Salt and Fire: The Second Saltville Raid (Saltville Raids, Part 2)

In this gripping second episode of The Saltville Raid, we follow General George Stoneman’s relentless cavalry raid through snowbound Appalachia in December 1864. With brutal efficiency and poetic devastation, Union forces descend upon the Confederate saltworks at Saltville, Virginia—obliterating the South’s last critical supply of salt. Told with immersive detail and haunting firsthand accounts, this episode captures the raid’s tactical brilliance and human cost. From midnight cannonades to courtroom reckonings, witness how one valley’s destruction helped starve a rebellion—and stirred questions that echo long after the smoke cleared.