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Civil War Podcasts
Listen to the podcast: "Threads from the National Tapestry" -Stories from the American Civil War


Episode 1: Fort Sumter
Episode 2: The Common Soldier
Episode 3: A Stillness at Appomattox
Episode 4: Stonewall (Stonewall Jackson)-Part I
Episode 5: Stonewall (Stonewall Jackson)-Part II
Episode 6: The Plains of Manassas
Episode 7: Little Mac (George B. McClellan)
Episode 8: "Sheer Adulterated Violence" (The Battle of Antietam)
Episode 9: The CSS Albemarle
Episode 10: Mr. Lincoln Goes to Gettysburg (The Gettysburg Address)
Episode 11: Fredericksburg and the Winter of 1862-’63
Episode 12: The Confederacy's Goliath-Fort Fisher
Episode 13: Forts Henry and Donelson
Episode 14: Lincoln's Greatest Speech (Second Inaugural Address)
Episode 15: Shiloh
Episode 16: The Wilderness
Episode 17: The Seven Day's Campaign
Episode 18: The Crater
Episode 19: Second Manassas
Episode 20: Spies, Raiders and Intelligence Gathering
Episode 21: Mary Todd Lincoln
Episode 22: Chattanooga-Part I
Episode 23: Chattanooga-Part II
Episode 24: Stones River
Episode 25: The Hunley
Episode 26: Pea Ridge
Episode 27: April 14, 1865-Assassination
Episode 28: The Flight of John Wilkes Booth
Episode 29: The New York City Draft Riots
Episode 30: Kansas and Missouri-The Border War
Episode 31: Mr. Lincoln's Antietam Visit
Episode 32: The Election of 1860
Episode 33: South Carolina Secedes
Episode 34: Nathan Bedford Forrest-Part I
Episode 35: Nathan Bedford Forrest-Part II
Episode 36: Avenging Angel - John Brown
Episode 37: The Confederacy's "Greatest" Surrender - The Bennett Place
Episode 38: July 1, 1863: A Meeting Engagement - The First Day at Gettysburg
Episode 39: July 2, 1863 - A Rolling Thunder - The Second Day at Gettysburg
Episode 40: July 3, 1863 - Climax - The Third Day at Gettysburg
Episode 41: The Northern Home Front
Episode 42: The Southern Home Front
Episode 43: The "Rock", The "Sledge": George Henry Thomas
Episode 44: Five Fateful Hours: The Battle of Franklin
Episode 45: Reaping the Whirlwind: Sherman‘s March to the Sea - Part 1
Episode 46: Reaping the Whirlwind: Sherman’s March to the Sea - Part 2
Episode 47: "Into the Belly of the Beast" - Sherman's Carolinas Campaign
Episode 48: The Trent Affair
Episode 49: Concealed Stories: Sex in the American Civil War
Episode 50: Lee's Finest Hour: Chancellorsville
Episode 51: "Beat To Quarters!": The C.S.S Alabama

Civil War Battles
The Atlanta Campaign
Antietam/ Sharpsburg
Appomattox
Battles and Events in North Carolina & the Eastern Theatre: Fall 1861
Battles and Events in the Western Theatre: Fall 1861
Bentonville
Big Bethel and the Early Battles: Spring 1861
First Bull Run/ Manassas
Second Bull Run/ Manassas
Sherman’s Carolinas’ Campaign
Chattanooga
Chancellorsville
Chickamauga
The “Crater”
Franklin & Nashville
Fredericksburg
Fort Fisher
Forts Henry & Donelson
Fort Sumter
Gettysburg
Grant’s Overland Campaign
Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign
Mobile Bay
USS Monitor vs. CSS Virginia
Pea Ridge/ Elkhorn Tavern
The Peninsula Campaign
Sherman’s March to the Sea
The Seven Days’ Campaign
The Shenandoah Valley-1864
Shiloh/ Pittsburg Landing
Stones River/ Murfreesboro
Vicksburg

 



Biographies - Historic Civil War Figures
A. P. Hill
Abraham Lincoln
“My Friend, the Enemy”-Abraham Lincoln and McClellan in the Fall of 1861
Ambrose E. Burnside
Clara Barton
Braxton Bragg

Edwin M. Stanton
Edmund Ruffin
George Armstrong Custer
George B. McClellan
George Gordon Meade
George H. Thomas
Gideon Welles
John B. Gordon
Harriet Tubman
Henry Wager Halleck
J. E. B. Stuart
James Birdseye McPherson
James Johnston Pettigrew
James Longstreet
After the War - James Longstreet
Jefferson F. Davis
After the War - Jefferson Davis
John Bell Hood
John Brown
John Pope
John Singleton Mosby
John Wilkes Booth
Joseph E. Johnston
Joseph Hooker
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Jubal Anderson Early
Louis T. Wigfall
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mathew B. Brady
Nathan Bedford Forrest
P. G. T. Beauregard
Patrick Cleburne
Philip Sheridan
Robert E. Lee
After the War - Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee-The Marble Man
Robert Barnwell Rhett
Salmon P. Chase
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
U. S. Grant
After the War - U. S. Grant
Varina Howell Davis
William Lowndes Yancey
William H. Seward
William Tecumseh Sherman
Winfield Scott Hancock
Zebulon Baird Vance


Special Topics on the Civil War
The 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments
The 26th North Carolina
The 54th Massachusetts
The 1850s-The Hopeless Decade
African-Americans
America’s First Ladies During and After the War
Ante-Bellum Presidents
Arms and Technology
The Blockade and its Runners
The Bloody Missouri
Chamberlain at Little Round Top and Appomattox: His Finest Hours
Charleston: The Cradle of Secession
Civil War Generals After the War
Civil War Generals and Their Wives
The Common Soldier
Confederate and Union Political, Diplomatic and Military Situation: Spring 1861
CSS Alabama
CSS Albemarle
The Hunley: The Confederacy's "Infernal Machine"
Mr. Davis's Confederate Cabinet
Diplomacy During the Civil War
The Early Players-Northern and Southern Generals: Spring 1861
The Election of 1864
“Eyeball to Eyeball-John Bull and Uncle Sam”-The Trent Affair
Food and Diet during the American Civil War
The Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg: The Painted and Photographic Record
Gettysburg: Where Monuments Stand as Silent Sentinels
Grant at Appomattox: His Finest Hour
Great Blunders
Historiography of the Causes
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
The Inauguration of Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy in the Spring 1861
The Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln and the Union in the Spring 1861
The Irish Brigade
The Iron Brigade
Jackson and the Shenandoah Valley Campaign: His Finest Hour
James E. Waddell and the CSS Shenandoah
The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond
Lee and Chancellorsville: His Finest Hour
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Lincoln’s Assassination
Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet
Lincoln: His Wit and Humor
Lincoln and His Congress
Lincoln and his Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address
Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief
Lincoln at Antietam
Lincoln: Separating Man and Myth
Logistics
The Lost Cause
Medicine
Missionary Ridge
The Navies
The Navies in Late Summer and Fall of 1861
North Carolina’s Civil War Answer to Virginia
North Carolina’s Mountains during the War
North Carolina at Gettysburg
North Carolina at the Battle of Sharpsburg/Antietam
North Carolina’s Role in the Civil War
North Carolina's Secession
The North Carolina Piedmont During the War
The Orange Guard at Appomattox
The Orange Guard at Sharpsburg
The Orphan Brigade
Overview: 1619-1861
Overview: 1861-‘62
Overview: 1862-‘63
Overview: 1863-‘64
Overview: 1864-‘65
The Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble Charge
The Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble Charge: In Mind and Memory
Prisons and POW’s
Reconstruction: 1865-1877
Reconstruction in the Union-Part I
Reconstruction in the Union-Part II
Reconstruction in the Old North State-Part I
Reconstruction in the Old North State-Part II
Reconstruction in the Village-UNC and Chapel Hill
Science and Technology
Sex in the American Civil War
Sherman and Shiloh: His Finest Hour
South Carolina’s Secession
Stoneman’s Raid in North Carolina
Strategy and Tactics
The Southern Home Front
Spies, Scouts and Raiders
Spies and Intelligence Gathering
The Stonewall Brigade
The Underground Railroad
The West Point Class of 1846
“What Ifs”
Women
The Worst Generals
Union and Confederate Generals After the War

Unlikely Associates-U. S. Grant and Mark Twain




North Carolina History

Blackbeard
Chang & Eng Bunker
Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice
Navy Preflight Cloudbusters
Daniel Boone
Elisha Mitchell and His Mountains
Guilford Courthouse
Haunted North Carolina
James Taylor
Kings Mountain
North Carolina in World War I
North Carolina in World War II
North Carolina in the War for Independance
North Carolina Civil War Ironclads
North Carolina's Most Memorable Hurricanes
Kitty Hawk and the Wright Brothers
North Carolina's Mountains During the Civil War
Reconstruction in Chapel and at UNC
Sam Ervin
The Andy Griffith Show
The Biltmore House
The Blueridge Parkway
Graveyard of the Atlantic
North Carolina's Lighthouses
The History of UNC: Parts I-IV
The Lost Colony
The 1957 UNC Basketball Championship Season
The 1982 UNC Basketball Championship Season
The 1993 UNC Basketball Championship Season
The 2009 UNC Basketball Championship Season
The USS North Carolina
The Wilmington Race Riots
Thomas Wolfe
Charles Kuralt
North Carolina's Native Americans
The Salisbury Prison
The Rebellion of the Regulators
The Reed Mine & Tar Heel Gold
George Moses Horton
Fort Fisher
Woody Durham
The Greensboro Sit-Ins



Field Trips

Battlefield and historic site tours
Antietam/ Sharpsburg
Appomattox
Bennett Place
Bentonville
Charleston
Chancellorsville
Chickamauga
Chattanooga
Charleston
Cold Harbor
Ford’s Theatre
Fort Fisher
Fort Macon
Fort Sumter
Fredericksburg
Frayser’s Farm
Front Royal
Gaines’s Mill
Guiney’s Station
Gettysburg
Harpers Ferry
Malvern Hill
Manassas/ Bull Run
McDowell
New Market
Newport News
Pamplin Park
Petersburg
Richmond
South Mountain
Spotsylvania Court House
Washington D.C.
Winchester
The Wilderness