On a brutally cold winter morning 160 years ago today, this photograph was taken by Theodore M. Schleier in Knoxville, Tennessee. It was a photograph that Captured Freedom. Captured Freedom is a little told story about prisoners during the Civil War. Nine Union prisoners of war and their North Carolina mountain guides had arrived the day before after they made it to freedom over Union lines. The long slog, often through snow and freezing temperatures had taken some of them… Read More »Epic Tales of Civil War Survival: Captured Freedom