A happy 202nd birthday to the General who helped save the Union, Ulysses S. Grant. To honor President & General Grant's birthday, this video spotlights the places I've visited in an effort to retrace Grant's life. I still have many more to go, but each year I visit a few more. What is your favorite Grant historical site?

Took a break from video-making yesterday, and because of my love for taking random back roads we came across the Simpsonville Massacre memorial site west of Simpsonville, KY. I had known of this event, but random fate finally put me where it occurred. It was great to see new wreaths, flags, a cross, and even a little "I served" veteran rubber duck left at the memorial. These men proudly served their country & deserved so much more.

159 years ago today, an actor named John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln. It was the second attempted assassination on a President (the first was Andrew Jackson), but the first one to unfortunately succeed. This is a short video on the 1860 election, the threats to Lincoln once he won in 1860, the threats he had during his Presidency, his assassination, and his death. This is an extended clip from a future video, an historical spotlight video on the Lincoln Tomb in Springfield, Illinois, coming May 2024.

The Recap & Deep Dive for Manhunt Episode 4, "The Secret Line," is finally completed! This was the most fictitious episode & it quickly noted so many different historical events that it made this video the hardest of all of them to complete. This is not just a recap, but a complete deep dive into the various themes the episode briefly covered: The Manhattan Fire Plot, the Dahlgren Scandal, the Confederate yellow fever plot, the relationships of Edwin Booth/John Wilkes Booth, Mary Lincoln/Robert Lincoln, and more. I'm off to work on episode 5, which should be a lot easier as it largely focuses on the hunt.