Weird History
The Unluckiest Coincidence Of The Civil War
2026 • E9 Mar 1, 2026 10m
Sometimes fate has strange designs on the lives of mortal men. You think you’re just a wholesale grocer one day and the next? You have a front row seat to the largest domestic military conflict in American history. And that’s exactly what happened to a man named Wilmer McLean… who holds the bizarre distinction of owning the property where the Civil War began, and the property where the Civil War ended…