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 completely reshape Federal strategic plans in North Carolina, Virginia, and the entire Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
CSS Albemarle
Map Of Eastern NC:
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.
*Title Image by Julian Oliver Davidson, after a sketch by Miss M. H. Hoke
Producer: Dan Irving
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053 - The Hero And The Humorist: The Friendship of U.S. Grant and Mark Twain
052 - ”Let Us Have Peace”: The Post-War Life Of U.S. Grant
051 - ”Beat To Quarters!”: The C.S.S Alabama
050 - Lee’s Finest Hour: Chancellorsville
049 - Concealed Stories: Sex in the American Civil War
048 - The Trent Affair
047 - ”Into the Belly of the Beast” - Sherman’s Carolinas Campaign
046 - Reaping the Whirlwind: Sherman’s March to the Sea - Part 2
045 - Reaping the Whirlwind: Sherman‘s March to the Sea - Part 1
044 - Five Fateful Hours: The Battle of Franklin
043 - The ”Rock”, The ”Sledge”: George Henry Thomas
042 - The Southern Home Front
041 - The Northern Home Front
040 - July 3, 1863 - Climax - The Third Day at Gettysburg
039 - July 2, 1863 - A Rolling Thunder - The Second Day at Gettysburg
038 - July 1, 1863: A Meeting Engagement - The First Day at Gettysburg
037 - The Confederacy's "Greatest" Surrender - The Bennett Place
036 - Avenging Angel - John Brown
035 - Nathan Bedford Forrest - Part 2
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