A Long Way from Home
Description
In 1862 a young man and his friend Sam enlist in the Union Army. During their first taste of battle, Sam is fatally wounded and the young man panics. While running from the battlefield, he receives a head wound, which is treated at an army hospital. Later, he finds himself wandering around the Tennessee countryside, trying to find his regiment and explain why his wound was in the back—not in the front—of his head.
Two boys from a Tennessee town go on a fishing trip that gets them caught up in the Civil War. They join the Ohio 41st Volunteers, but when one boy gets hurt, the other runs away scared. For years he feels bad about what he did until he finds out a bullet made him lose his memories. He finally faces what happened and finds peace at a ceremony remembering the Battle of Stones River.
A fishing trip in a Tennessee town leads two boys into the chaos of the Civil War. They enlist in the Ohio 41st Volunteers, but when one is wounded, the other flees in terror. Guilt drives him through the years until he learns that a bullet has stolen his memories. Only at a Stones River commemoration does he confront the past and find peace.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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