Explore how transportation by water and steel brought great prosperity to the state just before the Civil War, only to give the invading Union Army a highway directly into the Deep South, eventually helping force the Confederacy to its knees.
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Tennessee Civil War 150
Rivers and Rails: Daggers of the Civil War
28:46
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Rating: NR
Explore how transportation by water and steel brought great prosperity to Tennessee.
Production Credits
Executive Producer Doug Jackson
Producers Stephen Eugene Hall David Van Hooser Ken Tucker
Writer Stephen Eugene Hall
Narrator Ed Bruce
Photojournalists Barry Cross Terry LeCroix Rich Stone Ken Tucker
Jib Operator Craig Anderson
Aerial Photography Dan Grimes Brandon Tait
Cartography/Animation Mychael Lederer-Morihisa
Original Music Joe DelMerico & Joey Hodge
Studio Audio Engineer Ray Dryden
Editor Ken Tucker
For Nashville Public Television:
Executive in Charge - Beth Curley
Project Director - Kevin Crane
Project Coordinator - Ed Jones
Historians Don Bible, East TN Historian Dr. Brian McKnight, University of Virginia Dr. Wayne Moore, TN State Library and Archives Jim Ogden, Chickamauga National Military Park Fred Prouty, TN Historical Commission Melinda Senn, Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History Dr. Minoa Uffelman, Austin Peay State University Dr. Carroll Van West, Director, Center for Historic Preservation, MTSU Ruth Warner, Samuel Dold Morgan Descendent
Research Assistant Jessica Bandel
Photo Research Darla Brock Todd Wallwork
Nannie Haskins Portrayal Kimberly Rye
C.A. Haun Portrayal G. Graham Perry III
Sultana Survivors Portrayal Mark Smeby Kurt Schlachter
Annie Sehon Portrayal Barbara Jo Webb
Mary Virginia Ellet Cabell Portrayal Faye Davis
Historic Voices Robert Spencer Stephen Eugene Hall
Bridge Burning Reenactors Gene Barr Whit Barr Michael Brown Myers Brown Ben Carpenter Chris Grisham Jason Hewer Clay Lewis G. Graham Perry III Blake Stewart Ron Westphal
Panicked Citizens Reenactors Jacob Alexander Brian Allison Anna Cater Frank Feinstein Willard Garton Annette Nole Hall Ezekiel Hall Laurie Jordan Jed Jordan Rebecca Jordan Valerie Kopischke Caleb Little Cameron Little Debra Ann Little Jeffrey Little Amanda Mollenhour Billie Ruth Nanny Joe Nole Michael Persinger Tamara Persinger Whitney Qualls Dale Qualls Carolyn Qualls James Sharp Regina Sharp Rebecca Sowell Tonya Staggs Bill Stofel Alexis Suggs Sherie Sykes Letitia Tidwell Ron Walters Anita Jo Walters
Slave Reenactors Brandon Corlew Helen Hughes William Oakley Hyburnia Williams
Union Soldier Reenactors Galin Courtney Gary Courtney
Additional Reenactment Video Courtesy of National Park Service Stephan Foust, EDS/Saturn Media Center, Saturn Corporation, Spring Hill, TN
Wardrobe Rachel Gallop
Makeup Cherokee Hart
Historic Photographs, Documents, and Artwork Don Bible Ruth Warner Library of Congress Museum of the Confederacy Tennessee State Library and Archives National Medal of Honor Museum of Military History “Death of the Sultana” and “Fateful Voyage: The Packet Sultana Departs Cairo, Illinois, April 17th, 1865“ by Michael Boss. Artist’s website: www.michaelboss.com. “Burning of the Sultana 1865” by Marion Sue Bradford Thompson. Artist’s website: www.marionsue.com. Harper's Weekly "Big Shanty" illustration courtesy of Paul McWhorter, Son of the South Rev. William Carter image courtesy of the East Tennessee Historical Society “Boarding the Sultana” by Robert Dafford, courtesy of Vicksburg Riverfront Murals. Artist’s website: www.robertdaffordmurals.com. Charles Ellet, Jr. portrait by Ken Fox, courtesy of National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium, Captain William D. Bowell River Library. Artist’s website: www.aviationartmuseum.com.
Special Thanks Jim Wade Jim & Sissy Baldwin Annette Nole Hall Julie and Elizabeth Tucker Norman & Roberta Bowlby, Cumberland Furnace Historical Society Myers Brown, Tennessee State Museum Serina Gilbert, Promise Land Pacer Harp, The Renaissance Center Tina Littleton and Terry Vaughan, Clement Railroad Hotel Museum Tennessee Representative Steve McDaniel Catherine Regen, Christ Episcopal Church Jeff Gaspard, South Central Tennessee Railroad Vernon Owens, Pamela Owens, Travis Owens at Jugtown Pottery, Seagrove, NC
This is a production of the Renaissance Center in Dickson, Tennessee Doug Jackson, President & Executive Director
Copyright Nashville Public Television 2013
Tennessee Civil War 150 is made possible in part by:
TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, TENNESSEE CIVIL WAR NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA,
TENNESSEE CIVIL WAR SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMISSION, and FIRST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION
