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.
- Update frequency
- every 29 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 90
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
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 July, 1863. This is the story of Mr. Linco…
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 County, North Carolina corn field. It would …
8 - 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 that moved popular historian Bruce Catton…
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 McClellan, the wife of Union MG George Brinton…
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, Abraham Lincoln, called for 75,000 thre…
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 the banks of the Hudson, he had been a…
4 - ”Stonewall” - Part 01
About this episode:
“Stonewall” Jackson would’ve been the perfect protagonist for Greek or Shakespearean tragedy; a commanding officer struck down only hours after his greatest tactical success. An…
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 many wars before and since, winning th…
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. Yet, as my father and many of his gener…
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 reports of more joint military exercises and…