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Civil War Episodes

March 31, 2024

THE SULTANA TRAGEDY THE WORST MARITIME DISASTER IN U.S. HISTORY

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,...

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Oct. 8, 2023

TEN LITTLE KNOWN STORIES FROM THE CIVIL WAR

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

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Nov. 27, 2022

WHEN THE CIVIL WAR CAME TO VERMONT

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

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May 29, 2022

WAS MY BROTHER IN THE BATTLE?

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

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April 5, 2021

THE LIFE (AND AFTERLIFE) OF OUTLAW JESSE JAMES

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

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Nov. 19, 2020

CIVIL WAR COMMANDO THE DARING RAID TO SINK THE CSS ALBEMARLE

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

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Oct. 21, 2019

THE LINCOLN CONSPIRACY (PART TWO)

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

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Oct. 14, 2019

THE LINCOLN CONSPIRACY (PART ONE)

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

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Nov. 6, 2015

THE SILENT WITNESS AT APPOMATTOX

"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...

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Oct. 9, 2015

QUANTRILL'S RAIDERS AND BLOODY KANSAS: THE UNCIVIL WAR

"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...

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