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064 - Taking Down The Citadel: The Siege of Vicksburg
Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
07/28/23 • 56 min
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.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
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 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing.
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Producer: Dan Irving
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062 - ”...Hell Can’t Beat That Terrible Scene”: Spotsylvania Court House
Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
05/26/23 • 67 min
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.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
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
For Further Reading:
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 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing.
Subscribe to the Threads from the National Tapestry YouTube Channel here
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
Producer: Dan Irving
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063 - Then And Now: The Lost Cause
Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
06/30/23 • 61 min
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.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
For Further Reading:
The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History by Gary W. Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan
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 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing.
Subscribe to the Threads from the National Tapestry YouTube Channel here
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
Producer: Dan Irving
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061 - Duty, Honor, Countries: The West Point Class of 1846
Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
04/27/23 • 61 min
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.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson
For Further Reading:
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 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing.
Producer: Dan Irving
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060 - Desperate Times, Desperate Battle: The Battle Of Bentonville
Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
03/31/23 • 67 min
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.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
For Further Reading:
The Battle Of Bentonville: Last Stand In The Carolinas by Mark L. Bradley
Bentonville: The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr.
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 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing.
Producer: Dan Irving
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077 - "Stirring Violent Passions" - Civil War Prisons and Prisoners of War
Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
08/26/24 • 68 min
About this episode:
Too often, we think only of wild assaults, the terrible collision of armed men, the desperate fighting of soldiers - often, hand to hand - and the killed and wounded but, in the American Civil War, we tend to overlook what happened to another element that comprised battle casualties: Those captured. This is the story about the American Civil War’s prisoners of war. This is also the story of the prisons that contained them.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
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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
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
Producer: Dan Irving
075 - "It Was Not War; It Was Murder" - North Anna and Cold Harbor
Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
07/01/24 • 76 min
About this episode:
Washington City was buzzing with anxiety. It was the middle of May 1864 and no news had arrived from Virginia for days. Then, finally, in flurries, it came - word from the front and it was most welcome. Grant was posed to strike a mortal blow. Readers clutched papers that, in bold print, screamed “Extra.” Unable to concentrate, Congress adjourned for three days. At 10 pm on the evening of May 11th, the President moved out onto the Executive Mansion portico where, before him, a massive crowd sprawled on the lawn. He announced the times as dramatic and, in his high, reedy voice, Mr. Lincoln read a message from Grant, “I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.” And, indeed, it would. To the tune of Union casualties that numbered as many or more as Robert E. Lee had in his Confederate army. This is the story of two more Overland Campaign collisions between Lee and Grant. Two more that continued to bleed both armies. This is the story of the battles at the North Anna and Cold Harbor.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Additional Resources:
Fighting at North Anna, VA - May 24th, 1864
Actions, Battle of Cold Harbor - June 3rd, 1864
For Further Reading:
To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13–25, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea
Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26–June 3, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea
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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
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
Producer: Dan Irving
29 - The New York City Draft Riots
Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
08/28/20 • 53 min
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, flocking en masse together under national colors - to fight to preserve the Union, and to rid the nation of the hateful institution of slavery. As will be evidenced in this episode, nothing could be farther from the truth. Within the federal union in the summer of 1863, there was war-weariness. Men of influence like New York politician Samuel J. Tilden, and artist/inventor Samuel F.B. Morse dared to call for peace at any price. And it wasn’t only men of power - there were some men and women representing several societal classes who professed pro-southern sentiments. Indeed, New York City had its share of these so-called copperheads. In February of 1863, a development added to their disaffection: the passage of the Enrollment and Conscription Act. A draft. So by the 4th of July that year, with word that R.E. Lee was at the head of a Confederate army in Pennsylvania, and U.S. Grant’s siege dragging on and on down at Vicksburg, Mississippi, not everyone felt like celebrating independence. Too many saw no end to the conflict, and now, men were going to be forced to fight in it. Taken altogether, a cauldron of simmering, seething fuel - all that was needed was a spark, and it came on a Monday, the 13th of July. What followed, still the largest civil and most racially charged urban disturbance in American history. And now, its story.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Source For This Episode:
James McCague, The Second Rebellion: The Story of the New York City Draft Riots of 1863, 1968
For Additional Reading:
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 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing.
Producer: Dan Irving
056 - Abraham Lincoln: Commander-In-Chief
Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
11/28/22 • 72 min
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.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
For Further Reading:
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 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
1 - Flashpoint 1861 Fort Sumter
Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War
04/03/18 • 27 min
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 reports of more joint military exercises and hundreds of thousands of troops eyeballing one another along the world's most fortified border, I have recently pondered if the DMZ's Panmunjom is the 21st-century's version of Charleston in 1861. Perhaps, a stretch. Perhaps not. But with that reflection, we now look back over time's shoulder. This is "Flashpoint-1861."
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Major Robert Anderson John Buchanan Floyd Roger Pryor Winfield Scott Don Carlos Buell James Buchanan Gustavus V. Fox Other References From This Episode: The Star of the West The Bells of St. Michaels Great Resources To Check Out: Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War Map of Charleston Harbor 1861: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 from Workman Publishing. The guide is in its 9th printing.
**Image Source: Bob Zeller, The Blue and Gray in Black and White: A History of Civil War Photography.
**Map by Hal Jespersen
Producer: Dan Irving
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The average episode length on Threads From The National Tapestry: Stories From The American Civil War is 54 minutes.
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