30 Brutal Truths About Fort Leavenworth, America's Biggest Federal Fortress

30 Hard Truths About Fort Leavenworth: The Fortress of Chains, Gallows and Unclaimed Graves A coffin comes home from Kansas. Inside is a farmer in the uniform he refused to wear. We follow the long paper trail through Fort Leavenworth, the oldest active Army post west of the Mississippi. Thirty entries, counted down through court martial transcripts, government inspection reports, and the letters of men who lived it. One of them is the single most damning. It may not be the one you expect. Sources and further reading Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1878, including the reports of Inspector McNeil and Agent Monteith on the Nez Perce prisoners University of Kansas Libraries, Fort Leavenworth exhibit Leavenworth County Historical Society and the Leavenworth Times, "Nez Perce Indians Spent Eight Months at Fort" Duane C. S. Stoltzfus, Pacifists in Chains: The Persecution of Hutterites During the Great War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013) Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Conscientious Objection and the Great War, 1914 to 1920 Kenneth Knox Collection, UC Davis Special Collections (D-547), trial transcripts and confessions of the German POWs hanged in 1945 Lawrence Journal-World, "German POWs Buried at Prison" (2008) Richard Whittingham, Martial Justice: The Last Mass Execution in the United States (the Papago Park murder and the Leavenworth hangings) National Park Service, "Fort Leavenworth and the Establishment of the 10th Cavalry" U.S. Army, "Book Reveals History of USDB in Photographs" (Peter Grande's history of the Disciplinary Barracks and the Castle) About this channel This video is educational and informative. Our goal is to widen your knowledge of America's forgotten institutions and give you history that is accurate, documented, and worth your time. Every script is written by a human, and the visuals and storyboard are brainstormed internally by our team.