On April 27th, 1865, the steamboat Sultana, carrying over 2000 passengers, including over 1900 recently released Union soldiers, many of them weak and haggard from imprisonment at Andersonville and other camps, blew three boilers and caught fire,...
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries
"The Silent Witness at Appomattox"- This episode tells the little known story of the McLean family's unwilling participation at both ends of the Civil War, beginning with their Northern Virginia farmhouse being bombarded at t...
"Quantrill's Raiders and Bloody Kansas"- In August of 1863, an armed force of 400 men descended upon the anti-slavery town of Lawrence, Kansas and proceeded to systematically destroy it. Seven years before, Lawrence Kansas w...