Season 2: Halloween Mini Episode: The Memphis U.S. Marine Hospital

Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story, the Tale of the Memphis U.S. Marine Hospital.  The year was 1798 and President Adams decreed there needed to be a hospital for the sick, injured, and disabled maritime men. This Marine Hospital cared for the seamen who worked on the Mississippi River. … Continue reading Season 2: Halloween Mini Episode: The Memphis U.S. Marine Hospital

Season 2: Episode Ten: The Sultana Disaster: Part 2

It’s April, 1865… The Sultana has been docked in Vicksburg, MS, preparing to load far more passengers than the steamer is equipped to hold. The passengers are almost entirely Union soldiers who are being paroled from the Cahaba or Andersonville Confederate prison camps, in which they have experienced hellish living conditions - not to mention … Continue reading Season 2: Episode Ten: The Sultana Disaster: Part 2

Episode Eight: Clara Conway & the Clara Conway Institute

Clara Conway was born in New Orleans, LA, August 14, 1844, to poor Irish immigrants, Margaret Riordan Conway and Thomas Conway, who came to America in the early 19th century. (I’ve read she came to Memphis in 1846, that she was brought to Memphis in 1855 when her parents died, but also that she simply … Continue reading Episode Eight: Clara Conway & the Clara Conway Institute