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Rivers and Rails: Daggers of the Civil War

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 150Rivers and Rails: Daggers of the Civil War
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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

  Tennessee Department of Education   The University of Tennessee    Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area    Civil War Sesquicentennial   First Tennessee Foundation