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- Manassas - Part 3
Reverend Turner is undercover in JEB Stuart's cavalry when he encounters bounty hunters bringing in three deserters. He has reason to believe that the three North Carolina deserters have been in touch with George and Chester. Reverend Turner tries to pry information from them, but they have a surprise for J.F. Turner that he didn't see coming.
32 min - Manassas - Part 2
As George and Chester make their way behind enemy lines, they encounter some unsavory characters that threaten their mission of finding Reverend Turner. In the meantime, Reverend Turner has run into problems all his own as he operates within JEB Stuart's cavalry.
42 min - Manassas - Part 1
George and Chester are on assignment behind enemy lines to find Reverend Turner. The last they knew, he had infiltrated JEB Stuart's cavalry and had delivered a message to them at the well by the barn. However, he had not returned to Union lines and they were now trying to hunt him down while a major battle is brewing.
35 min - A Box of Letters - Part 5
George, Chester and Reverend Turner begin their second spy mission behind enemy lines as Jessie Scouts. This time, they are to infiltrate JEB Stuart's cavalry and then get a message back to Union lines. Reverend Turner was eager for his turn to meet the suave Confederate general once again, for they had met before, and to even the score.
40 min - A Box of Letters - Part 4
George, Will and Rev. Turner are behind enemy lines in the middle of the night, spying on the Confederate position and troop strength. As they travel back to Union lines, they are surprised by troopers out on patrol. But George and Will are more surprised when they find out Rev. Turner and the girl who exchanged wagons with them in the middle of the night are in cahoots for more than just spying.
29 min - A Box of Letters - Part 3
George, Chester and Reverend Turner have slipped behind enemy lines in the middle of the night as part of their first mission with the Jessie Scouts. They have exchanged wagons with a spy named Jessie. Now they have to get back to the Union lines before the sun comes up, but there is something that will put this mission in peril.
This podcast is based on the book A Call to Arms by Kevin Yaney, which is part of the Fourth of July Trilogy. Copyright 2022 Kevin Yaney. You can learn more at www.FourthofJulyBook.com
"Hired Gun" music by ScoreWizard
Sound Effects by Envato and Yaney Marketing, Inc.
Narration and character voices by Selena Helvey
Other voices by Kevin Yaney and Eleven Labs.
34 min - A Box of Letters - Part 2
Corrinne Miller is trying to finish her rounds at the Delaware County Home for the Aged. It was the Fourth of July and she wanted to join her husband and two sons at the fireworks show. However, before she could leave, she discovered Louisa McLain reading a box of letters and she was intrigued by what those letters revealed.
This podcast is based on the book A Call to Arms by Kevin Yaney, which is part of the Fourth of July Trilogy. Copyright 2022 Kevin Yaney. You can learn more at www.FourthofJulyBook.com
"Hired Gun" music by ScoreWizard
Sound Effects by Envato and Yaney Marketing, Inc.
Narration and character voices by Selena Helvey
Other voices by Kevin Yaney
34 min - A Box of Letters - Part 1
On July 4, 1921, at the Delaware County Home for the Aged, Louisa McLain opens a box of letters she has kept for 60 years. At nearly 100 years old, Louisa pulls each letter out of a neatly stacked box and reads, and remembers her son going off to fight in the Civil War. As the story unfolds, her son George and his friend Chester Gerber run off in the middle of the night to fight a war and find more than they bargained for.
This podcast is based on the book A Call to Arms by Kevin Yaney, which is part of the Fourth of July Trilogy. Copyright 2022 Kevin Yaney. You can learn more at www.FourthofJulyBook.com
"Hired Gun" music by ScoreWizard
Sound Effects by Envato and Yaney Marketing, Inc.
Narration and character voices by Selena Helvey
Other voices by Kevin Yaney
28 min - Introduction to A Call to Arms
Listen as Kevin Yaney introduces you to the Civil War and the first book of his Fourth of July Trilogy: A Call to Arms.
This podcast is based on the book A Call to Arms by Kevin Yaney, which is part of the Fourth of July Trilogy. Copyright 2022 Kevin Yaney. You can learn more at www.FourthofJulyBook.com
"Hired Gun" music by ScoreWizard
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About The Fourth of July: A Call To Arms
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On the night of the Fourth of July at the Delaware County Home for the Aged, Louisa McLain, the oldest resident of the nursing home, turns on her nightlight and opens a box of neatly stored letters…
from 60 years in the past. The first letter is from her son, George, telling her that he and his friend, Chester Gerber, have left to volunteer for the Union army in the opening months of the Civil War. Corrinne Miller, a nurse, finds Louisa perusing the letters and sits with her, reading each one out loud while Louisa listens. They tell bits and pieces of the story of the war, but what really happened is another matter.
A Call to Arms will transform you back to July 4, 1861, when George and Chester are befriended by a radical abolitionist minister, Reverend James Franklin Turner. The three of them are attached to the Indiana 19th Volunteer Infantry that forms a part of the famed Iron Brigade. As the war ramps up, they are involved in some of the bloodiest battles of the war. But they become more than soldiers. The three of them are recruited to form a spy ring, slipping across the Confederate lines to gather key information. Their missions are harrowing and, as it turns out, more than just spying. They meet Jessie Smith, a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Follow the perilous experiences of George, Chester, Jessie and Reverend Turner. When they are not fighting, their spying and slave running put them in life-threatening situations full of twists and turns. All the while, Louisa McLain is waiting at home for the next letter to arrive.
A Call to Arms is based on the first book in the Fourth of July Trilogy by Kevin Yaney.