Civil War Episodes

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries

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

"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 the Battle of Bull Run in 1861, prompting them to move. They choose to move to safer climes 120 miles south in the quiet village of Appomattox Courthouse, where one of the last battles of the Civil War takes place, and where their house, by pure coincidence, is used as the si...

"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 was sacked and burned mainly due to its being known as an anti-slavery town. Then, the war in Kansas, an anti-slavery state, and Missouri, a pro-slavery state, had already started, and was to continue at a level of butchery that exceeded anything seen during the Civil War. So...