What History Doesn’t Tell You About the Most Feared Sniper of the Civil War | PT. 2

[Music] 36 notches 36 lives erased by a single man who the Union Army called The Ghost of the Tennessee but what turned a 57-year-old tobacco farmer into the Civil War's most lethal sniper and why has history tried so hard to bury his story this isn't a tale of battlefields or blue vers gray this is the true story

of Jack Henson a man who refused to pick a side until the war picked him picture this a father watching Union troops Mount his son's severed heads on his own fence a neighbor shot dead over a decade's old Grudge a Rifleman so feared generals offered $300 in Gold enough to buy a town for his scalp yet

you won't find his name in your textbook tonight we unearth the unfiltered truth how a neutral farmer outs sniped entire Union regiments how he guided Confederate Legend Nathan Bedford Forest to burn an Empire of Union supplies and how the US Army spent two years hunting a ghost who knew every inch of between the rivers because it

was his backyard was he a hero a terrorist or just a Broken Man Who counted his grief in bullet scars stick around because what you're about to to learn changes everything you thought you knew about the Civil War Shadows but before we begin be sure to like And subscribe to our channel to

support our community when Jack Hinson first established his sprawling tobacco Plantation across the fertile lowlands of Stewart County Tennessee he could scarcely have imagined that his Homestead would one day lie at the heart of a brutal tug of war between North and South the region later dubbed between the rivers by locals for its position

between the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers became a chessboard for military strategists its steep ridges offered natural fortifications while its Patchwork of prosperous Farms promised endless supplies for armies yet as Tennessee joined the Confederacy in 1861 Hinson clung to an uneasy neutrality torn between his Southern Roots and a pragmatists desire to protect his family and livelihood