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Rare firsthand accounts bring us inside some of the most daring escape stories from the American Civil War.

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    Impossible Escapes: Civil War Season 1 Episode 1 - Breaking Out of Libby Prison
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    #1 - Breaking Out of Libby Prison

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    Colonel Thomas Rose is one of more than 1000 Union officers held in Richmond Virginia’s notorious Libby Prison. It’s an inescapable fortress known for its stark white walls its numbing conditions and its rats. But for POWs like Colonel Rose there is just one thing to think about: escape.

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  2. Impossible Escapes: Civil War Season 1 Episode 2 - Rebel Raid in Vermont
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    #2 - Rebel Raid in Vermont

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    The front lines of the Civil War lie hundreds of miles from Vermont but Confederate Bennett Young plans to bring the war to the North. He’ll lead a group of raiders into the town of St. Albans to rob its banks and burn its buildings then make a run for Canada. But a local posse has other plans.

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  3. Impossible Escapes: Civil War Season 1 Episode 3 - Into the Rebel Swamp
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    #3 - Into the Rebel Swamp

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    If the POWs of Libby Prison faced "Rat Hell" you could call what Wallace Turnage endured "snake hell". Turnage was born a slave and by the time we pick up the story from the recently rediscovered autobiography he'd already made multiple escape attempts ...and been brutally beaten for them.

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  4. Impossible Escapes: Civil War Season 1 Episode 4 - Robert Smalls: Steamboat to Freedom
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    #4 - Robert Smalls: Steamboat to Freedom

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    Enslaved aboard the Confederate ship the CSS Planter Robert Smalls has learned the skills of a naval captain. One night when he and his enslaved crew mates are left alone on the ship during the height of the war they need to decide whether to risk it all and make a run for the nearby US Navy.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Impossible Escapes: Civil War Season 1 Episode 5 - John Doy and the Immortal 10
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    Dr. John Doy is a guide on the Underground Railroad attempting to lead a group of men women and children to safety in Canada. When their party is intercepted by a notorious slave catcher Doy is thrown into a Missouri jail. All appears to be lost until his friends hatch a bold plot to free him.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Impossible Escapes: Civil War Season 1 Episode 6 - Pauline Cushman: Tales of a Yankee Spy
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    #6 - Pauline Cushman: Tales of a Yankee Spy

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    Pauline Cushman is a Union war widow a stage actress… and a spy. But on a mission behind enemy lines in search of the Confederate General Braxton Bragg she is arrested and sentenced to be hanged. Can her acting skills rescue her from this life and death predicament?

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Best Episodes Summary

"Breaking Out of Libby Prison" is the best rated episode of "Impossible Escapes: Civil War". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/26/2022. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Rebel Raid in Vermont".