Edwin Stanton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Stanton William T. Sherman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman Charles Sumner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sumner Rutherford B. Hayes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes Samuel Clemens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving Thank you to our sponsor Bob Graesser, Raleigh Civil War Round Table's editor of The Knapsack newsletter and the Round Table's webmaster at http://www.raleighcwrt.org http://www.raleighcwrt.org/
About this episode: It was a Sunday, January 11, 1863 when the incredible tedium of blockade duty suddenly lurched into frenzied electricity. Five Federal Navy blockaders off Galveston, Texas had sighted a three-masted ship and, although it was some twenty miles from the fleet, the five-gun USS Hatteras moved to investigate. At about 100 yards, Lt. Commander Homer C. Blake demanded the mystery ship’s identity. In response, someone answered, “This is Her Britannic Majesty’s steamer Petrel.” Unimpressed and suspicious, Blake wanted to board and inspect the vessel which was his right under international law. To his request, there was an awkward silence. When the inspection boat from the Hatteras was only a length away from the ship in question, someone, in the twilight of day shouted, “This is the Confederate States steamer Alabama. Fire!” Thirteen minutes and several Confederate rounds later, the Hatteras sank with its colors still flying. The episode: a rare ship-to-ship encounter during the American Civil War and a favorite tactic for the Confederate commerce raider Alabama, whose career has few equals in modern sea warfare. This is its story. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: James Dunwoody Bulloch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dunwoody_Bulloch Charles Francis Adams Sr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Adams_Sr. Lord John Russell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Russell,_1st_Earl_Russell Raphael Semmes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Semmes John McIntosh Kell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McIntosh_Kell John A. Winslow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ancrum_Winslow Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving Thank you to our sponsor Bob Graesser, Raleigh Civil War Round Table's editor of The Knapsack newsletter and the Round Table's webmaster at http://www.raleighcwrt.org http://www.raleighcwrt.org/
About this episode: In mid-April of 1863, Major General Joseph Hooker oozed with confidence. So assured was he about his offensive preparations to defeat and, in his mind, destroy the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, he remarked to a group of his officers, "My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on General Lee, for I will have none." This is not the story of Joseph Hooker's greatest success, but that of the man he faced. For our 50th podcast, this is the story of Robert E. Lee's greatest and, perhaps, costliest victory. This is the story of Chancellorsville. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Joseph Hooker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hooker Daniel Butterfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Butterfield George H. Sharpe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Sharpe Robert E. Lee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee James Longstreet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Longstreet Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson George Meade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Meade Additional Resources: Hooker's Plan Military Situation, April 30th 1863 and Movements Since April 27th Actions, May 1st, 1863 Actions, May 2nd, 1863 Actions, Early Morning May 3rd, 1863 Actions, 10am - 5pm May 3rd, 1863 Actions, May 4th - May 6th, 1863 Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. **Title Image by Time Life **Map Images 1 & 3-7 by Hal Jespersen, www.cwmaps.com http://www.cwmaps.com **Map Image 2 by United States Military Academy Producer: Dan Irving Thank you to our sponsor Bob Graesser, Raleigh Civil War Round Table's editor of The Knapsack newsletter and the Round Table's webmaster at http://www.raleighcwrt.org http://www.raleighcwrt.org/
*Listener discretion advised* About this episode: There have been more works written on the American Civil War than there have been days since it ended, and the number of topics can be overwhelming. However, one aspect of the military experience has largely been overlooked. Hidden from families and posterity, a topic as timeless as war itself. This episode: sex and the American Civil War. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - AKA Lewis Carroll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll Joseph Hooker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hooker Louis Pasteur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur Walt Whitman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman Joshua Speed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Fry_Speed Daniel Sickles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sickles Additional Resources: "Prostitute License" for Anna Johnson "Prostitute License" for Bettie Duncan Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving Thank you to our sponsor Bob Graesser, Raleigh Civil War Round Table's editor of The Knapsack newsletter and the Round Table's webmaster at http://www.raleighcwrt.org http://www.raleighcwrt.org/
About this episode: James Murray Mason was a Virginian. As a former member of the U.S. Senate, he once served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. His credentials made him a natural selection for a diplomatic mission to London as a representative for the Confederate States of America. Then there was John Slidell, a native New Yorker, who moved to Louisiana where, as a young man, he embraced the French language and culture. He, too, was perfect for his assignment to Paris - to the court of Napoleon III. In November of 1861, they made their way on a mission which, if successful, would create a tipping point that would have profound consequences for the American Civil War. Then an event in the Bahama Channel abruptly interrupted their journey. Found on a British vessel, they were captured in international waters by a US armed sloop and, because of that, the two came the closest to accomplishing their designated mission long before they ever arrived. This is their story and the incredible ramifications of their capture. This is the story of the Trent Affair. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_John_Temple,_3rd_Viscount_Palmerston#American_Civil_War Napoleon III https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_III Robert Barnwell Rhett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barnwell_Rhett Queen Victoria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria Charles Francis Adams Sr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Adams_Sr. James Murray Mason https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Murray_Mason John Slidell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Slidell Charles Wilkes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wilkes Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving Thank you to our sponsor Bob Graesser, Raleigh Civil War Round Table's editor of The Knapsack newsletter and the Round Table's webmaster at http://www.raleighcwrt.org http://www.raleighcwrt.org/
About this episode: In July of 1863, Major General Henry Halleck posed a question to a fellow Major General, one who was encamped along the big, black river down in Mississippi. Asked about the continued depth of Confederate resistance after the fall of Vicksburg, William Tecumseh Sherman answered that he felt Confederate belligerence would continue until southerners were made to suffer for a conflict he firmly believed they started. As he put it, “war is upon us, none can deny it. I would not coax them or meet them halfway, but make them so sick of war that generations would pass away before they would again appeal to it.” By the end of 1864, after his capture and firing of Atlanta, and his 60 mile-wide path of destruction across Georgia, Sherman most certainly was doing his part to make southerners sick of the war. And now, as January gave way to February in 1865, he was about to make them even sicker. This is the story of Sherman’s march north from Savannah. This is the story of his Carolinas Campaign. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: John Schofield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schofield Braxton Bragg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braxton_Bragg Wade Hampton III https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Hampton_III Henry W. Slocum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Warner_Slocum Joseph E. Johnston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E._Johnston Orlando M. Poe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Metcalfe_Poe Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving
About this episode: On Wednesday, November 16, 1864, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman initiated a campaign that, as one military publication would put it, was either “one of the most brilliant or one of the most foolish things ever performed by a military leader.” Only eight days after Abraham Lincoln was re-elected, some 62,000 left behind a smoldering Atlanta and headed east for Savannah. As Sherman put it, “My first object was…to place my army in the very heart of Georgia.” And, indeed, he did just that and more. This is its story. Here, in Part II, this is the story of Sherman’s March to the Sea. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Howell Cobb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howell_Cobb William J. Hardee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Hardee Henry Slocum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Warner_Slocum Jefferson C. Davis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_C._Davis Gabriel J. Rains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_J._Rains P. G. T. Beauregard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._T._Beauregard Additional Resources: Map, Sherman's March to the Sea: November 15th - December 20th, 1864 Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving
About this episode: In the same month that Abraham Lincoln was re-elected, Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman began a campaign that cut a swath through the very heart of Dixie. Severing his supply line and committed to living off the country, he hoped to break the will of Southern resistance and knock Georgia out of the war. This episode, Part I, details the military chessboard that was late summer and fall of 1864 - the moves and calculations that had to occur in order to breathe life into Sherman’s plans. This is the story of the principals and conditions by which one of the most remarkable campaigns in American military history came about. This is the story of how Sherman’s March to the Sea became a reality. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: William Tecumseh Sherman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman Franz Sigel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Sigel Mary Boykin Chesnut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Boykin_Chesnut James Calhoun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Calhoun_(Atlanta_politician) William Joseph Hardee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Hardee John Schofield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schofield **Title Image by Mort Künstler Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving
About this episode: Major-General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was a native of the green jewel that is Ireland and commanded a division in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. For his military prowess, he was tabbed the “Stonewall of the West”, yet the warrior was often reserved and sentimental. That surfaced the day before the Battle of Franklin when he and his adjutant paused in a little village named Ashwood. There they found St. John’s Episcopal Church. Small and quaint, it was nestled in a grove, framed by ivy and, though late in fall, with flowers. Adding to the pastoral scene, there was fresh shrubbery - so very green when contrasted with the bleak, gray November sky. Cleburne reined in his horse at the church and, admiring the scene, and mused just loud enough for his adjutant to hear “that [the beauty here was] 'almost worth dying, to be buried in such a beautiful spot.'” With his time on earth now measured, in hours, his wish would soon come true. And, symbolically, in only five hours on the 30th of November, 1864, so too would the effective lifespan of an entire army. This is the story of the mortal wounding of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. This is the story of the Battle of Franklin. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: John Bell Hood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bell_Hood George Henry Thomas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Henry_Thomas Benjamin Franklin Cheatham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_F._Cheatham John McAllister Schofield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schofield Emerson Opdycke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerson_Opdycke Patrick Cleburne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Cleburne **Title Image by Don Troiani Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving
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 they learn that Tennessee was second. Indeed, the Western Theater of the American Civil War is shamefully neglected, despite the fact that it was in that theater where battles were fought and won that mortally wounded the Confederacy. The Battle of Nashville in December of 1864 was, perhaps, the most significant in helping to bring the South to its knees and the Federal officer who led that victorious army has, like the theater in which he was engaged, been overlooked. This episode hopes to bring attention and kudos to him. An officer that former naval commander and historian, Thomas Buell, noted was unique - a Southerner who not only remained loyal to the Union but contributed mightily to its winning the war. Our story is about a Virginian who, despite his state’s secession, chose blue: George Henry Thomas. ----more---- Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode: Henry Halleck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Halleck Don Carlos Buell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Carlos_Buell Braxton Bragg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braxton_Bragg William Starke Rosecrans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rosecrans Philip Sheridan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sheridan Gordon Granger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Granger For Additional Reading: Thomas Buell, The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War, 1998 https://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Generals-Combat-Leadership-Civil/dp/0609801732 Get The Guide: Want to learn more about the Civil War? A great place to start is Fred's guide, The Civil War: A History of the War between the States https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761113983/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_.CbSAbD23Y2X1 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing. Producer: Dan Irving
