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Movie made featuring the escape of Theodore F. Allen,
"FREEDOM" - The Movie
grandson to Capt. Job Allen III and Elizabeth 'Betsey' Jackson
Based on The Underground Railroad and the Grapevine Telegraph,
An Escaping Prisoner’s Experience - 1863 by Theodore F. Allen,
Captain, Seventh Ohio Cavalry, Brevet Colonel U.S. Volunteers
FREEDOM features Mike Ostroski as Capt. Theodore Allen
and John Hedges as Lt. A. A. Carr. Allen and Carr escaped
from Confederate forces after being captured during the Battle of
Rogersville. Frank Green portrays Daniel Adams, the
mountain pilot who guides the Union officers across the wooded
hills of East Tennessee. Tom Angland brings the character
of Col. John Netherland to life and Melissa Owens plays Mrs.
Netherland.
Eugene Wolf portrays the eccentric Confederate General W. E.
"Grumble" Jones. Ben Mackel plays Abraham Hamilton, a
Union soldier from east Tennessee, Katy Brown appears as Eliza
Hamilton and Mary Davidson plays her young daughter, Mary.
In northeast Tennessee on that cold day of November 6, 1863,
Confederate forces under the command of General W. E. "Grumble"
Jones outmanned Union forces and took over 800 prisoners on a
forced march to Bristol, where they would be loaded onto trains
and sent to prison camps in Richmond and Andersonville. Among
the prisoners were two injured men from the Seventh Ohio
Cavalry: Captain Theodore Allen and Lieutenant A. A. Carr.
With help from Union sympathizers and some generous but
unwitting Confederates, the two men escape and make their way
across the countryside. Along the way they meet Daniel
Adams, a free black man who serves as a mountain pilot on the
Underground Railroad, their guide to safety across the rugged
mountains of east Tennessee.
Before the journey ends, both men discover that freedom is
something all men possess, but living that freedom can have
costs they never imagined.
**You can also find out more info on the movie and watch the
trailer at
http://www.freedomthefilm.com.
**More information on Theodore F. Allen can be found in his notes
and his father's (Isaac Jackson Allen) notes on our website.
Information about this film found and typed by Jerry Gross, October 29, 2007.
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