About this episode:
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 the chain of events that led to the first confrontation of the American Civil War but throughout and even beyond the four-year long conflict. Men and women caught in the cross-hairs of history or those that created them. This is the story of the characters and events that led to momentous drama in Charleston Harbor. This is the cast and story of Fort Sumter Revisited.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Robert Anderson
James Buchanan
Winfield Scott
Robert Toombs
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Abner Doubleday
For Further Reading:
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War by Maury Klein
Mary Chesnut's Civil War by Mary Chesnut
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Producer: Dan Irving
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1:31:19
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 in the 160th year of its capture, we, again, turn our attention to the massive earthen fort and those that took part in the campaign to either storm or defend the Confederate Goliath. This is the expanded story of the fort whose fall in January of 1865 hastened, in many respects, Lee’s retreat from Petersburg, Virginia and, subsequently, the surrender of his army at Appomattox. This is Fort Fisher Revisited.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Rose O'Neal Greenhow
William Lamb
William Henry Chase Whiting
Braxton Bragg
Gideon Welles
David Dixon Porter
For Further Reading:
The Wilmington Campaign: Last Rays Of Departing Hope by Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr.
Confederate Goliath: The Battle Of Fort Fisher by Rod Gragg
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Producer: Dan Irving
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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 is the story of Harriet Tubman.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Charles Nalle
Frederick Douglass
Thomas Garrett
William Seward
John Brown
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Producer: Dan Irving
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1:06:25
082 - Resistance By Liberation: The Underground Railroad
About this episode:
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 a hateful institution that remains to this day, a cross this country must bear. This is the story of brave crusaders who risked much and an organization that sought to right a moral evil. This is the story of the Underground Railroad.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Elijah Lovejoy
Charles Nalle
Harriet Tubman
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Henry Box Brown
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Producer: Dan Irving
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081 - Salve For The Soul: Music During The American Civil War
About this episode:
This is an episode about a phenomenon as old as time itself. Something that, throughout the ages, has brought laughter, reflection, made and rekindled memories and even moved men and women to tears. From stirring airs to ballads and everything in between, this is the story of that which has been described as a salve for the soul. This is the story of Music during the American Civil War.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Julia Ward Howe
George Frederick Root
Patrick Gilmore
Henry Clay Work
Stephen Foster
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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
Special thanks to WCHL for providing the song recordings used in this episode.
Producer: Dan Irving
About 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.
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