Long Road Back to Kentucky: The 1862 Confederate Invasion - DVD

Explores how distilling originated in Kentucky with it's first settlers in 1775 and takes the viewer to the sites of Central Kentucky's earliest distilling operations. Magnificent portraits and landscapes adorn the production. Original documents relating to Kentucky's earliest distillers, and pages from Kentucky's earliest newspapers, such as the Lexington Kentucky Gazette and the Paris Western Citizen document on the screen the progression of whiskey-making to the stage where the best of it was old, smooth, amber in color and known as InchBourbonInch. Bourbon and Kentucky illustrate clearly that Bourbon whiskey is, in fact inexorably intertwined with Kentucky and Americas history.

Based upon the critically-acclaimed and award-winning book, Retreat from Gettysburg Lee, Logistics & the Pennsylvania Campaign. This documentary takes the viewer on the very roads used by Lees Army and immense wagon trains, as well as the key sites along those roads where Lee established defenses that delayed or defeated advances by General Meades Union forces. Magnificent aerial footage of the roads, mountain passes and Potomac River crossings make this documentary unforgettable.

Presents the story of the millions of horses (and mules) that were used in all branches of both armies during the Civil War. It discusses how the horses were procured and trained for field use, how they were fed and maintained, and the toll taken on them due to service in the field. Millions of horses were utilized by the armies in all theaters of war. In large armies, anywhere from forty to sixty thousand horses (and mules) were used in the infantry, cavalry, artillery and quartermaster services. Regularly feeding, shoeing and maintaining the horses and mules was a near impossible task. As a result, thousands of horses were lost due to incapacity and malnutrition. Thousands more were lost on battlefields. Memoirs of soldiers are read, telling the stories of the horses they recalled and the incredible sacrifices of them. In the end, more than 1,500,000 horses (and mules) died during the War. Some of the Wars most famous horses Cincinnati, Winchester, Old Baldy, Highfly, Little Sorrell, and Traveller, to name a few, are highlighted. The stories of each of them touched the heart. Hundreds of magnificent period photographs, drawings, illustrations, along with selected re-enactment scenes are employed to graphically illustrate the role of the horse. Filming of action scenes took place at the re-enactments of the battles of Richmond and Perryville in Kentucky, as well as Shaker Village at South Union, Kentucky and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.