The Bravest Confederate Scout You've Never Heard Of and Why They Hanged Him

In this episode we walk slowly through the eight days that ended on that hill. The contested country of middle Tennessee in the autumn of eighteen sixty-three. Coleman's Scouts, the small Confederate courier network that bled the Union effort along the Nashville railroad. The capture near Minor Hill on the twentieth of November. The court-martial. The cell. The letter Sam Davis wrote to his mother on the night of the twenty-sixth, which still survives. The hymn he sang with the Union chaplain. And the long, strange grief of Grenville Dodge, the general who built the Union Pacific Railroad and could not forget a private soldier from Rutherford County. If this story stayed with you, share it with someone. The stories that survive are the stories we keep telling each other. #CivilWar #SamDavis #AmericanHistory #ConfederateScout #ColemansScouts #PulaskiTennessee #GrenvilleDodge #HistoryDocumentary