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Turnage was born a slave; he has made multiple escape attempts.

Impossible Escapes: Civil War

Into the Rebel Swamp

Enslaved aboard the Confederate ship the CSS Planter, Robert Smalls has learned the skills of a naval captain.

Robert Smalls: Steamboat to Freedom

Pauline Cushman is a Union war widow, a stage actress and a spy.

Pauline Cushman: Tales of a Yankee Spy

Dr. John Doy is a guide on the Underground Railroad attempting to lead a group of men, women, and children to safety in Canada.

John Doy and the Immortal 10

The frontlines of the Civil War lie hundreds of miles from Vermont, but Confederate Bennett Young plans to bring the war to the North; he leads a group of raiders into the town of St. Albans to rob its banks and burn its buildings.

Rebel Raid in Vermont

Colonel Thomas Rose is one of more than 1000 officers held in the notorious Libby Prison of Richmond, Va., known for its stark white walls, numbing conditions and rats.

Libby Prison Escape

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A look at some of the most desperate and daring stories of escape and survival from the American Civil War.

S1 E1 | Libby Prison Escape

E6 | Into the Rebel Swamp

E6 | Robert Smalls: Steamboat to Freedom

E5 | Pauline Cushman: Tales of a Yankee Spy

E4 | John Doy and the Immortal 10

E2 | Rebel Raid in Vermont

E1 | Libby Prison Escape