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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:11,505 --> 00:00:13,591 MAN: PRIVATE EDWIN TENNISON, 2 00:00:13,757 --> 00:00:16,051 KILLED IN ACTION AT MALVERN HILL, 3 00:00:16,218 --> 00:00:19,096 JULY 1, 1862. 4 00:00:59,094 --> 00:01:00,262 NARRATOR: DURING THE CIVIL WAR, 5 00:01:00,429 --> 00:01:02,973 PHOTOGRAPHERS FOLLOWED THE ARMIES EVERYWHERE 6 00:01:03,140 --> 00:01:06,352 TO MAKE PROUD PORTRAITS FOR THE BOYS TO SEND HOME 7 00:01:06,518 --> 00:01:08,062 AND TO CAPTURE AS MUCH OF THE ACTION 8 00:01:08,228 --> 00:01:09,480 AS CUMBERSOME EQUIPMENT 9 00:01:09,647 --> 00:01:11,440 AND SLOW SHUTTER SPEEDS ALLOWED. 10 00:01:14,151 --> 00:01:15,944 NEAR THE BATTLE OF FAIR OAKS, VIRGINIA, 11 00:01:16,111 --> 00:01:18,155 CAPTAIN GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER 12 00:01:18,322 --> 00:01:20,115 PAUSED TO HAVE HIS PICTURE TAKEN 13 00:01:20,282 --> 00:01:21,700 WITH J.B. WASHINGTON, 14 00:01:21,867 --> 00:01:24,536 CLOSE FRIEND AND CLASSMATE FROM WEST POINT-- 15 00:01:24,703 --> 00:01:26,205 AND NOW A CONFEDERATE LIEUTENANT 16 00:01:26,372 --> 00:01:27,373 WHO HAD JUST THAT MORNING 17 00:01:27,539 --> 00:01:29,166 BEEN CAPTURED BY FEDERAL PICKETS. 18 00:01:47,267 --> 00:01:49,395 AS 1862 DRAGGED ON, 19 00:01:49,561 --> 00:01:52,439 THE CHARACTER OF THE WAR WAS CHANGING, 20 00:01:52,606 --> 00:01:54,692 AND MUCH OF THE COUNTRY WAS CHANGING WITH IT. 21 00:01:58,445 --> 00:02:01,365 BY 1862, MORE THAN A MILLION FARM WORKERS 22 00:02:01,532 --> 00:02:04,076 HAD ENLISTED IN THE UNION ARMY, 23 00:02:04,243 --> 00:02:05,452 AND TRAVELERS IN THE MIDWEST 24 00:02:05,619 --> 00:02:08,080 SAW MORE WOMEN AT WORK IN THE FIELDS THAN MEN. 25 00:02:19,758 --> 00:02:23,178 THE YEAR, WHICH HAD BEGUN SO PROMISINGLY FOR THE NORTH, 26 00:02:23,345 --> 00:02:25,055 HAD NOW GONE AWRY. 27 00:02:25,222 --> 00:02:28,058 U.S. GRANT'S TRIUMPHS AT DONELSON AND SHILOH 28 00:02:28,225 --> 00:02:31,353 WERE BEING OVERSHADOWED BY DISASTERS IN THE EAST. 29 00:02:33,272 --> 00:02:36,150 IN VIRGINIA, UNION GENERAL GEORGE MCCLELLAN'S ARMY 30 00:02:36,316 --> 00:02:38,485 SAT OUTSIDE RICHMOND, 31 00:02:38,652 --> 00:02:41,697 ITS COMMANDER IN POSSESSION OF VASTLY GREATER FORCES, 32 00:02:41,864 --> 00:02:43,365 BUT WITHOUT THE WILL TO FIGHT. 33 00:02:47,619 --> 00:02:50,622 MEANWHILE, THE CONFEDERACY WAS BEGINNING TO APPRECIATE 34 00:02:50,789 --> 00:02:52,541 THE BRILLIANCE OF A NEW COMMANDER, 35 00:02:52,708 --> 00:02:54,209 ROBERT E. LEE, 36 00:02:54,376 --> 00:02:56,462 WHO WOULD SOON ESTABLISH A REPUTATION 37 00:02:56,628 --> 00:02:59,381 AS ONE OF THE GREATEST MILITARY LEADERS OF ALL TIME. 38 00:03:05,554 --> 00:03:08,140 AND THERE WAS STILL MORE TROUBLE FOR THE UNION. 39 00:03:08,307 --> 00:03:09,558 AT BLACKBURN, ENGLAND, 40 00:03:09,725 --> 00:03:12,102 A PUBLIC MEETING DECLARED THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE 41 00:03:12,269 --> 00:03:14,938 FOR THE NORTH TO VANQUISH THE SOUTH 42 00:03:15,105 --> 00:03:17,441 AND CALLED FOR A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT OF THE WAR. 43 00:03:20,110 --> 00:03:22,905 WITH EUROPE POISED TO RECOGNIZE THE CONFEDERACY, 44 00:03:23,071 --> 00:03:26,575 THE UNTHINKABLE LOOKED INCREASINGLY LIKELY-- 45 00:03:26,742 --> 00:03:28,619 THE UNION WAS GOING TO LOSE THE WAR. 46 00:03:32,414 --> 00:03:35,083 "WE MUST CHANGE OUR TACTICS OR LOSE THE GAME," 47 00:03:35,250 --> 00:03:38,462 ABRAHAM LINCOLN WROTE IN 1862. 48 00:03:38,629 --> 00:03:40,047 TO LINCOLN, IT WAS CLEAR NOW 49 00:03:40,214 --> 00:03:41,423 THAT IT WAS NO LONGER POSSIBLE 50 00:03:41,590 --> 00:03:43,592 TO RESTORE THE OLD UNION. 51 00:03:43,759 --> 00:03:47,054 ANEW ONE HAD TO BE EMBRACED. 52 00:03:47,221 --> 00:03:49,139 BY SUMMER, HE KNEW WHAT TACTIC WAS NEEDED 53 00:03:49,306 --> 00:03:52,601 TO WIN THE WAR-- EMANCIPATION-- 54 00:03:52,768 --> 00:03:54,186 BUT DOUBTED WHETHER HE WOULD EVER HAVE 55 00:03:54,353 --> 00:03:57,314 THE POLITICAL OR MILITARY OPPORTUNITY TO USE IT. 56 00:04:03,654 --> 00:04:06,156 "I FIND IT HARD TO MAINTAIN MY LIVELY FAITH 57 00:04:06,323 --> 00:04:08,450 IN THE TRIUMPH OF THE NATION AND THE LAW," 58 00:04:08,617 --> 00:04:10,536 NEW YORK LAWYER GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG 59 00:04:10,702 --> 00:04:13,372 CONFIDED TO HIS DIARY. 60 00:04:13,539 --> 00:04:16,667 "THESE ARE THE DARKEST DAYS WE HAVE SEEN SINCE BULL RUN." 61 00:04:20,170 --> 00:04:21,672 WHAT NO ONE KNEW WAS THAT THE YEAR 62 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:25,008 WOULD SOON SEE THE BLOODIEST DAY OF THE WAR 63 00:04:25,175 --> 00:04:26,343 AND THEN THE BRIGHTEST. 64 00:04:28,804 --> 00:04:32,057 IT COULD HAVE BEEN AVERY UGLY, FILTHY WAR 65 00:04:32,224 --> 00:04:36,979 WITH NO REDEEMING CHARACTERISTICS AT ALL... 66 00:04:37,145 --> 00:04:41,483 AND IT WAS THE BATTLE FOR EMANCIPATION 67 00:04:41,650 --> 00:04:43,694 AND THE PEOPLE WHO PUSHED IT FORWARD-- 68 00:04:43,861 --> 00:04:47,322 THE SLAVES, THE FREE BLACK PEOPLE, THE ABOLITIONISTS, 69 00:04:47,489 --> 00:04:49,992 AND A LOT OF ORDINARY CITIZENS-- 70 00:04:50,158 --> 00:04:51,660 IT WAS THEY WHO ENNOBLED 71 00:04:51,827 --> 00:04:54,997 WHAT OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE BEEN MEANINGLESS CARNAGE 72 00:04:55,163 --> 00:04:56,331 INTO SOMETHING HIGHER. 73 00:05:11,221 --> 00:05:12,389 NARRATOR: OUTSIDE RICHMOND, 74 00:05:12,556 --> 00:05:15,017 GEORGE MCCLELLAN CONTINUED TO CALL ANXIOUSLY 75 00:05:15,183 --> 00:05:16,351 FOR MORE TROOPS, 76 00:05:16,518 --> 00:05:19,187 THOUGH HIS 110,000-MAN FORCE 77 00:05:19,354 --> 00:05:22,399 ALREADY GREATLY OUTNUMBERED JOSEPH JOHNSTON'S ARMY. 78 00:05:24,610 --> 00:05:26,320 MEANWHILE, WEST OF THE BLUE RIDGE 79 00:05:26,486 --> 00:05:28,030 IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY, 80 00:05:28,196 --> 00:05:30,032 GENERAL THOMAS J. JACKSON 81 00:05:30,198 --> 00:05:32,409 WAS KEEPING 3 FEDERAL ARMIES BUSY. 82 00:05:46,214 --> 00:05:50,093 MAN: "ALWAYS MYSTIFY, MISLEAD, AND SURPRISE THE ENEMY. 83 00:05:50,260 --> 00:05:52,387 "AND WHEN YOU STRIKE AND OVERCOME HIM, 84 00:05:52,554 --> 00:05:54,723 "NEVER LET UP IN THE PURSUIT. 85 00:05:54,890 --> 00:05:56,350 "NEVER FIGHT AGAINST HEAVY ODDS 86 00:05:56,516 --> 00:05:57,893 "IF YOU CAN HURL YOUR FORCE 87 00:05:58,060 --> 00:06:00,896 "ON ONLYA PART OF YOUR ENEMY AND CRUSH IT. 88 00:06:01,063 --> 00:06:03,523 "A SMALL ARMY MAY THUS DESTROY A LARGE ONE, 89 00:06:03,690 --> 00:06:07,653 AND REPEATED VICTORY WILL MAKE IT INVINCIBLE." 90 00:06:07,819 --> 00:06:09,112 GENERAL T.J. JACKSON. 91 00:06:11,365 --> 00:06:14,076 MAN 2: HE WAS ATRUE ECCENTRIC. 92 00:06:14,242 --> 00:06:17,371 HE BELIEVED THAT IF HE HAD PEPPER IN HIS FOOD, 93 00:06:17,537 --> 00:06:20,207 IT WOULD MAKE HIS LEFT LEG ACHE. 94 00:06:20,374 --> 00:06:22,918 HE WOULD NEVER MAILA LETTER 95 00:06:23,085 --> 00:06:26,004 THAT WOULD BE IN TRANSIT ON A SUNDAY. 96 00:06:26,171 --> 00:06:28,590 HE WAS A STRICT OBSERVER OF THE SABBATH. 97 00:06:28,757 --> 00:06:30,968 AND YET SO MANY OF HIS BATTLES WERE FOUGHT ON SUNDAYS 98 00:06:31,134 --> 00:06:34,554 THAT THE SOLDIERS BEGAN TO BELIEVE THAT HE WOULD FIGHT ON SUNDAY 99 00:06:34,721 --> 00:06:36,640 BECAUSE THE LORD WOULD BE EVEN MORE WITH HIM. 100 00:06:39,101 --> 00:06:41,561 NARRATOR: JACKSON WAS A PIOUS, BLUE-EYED KILLER, 101 00:06:41,728 --> 00:06:45,148 UTTERLY UNTROUBLED BY THE LIKELIHOOD OF DEATH. 102 00:06:45,315 --> 00:06:47,609 IT WAS A MAN'S "ENTIRE DUTY," HE SAID, 103 00:06:47,776 --> 00:06:50,612 "TO PRAY AND FIGHT." 104 00:06:50,779 --> 00:06:53,323 MAN: "HE WOULD HAVE A MAN SHOT AT THE DROP OF A HAT, 105 00:06:53,490 --> 00:06:55,575 AND HE'D DROP IT HIMSELF." 106 00:06:55,742 --> 00:06:57,953 SAM WATKINS. 107 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:01,915 FOOTE: HE HAD ASTRANGE QUALITY OF OVERLOOKING SUFFERING. 108 00:07:02,082 --> 00:07:05,544 DURING ONE OF THE BATTLES, HE HAD AYOUNG COURIER, 109 00:07:05,711 --> 00:07:06,962 AND JACKSON LOOKED AROUND FOR HIM, 110 00:07:07,129 --> 00:07:08,296 AND HE WASN'T THERE. 111 00:07:08,463 --> 00:07:10,298 AND HE SAID, "WHERE IS LIEUTENANT SO-AND-SO?" 112 00:07:10,465 --> 00:07:12,884 AND THEY SAID, "HE WAS KILLED, GENERAL." 113 00:07:13,051 --> 00:07:16,596 JACKSON SAID, "VERY COMMENDABLE, VERY COMMENDABLE." 114 00:07:16,763 --> 00:07:18,223 AND THEN PUT HIM OUT OF HIS MIND. 115 00:07:20,809 --> 00:07:22,144 MAN: "ALL OLD JACKSON GAVE US 116 00:07:22,310 --> 00:07:25,313 "WAS A MUSKET, 100 ROUNDS, AND A GUM BLANKET, 117 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:27,983 AND HE DROVE US LIKE HELL." 118 00:07:28,150 --> 00:07:29,651 NARRATOR: HIS MEN DID NOT LOVE HIM. 119 00:07:29,818 --> 00:07:33,989 HE WAS TOO GRIM, TOO REMOTE, AND HE DEMANDED TOO MUCH. 120 00:07:34,156 --> 00:07:35,907 SOME THOUGHT HIM MAD. 121 00:07:36,074 --> 00:07:38,410 HE BELIEVED THAT ONLY BY KEEPING ONE HAND IN THE AIR 122 00:07:38,577 --> 00:07:41,580 COULD HE STOP HIMSELF FROM GOING OUT OF BALANCE. 123 00:07:41,747 --> 00:07:43,540 AND HE SUCKED CONSTANTLY ON LEMONS, 124 00:07:43,707 --> 00:07:46,209 EVEN IN THE MIDST OF BATTLE. 125 00:07:46,376 --> 00:07:48,128 OTHERS WORRIED THAT HIS RELIGIOUS FERVOR 126 00:07:48,295 --> 00:07:50,130 WOULD CLOUD HIS JUDGMENT. 127 00:07:50,297 --> 00:07:51,882 HIS COMMAND, JACKSON SAID, 128 00:07:52,049 --> 00:07:54,009 WAS "AN ARMY OF THE LIVING GOD, 129 00:07:54,176 --> 00:07:57,054 AS WELL AS OF ITS COUNTRY." 130 00:07:57,220 --> 00:07:58,889 BUT HIS MEN WERE WILLING TO ENDURE 131 00:07:59,056 --> 00:08:01,850 THE 36-MlLE-A-DAY MARCHES HE DEMANDED 132 00:08:02,017 --> 00:08:03,518 BECAUSE HE BROUGHT THEM VICTORIES. 133 00:08:08,148 --> 00:08:10,317 IT WAS JACKSON'S DUTY IN THE SHENANDOAH 134 00:08:10,484 --> 00:08:12,360 TO UNSETTLE THE UNION 135 00:08:12,527 --> 00:08:15,072 AND KEEP WASHINGTON FROM REINFORCING MCCLELLAN. 136 00:08:18,033 --> 00:08:20,118 OPERATING IN THE MIDST OF 3 FEDERAL ARMIES, 137 00:08:20,285 --> 00:08:23,538 EACH WITH MORE MEN THAN HIS OWN FORCE OF 17,000, 138 00:08:23,705 --> 00:08:27,209 JACKSON LASHED OUT AT ONE ARMY AND THEN ANOTHER. 139 00:08:27,375 --> 00:08:31,296 ARMED WITH A DETAILED MAP THAT STRETCHED 8 1/2 FEET, 140 00:08:31,463 --> 00:08:33,590 HE SURPRISED THEM EVERY TIME-- 141 00:08:33,757 --> 00:08:35,133 AT WINCHESTER, 142 00:08:35,300 --> 00:08:36,384 FRONT ROYAL, 143 00:08:36,551 --> 00:08:38,011 CROSS KEYS, 144 00:08:38,178 --> 00:08:39,387 PORT REPUBLIC, 145 00:08:39,554 --> 00:08:41,681 AND A HALF DOZEN OTHER PLACES. 146 00:08:45,143 --> 00:08:47,229 AFTER ROUTING NATHANIEL BANKS' ARMY 147 00:08:47,395 --> 00:08:48,688 AT THE BATTLE OF WINCHESTER, 148 00:08:48,855 --> 00:08:51,483 JACKSON CHASED IT ALL THE WAY TO THE POTOMAC. 149 00:08:51,650 --> 00:08:54,653 "STOP, MEN!" BANKS SHOUTED TO HIS RETREATING TROOPS. 150 00:08:54,820 --> 00:08:56,530 "DON'T YOU LOVE YOUR COUNTRY?" 151 00:08:56,696 --> 00:08:58,281 "YES, BY GOD," SAID ONE, 152 00:08:58,448 --> 00:08:59,533 "AND I'M TRYING TO GET BACK TO IT 153 00:08:59,699 --> 00:09:00,992 JUST AS FAST AS I CAN." 154 00:09:17,008 --> 00:09:19,469 JACKSON'S VALLEY CAMPAIGN WAS ATRIUMPH. 155 00:09:21,596 --> 00:09:22,597 |N JUST OVER A MONTH, 156 00:09:22,764 --> 00:09:25,392 HIS MEN MARCHED ALMOST 400 MILES, 157 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:27,936 INFLICTED 7,000 CASUALTIES, 158 00:09:28,103 --> 00:09:31,231 SEIZED HUGE QUANTITIES OF BADLY NEEDED SUPPLIES, 159 00:09:31,398 --> 00:09:33,650 AND KEPT ALMOST 40,000 FEDERAL TROOPS 160 00:09:33,817 --> 00:09:34,985 OFF THE PENINSULA. 161 00:09:38,446 --> 00:09:40,949 MAN: "HE WHO DOES NOT SEE THE HAND OF GOD IN THIS 162 00:09:41,116 --> 00:09:43,410 IS BLIND, SIR, BLIND." 163 00:09:51,376 --> 00:09:53,920 MAN 2: "THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT JEFFERSON DAVIS 164 00:09:54,087 --> 00:09:55,046 "AND OTHER LEADERS OF THE SOUTH 165 00:09:55,213 --> 00:09:57,048 "HAVE MADE AN ARMY. 166 00:09:57,215 --> 00:09:59,509 "THEY ARE MAKING, IT APPEARS, A NAVY, 167 00:09:59,676 --> 00:10:01,970 "AND THEY HAVE MADE WHAT IS MORE THAN EITHER. 168 00:10:02,137 --> 00:10:04,848 "THEY HAVE MADE A NATION. 169 00:10:05,015 --> 00:10:06,933 "WE MAY ANTICIPATE WITH CERTAINTY 170 00:10:07,100 --> 00:10:09,477 THE SUCCESS OF THE SOUTHERN STATES." 171 00:10:09,644 --> 00:10:11,021 WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. 172 00:10:13,732 --> 00:10:16,067 NARRATOR: CONFEDERATE GOSPEL HELD THAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE 173 00:10:16,234 --> 00:10:19,821 COULD NOT SURVIVE WITHOUT SOUTHERN COTTON. 174 00:10:19,988 --> 00:10:22,574 BEFORE LONG, ONE OR BOTH WOULD SURELY INTERVENE 175 00:10:22,741 --> 00:10:23,992 ON BEHALF OF THE CONFEDERACY 176 00:10:24,159 --> 00:10:27,078 TO END THE UNION BLOCKADE. 177 00:10:27,245 --> 00:10:28,997 TO PUT MORE PRESSURE ON EUROPE, 178 00:10:29,164 --> 00:10:33,251 THE CONFEDERATES CUT COTTON PRODUCTION 90%. 179 00:10:33,418 --> 00:10:35,503 2.5 MILLION BALES WERE BURNED 180 00:10:35,670 --> 00:10:37,964 OR LEFT TO ROT ON CONFEDERATE WHARVES 181 00:10:38,131 --> 00:10:41,551 TO KEEP IT OUT OF ENGLISH HANDS. 182 00:10:41,718 --> 00:10:44,679 NOW, IN ADDITION TO DIRECTING AWAR AT HOME, 183 00:10:44,846 --> 00:10:46,681 LINCOLN HAD TO FIND A WAY TO KEEP EUROPE 184 00:10:46,848 --> 00:10:48,767 FROM COMING IN ON THE SIDE OF THE SOUTH. 185 00:10:52,729 --> 00:10:54,022 AND INCREASINGLY, IN THE NORTH, 186 00:10:54,189 --> 00:10:56,691 THERE WAS PRESSURE FOR EMANCIPATION, 187 00:10:56,858 --> 00:10:58,693 AND IT CAME FROM UNLIKELY PEOPLE 188 00:10:58,860 --> 00:11:00,153 IN UNLIKELY PLACES. 189 00:11:12,958 --> 00:11:15,085 ON MAY1, 1862, 190 00:11:15,252 --> 00:11:17,629 LINCOLN NAMED GENERAL BENJAMIN F. BUTLER 191 00:11:17,796 --> 00:11:21,633 MILITARY GOVERNOR OF OCCUPIED NEW ORLEANS. 192 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:23,343 BUTLER WENT RIGHT TO WORK. 193 00:11:23,510 --> 00:11:24,761 HE HANGED A MAN 194 00:11:24,928 --> 00:11:27,973 SUSPECTED OF HAVING DESECRATED THE AMERICAN FLAG. 195 00:11:28,139 --> 00:11:30,141 HE CLOSED A SECESSIONIST NEWSPAPER, 196 00:11:30,308 --> 00:11:31,518 CONFISCATED THE PROPERTY 197 00:11:31,685 --> 00:11:33,520 OF CITIZENS WHO REFUSED TO SWEAR ALLEGIANCE 198 00:11:33,687 --> 00:11:34,854 TO THE UNION, 199 00:11:35,021 --> 00:11:37,232 AND WAS GIVEN THE SCORNFUL NICKNAME "SPOONS" 200 00:11:37,399 --> 00:11:39,359 FOR ALLEGEDLY POCKETING SILVERWARE. 201 00:11:42,737 --> 00:11:46,157 NEW ORLEANS WOMEN ROUTINELY INSULTED HIS TROOPS. 202 00:11:46,324 --> 00:11:47,534 WHEN AWOMAN IN THE FRENCH QUARTER 203 00:11:47,701 --> 00:11:49,619 LEANED FROM AWINDOW TO DUMP HER CHAMBER POT 204 00:11:49,786 --> 00:11:51,788 ON THE HEAD OF ADMIRAL FARRAGUT, 205 00:11:51,955 --> 00:11:55,542 BUTLER ISSUED GENERAL ORDER NUMBER 28. 206 00:11:55,709 --> 00:11:59,254 MAN AS BUTLER: "AS THE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE UNITED STATES 207 00:11:59,421 --> 00:12:02,549 "HAVE BEEN SUBJECT TO REPEATED INSULTS 208 00:12:02,716 --> 00:12:07,846 "FROM THE WOMEN CALLING THEMSELVES LADIES OF NEW ORLEANS, 209 00:12:08,013 --> 00:12:09,931 "IT IS ORDERED THAT, HEREAFTER, 210 00:12:10,098 --> 00:12:12,600 "WHEN ANY FEMALE SHALL, 211 00:12:12,767 --> 00:12:15,520 "BY WORD, GESTURE, OR MOVEMENT, 212 00:12:15,687 --> 00:12:18,064 "INSULT OR SHOW CONTEMPT 213 00:12:18,231 --> 00:12:22,736 "FOR ANY OFFICER OR SOLDIER OF THE UNITED STATES, 214 00:12:22,902 --> 00:12:26,740 "SHE SHALL BE REGARDED AND HELD LIABLE 215 00:12:26,906 --> 00:12:29,701 "TO BE TREATED AS A WOMAN OF THE TOWN, 216 00:12:29,868 --> 00:12:33,163 PLYING HER AVOCATION." 217 00:12:33,330 --> 00:12:34,873 GENERAL BENJAMIN BUTLER. 218 00:12:36,875 --> 00:12:38,126 NARRATOR: SOUTHERNERS WERE OUTRAGED 219 00:12:38,293 --> 00:12:40,211 AND CALLED BUTLER "THE BEAST." 220 00:12:40,378 --> 00:12:42,756 A NEW ORLEANS ENTREPRENEUR SOLD CHAMBER POTS 221 00:12:42,922 --> 00:12:45,717 FEATURING BUTLER'S PORTRAIT INSIDE THE BOWL. 222 00:12:47,385 --> 00:12:49,179 IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, 223 00:12:49,346 --> 00:12:52,599 A PRIVATE CITIZEN OFFERED A $10,000 REWARD 224 00:12:52,766 --> 00:12:54,976 FOR THE CAPTURE OF "BEAST" BEN BUTLER-- 225 00:12:55,143 --> 00:12:56,936 DEAD OR ALIVE. 226 00:12:57,103 --> 00:12:59,356 BUT THE HARASSMENT OF HIS MEN STOPPED. 227 00:13:02,192 --> 00:13:03,985 WITH THE UNION ARMY SO NEAR, 228 00:13:04,152 --> 00:13:07,572 UNREST ON LOUISIANA PLANTATIONS INCREASED. 229 00:13:07,739 --> 00:13:08,907 WHEN DESPERATE SLAVE OWNERS 230 00:13:09,074 --> 00:13:11,534 BEGAN COMPLAINING OF REBELLIOUS BLACKS, 231 00:13:11,701 --> 00:13:14,913 BUTLER DECLARED THE PLANTERS DISLOYAL TO THE UNION, 232 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,749 THEN TOOK AWAY THEIR SLAVES. 233 00:13:17,916 --> 00:13:18,833 "GO TO THE YANKEES," 234 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,586 ONE SLAVE-HOLDER TOLD HIS SLAVES. 235 00:13:21,753 --> 00:13:23,004 "THEY ARE KINGS HERE NOW." 236 00:13:25,924 --> 00:13:28,176 WOMAN: "I HAVE BEEN READING SO MUCH ABOUT THE YANKEES, 237 00:13:28,343 --> 00:13:31,554 "| WAS VERY ANXIOUS TO SEE THEM. 238 00:13:31,721 --> 00:13:33,098 "THE WHITES WOULD TELL THEIR COLORED PEOPLE 239 00:13:33,264 --> 00:13:34,516 "NOT TO GO TO THE YANKEES, 240 00:13:34,682 --> 00:13:36,184 "FOR THEY WOULD HARNESS THEM TO CARTS 241 00:13:36,351 --> 00:13:40,939 "AND MAKE THEM PULL THE CARTS AROUND IN PLACE OF HORSES. 242 00:13:41,106 --> 00:13:43,983 "| ASKED GRANDMOTHER ONE DAY IF THIS WAS TRUE. 243 00:13:44,150 --> 00:13:46,611 "SHE REPLIED, CERTAINLY NOT, 244 00:13:46,778 --> 00:13:47,987 "THAT THE WHITE PEOPLE 245 00:13:48,154 --> 00:13:50,782 "DID NOT WANT SLAVES TO GO OVER TO THE YANKEES 246 00:13:50,949 --> 00:13:53,284 "AND TOLD THEM THESE THINGS TO FRIGHTEN THEM. 247 00:13:53,451 --> 00:13:57,330 "| WANTED TO SEE THOSE WONDERFUL YANKEES SO MUCH, 248 00:13:57,497 --> 00:13:58,915 "AS I HEARD MY PARENTS SAY 249 00:13:59,082 --> 00:14:03,044 THAT THE YANKEES WERE GOING TO SET ALL THE SLAVES FREE." 250 00:14:03,211 --> 00:14:05,004 SUSAN KING TAYLOR. 251 00:14:08,425 --> 00:14:12,846 FIELDS: THE SLAVES UNDERSTOOD THAT THAT WAR WAS ABOUT SLAVERY 252 00:14:13,012 --> 00:14:15,765 BEFORE IT WAS A WAR. 253 00:14:15,932 --> 00:14:17,475 THEY MADE A NUISANCE FOR THE ARMY, 254 00:14:17,642 --> 00:14:20,728 AND THEY ALSO MADE AN ISSUE THAT THE ARMY HAD TO DEAL WITH. 255 00:14:20,895 --> 00:14:22,522 AND IF THE ARMY HAD TO DEAL WITH IT, 256 00:14:22,689 --> 00:14:24,607 THE WAR DEPARTMENT HAD TO DEAL WITH IT. 257 00:14:24,774 --> 00:14:26,651 IF THE WAR DEPARTMENT HAD TO DEAL WITH IT, 258 00:14:26,818 --> 00:14:28,528 CONGRESS HAD TO DEAL WITH IT. 259 00:14:28,695 --> 00:14:30,822 THAT MEANS THAT EVERY FUGITIVE SLAVE 260 00:14:30,989 --> 00:14:32,949 WHO MADE A NUISANCE OF HIMSELF 261 00:14:33,116 --> 00:14:34,617 TO THE LOCAL COMMANDER 262 00:14:34,784 --> 00:14:36,953 EVENTUALLY MADE A FIGURE OF HIMSELF 263 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:38,913 TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. 264 00:14:40,790 --> 00:14:43,001 NARRATOR: CONGRESS, CONTROLLED BY REPUBLICANS, 265 00:14:43,168 --> 00:14:44,169 NOW FORBADE THE ARMY 266 00:14:44,335 --> 00:14:47,338 TO RETURN SLAVES TO THEIR MASTERS. 267 00:14:47,505 --> 00:14:48,590 AND IN JUNE, 268 00:14:48,756 --> 00:14:50,967 IT OUTLAWED SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES, 269 00:14:51,134 --> 00:14:54,762 FINALLY REVERSING THE OLD DRED SCOTT DECISION. 270 00:14:54,929 --> 00:14:57,182 MAN: "ONLY THE DAMNEDEST OF DAMNED ABOLITIONISTS 271 00:14:57,348 --> 00:14:59,767 "DREAMED OF SUCH THINGS AYEAR AGO. 272 00:14:59,934 --> 00:15:01,936 "JOHN BROWN'S SOUL IS MARCHING ON, 273 00:15:02,103 --> 00:15:04,522 WITH THE PEOPLE AFTER IT." 274 00:15:04,689 --> 00:15:05,773 GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG. 275 00:15:08,276 --> 00:15:10,778 MAN 2: "THE SLAVERY QUESTION PERPLEXES THE PRESIDENT 276 00:15:10,945 --> 00:15:12,739 "ALMOST AS MUCH AS EVER, 277 00:15:12,906 --> 00:15:14,532 "AND YET I THINK HE IS ABOUT TO EMERGE 278 00:15:14,699 --> 00:15:15,533 "FROM THE OBSCURITIES 279 00:15:15,700 --> 00:15:17,076 "WHERE HE HAS BEEN GROPING 280 00:15:17,243 --> 00:15:19,579 "INTO SOMEWHAT CLEARER LIGHT. 281 00:15:19,746 --> 00:15:21,956 SO, YOU SEE, THE MAN MOVES." 282 00:15:22,123 --> 00:15:23,208 SALMON P. CHASE. 283 00:15:26,002 --> 00:15:29,464 MAN AS LINCOLN: "JULY 4, 1862. 284 00:15:29,631 --> 00:15:30,465 "I WOULD DO IT 285 00:15:30,632 --> 00:15:31,966 "IF I WERE NOT AFRAID 286 00:15:32,133 --> 00:15:34,594 "THAT HALF THE OFFICERS WOULD FLING DOWN THEIR ARMS 287 00:15:34,761 --> 00:15:36,596 AND 3 MORE STATES WOULD RISE." 288 00:15:38,848 --> 00:15:40,600 NARRATOR: LINCOLN CONTINUED TO BACK A PLAN 289 00:15:40,767 --> 00:15:43,937 TO PAY $400 FOR EVERY SLAVE FREED 290 00:15:44,103 --> 00:15:45,605 AND THEN ENCOURAGE THE FREED MEN 291 00:15:45,772 --> 00:15:48,775 TO SAIL OFF TO A COLONY IN AFRICA OR CENTRAL AMERICA. 292 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:53,738 THE ABOLITIONIST WENDELL PHILLIPS 293 00:15:53,905 --> 00:15:55,240 CALLED ABRAHAM LINCOLN 294 00:15:55,406 --> 00:15:57,283 A FIRST-RATE SECOND-RATE MAN. 295 00:16:00,745 --> 00:16:02,622 FIELDS: | LOSE PATIENCE WITH THE ARGUMENT 296 00:16:02,789 --> 00:16:05,667 THAT BECAUSE OF SOMEONE'S TIME, 297 00:16:05,833 --> 00:16:09,963 HIS LIMITATIONS ARE THEREFORE EXCUSABLE OR EVEN PRAISEWORTHY. 298 00:16:10,129 --> 00:16:12,840 IT IS NOT TRUE THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE 299 00:16:13,007 --> 00:16:14,551 IN THAT TIME AND PLACE 300 00:16:14,717 --> 00:16:16,469 TO LOOK ANY HIGHER. 301 00:16:16,636 --> 00:16:18,763 THINK OF WENDELL PHILLIPS, WHO, 302 00:16:18,930 --> 00:16:21,558 COMMENTING ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S PROPOSAL 303 00:16:21,724 --> 00:16:24,227 TO COLONIZE BLACK PEOPLE OUT OF THE COUNTRY, 304 00:16:24,394 --> 00:16:25,436 WAS SARCASTIC. 305 00:16:25,603 --> 00:16:28,147 HE SAID, "COLONIZE THE BLACKS? 306 00:16:28,314 --> 00:16:30,858 "A MAN MIGHT AS WELL COLONIZE HIS OWN HANDS. 307 00:16:31,025 --> 00:16:32,694 "OR WHEN THE ROBBER IS IN HIS HOUSE, 308 00:16:32,860 --> 00:16:34,988 HE MIGHT AS WELL COLONIZE HIS REVOLVER." 309 00:16:38,658 --> 00:16:43,162 MAN: "EMANCIPATION IS THE DEMAND OF CIVILIZATION. 310 00:16:43,329 --> 00:16:45,790 "THAT IS A PRINCIPLE. 311 00:16:45,957 --> 00:16:49,252 ALL ELSE IS INTRIGUE." 312 00:16:49,419 --> 00:16:50,795 RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 313 00:17:05,101 --> 00:17:08,104 NARRATOR: ON THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA, THE RAINS CAME, 314 00:17:08,271 --> 00:17:09,939 INUNDATING THE BOTTOMLANDS. 315 00:17:12,734 --> 00:17:14,068 ALONG THE ROADS OUTSIDE RICHMOND, 316 00:17:14,235 --> 00:17:16,654 GEORGE MCCLELLAN'S FORCE WAS DIVIDED IN TWO 317 00:17:16,821 --> 00:17:18,323 BY THE FLOODED CHICKAHOMINY RIVER. 318 00:17:20,325 --> 00:17:21,951 EXPLOSIONS 319 00:17:22,118 --> 00:17:23,244 THE REBELS SAW THEIR CHANCE 320 00:17:23,411 --> 00:17:25,788 AND ATTACKED THE SMALLER FORCE ON MAY 31 st. 321 00:17:28,124 --> 00:17:29,500 IN THE FIERCE FIGHTING THAT FOLLOWED, 322 00:17:29,667 --> 00:17:30,710 THE CONFEDERATES DID BEST 323 00:17:30,877 --> 00:17:33,880 NEAR A CROSSROADS CALLED SEVEN PINES. 324 00:17:34,047 --> 00:17:35,006 THE UNION SOLDIERS 325 00:17:35,173 --> 00:17:36,924 WERE MOST SUCCESSFUL AT FAIR OAKS. 326 00:17:47,852 --> 00:17:49,687 WHEN THE BATTLE OF FAIR OAKS WAS OVER, 327 00:17:49,854 --> 00:17:52,732 THE NORTH HAD LOST 5,000 MEN, 328 00:17:52,899 --> 00:17:54,609 THE SOUTH, 6,000, 329 00:17:54,776 --> 00:17:57,695 AND IT HADN'T CHANGED ATHING. 330 00:17:57,862 --> 00:17:58,905 JOSEPH JOHNSTON, 331 00:17:59,072 --> 00:18:00,531 THE OVERALL CONFEDERATE COMMANDER, 332 00:18:00,698 --> 00:18:01,991 WAS HIMSELF SEVERELY WOUNDED 333 00:18:02,158 --> 00:18:03,242 AND CARRIED FROM THE FIELD. 334 00:18:05,745 --> 00:18:06,913 MAN: "THE SHOT THAT STRUCK ME DOWN 335 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:09,666 "WAS THE BEST EVER FIRED FOR THE CONFEDERACY, 336 00:18:09,832 --> 00:18:10,875 "FOR I POSSESSED IN NO DEGREE 337 00:18:11,042 --> 00:18:13,503 "THE CONFIDENCE OF THE GOVERNMENT, 338 00:18:13,670 --> 00:18:15,838 "AND NOWA MAN WHO DOES ENJOY IT WILL SUCCEED ME 339 00:18:16,005 --> 00:18:19,842 AND BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT I NEVER COULD." 340 00:18:20,009 --> 00:18:21,594 MAN 2: "HIS NAME MIGHT BE AUDACITY. 341 00:18:21,761 --> 00:18:24,013 "HE WILL TAKE MORE CHANCES AND TAKE THEM QUICKER, 342 00:18:24,180 --> 00:18:26,015 "THAN ANY OTHER GENERAL IN THIS COUNTRY, 343 00:18:26,182 --> 00:18:28,810 NORTH OR SOUTH." 344 00:18:28,976 --> 00:18:30,895 NARRATOR: NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE WAR, 345 00:18:31,062 --> 00:18:32,480 ROBERT E. LEE WAS PLACED 346 00:18:32,647 --> 00:18:34,023 AT THE HEAD OF A MAJOR ARMY. 347 00:18:37,151 --> 00:18:39,237 MAN: "I PREFER LEE TO JOHNSTON. 348 00:18:39,404 --> 00:18:40,613 "LEE IS TOO CAUTIOUS 349 00:18:40,780 --> 00:18:43,157 "AND WEAK UNDER GRAVE RESPONSIBILITY. 350 00:18:43,324 --> 00:18:45,451 "PERSONALLY BRAVE AND ENERGETIC TO A FAULT, 351 00:18:45,618 --> 00:18:47,078 "HE IS YET WANTING IN MORAL FIRMNESS 352 00:18:47,245 --> 00:18:49,747 WHEN PRESSED BY HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY." 353 00:18:49,914 --> 00:18:52,709 GEORGE MCCLELLAN. 354 00:18:52,875 --> 00:18:54,460 NARRATOR: MCCLELLAN COMPLETELY MISJUDGED 355 00:18:54,627 --> 00:18:56,629 THE NEW CONFEDERATE COMMANDER. 356 00:18:56,796 --> 00:18:58,923 ROBERT E. LEE WAS A FIGHTER. 357 00:18:59,090 --> 00:19:00,591 WANTING TO GET AT THE UNION MEN 358 00:19:00,758 --> 00:19:02,677 WHO HAD DARED INVADE HIS STATE, 359 00:19:02,844 --> 00:19:06,139 LEE RENAMED HIS FORCE THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, 360 00:19:06,305 --> 00:19:08,766 SEIZED THE INITIATIVE, AND NEVER LET IT GO. 361 00:19:11,894 --> 00:19:14,772 FIRST, LEE SENT HIS CAVALRY CHIEF, JEB STUART, 362 00:19:14,939 --> 00:19:17,108 TO RECONNOITER MCCLELLAN'S FORCES. 363 00:19:17,275 --> 00:19:19,235 STUART NOW LED 1,200 TROOPERS 364 00:19:19,402 --> 00:19:22,780 ON A POUNDING 3-DAY, 150-MILE RIDE 365 00:19:22,947 --> 00:19:24,991 AROUND MCCLELLAN'S HUGE ARMY. 366 00:19:26,868 --> 00:19:28,745 HIS MEN BURNED FEDERAL CAMPS, 367 00:19:28,911 --> 00:19:30,705 CUT DOWN TELEGRAPH POLES, 368 00:19:30,872 --> 00:19:32,957 TOOK PRISONERS AND HORSES AND MULES, 369 00:19:33,124 --> 00:19:35,543 AND SLOWED ONLY TO ACCEPT BOUQUETS AND KISSES 370 00:19:35,710 --> 00:19:37,628 FROM WOMEN ALONG THE WAY. 371 00:19:37,795 --> 00:19:38,796 IN VAIN PURSUIT 372 00:19:38,963 --> 00:19:40,798 WAS STUART'S OWN FATHER-lN-LAW, 373 00:19:40,965 --> 00:19:42,759 WHO HAD STAYED LOYAL TO THE UNION 374 00:19:42,925 --> 00:19:45,094 AND BECOME A GENERAL-- 375 00:19:45,261 --> 00:19:48,806 A DECISION STUART SAID HE WOULD "REGRET BUT ONCE, 376 00:19:48,973 --> 00:19:51,225 AND THAT WILL BE CONTINUOUSLY." 377 00:20:00,485 --> 00:20:02,236 THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE CAMPAIGN, 378 00:20:02,403 --> 00:20:03,738 LEE CAREFULLY OBSERVED 379 00:20:03,905 --> 00:20:07,784 MCCLELLAN'S TENTATIVE ADVANCE UP THE PENINSULA. 380 00:20:07,950 --> 00:20:09,744 AS MCCLELLAN WAS PREPARING AT LAST 381 00:20:09,911 --> 00:20:11,496 TO LAY SIEGE TO RICHMOND, 382 00:20:11,662 --> 00:20:13,206 LEE SURPRISED HIM FIRST, 383 00:20:13,372 --> 00:20:15,792 AT MECHANICSVILLE ON JUNE 26th. 384 00:20:15,958 --> 00:20:18,419 IT WAS A DARING MOVE. 385 00:20:18,586 --> 00:20:20,797 DEFYING ALL MILITARY CONVENTION, 386 00:20:20,963 --> 00:20:23,049 LEE DIVIDED HIS TINY FORCE 387 00:20:23,216 --> 00:20:25,510 AND THEN ATTACKED THE HUGE UNION ARMY, 388 00:20:25,676 --> 00:20:27,470 GAMBLING THAT MCCLELLAN WOULD BE TOO CAUTIOUS 389 00:20:27,637 --> 00:20:28,888 TO MOVE INTO RICHMOND. 390 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:32,517 LEE'S ASSAULT DIDN'T WORK. 391 00:20:32,683 --> 00:20:35,394 HE LOST 1,500 MEN AT MECHANICSVILLE, 392 00:20:35,561 --> 00:20:37,355 BUT HE WOULD NOT LET UP. 393 00:20:37,522 --> 00:20:39,482 DETERMINED TO DRIVE MCCLELLAN OUT OF VIRGINIA, 394 00:20:39,649 --> 00:20:41,275 LEE KEPT ON THE ATTACK. 395 00:20:41,442 --> 00:20:42,944 AND 80 IT WENT. 396 00:20:43,110 --> 00:20:46,072 FOR 7 DAYS, THE TWO ARMIES CLASHED. 397 00:20:46,239 --> 00:20:48,825 FROM GAINE'S MILL... 398 00:20:48,991 --> 00:20:51,994 FROM SAVAGE'S STATION... 399 00:20:52,161 --> 00:20:55,122 TO FRAYSER'S FARM... 400 00:20:55,289 --> 00:20:57,250 AND MALVERN HILL, 401 00:20:57,416 --> 00:20:59,043 WHERE FEDERAL GUNNERS STOPPED THE CONFEDERATES 402 00:20:59,210 --> 00:21:00,920 WHO CAME AT THEM UP THE LONG SLOPE. 403 00:21:06,467 --> 00:21:09,262 MAN: "OUR EARS HAD BEEN FILLED ALL NIGHT 404 00:21:09,428 --> 00:21:13,474 "WITH AGONIZING CRIES BEFORE THE FOG WAS LIFTED. 405 00:21:13,641 --> 00:21:15,059 "BUT NOW OUR EYES SAW 406 00:21:15,226 --> 00:21:17,103 "THAT 5,000 DEAD OR WOUNDED MEN 407 00:21:17,270 --> 00:21:19,146 "WERE ON THE GROUND. 408 00:21:19,313 --> 00:21:22,108 "A THIRD OF THEM WERE DEAD OR DYING, 409 00:21:22,275 --> 00:21:23,901 "BUT ENOUGH OF THEM WERE ALIVE AND MOVING 410 00:21:24,068 --> 00:21:27,697 TO GIVE THE FIELD ASINGULAR CRAWLING EFFECT." 411 00:21:32,201 --> 00:21:35,788 WOMAN: "EACH OF THE BATTLES OF THOSE 7 DAYS 412 00:21:35,955 --> 00:21:37,331 "BROUGHT A HARVEST OF WOUNDED 413 00:21:37,498 --> 00:21:39,250 "TO OUR HOSPITAL. 414 00:21:39,417 --> 00:21:41,335 "I USED TO VEIL MYSELF CLOSELY 415 00:21:41,502 --> 00:21:43,546 "AS I WALKED TO AND FROM MY HOTEL, 416 00:21:43,713 --> 00:21:44,839 "THAT I MIGHT SHUT OUT 417 00:21:45,006 --> 00:21:46,215 "THE DREADFUL SIGHTS. 418 00:21:48,342 --> 00:21:51,429 "ONCE I DID SEE ONE OF THOSE DREADFUL WAGONS. 419 00:21:51,596 --> 00:21:53,306 "IN IT, A STIFF ARM WAS RAISED, 420 00:21:53,472 --> 00:21:56,767 "AND IT SHOOK AS IT WAS DRIVEN DOWN THE STREET, 421 00:21:56,934 --> 00:21:58,019 "AS THOUGH THE DEAD OWNER 422 00:21:58,185 --> 00:22:00,187 APPEALED TO HEAVEN FOR VENGEANCE." 423 00:22:21,709 --> 00:22:24,086 NARRATOR: ALL BUT ONE OF THE BATTLES OF THE 7 DAYS 424 00:22:24,253 --> 00:22:26,213 WERE UNION VICTORIES, 425 00:22:26,380 --> 00:22:29,342 YET MCCLELLAN TREATED THEM AS DEFEATS, 426 00:22:29,508 --> 00:22:30,843 CONTINUING TO BACK DOWN 427 00:22:31,010 --> 00:22:32,970 UNTIL HE REACHED THE SAFETY OF FEDERAL GUNBOATS 428 00:22:33,137 --> 00:22:35,890 AT HARRISON'S LANDING ON THE JAMES RIVER. 429 00:22:36,057 --> 00:22:38,351 UNION OFFICERS URGED ACOUNTERATTACK. 430 00:22:38,517 --> 00:22:41,062 LEE HAD LOST 20,000 MEN. 431 00:22:41,228 --> 00:22:42,271 MCCLELLAN REFUSED. 432 00:22:44,565 --> 00:22:45,900 ONE OFFICER SUGGESTED 433 00:22:46,067 --> 00:22:47,234 HIS COMMANDER WAS MOTIVATED 434 00:22:47,401 --> 00:22:49,320 EITHER BY "COWARDICE OR TREASON." 435 00:22:51,572 --> 00:22:52,865 IN JUST ONE WEEK, 436 00:22:53,032 --> 00:22:56,077 LEE HAD COMPLETELY UNNERVED THE UNION GENERAL 437 00:22:56,243 --> 00:22:57,745 AND DEMONSTRATED FOR THE FIRST TIME 438 00:22:57,912 --> 00:23:00,748 THE STRENGTHS THAT WOULD MAKE HIM A LEGEND-- 439 00:23:00,915 --> 00:23:02,792 SURPRISE, AUDACITY, 440 00:23:02,959 --> 00:23:05,461 AND AN EERIE ABILITY TO READ HIS OPPONENT'S MIND. 441 00:23:07,463 --> 00:23:08,756 IN JUST 7 DAYS, 442 00:23:08,923 --> 00:23:11,258 MCCLELLAN HAD BEEN TOTALLY OUT-GENERALED. 443 00:23:14,261 --> 00:23:16,973 MAN: "I AM TIRED OF THE SICKENING SIGHT OF THE BATTLEFIELD, 444 00:23:17,139 --> 00:23:21,018 "WITH ITS MANGLED CORPSES AND POOR SUFFERING WOUNDED. 445 00:23:21,185 --> 00:23:22,937 "VICTORY HAS NO CHARMS FOR ME 446 00:23:23,104 --> 00:23:24,480 WHEN PURCHASED AT SUCH COST." 447 00:23:27,566 --> 00:23:28,776 NARRATOR: ON JULY 7th, 448 00:23:28,943 --> 00:23:31,070 AN EXASPERATED LINCOLN SAILED DOWN TO SEE 449 00:23:31,237 --> 00:23:33,197 HIS COMMANDING GENERAL. 450 00:23:33,364 --> 00:23:35,825 HE HAD NOT LOST, MCCLELLAN INSISTED. 451 00:23:35,992 --> 00:23:37,868 HE HAD MERELY FAILED TO WIN. 452 00:23:38,035 --> 00:23:42,164 HE NEEDED 50,000 MORE MEN, OR PERHAPS 100,000. 453 00:23:42,331 --> 00:23:44,000 NO SUCH NUMBERS WERE AVAILABLE, 454 00:23:44,166 --> 00:23:46,127 LINCOLN TOLD HIM. 455 00:23:46,293 --> 00:23:47,211 IF MCCLELLAN DID NOT FEEL 456 00:23:47,378 --> 00:23:49,046 HE COULD RESUME THE OFFENSIVE, 457 00:23:49,213 --> 00:23:53,092 HIS MEN WOULD BE WITHDRAWN FROM THE PENINSULA. 458 00:23:53,259 --> 00:23:55,302 MAN AS LINCOLN: "IF I GAVE MCCLELLAN ALL THE MEN HE ASKS FOR, 459 00:23:55,469 --> 00:23:57,430 "THEY COULDN'T FIND ROOM TO LIE DOWN. 460 00:23:57,596 --> 00:23:59,765 "THEY'D HAVE TO SLEEP STANDING UP. 461 00:23:59,932 --> 00:24:01,100 "SENDING MEN TO THAT ARMY 462 00:24:01,267 --> 00:24:03,894 "IS LIKE SHOVELING FLEAS ACROSS A BARNYARD-- 463 00:24:04,061 --> 00:24:05,187 NOT HALF OF THEM GET THERE." 464 00:24:08,607 --> 00:24:10,026 MAN: "SEPTEMBER 3. 465 00:24:10,192 --> 00:24:11,277 "TODAY WE TOOK A STEAMER 466 00:24:11,444 --> 00:24:13,738 "AND WENT UP THE POTOMAC PAST WASHINGTON 467 00:24:13,904 --> 00:24:15,448 "AND LANDED AT GEORGETOWN. 468 00:24:15,614 --> 00:24:16,824 "IT IS HARD TO HAVE REACHED 469 00:24:16,991 --> 00:24:19,785 "THE POINT WE STARTED FROM LAST MARCH, 470 00:24:19,952 --> 00:24:22,455 AND RICHMOND IS STILL THE REBEL CAPITAL." 471 00:24:22,621 --> 00:24:24,040 ELISHA HUNT RHODES. 472 00:25:11,045 --> 00:25:14,965 NARRATOR: UNION GUNS BATTERED FORT PULASKI, GEORGIA, INTO SURRENDERING 473 00:25:15,132 --> 00:25:16,258 AND CHOKED OFF THE SAVANNAH RIVER 474 00:25:16,425 --> 00:25:18,469 TO SOUTHERN SHIPS. 475 00:25:18,636 --> 00:25:19,762 THERE WAS FIGHTING 476 00:25:19,929 --> 00:25:22,431 AT FOYT'S PLANTATION, NORTH CAROLINA, 477 00:25:22,598 --> 00:25:25,309 ST. ANDREW'S BAY, FLORIDA, 478 00:25:25,476 --> 00:25:27,228 WARTRACE, TENNESSEE, 479 00:25:27,394 --> 00:25:30,356 AND AT ALBUQUERQUE IN FAR-OFF NEW MEXICO TERRITORY. 480 00:25:35,569 --> 00:25:37,738 MAN: "SEA ISLANDS, GEORGIA. 481 00:25:37,905 --> 00:25:40,241 "HERE IAM, SURROUNDED BY TROOPERS, 482 00:25:40,407 --> 00:25:42,243 "MISSIONARIES, CONTRABANDS, 483 00:25:42,409 --> 00:25:44,161 "COTTON FIELDS, AND SERPENTS, 484 00:25:44,328 --> 00:25:45,871 "IN A SUMMER CLIMATE, 485 00:25:46,038 --> 00:25:48,207 "DISGUSTED WITH ALL THINGS MILITARY 486 00:25:48,374 --> 00:25:49,959 "AND FIGHTING OFF MALARIA 487 00:25:50,126 --> 00:25:52,753 "WITH WHISKEY AND TOBACCO. 488 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,423 "NO MAN SEEMS TO REALIZE THAT HERE IN THIS LITTLE ISLAND, 489 00:25:56,590 --> 00:25:59,135 "ALL AROUND US, HAS BEGUN THE SOLUTION 490 00:25:59,301 --> 00:26:02,763 "OF THE TREMENDOUS NIGGER QUESTION. 491 00:26:02,930 --> 00:26:04,890 "SOME 10,000 FORMER SLAVES 492 00:26:05,057 --> 00:26:06,142 "ARE THROWN UPON THE HANDS 493 00:26:06,308 --> 00:26:08,394 "OF THE UNFORTUNATE GOVERNMENT. 494 00:26:08,561 --> 00:26:09,770 "THEY ARE THE FORERUNNERS 495 00:26:09,937 --> 00:26:12,731 OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MORE." 496 00:26:12,898 --> 00:26:16,277 LIEUTENANT CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. 497 00:26:16,443 --> 00:26:17,486 NARRATOR: STATIONED IN PLACES 498 00:26:17,653 --> 00:26:19,780 LIKE HILTON HEAD AND BEAUFORT, 499 00:26:19,947 --> 00:26:23,284 NEW ENGLANDERS GOT THEIR FIRST TASTE OF THE TROPICS. 500 00:26:23,450 --> 00:26:25,286 NONE OF THE 2nd MASSACHUSETTS 501 00:26:25,452 --> 00:26:28,789 HAD EVER SEEN A PALM TREE BEFORE. 502 00:26:28,956 --> 00:26:32,334 WHEN UNION FORCES TOOK PARTS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA COAST, 503 00:26:32,501 --> 00:26:34,295 PLANTATION OWNERS FLED, 504 00:26:34,461 --> 00:26:38,007 LEAVING BEHIND EMPTY HOUSES AND 10,000 SLAVES. 505 00:26:40,676 --> 00:26:43,220 MISSIONARIES, TEACHERS, AND OTHER VOLUNTEERS 506 00:26:43,387 --> 00:26:46,432 SOON ARRIVED TO HELP THE NEWLY-LIBERATED. 507 00:26:46,599 --> 00:26:48,976 "WE HAVE COME TO DO ANTISLAVERY WORK," 508 00:26:49,143 --> 00:26:50,519 ONE TEACHER WROTE. 509 00:26:50,686 --> 00:26:52,313 "WE THINK IT NOBLE WORK, 510 00:26:52,479 --> 00:26:53,939 AND WE WILL DO IT NOBLY." 511 00:26:58,944 --> 00:27:00,905 MAN: "MY DEAR WIFE, 512 00:27:01,071 --> 00:27:03,324 "THIS DAY I CAN ADDRESS YOU, 513 00:27:03,490 --> 00:27:06,660 "THANK GOD, AS A FREE MAN. 514 00:27:06,827 --> 00:27:08,495 "I HAD A LITTLE TROUBLE GETTING AWAY, 515 00:27:08,662 --> 00:27:13,375 "BUT AS THE LORD LED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO THE LAND OF CANAAN, 516 00:27:13,542 --> 00:27:16,086 "SO HE LED ME TO A LAND WHERE FREEDOM WILL REIGN 517 00:27:16,253 --> 00:27:19,465 "IN SPITE OF EARTH AND HELL. 518 00:27:19,632 --> 00:27:22,843 "MY DEAR, | TRUST THE TIME WILL COME 519 00:27:23,010 --> 00:27:25,179 "WHEN WE WILL MEET AGAIN. 520 00:27:25,346 --> 00:27:27,223 "AND IF WE DON'T MEET ON EARTH, 521 00:27:27,389 --> 00:27:31,310 "WE WILL MEET IN HEAVEN, WHERE JESUS REIGNS. 522 00:27:31,477 --> 00:27:34,188 "DEAR WIFE, I MUST CLOSE. 523 00:27:34,355 --> 00:27:38,317 "REST YOURSELF CONTENTED. IAM FREE. 524 00:27:38,484 --> 00:27:40,319 "YOUR AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND. 525 00:27:40,486 --> 00:27:42,029 KISS DANIEL FOR ME." 526 00:27:42,196 --> 00:27:43,197 JOHN BOSTON. 527 00:27:48,494 --> 00:27:49,870 NARRATOR: AT DEER ISLE, MAINE, 528 00:27:50,037 --> 00:27:52,081 PEOPLE WERE AFRAID TO GO TO THE POST OFFICE, 529 00:27:52,248 --> 00:27:54,041 WHERE THE CASUALTY LISTS WERE POSTED. 530 00:27:56,252 --> 00:27:58,128 MAN: "NEW BERNE, NORTH CAROLINA. 531 00:27:58,295 --> 00:28:00,965 "MARCH 20, 1862. 532 00:28:01,131 --> 00:28:03,175 "TO MR. JOHN WEBSTER, JR., 533 00:28:03,342 --> 00:28:04,760 "DEER ISLE, MAINE. 534 00:28:04,927 --> 00:28:05,928 "DEAR SIR... 535 00:28:08,222 --> 00:28:09,306 "IT IS WITH PAIN 536 00:28:09,473 --> 00:28:11,225 "THAT I HAVE TO ANNOUNCE TO YOU 537 00:28:11,392 --> 00:28:15,187 "THE DEATH OF YOUR BROTHER CHARLES GRAY. 538 00:28:15,354 --> 00:28:16,230 "BY HIS GOOD CONDUCT 539 00:28:16,397 --> 00:28:17,856 "AND BRAVERY WHILE WITH ME, 540 00:28:18,023 --> 00:28:20,150 "HE HAD RISEN TO THE RANK OF CORPORAL, 541 00:28:20,317 --> 00:28:23,404 "AND HAD HE LIVED, | SHOULD HAVE PROMOTED HIM AGAIN. 542 00:28:23,570 --> 00:28:24,822 "HE WAS SHOT THROUGH THE BODY 543 00:28:24,989 --> 00:28:26,824 "AT THE BATTLE OF NEW BERNE. 544 00:28:26,991 --> 00:28:30,494 "HIS LAST WORDS WERE, WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP. 545 00:28:30,661 --> 00:28:32,746 "HE IS BURIED HERE. 546 00:28:32,913 --> 00:28:34,415 "HIS EFFECTS | SHALL SEND HOME 547 00:28:34,581 --> 00:28:37,209 "AT THE EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY. 548 00:28:37,376 --> 00:28:39,795 "YOURS TRULY, E.A.P. BREWSTER, 549 00:28:39,962 --> 00:28:43,299 "CAPTAIN COMMANDING COMPANY 'A', 550 00:28:43,465 --> 00:28:44,758 23rd MASSACHUSETTS." 551 00:28:48,554 --> 00:28:51,974 NARRATOR: DEER ISLE HAD LOST ITS FIRST SOLDIER. 552 00:28:52,141 --> 00:28:54,727 A PARCEL CONTAINING CHARLES GRAY'S PERSONAL EFFECTS 553 00:28:54,893 --> 00:28:57,313 ARRIVED IN THE MAIL-- 554 00:28:57,479 --> 00:29:00,691 HIS HAT, PROMOTION PAPERS ATTESTING TO HIS VALOR, 555 00:29:00,858 --> 00:29:01,692 AND A CARTRIDGE BOX 556 00:29:01,859 --> 00:29:02,818 IN WHICH SOMEONE HAD PLACED 557 00:29:02,985 --> 00:29:05,654 THE MANGLED BULLET THAT KILLED HIM. 558 00:29:05,821 --> 00:29:07,364 HIS MOTHER REFUSED TO LOOK AT IT. 559 00:29:10,159 --> 00:29:11,994 THE MEN OF THE REDUCED FISHING FLEET 560 00:29:12,161 --> 00:29:13,954 STRUGGLED TO HARVEST A CATCH. 561 00:29:14,121 --> 00:29:15,664 WIVES TENDED KITCHEN GARDENS 562 00:29:15,831 --> 00:29:16,999 AND SCRAPED LINEN FOR THE LINT 563 00:29:17,166 --> 00:29:19,043 FROM WHICH ARMY BANDAGES WERE MADE. 564 00:29:21,795 --> 00:29:23,505 MORE BAD NEWS ARRIVED. 565 00:29:23,672 --> 00:29:25,632 PRIVATE ALEX HENDERSON HAD DIED OF DISEASE 566 00:29:25,799 --> 00:29:28,302 AT FORT JACKSON, LOUISIANA, 567 00:29:28,469 --> 00:29:30,012 LEAVING AWIDOW AND SEVERAL CHILDREN. 568 00:29:35,434 --> 00:29:36,852 AT CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE, 569 00:29:37,019 --> 00:29:38,395 TENSIONS BETWEEN THE TOWN 570 00:29:38,562 --> 00:29:40,981 AND THE OCCUPYING UNION ARMY RAN HIGH. 571 00:29:43,067 --> 00:29:45,444 FEDERAL TROOPS VANDALIZED STEWART COLLEGE, 572 00:29:45,611 --> 00:29:47,863 WRECKING LABORATORIES AND STEALING BOOKS, 573 00:29:48,030 --> 00:29:51,325 THEN SET UP HEADQUARTERS THERE. 574 00:29:51,492 --> 00:29:53,619 SOLDIERS BURST IN ON A CHURCH SERVICE, 575 00:29:53,786 --> 00:29:56,538 ARRESTED THE PREACHER, COMMANDEERED HORSES, 576 00:29:56,705 --> 00:29:58,499 AND FORCED RELUCTANT PARISHIONERS 577 00:29:58,665 --> 00:29:59,875 TO TAKE A LOYALTY OATH. 578 00:30:02,127 --> 00:30:04,880 AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, THE RESIDENTS STAYED AT HOME. 579 00:30:17,684 --> 00:30:20,270 THE ANSWER TO-- A SOUTHERNER WOULD GIVE YOU 580 00:30:20,437 --> 00:30:22,773 AS TO WHY ARE YOU FIGHTING IF YOU WERE A NORTHERNER-- 581 00:30:22,940 --> 00:30:25,567 HE WOULD SAY, "I'M FIGHTING 'CAUSE YOU'RE DOWN HERE." 582 00:30:25,734 --> 00:30:27,069 HE WAS BEING INVADED, 583 00:30:27,236 --> 00:30:29,738 AND HE FOUGHT, AS HE THOUGHT, TO DEFEND HIS HOME. 584 00:30:29,905 --> 00:30:31,865 LINCOLN HAD A MUCH MORE DIFFICULT JOB 585 00:30:32,032 --> 00:30:33,075 OF SENDING MEN OUT 586 00:30:33,242 --> 00:30:37,663 TO SHOOT UP SOMEBODY ELSE'S HOME. 587 00:30:37,830 --> 00:30:41,333 AND HE HAD TO UNITE THEM BEFORE HE COULD DO THAT. 588 00:30:41,500 --> 00:30:42,960 AND HIS WAY OF DOING IT WAS DOUBLE. 589 00:30:43,127 --> 00:30:47,297 ONE WAS TO SAY THAT THE REPUBLIC MUST BE PRESERVED, 590 00:30:47,464 --> 00:30:49,299 NOT SPLIT IN TWO. THAT WAS ONE. 591 00:30:49,466 --> 00:30:52,094 AND THE OTHER ONE HE GAVE THEM AS A CAUSE-- 592 00:30:52,261 --> 00:30:55,556 THE FREEING OF THE SLAVES. 593 00:30:55,722 --> 00:30:59,101 NARRATOR: ON THE MORNING OF JULY 22, 1862, 594 00:30:59,268 --> 00:31:01,854 THE PRESIDENT CALLED ACABINET MEETING. 595 00:31:02,020 --> 00:31:05,482 WHAT HE SAID TOOK EVERYONE BY SURPRISE. 596 00:31:05,649 --> 00:31:07,818 AFTER LONG THOUGHT, HE TOLD THEM, 597 00:31:07,985 --> 00:31:10,195 HE HAD DECIDED TO EMANCIPATE THE SLAVES. 598 00:31:13,115 --> 00:31:15,868 MAN: IT WAS A STUNNING MOMENT. 599 00:31:16,034 --> 00:31:17,453 IT WAS AGAINST EVERYTHING 600 00:31:17,619 --> 00:31:21,290 LINCOLN HAD PROMISED ALL THE REPUBLICANS 601 00:31:21,457 --> 00:31:23,375 AND INDEED THE COUNTRY-- 602 00:31:23,542 --> 00:31:25,836 THAT HE WOULD NOT BECOME AN ABOLITIONIST, 603 00:31:26,003 --> 00:31:29,298 HE WOULD NOT STRIKE AT SLAVERY WHERE IT EXISTED. 604 00:31:29,465 --> 00:31:31,425 AND HERE, SUDDENLY, HE WAS CHANGING 605 00:31:31,592 --> 00:31:32,676 THE CHARACTER OF THE WAR. 606 00:31:34,761 --> 00:31:36,805 NARRATOR: BUT SECRETARY OF STATE SEWARD WORRIED 607 00:31:36,972 --> 00:31:39,433 THAT UNTIL THE ARMY HAD WON A REAL VICTORY, 608 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:40,976 EMANCIPATION WOULD SEEM LIKE 609 00:31:41,143 --> 00:31:44,646 THE LAST SHRIEK ON THE RETREAT. 610 00:31:44,813 --> 00:31:46,982 LINCOLN AGREED TO WAIT FOR A VICTORY. 611 00:31:50,110 --> 00:31:52,488 FIELDS: IT'S HARD TO SEPARATE ONE ISSUE FROM ANOTHER. 612 00:31:52,654 --> 00:31:55,991 OBVIOUSLY, LINCOLN HAD TO WIN THE WAR. 613 00:31:56,158 --> 00:31:59,745 HE HAD TO KEEP HIS RESPECTABILITY 614 00:31:59,912 --> 00:32:01,121 AS PRESIDENT OF A COUNTRY 615 00:32:01,288 --> 00:32:03,665 THAT WOULD NOT ALLOW ITSELF TO BE DEFEATED 616 00:32:03,832 --> 00:32:05,667 BY A GROUP OF REBELS. 617 00:32:05,834 --> 00:32:07,628 SO THAT WAS ALWAYS AN ISSUE, 618 00:32:07,794 --> 00:32:11,924 AND IT WAS ESPECIALLY AN ISSUE, OF COURSE, IN 1862. 619 00:32:12,090 --> 00:32:15,010 HE COULD NOT LET HIMSELF BE MADE A FOOL 620 00:32:15,177 --> 00:32:16,970 AND THE UNION BE MADE A FOOL 621 00:32:17,137 --> 00:32:18,514 BY STANDING UP FOR PRINCIPLES 622 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,891 THAT COULD NOT BE VINDICATED ON THE BATTLEFIELD. 623 00:32:24,186 --> 00:32:29,024 WOMAN: J‘ I HAVE READ A FIERY GOSPEL J‘ 624 00:32:29,191 --> 00:32:34,488 J‘ WRIT IN BURNISHED ROWS OF STEEL J‘ 625 00:32:34,655 --> 00:32:39,034 J‘ AS YE DEAL WITH MY CONTEMNERS J‘ 626 00:32:39,201 --> 00:32:44,540 J‘ 80 WITH YOU MY GRACE SHALL DEAL J‘ 627 00:32:44,706 --> 00:32:49,586 J‘ LET THE HERO BORN OF WOMAN J‘ 628 00:32:49,753 --> 00:32:54,550 J‘ CRUSH THE SERPENT WITH HIS HEEL J‘ 629 00:32:54,716 --> 00:33:02,933 J‘ SINCE GOD IS MARCHING ON J‘ 630 00:33:18,699 --> 00:33:21,827 NARRATOR: DESPERATE FOR AVICTORY, LINCOLN REMOVED MCCLELLAN 631 00:33:21,994 --> 00:33:26,456 AND PUT TALL, BOMBASTIC JOHN POPE IN COMMAND. 632 00:33:26,623 --> 00:33:27,791 POPE SO OFTEN BRAGGED 633 00:33:27,958 --> 00:33:29,876 THAT HIS HEADQUARTERS WERE IN THE SADDLE, 634 00:33:30,043 --> 00:33:32,254 PEOPLE BEGAN TO SAY HE HAD HIS HEADQUARTERS 635 00:33:32,421 --> 00:33:35,882 WHERE HIS HINDQUARTERS SHOULD HAVE BEEN. 636 00:33:36,049 --> 00:33:37,593 FOOTE: LINCOLN WAS WARNED AT THE START 637 00:33:37,759 --> 00:33:41,680 THAT POPE WAS NOT TO BE TRUSTED WITH TELLING THE TRUTH. 638 00:33:41,847 --> 00:33:44,891 AND LINCOLN SAID, "I'VE KNOWN THE POPES BACK IN ILLINOIS. 639 00:33:45,058 --> 00:33:47,603 "KNOWN ALL OF THEM. THEY'RE ALL LIARS AND BRAGGARTS, 640 00:33:47,769 --> 00:33:50,606 "BUT I DON'T KNOW OF ANY PARTICULAR REASON WHY A L|AR AND A BRAGGART 641 00:33:50,772 --> 00:33:52,941 SHOULDN'T MAKE A GOOD GENERAL." 642 00:33:53,108 --> 00:33:54,651 EXPLOSIONS 643 00:33:54,818 --> 00:33:57,863 NARRATOR: POPE WASTED NO TIME CHARGING INTO NORTHERN VIRGINIA 644 00:33:58,030 --> 00:33:59,740 AFTER THE REBEL ARMIES, 645 00:33:59,906 --> 00:34:02,618 BUT HE WAS IN TROUBLE FROM THE START. 646 00:34:02,784 --> 00:34:05,287 FIRST, STONEWALL JACKSON FOUGHT HIM TO A STAND-OFF 647 00:34:05,454 --> 00:34:06,788 AT CEDAR MOUNTAIN. 648 00:34:06,955 --> 00:34:08,457 JEB STUART HIT HIM NEXT, 649 00:34:08,624 --> 00:34:09,625 RAIDING HIS HEADQUARTERS 650 00:34:09,791 --> 00:34:12,753 AND GETTING AWAY WITH $35,000 IN CASH 651 00:34:12,919 --> 00:34:16,298 AND THE UNION COMMANDER'S DRESS COAT. 652 00:34:16,465 --> 00:34:18,550 THEN THE REBELS SIMPLY DISAPPEARED. 653 00:34:22,471 --> 00:34:24,556 IT TOOK POPE TWO DAYS TO FIND THEM, 654 00:34:24,723 --> 00:34:26,767 DUG IN ALONG AN ABANDONED RAILROAD 655 00:34:26,933 --> 00:34:30,270 OVERLOOKING THE OLD BULL RUN BATTLEFIELD. 656 00:34:30,437 --> 00:34:32,064 EXPLOSIONS 657 00:34:32,230 --> 00:34:34,816 ON AUGUST 29th, POPE ATTACKED, 658 00:34:34,983 --> 00:34:37,944 PROMISING TO "BAG THE WHOLE CROWD." 659 00:34:38,111 --> 00:34:39,738 BUT THE CONFEDERATES HELD, 660 00:34:39,905 --> 00:34:42,908 JACKSON'S MEN HURLING ROCKS WHEN AMMUNITION RAN LOW. 661 00:34:46,703 --> 00:34:48,330 AT 2:00 THE NEXT AFTERNOON, 662 00:34:48,497 --> 00:34:50,582 CONFEDERATE GENERAL JAMES LONGSTREET 663 00:34:50,749 --> 00:34:53,669 SENT 5 DIVISIONS STORMING INTO THE UNION FLANK. 664 00:34:56,588 --> 00:34:58,465 IT WAS ANOTHER UNION DISASTER. 665 00:35:06,765 --> 00:35:09,976 25,000 MEN WERE KILLED, WOUNDED, OR MISSING 666 00:35:10,143 --> 00:35:12,312 AT SECOND BULL RUN, 667 00:35:12,479 --> 00:35:13,480 FIVE TIMES THE FIGURE 668 00:35:13,647 --> 00:35:15,440 THAT HAD SO HORRIFIED THE COUNTRY 669 00:35:15,607 --> 00:35:19,277 THE FIRST TIME NORTH AND SOUTH FOUGHT THERE. 670 00:35:19,444 --> 00:35:21,738 LINCOLN SENT POPE WEST TO MINNESOTA 671 00:35:21,905 --> 00:35:24,282 TO DEAL WITH AN UPRISING AMONG THE SIOUX 672 00:35:24,449 --> 00:35:26,368 AND RELUCTANTLY PUT GEORGE MCCLELLAN 673 00:35:26,535 --> 00:35:28,662 BACK IN COMMAND. 674 00:35:28,829 --> 00:35:30,539 "WE MUST USE THE TOOLS WE HAVE," 675 00:35:30,706 --> 00:35:31,581 LINCOLN SAID. 676 00:35:35,043 --> 00:35:36,545 MCCLELLAN TOLD HIS WIFE 677 00:35:36,712 --> 00:35:38,547 HE HAD BEEN CALLED UPON TO SAVE THE COUNTRY 678 00:35:38,714 --> 00:35:39,673 ONCE AGAIN. 679 00:35:48,890 --> 00:35:50,350 MAN: "WE WOULD ASK THE NORTH CAROLINIANS 680 00:35:50,517 --> 00:35:51,893 "IF THEY HAD ANY TAR 681 00:35:52,060 --> 00:35:54,062 "AND CALL THEM TAR HEELS. 682 00:35:54,229 --> 00:35:56,648 "THEY WOULD REPLY THAT THEY WERE JUST OUT 683 00:35:56,815 --> 00:35:59,317 "AS THEY HAD LET US VIRGINIANS HAVE ALL THEY HAD 684 00:35:59,484 --> 00:36:01,778 "TO MAKE US STICK IN THE LAST FIGHT 685 00:36:01,945 --> 00:36:03,488 "AND CALL US SORE BACKS, 686 00:36:03,655 --> 00:36:05,365 "AS THEY'D KNOCKED ALL THE SKIN OFF OUR BACKS 687 00:36:05,532 --> 00:36:07,576 "RUNNING OVER US TO GET INTO BATTLE. 688 00:36:07,743 --> 00:36:10,454 "AND 80 IT WOULD GO, BUT ALL IN THE BEST OF HUMOR, 689 00:36:10,620 --> 00:36:12,622 KNOWING THAT ALL DID THEIR DUTY." 690 00:36:12,789 --> 00:36:17,586 JOHN CASLER, 33rd REGIMENT, VIRGINIA INFANTRY, STONEWALL'S BRIGADE. 691 00:36:17,753 --> 00:36:20,797 FOOTE: YOU MUST REMEMBER THEY WERE ALL FROM THE SAME STATE. 692 00:36:20,964 --> 00:36:23,425 THEY HAD FOLLOWED THE SAME FLAG. 693 00:36:23,592 --> 00:36:25,302 THE BATTLES THEY HAD FOUGHT IN, 694 00:36:25,469 --> 00:36:27,429 THE NAMES WERE STITCHED ON THAT FLAG. 695 00:36:27,596 --> 00:36:29,681 AND THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF UNIT PRIDE. 696 00:36:29,848 --> 00:36:31,266 AND I'M SURE THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF SADNESS 697 00:36:31,433 --> 00:36:33,935 OVER THE LOSSES THAT THEY SUFFERED. 698 00:36:34,102 --> 00:36:36,313 BUT THERE WAS A CLOSENESS AMONG THOSE MEN 699 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,441 THAT CAME FROM YEARS OF BEING EXPOSED 700 00:36:39,608 --> 00:36:42,652 TO THE MOST HORRENDOUS WARFARE THAT I KNOW OF. 701 00:36:44,613 --> 00:36:46,490 MAN: "DEAR FATHER, THE NEXT MORNING, 702 00:36:46,656 --> 00:36:48,742 "WE HAD OUR SECOND BATTLE. 703 00:36:48,909 --> 00:36:50,452 "IT WAS RATHER STRANGE MUSIC 704 00:36:50,619 --> 00:36:53,955 "TO HEAR THE BALLS SCREAM WITHIN AN INCH OF MY HEAD. 705 00:36:54,122 --> 00:36:55,791 "I HAD A BULLET STRIKE ME ON TOP OF THE HEAD 706 00:36:55,957 --> 00:36:57,417 "JUST AS I WAS GOING TO FIRE, 707 00:36:57,584 --> 00:37:00,295 "AND A PIECE OF SHELL STRUCK MY FOOT. 708 00:37:00,462 --> 00:37:03,381 "A BALL HIT MY FINGER, AND ANOTHER HIT MY THUMB. 709 00:37:03,548 --> 00:37:05,383 "THE FIRING INCREASED TENFOLD, 710 00:37:05,550 --> 00:37:07,719 "THEN IT SOUNDED LIKE THE ROLLS OF THUNDER, 711 00:37:07,886 --> 00:37:09,638 "AND ALL THE TIME EVERY MAN SHOUTING 712 00:37:09,805 --> 00:37:12,265 "AS LOUD AS HE COULD. 713 00:37:12,432 --> 00:37:13,600 "I GOT RATHER MORE EXCITED 714 00:37:13,767 --> 00:37:14,976 THAN | WISH TO AGAIN." 715 00:37:18,063 --> 00:37:19,272 MAN 2: "I SAW THE BODY 716 00:37:19,439 --> 00:37:21,775 "OF A MAN KILLED THE PREVIOUS DAY THIS MORNING, 717 00:37:21,942 --> 00:37:24,402 "AND A HORRIBLE SIGHT IT WAS. 718 00:37:24,569 --> 00:37:27,739 "SUCH SIGHTS DO NOT AFFECT ME AS THEY ONCE DID. 719 00:37:27,906 --> 00:37:29,616 "I CANNOT DESCRIBE THE CHANGE, 720 00:37:29,783 --> 00:37:31,660 "NOR DO I KNOW WHEN IT TOOK PLACE, 721 00:37:31,827 --> 00:37:33,662 "YET I KNOW THERE IS A CHANGE, 722 00:37:33,829 --> 00:37:35,872 "FOR I LOOK ON THE CARCASS OF A MAN NOW 723 00:37:36,039 --> 00:37:38,500 "WITH PRETTY MUCH THE SAME FEELING AS I WOULD DO 724 00:37:38,667 --> 00:37:40,210 WERE IT A HORSE OR A HOG." 725 00:37:43,171 --> 00:37:46,675 MAN AS RHODES: "SUNDAY A SOLDIER OF COMPANY 'A' DIED AND WAS BURIED. 726 00:37:46,842 --> 00:37:49,469 "EVERYTHING WENT ON AS IF NOTHING HAD HAPPENED, 727 00:37:49,636 --> 00:37:53,515 "FOR DEATH IS SO COMMON THAT LITTLE SENTIMENT IS WASTED. 728 00:37:53,682 --> 00:37:56,810 IT IS NOT LIKE DEATH AT HOME." 729 00:37:56,977 --> 00:37:58,144 ELISHA HUNT RHODES. 730 00:38:04,401 --> 00:38:06,528 NARRATOR: FALLING BACK FROM THE BULL RUN BATTLEFIELD, 731 00:38:06,695 --> 00:38:09,281 UNION TROOPS SKIRMISHED BRIEFLY WITH REBEL FORCES 732 00:38:09,447 --> 00:38:11,283 AT FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA, 733 00:38:11,449 --> 00:38:12,617 WHERE THE MEN STOPPED LONG ENOUGH 734 00:38:12,784 --> 00:38:14,911 TO SCRIBBLE THEIR NAMES ON THE CHAPEL WALLS. 735 00:38:17,455 --> 00:38:18,874 "IN GREAT CONTESTS," 736 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,501 ABRAHAM LINCOLN WROTE AS THE SUMMER WANED, 737 00:38:21,668 --> 00:38:23,712 "EACH PARTY CLAIMS TO ACT IN ACCORDANCE 738 00:38:23,879 --> 00:38:26,673 "WITH THE WILL OF GOD. 739 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:31,469 "BOTH MAY BE, BUT ONE MUST BE, WRONG. 740 00:38:31,636 --> 00:38:34,639 "GOD CANNOT BE FOR AND AGAINST THE SAME THING 741 00:38:34,806 --> 00:38:35,807 AT THE SAME TIME." 742 00:38:42,439 --> 00:38:44,900 MAN: "AUGUST 20, 1862. 743 00:38:45,066 --> 00:38:48,236 AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT." 744 00:38:48,403 --> 00:38:50,280 "WE THINK YOU ARE UNDULY INFLUENCED 745 00:38:50,447 --> 00:38:53,283 "BY THE COUNSELS OF CERTAIN FOSSIL POLITICIANS 746 00:38:53,450 --> 00:38:55,744 "HAILING FROM BORDER SLAVE STATES. 747 00:38:55,911 --> 00:38:57,787 "WE ASK YOU TO CONSIDER THAT SLAVERY 748 00:38:57,954 --> 00:39:01,875 "IS EVERYWHERE THE INCITING CAUSE AND SUSTAINING BASE 749 00:39:02,042 --> 00:39:03,293 "OF TREASON. 750 00:39:03,460 --> 00:39:06,254 "IT SEEMS TO US THE MOST OBVIOUS TRUTH 751 00:39:06,421 --> 00:39:09,257 "THAT WHATEVER STRENGTHENS OR FORTIFIES SLAVERY 752 00:39:09,424 --> 00:39:10,759 "DRIVES HOME THE WEDGE 753 00:39:10,926 --> 00:39:13,637 INTENDED TO DIVIDE THE UNION." 754 00:39:13,803 --> 00:39:16,473 HORACE GREELEY. 755 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,643 MAN AS LINCOLN: "AUGUST 22nd. 756 00:39:19,809 --> 00:39:22,437 "MY PARAMOUNT OBJECT IN THIS STRUGGLE 757 00:39:22,604 --> 00:39:24,522 "IS TO SAVE THE UNION 758 00:39:24,689 --> 00:39:26,441 "AND IS NOT EITHER TO SAVE 759 00:39:26,608 --> 00:39:29,152 "OR TO DESTROY SLAVERY. 760 00:39:29,319 --> 00:39:31,279 "IF I COULD SAVE THE UNION 761 00:39:31,446 --> 00:39:33,865 "WITHOUT FREEING ANY SLAVE, I WOULD DO IT. 762 00:39:34,032 --> 00:39:36,284 "IF I COULD SAVE IT BY FREEING ALL THE SLAVES, 763 00:39:36,451 --> 00:39:37,535 "I WOULD DO IT. 764 00:39:37,702 --> 00:39:39,746 "AND IF I COULD SAVE IT BY FREEING SOME 765 00:39:39,913 --> 00:39:41,623 "AND LEAVING OTHERS ALONE, 766 00:39:41,790 --> 00:39:42,958 I WOULD ALSO DO THAT." 767 00:39:48,338 --> 00:39:50,799 MAN: "|T SEEMS TO ME THAT TIME IS FAST APPROACHING 768 00:39:50,966 --> 00:39:52,634 "WHEN SOME JOINT OFFER OF MEDIATION 769 00:39:52,801 --> 00:39:54,803 "BY ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND RUSSIA 770 00:39:54,970 --> 00:39:57,681 "MIGHT BE MADE WITH SOME PROSPECT OF SUCCESS 771 00:39:57,847 --> 00:40:00,892 "TO THE COMBATANTS IN NORTH AMERICA. 772 00:40:01,059 --> 00:40:02,644 "THE PROPOSAL WOULD NATURALLY BE MADE 773 00:40:02,811 --> 00:40:04,646 "TO BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH. 774 00:40:04,813 --> 00:40:07,857 "IF BOTH ACCEPTED, WE SHOULD RECOMMEND AN ARMISTICE 775 00:40:08,024 --> 00:40:09,818 "AND CESSATION OF BLOCKADES, 776 00:40:09,985 --> 00:40:11,403 "WITH A VIEW TO NEGOTIATION 777 00:40:11,569 --> 00:40:14,114 ON THE BASIS OF SEPARATION." 778 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,533 PRIME MINISTER PALMERSTON. 779 00:40:16,700 --> 00:40:18,660 NARRATOR: LINCOLN HAD TO HAVE A VICTORY. 780 00:40:22,914 --> 00:40:25,500 MAN: "SEPTEMBER 3, 1862. 781 00:40:25,667 --> 00:40:26,793 "THE PRESENT SEEMS TO BE 782 00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:28,211 "THE MOST PROPITIOUS TIME 783 00:40:28,378 --> 00:40:30,338 "SINCE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE WAR 784 00:40:30,505 --> 00:40:33,717 FOR THE CONFEDERATE ARMY TO ENTER MARYLAND." 785 00:40:33,883 --> 00:40:36,553 ROBERT E. LEE. 786 00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:39,431 NARRATOR: THE BRILLIANT SOUTHERN VICTORIES OF SPRING AND SUMMER 787 00:40:39,597 --> 00:40:42,684 HAD BROUGHT LEE'S ARMY INTERNATIONAL RENOWN. 788 00:40:42,851 --> 00:40:44,686 "ONE MORE SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN," 789 00:40:44,853 --> 00:40:46,563 HE WROTE JEFFERSON DAVIS, 790 00:40:46,730 --> 00:40:50,692 "WOULD FORCE EUROPE TO RECOGNIZE THE CONFEDERACY." 791 00:40:50,859 --> 00:40:52,861 NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, 792 00:40:53,028 --> 00:40:56,281 LEE LED 40,000 SOLDIERS ACROSS THE POTOMAC 793 00:40:56,448 --> 00:40:59,951 AND ONTO UNION SOIL. 794 00:41:00,118 --> 00:41:02,871 WOMAN: "THIS BODY OF MEN MOVING ALONG WITH NO ORDER, 795 00:41:03,038 --> 00:41:05,081 "THEIR GUNS CARRIED IN EVERY FASHION, 796 00:41:05,248 --> 00:41:06,666 "NO TWO DRESSED ALIKE, 797 00:41:06,833 --> 00:41:09,127 "THEIR OFFICERS HARDLY DISTINGUISHABLE 798 00:41:09,294 --> 00:41:11,421 "FROM THE PRIVATES-- 799 00:41:11,588 --> 00:41:15,550 "WERE THESE THE MEN THAT HAD DRIVEN BACK AGAIN AND AGAIN 800 00:41:15,717 --> 00:41:17,594 OUR SPLENDID LEGIONS?" 801 00:41:20,889 --> 00:41:23,558 "THEY WERE THE DIRTIEST MEN | EVER SAW, 802 00:41:23,725 --> 00:41:25,226 "A MOST RAGGED, LEAN, 803 00:41:25,393 --> 00:41:28,688 "AND HUNGRY SET OF WOLVES. 804 00:41:28,855 --> 00:41:30,607 "YET THERE WAS A DASH ABOUT THEM 805 00:41:30,774 --> 00:41:32,442 THAT THE NORTHERN MEN LACKED." 806 00:41:36,654 --> 00:41:38,573 NARRATOR: LEE'S TARGET WAS THE FEDERAL RAIL CENTER 807 00:41:38,740 --> 00:41:42,410 AT HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA. 808 00:41:42,577 --> 00:41:43,995 HOPING MARYLANDERS WOULD RISE UP 809 00:41:44,162 --> 00:41:45,663 AGAINST THE UNION, 810 00:41:45,830 --> 00:41:48,833 HE INSTRUCTED HIS MEN TO SING MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND 811 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:50,543 AS THEY MARCHED. 812 00:41:50,710 --> 00:41:52,128 IT DIDN'T WORK. 813 00:41:52,295 --> 00:41:54,172 MOST RESIDENTS OF THE SMALL TOWNS 814 00:41:54,339 --> 00:41:57,759 STAYED FEARFULLY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. 815 00:41:57,926 --> 00:42:01,805 THEN, ON SEPTEMBER 13th, IN A MEADOW NEAR FREDERICK, 816 00:42:01,971 --> 00:42:04,265 AUNION SOLDIER FOUND 3 CIGARS 817 00:42:04,432 --> 00:42:06,559 WRAPPED IN A PIECE OF PAPER. 818 00:42:06,726 --> 00:42:08,853 IT WAS A COPY OF LEE'S BATTLE PLANS, 819 00:42:09,020 --> 00:42:12,148 ACCIDENTALLY LEFT BEHIND. 820 00:42:12,315 --> 00:42:14,818 MCCLELLAN NOW KNEW LEE HAD DIVIDED HIS ARMY, 821 00:42:14,984 --> 00:42:18,863 SENDING ONE PART OFF TO SEIZE HARPERS FERRY. 822 00:42:19,030 --> 00:42:20,615 MCCLELLAN HAD IN HIS HANDS 823 00:42:20,782 --> 00:42:23,243 THE INSTRUMENT WITH WHICH TO DESTROY LEE. 824 00:42:25,912 --> 00:42:29,916 STILL, HE DID NOTHING FOR 18 CRUCIAL HOURS. 825 00:42:36,506 --> 00:42:37,757 ON SEPTEMBER 15th, 826 00:42:37,924 --> 00:42:40,135 LEE AND HIS CONFEDERATES TOOK UP POSITIONS 827 00:42:40,301 --> 00:42:42,137 ALONG THE CREST OF A 3-MILE RIDGE 828 00:42:42,303 --> 00:42:44,639 JUST EAST OF THE TOWN OF SHARPSBURG 829 00:42:44,806 --> 00:42:47,642 AND ONLY 52 MILES FROM WASHINGTON. 830 00:42:47,809 --> 00:42:49,811 THE POTOMAC WAS AT THEIR BACK. 831 00:42:49,978 --> 00:42:54,649 IN FRONT RAN A CREEK CALLED ANTIETAM. 832 00:42:54,816 --> 00:42:56,401 MAN AS LONGSTREET: "ON THE FORENOON OF THE 15th, 833 00:42:56,568 --> 00:42:57,861 "THE BLUE UNIFORMS OF THE FEDERALS 834 00:42:58,027 --> 00:42:59,779 "APPEARED AMONG THE TREES THAT CROWNED THE HEIGHTS 835 00:42:59,946 --> 00:43:02,574 "ON THE EASTERN BANK OF THE ANTIETAM. 836 00:43:02,740 --> 00:43:05,160 "THE NUMBER INCREASED, AND LARGER AND LARGER GREW THE FIELD OF BLUE 837 00:43:05,326 --> 00:43:08,246 "TILL IT SEEMED TO STRETCH AS FAR AS THE EYE COULD SEE. 838 00:43:08,413 --> 00:43:10,874 "AND FROM THE TOPS OF THE MOUNTAINS DOWN TO THE EDGES OF THE STREAM 839 00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:13,710 GATHERED THE GREAT ARMY OF MCCLELLAN." 840 00:43:13,877 --> 00:43:16,796 GENERAL JAMES LONGSTREET. 841 00:43:16,963 --> 00:43:18,882 NARRATOR: HAD MCCLELLAN HURLED HIS ARMY 842 00:43:19,048 --> 00:43:20,592 AT THE CONFEDERATES THAT DAY, 843 00:43:20,758 --> 00:43:24,679 THE WAR MIGHT HAVE ENDED, BUT HE DID NOT. 844 00:43:24,846 --> 00:43:26,848 "THERE WAS A SINGLE ITEM IN OUR ADVANTAGE," 845 00:43:27,015 --> 00:43:28,808 AN AIDE TO LEE REMEMBERED, 846 00:43:28,975 --> 00:43:31,144 "BUT IT WAS AN IMPORTANT ONE. 847 00:43:31,311 --> 00:43:33,229 "MCCLELLAN HAD BROUGHT SUPERIOR FORCES 848 00:43:33,396 --> 00:43:35,815 TO SHARPSBURG," THE AIDE CONCEDED, 849 00:43:35,982 --> 00:43:37,901 "BUT HE HAD ALSO BROUGHT HIMSELF." 850 00:43:41,529 --> 00:43:46,242 MAN: "SEPTEMBER 16th-- THAT NIGHT, | LAY BESIDE THE CHARLESTOWN PIKE 851 00:43:46,409 --> 00:43:47,827 "AND WATCHED UNTIL MORNING 852 00:43:47,994 --> 00:43:52,123 "THE GRIMY COLUMNS COME POURING UP FROM THE PONTOONS. 853 00:43:52,290 --> 00:43:54,375 "IT WAS A WEIRD, UNCANNY SIGHT 854 00:43:54,542 --> 00:43:56,878 "AND DROVE SLEEP FROM MY EYES. 855 00:43:57,045 --> 00:43:58,504 "IT WAS SOMETHING DEMON-LIKE, 856 00:43:58,671 --> 00:44:01,174 "A SCENE FROM AN INFERNO. 857 00:44:01,341 --> 00:44:03,051 "THEY WERE SILENT AS GHOSTS, 858 00:44:03,218 --> 00:44:05,637 "RUTHLESS AND RUSHING IN THEIR SPEED, 859 00:44:05,803 --> 00:44:09,432 "RAGGED, EARTH-COLORED, DISHEVELED, AND DEVILISH. 860 00:44:09,599 --> 00:44:11,643 "THE SHUFFLE OF THEIR BADLY SHOD FEET 861 00:44:11,809 --> 00:44:13,770 "ON THE HARD SURFACE OF THE PIKE 862 00:44:13,937 --> 00:44:16,189 "WAS 80 RAPID AS TO BE CONTINUOUS, 863 00:44:16,356 --> 00:44:19,525 "LIKE THE HISS OF A GREAT SERPENT. 864 00:44:19,692 --> 00:44:22,111 "THE SPECTRAL, GHOSTLY PICTURE 865 00:44:22,278 --> 00:44:25,740 WILL NEVER BE ERASED FROM MY MEMORY." 866 00:44:25,907 --> 00:44:27,951 CAPTAIN EDWARD HASTINGS RIPLEY. 867 00:44:33,331 --> 00:44:35,250 WOMAN: "AS NIGHT GREW NEARER, 868 00:44:35,416 --> 00:44:36,626 "WHISPERS OF A GREAT BATTLE 869 00:44:36,793 --> 00:44:39,379 "TO BE FOUGHT THE NEXT DAY GREW LOUDER, 870 00:44:39,545 --> 00:44:42,340 "AND WE SHUDDERED AT THE PROSPECT, 871 00:44:42,507 --> 00:44:44,550 "FOR THE BATTLES HAD COME TO MEAN TO US, 872 00:44:44,717 --> 00:44:46,719 "AS THEY NEVER HAD BEFORE, 873 00:44:46,886 --> 00:44:49,806 BLOOD, WOUNDS, AND DEATH." 874 00:45:09,409 --> 00:45:11,077 NARRATOR: THE BATTLE THAT BEGAN THE NEXT DAY 875 00:45:11,244 --> 00:45:13,788 WAS REALLY 3 BATTLES. 876 00:45:13,955 --> 00:45:17,208 THE FIRST BEGAN AT 6 A.M. ON LEE'S LEFT, 877 00:45:17,375 --> 00:45:18,376 WHERE A FEDERAL FORCE 878 00:45:18,543 --> 00:45:20,753 CHARGED ALONG THE HAGERSTOWN PIKE 879 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,172 TO ATTACK STONEWALL JACKSON'S MEN 880 00:45:23,339 --> 00:45:27,010 HIDDEN IN WOODS BEYOND A BIG CORNFIELD. 881 00:45:27,176 --> 00:45:28,136 THE UNION OBJECTIVE 882 00:45:28,303 --> 00:45:31,180 WAS A PLATEAU EDGED WITH ARTILLERY 883 00:45:31,347 --> 00:45:33,850 ON WHICH STOOD A SMALL WHITEWASHED CHURCH, 884 00:45:34,017 --> 00:45:38,229 BUILT BYA GERMAN BAPTIST PACIFIST SECT, THE DUNKARDS, 885 00:45:38,396 --> 00:45:40,690 FOR WHOM EVEN A STEEPLE WAS THOUGHT IMMODEST. 886 00:45:43,359 --> 00:45:47,155 THE UNION FIELD COMMANDER WAS MAJOR GENERAL JOE HOOKER, 887 00:45:47,322 --> 00:45:49,907 A PROFANE AND HARD-DRINKING MASSACHUSETTS SOLDIER 888 00:45:50,074 --> 00:45:51,409 KNOWN AS FIGHTING JOE. 889 00:45:53,619 --> 00:45:55,246 AS HOOKER CAUTIOUSLY ADVANCED, 890 00:45:55,413 --> 00:45:57,749 HE NOTICED THE GLINT OF BAYONETS IN THE CORNFIELD 891 00:45:57,915 --> 00:46:00,752 AND ORDERED 4 BATTERIES TO FIRE INTO IT. 892 00:46:00,918 --> 00:46:02,754 CANNON FIRE 893 00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:04,547 THE REBELS COUNTERCHARGED. 894 00:46:04,714 --> 00:46:06,090 THE BATTLE SURGED BACK AND FORTH 895 00:46:06,257 --> 00:46:08,843 ACROSS THE CORNFIELD 15 TIMES. 896 00:46:09,010 --> 00:46:10,303 IN A MATTER OF MINUTES, 897 00:46:10,470 --> 00:46:16,184 THE 12th MASSACHUSETTS LOST 224 OF 334 MEN. 898 00:46:16,351 --> 00:46:18,061 HOOKER HIMSELF WAS CARRIED FROM THE FIELD, 899 00:46:18,227 --> 00:46:19,228 SHOT THROUGH THE FOOT. 900 00:46:22,523 --> 00:46:23,775 MAN: "THE MEN ARE LOADING AND FIRING 901 00:46:23,941 --> 00:46:25,485 "WITH DEMONIACAL FURY 902 00:46:25,651 --> 00:46:27,528 "AND SHOUTING AND LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY, 903 00:46:27,695 --> 00:46:28,821 "AND THE WHOLE FIELD BEFORE US 904 00:46:28,988 --> 00:46:31,199 "IS COVERED WITH REBELS FLEEING FOR LIFE 905 00:46:31,366 --> 00:46:33,659 INTO THE WOODS." 906 00:46:33,826 --> 00:46:37,497 NARRATOR: HOOKER'S MEN WERE CLOSING IN ON THE DUNKARD CHURCH. 907 00:46:37,663 --> 00:46:41,709 AT THAT MOMENT, STONEWALL JACKSON SENT IN HIS LAST RESERVES, 908 00:46:41,876 --> 00:46:45,338 JOHN BELL HOOD'S DIVISION-- FIERCE FIGHTERS AT ANY TIME, 909 00:46:45,505 --> 00:46:47,382 BUT NOW ENRAGED AT HAVING MISSED BREAKFAST, 910 00:46:47,548 --> 00:46:50,259 WHICH HAD PROMISED TO BE THEIR FIRST REAL MEAL IN DAYS. 911 00:46:52,261 --> 00:46:53,346 THEIR FIRST VOLLEY WAS 912 00:46:53,513 --> 00:46:55,223 "LIKE A SCYTHE RUNNING THROUGH OUR LINE," 913 00:46:55,390 --> 00:46:58,559 ONE UNION SURVIVOR REMEMBERED. 914 00:46:58,726 --> 00:47:01,729 AND THEN THE CONFEDERATE COUNTERATTACK CAME ON. 915 00:47:01,896 --> 00:47:03,689 YELLING 916 00:47:20,957 --> 00:47:23,459 MAN AS HOOKER: "EVERY STALK OF CORN WAS CUT AS CLOSELY 917 00:47:23,626 --> 00:47:25,586 "AS COULD HAVE BEEN DONE WITH A KNIFE, 918 00:47:25,753 --> 00:47:28,256 "AND THE SLAIN LAY IN ROWS, 919 00:47:28,423 --> 00:47:30,842 "PRECISELY AS THEY HAD STOOD IN THEIR RANKS 920 00:47:31,008 --> 00:47:33,136 A FEW MOMENTS BEFORE." 921 00:47:33,302 --> 00:47:34,345 JOSEPH HOOKER. 922 00:47:40,476 --> 00:47:43,229 NARRATOR: THE NORTHERN TROOPS RAN BACK THROUGH THE CORNFIELD. 923 00:47:43,396 --> 00:47:45,606 HOOD'S MEN RAN AFTER THEM, BUT WERE STOPPED 924 00:47:45,773 --> 00:47:49,402 BYA HAIL OF SHELLS AND FEDERAL REINFORCEMENTS. 925 00:47:49,569 --> 00:47:51,571 WHEN THE CONFEDERATES FINALLY WITHDREW, 926 00:47:51,737 --> 00:47:54,782 ONE OFFICER ASKED HOOD WHERE HIS DIVISION WAS. 927 00:47:54,949 --> 00:47:57,076 "DEAD ON THE FIELD," HE ANSWERED. 928 00:48:01,122 --> 00:48:02,915 MAN AS RHODES: "I HAVE NEVER IN MY SOLDIER'S LIFE 929 00:48:03,082 --> 00:48:04,208 "SEEN SUCH A SIGHT. 930 00:48:04,375 --> 00:48:07,628 "THE DEAD AND WOUNDED COVERED THE GROUND. 931 00:48:07,795 --> 00:48:10,047 "IN ONE SPOT, "A REBEL OFFICER AND 20 MEN 932 00:48:10,214 --> 00:48:12,550 "LAY NEAR A WRECK OF A BATTERY. 933 00:48:12,717 --> 00:48:13,843 "IT IS SAID BATTERY 'A', 934 00:48:14,010 --> 00:48:16,971 1st RHODE ISLAND ARTILLERY DID THIS WORK." 935 00:48:17,138 --> 00:48:18,347 ELISHA HUNT RHODES. 936 00:48:22,935 --> 00:48:26,981 NARRATOR: BY 10 A.M., 8,000 MEN LAY DEAD OR WOUNDED. 937 00:48:27,148 --> 00:48:29,275 JACKSON'S LINES HAD WAVERED, BUT HELD. 938 00:48:34,447 --> 00:48:37,116 FOOTE: AFTER HIS PART OF THE BATTLE WAS OVER, 939 00:48:37,283 --> 00:48:39,577 JACKSON WAS SITTING ON HIS HORSE, EATING A PEACH, 940 00:48:39,744 --> 00:48:43,331 AND HIS MEDICAL DIRECTOR, DR. MCGUIRE, WAS THERE. 941 00:48:43,498 --> 00:48:45,750 AND, UH... 942 00:48:45,917 --> 00:48:47,793 HE LOOKED OUT OVER THIS FIELD 943 00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,588 WHERE THERE WERE DEAD OF BOTH SIDES LITTERED ALL OVER THE PLACE. 944 00:48:50,755 --> 00:48:51,839 AND AS HE'S EATING THE PEACH, HE SAID, 945 00:48:52,006 --> 00:48:54,008 "GOD HAS BEEN VERY KIND TO US THIS DAY." 946 00:49:05,728 --> 00:49:07,271 NARRATOR: THE SECOND PART OF THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM 947 00:49:07,438 --> 00:49:09,857 BEGAN AT THE CENTER OF LEE'S LINE, 948 00:49:10,024 --> 00:49:11,317 A SUNKEN COUNTRY ROAD 949 00:49:11,484 --> 00:49:13,653 THAT NOW SERVED AS A READY-MADE RIFLE PIT 950 00:49:13,819 --> 00:49:16,822 FOR TWO CONFEDERATE BRIGADES. 951 00:49:16,989 --> 00:49:21,118 LEE ORDERED IT HELD AT ALL COSTS. 952 00:49:21,285 --> 00:49:23,204 GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON ASSURED HIM, 953 00:49:23,371 --> 00:49:25,122 "THESE MEN ARE GOING TO STAY HERE, GENERAL, 954 00:49:25,289 --> 00:49:27,458 TILL THE SUN GOES DOWN OR VICTORY IS WON." 955 00:49:29,794 --> 00:49:33,005 THEN THE UNION ATTACKED. 956 00:49:33,172 --> 00:49:34,674 MAN AS GORDON: "THE BRAVE UNION COMMANDER, 957 00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,885 "SUPERBLY MOUNTED, PLACED HIMSELF IN FRONT, 958 00:49:38,052 --> 00:49:39,053 "WHILE HIS BAND CHEERED THEM 959 00:49:39,220 --> 00:49:41,222 "WITH MARTIAL MUSIC. 960 00:49:41,389 --> 00:49:44,058 "I THOUGHT, WHAT A PITY TO SPOIL WITH BULLETS 961 00:49:44,225 --> 00:49:46,769 SUCH A SCENE OF MARTIAL BEAUTY." 962 00:49:46,936 --> 00:49:47,979 GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON. 963 00:49:51,732 --> 00:49:53,067 NARRATOR: GORDON LET THE BLUE LINE 964 00:49:53,234 --> 00:49:54,777 GET WITHIN A FEW YARDS, 965 00:49:54,944 --> 00:49:56,445 THEN GAVE THE ORDER TO FIRE. 966 00:49:59,365 --> 00:50:01,325 THE UNION COMMANDER WAS KILLED INSTANTLY. 967 00:50:01,492 --> 00:50:03,744 HIS MEN WAVERED, RETREATED, THEN CAME BACK 968 00:50:03,911 --> 00:50:06,038 AT THE CONFEDERATES 5 MORE TIMES. 969 00:50:12,253 --> 00:50:14,088 GORDON WAS HIT TWICE IN THE RIGHT LEG, 970 00:50:14,255 --> 00:50:15,339 ONCE IN THE LEFT ARM, 971 00:50:15,506 --> 00:50:18,050 A FOURTH TIME THROUGH THE SHOULDER. 972 00:50:18,217 --> 00:50:19,844 HE REFUSED ALL AID, 973 00:50:20,011 --> 00:50:21,887 LIMPING ALONG THE LINE T0 STEADY HIS MEN 974 00:50:22,054 --> 00:50:25,099 AS THE FEDERALS KEPT COMING. 975 00:50:25,266 --> 00:50:27,768 MAN AS GORDON: "| WAS FINALLY SHOT DOWN BYA FIFTH BALL, 976 00:50:27,935 --> 00:50:30,354 "WHICH STRUCK ME SQUARELY IN THE FACE. 977 00:50:30,521 --> 00:50:32,231 "| FELL FORWARD AND LAY UNCONSCIOUS 978 00:50:32,398 --> 00:50:34,233 "WITH MY FACE IN MY CAP. 979 00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:36,110 "| MIGHT HAVE SMOTHERED IN BLOOD 980 00:50:36,277 --> 00:50:37,820 "BUT FORAYANKEE BULLET HOLE 981 00:50:37,987 --> 00:50:39,071 WHICH LET THE BLOOD RUN OUT." 982 00:50:41,282 --> 00:50:43,117 NARRATOR: STILL THE CONFEDERATES HELD. 983 00:50:43,284 --> 00:50:45,119 UNIT AFTER UNIT OF NORTHERN TROOPS 984 00:50:45,286 --> 00:50:49,081 FELL BACK FROM THE SHEETS OF SOUTHERN FIRE. 985 00:50:49,248 --> 00:50:51,792 FINALLY, SOME NEW YORKERS MANAGED TO FIND A SPOT 986 00:50:51,959 --> 00:50:53,127 FROM WHICH THEY COULD SHOOT DOWN 987 00:50:53,294 --> 00:50:55,171 ON THE ROAD'S DEFENDERS. 988 00:50:55,338 --> 00:50:56,839 THE TIDE OF BATTLE TURNED. 989 00:51:00,551 --> 00:51:01,427 THE SUNKEN ROAD, 990 00:51:01,594 --> 00:51:03,304 REMEMBERED NOW AS BLOODY LANE, 991 00:51:03,471 --> 00:51:05,264 RAPIDLY FILLED WITH SOUTHERN BODIES, 992 00:51:05,431 --> 00:51:07,600 TWO AND 3 DEEP, 993 00:51:07,767 --> 00:51:09,393 AND THE TRIUMPHANT FEDERALS KNELT ON TOP 994 00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,229 OF WHAT ONE CALLED "THIS GHASTLY FLOORING" 995 00:51:12,396 --> 00:51:14,106 TO FIRE AT THE FLEEING SURVIVORS. 996 00:51:17,485 --> 00:51:19,612 THE CONFEDERATE CENTER HAD SPLINTERED. 997 00:51:19,779 --> 00:51:22,365 ONE MORE PUSH MIGHT HAVE BROKEN IT APART. 998 00:51:22,531 --> 00:51:24,659 GENERAL MCCLELLAN, HOWEVER, 999 00:51:24,825 --> 00:51:27,745 DECIDED IT "WOULD NOT BE PRUDENT" TO ATTACK AGAIN. 1000 00:51:31,874 --> 00:51:34,960 ALL DAY LONG, IN HASTILY CONSTRUCTED FIELD HOSPITALS, 1001 00:51:35,127 --> 00:51:37,630 CLARA BARTON TENDED THE WOUNDED. 1002 00:51:37,797 --> 00:51:39,215 SHE WORKED SO CLOSE TO THE FIGHTING 1003 00:51:39,382 --> 00:51:40,883 THATA BULLET WENT THROUGH HER SLEEVE 1004 00:51:41,050 --> 00:51:42,426 AND KILLED A MAN SHE WAS TREATING. 1005 00:51:45,137 --> 00:51:46,347 WOMAN: "I HAD TO WRING THE BLOOD 1006 00:51:46,514 --> 00:51:48,015 "FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY CLOTHING 1007 00:51:48,182 --> 00:51:50,434 "BEFORE I COULD STEP, 1008 00:51:50,601 --> 00:51:52,061 FOR THE WEIGHT ABOUT MY FEET." 1009 00:51:55,356 --> 00:51:57,900 CANNON FIRE 1010 00:51:58,067 --> 00:52:00,903 MAN: "I WAS LYING ON MY BACK, SUPPORTED ON MY ELBOWS, 1011 00:52:01,070 --> 00:52:03,864 "WATCHING THE SHELLS EXPLODE OVERHEAD AND SPECULATING 1012 00:52:04,031 --> 00:52:06,033 "AS TO HOW LONG I COULD HOLD UP MY FINGER 1013 00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,369 "BEFORE IT WOULD BE SHOT OFF. 1014 00:52:08,536 --> 00:52:10,746 "WHEN THE ORDER TO GET UP WAS GIVEN, 1015 00:52:10,913 --> 00:52:13,207 "| TURNED OVER TO LOOK AT COLONEL KIMBALL, 1016 00:52:13,374 --> 00:52:16,752 THINKING HE HAD BECOME SUDDENLY INSANE." 1017 00:52:16,919 --> 00:52:18,254 LIEUTENANT MATTHEW J. GROHAN. 1018 00:52:22,967 --> 00:52:25,678 NARRATOR: THE THIRD BATTLE TOOK PLACE ON THE CONFEDERATE RIGHT, 1019 00:52:25,845 --> 00:52:28,931 WHERE THE UNION ARMY, LED BY GENERAL BURNSIDE'S CORPS, 1020 00:52:29,098 --> 00:52:30,141 TRIED TO FIGHT ITS WAY 1021 00:52:30,307 --> 00:52:32,351 ACROSS A STRONGLY DEFENDED STONE BRIDGE 1022 00:52:32,518 --> 00:52:33,561 OVER ANTIETAM CREEK. 1023 00:52:37,231 --> 00:52:40,401 AMBROSE BURNSIDE WAS AGENIAL, DAPPER MAN-- 1024 00:52:40,568 --> 00:52:44,238 HIS DISTINCTIVE WHISKERS OR SIDEBURNS SETA FASHION-- 1025 00:52:44,405 --> 00:52:46,073 BUT "HE SHRANK FROM RESPONSIBILITY," 1026 00:52:46,240 --> 00:52:48,075 AN ADMIRING FELLOW OFFICER SAID, 1027 00:52:48,242 --> 00:52:49,493 "WITH SINCERE MODESTY," 1028 00:52:49,660 --> 00:52:50,828 AND HE OWED HIS POSITION 1029 00:52:50,995 --> 00:52:53,622 TO HIS OLD FRIEND MCCLELLAN, WHO NOW PROMISED 1030 00:52:53,789 --> 00:52:56,000 TO SUPPORT HIS ASSAULT ACROSS THE BRIDGE. 1031 00:52:58,586 --> 00:53:01,172 BURNSIDE HAD 12,500 MEN 1032 00:53:01,338 --> 00:53:03,215 AGAINST BARELY 400 GEORGIANS 1033 00:53:03,382 --> 00:53:05,801 LED BY ROBERT TOOMBS. 1034 00:53:05,968 --> 00:53:07,386 BUT THE CONFEDERATES COMMANDED THE BLUFF 1035 00:53:07,553 --> 00:53:09,096 OVERLOOKING THE BRIDGE 1036 00:53:09,263 --> 00:53:11,265 AND POURED A RELENTLESS VOLLEY OF FIRE 1037 00:53:11,432 --> 00:53:12,850 DOWN ON THE UNION TROOPS. 1038 00:53:15,478 --> 00:53:18,147 IT TOOK 3 HOURS AND 3 BLOODY CHARGES 1039 00:53:18,314 --> 00:53:20,065 FOR THE FEDERALS TO CROSS THE CREEK 1040 00:53:20,232 --> 00:53:22,109 AND BEGIN FIGHTING THEIR WAY UP THE SLOPE 1041 00:53:22,276 --> 00:53:23,194 TOWARDS SHARPSBURG. 1042 00:53:26,113 --> 00:53:28,949 7 SUCCESSIVE UNION COLOR BEARERS WERE HIT 1043 00:53:29,116 --> 00:53:30,951 BEFORE THE CONFEDERATES FINALLY BROKE, 1044 00:53:31,118 --> 00:53:32,369 RACING BACK INTO THE TOWN. 1045 00:53:35,956 --> 00:53:37,917 MAN: "OH, HOW I RAN. 1046 00:53:38,083 --> 00:53:39,877 "| WAS AFRAID OF BEING STRUCK IN THE BACK, 1047 00:53:40,044 --> 00:53:41,921 "AND I FREQUENTLY TURNED AROUND |N RUNNING 1048 00:53:42,087 --> 00:53:44,173 "80 AS TO AVOID, IF POSSIBLE, 1049 00:53:44,340 --> 00:53:46,967 SO DISGRACEFUL A WOUND." 1050 00:53:47,134 --> 00:53:49,261 PRIVATE JOHN DOOLEY. 1051 00:53:49,428 --> 00:53:51,388 NARRATOR: UNION VICTORY AGAIN SEEMED CERTAIN. 1052 00:53:54,225 --> 00:53:55,976 BUT WHILE THE UNION TROOPS CHEERED, 1053 00:53:56,143 --> 00:53:58,020 THE CONFEDERATE LIGHT DIVISION WAS ARRIVING 1054 00:53:58,187 --> 00:54:00,397 FROM HARPERS FERRY... 1055 00:54:00,564 --> 00:54:03,984 3,000 MEN, FOOTSORE FROM THEIR 17-MILE MARCH, 1056 00:54:04,151 --> 00:54:05,903 BUT OTHERWISE READY TO FIGHT 1057 00:54:06,070 --> 00:54:08,239 AND COMMANDED BY GENERALAP. HILL, 1058 00:54:08,405 --> 00:54:12,701 DRESSED IN THE RED SHIRT HE LIKED TO WEAR IN BATTLE. 1059 00:54:12,868 --> 00:54:15,830 MAN: "A.P. HILL IS THE FIGHTINGEST DIVISION COMMANDER 1060 00:54:15,996 --> 00:54:17,665 "IN LEE'S ARMY. 1061 00:54:17,832 --> 00:54:21,836 "HILL ARRIVED AT ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE NICK-OF-THE-MOMENT THINGS, 1062 00:54:22,002 --> 00:54:24,046 "AND IT WAS THE LAST ONE, 1063 00:54:24,213 --> 00:54:26,382 "AND IT SUCCEEDED IN THROWING BURNSIDE BACK 1064 00:54:26,549 --> 00:54:28,425 AFTER HE FINALLY GOT ACROSS THE BRIDGE." 1065 00:54:31,929 --> 00:54:35,349 NARRATOR: HILL SLAMMED INTO THE CELEBRATING UNION TROOPS. 1066 00:54:35,516 --> 00:54:37,685 BURNSIDE BEGGED MCCLELLAN TO SEND UP 1067 00:54:37,852 --> 00:54:40,229 THE REINFORCEMENTS HE HAD PROMISED. 1068 00:54:40,396 --> 00:54:41,730 MCCLELLAN REFUSED. 1069 00:54:46,235 --> 00:54:47,987 AS NIGHT FELL, BURNSIDE WITHDREW 1070 00:54:48,153 --> 00:54:51,532 TO THE STONE BRIDGE HIS MEN HAD FOUGHT SO HARD TO SEIZE. 1071 00:54:53,284 --> 00:54:54,994 THE BATTLE WAS OVER. 1072 00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,371 NO GROUND HAD BEEN GAINED. 1073 00:55:33,908 --> 00:55:35,242 MAN: "BEFORE THE SUNLIGHT FADED, 1074 00:55:35,409 --> 00:55:38,078 "| WALKED OVER THE NARROW FIELD. 1075 00:55:38,245 --> 00:55:40,247 "ALL AROUND LAY THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, 1076 00:55:40,414 --> 00:55:42,583 "CLAD IN BUTTERNUT. 1077 00:55:42,750 --> 00:55:44,960 "AS I LOOKED DOWN ON THE POOR PINCHED FACES, 1078 00:55:45,127 --> 00:55:46,378 ALL ENMITY DIED OUT." 1079 00:55:50,925 --> 00:55:53,761 "THERE WAS NO SECESSION IN THOSE RIGID FORMS, 1080 00:55:53,928 --> 00:55:57,056 "NOR IN THOSE FIXED EYES STARING AT THE SKY. 1081 00:55:57,222 --> 00:55:59,266 CLEARLY, IT WAS NOT THEIR WAR." 1082 00:56:01,602 --> 00:56:05,022 "THE SUN WENT DOWN. THE THUNDER DIED AWAY. 1083 00:56:05,189 --> 00:56:06,857 "THE MUSKETRY CEASED. 1084 00:56:07,024 --> 00:56:09,193 "BIVOUAC FIRES GLEAMED OUT 1085 00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:12,237 AS IF A GREAT CITY HAD LIGHTED ITS LAMPS." 1086 00:56:15,449 --> 00:56:16,951 NARRATOR: IT HAD BEEN THE BLOODIEST DAY 1087 00:56:17,117 --> 00:56:19,286 IN AMERICAN HISTORY. 1088 00:56:19,453 --> 00:56:23,123 THE UNION LOST 2,108 DEAD, 1089 00:56:23,290 --> 00:56:27,461 ANOTHER 10,293 WOUNDED OR MISSING-- 1090 00:56:27,628 --> 00:56:31,966 DOUBLE THE CASUALTIES OF D-DAY 82 YEARS LATER. 1091 00:56:32,132 --> 00:56:34,134 LEE LOST FEWER MEN-- 1092 00:56:34,301 --> 00:56:37,930 10,318 CASUALTIES-- 1093 00:56:38,097 --> 00:56:40,140 BUT THAT WAS A QUARTER OF HIS ARMY. 1094 00:56:50,526 --> 00:56:51,777 MAN AS RHODES: "WHY DID WE NOT ATTACK THEM 1095 00:56:51,944 --> 00:56:54,238 "AND DRIVE THEM INTO THE RIVER? 1096 00:56:54,405 --> 00:56:56,407 "I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS. 1097 00:56:56,573 --> 00:56:59,451 BUT THEN, I AM ONLY A BOY." 1098 00:56:59,618 --> 00:57:00,953 ELISHA HUNT RHODES. 1099 00:57:04,665 --> 00:57:06,166 NARRATOR: MCCLELLAN HAD PLENTY OF RESERVES 1100 00:57:06,333 --> 00:57:08,419 WAITING OUTSIDE SHARPSBURG, 1101 00:57:08,585 --> 00:57:09,545 BUT HE NEVER USED THEM. 1102 00:57:11,964 --> 00:57:13,340 LEE, OUTNUMBERED 3-TO-1, 1103 00:57:13,507 --> 00:57:16,343 BRACED FOR A NEW ATTACK ALL THE NEXT DAY. 1104 00:57:16,510 --> 00:57:18,971 IT NEVER CAME. 1105 00:57:19,138 --> 00:57:21,432 ON THE 18th, LEE AND HIS ARMY SLIPPED BACK 1106 00:57:21,598 --> 00:57:24,226 ACROSS THE POTOMAC. 1107 00:57:24,393 --> 00:57:26,729 MCCLELLAN COULD CLAIM AVICTORY, 1108 00:57:26,895 --> 00:57:29,189 BUT HE COULD HAVE WON THE WAR. 1109 00:57:29,356 --> 00:57:31,442 LEE'S INVASION HAD BEEN HALTED, 1110 00:57:31,608 --> 00:57:34,153 HE HAD SUFFERED TERRIBLE LOSSES, 1111 00:57:34,319 --> 00:57:37,322 BUT HIS ARMY HAD NOT BEEN DESTROYED. 1112 00:57:47,541 --> 00:57:50,878 MAN: "THE CAUSES OF THE WAR WERE WIDE APART, 1113 00:57:51,045 --> 00:57:54,089 BUT THE MANHOOD WAS THE SAME." 1114 00:57:54,256 --> 00:57:57,342 JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN, 20th MAINE. 1115 00:57:59,887 --> 00:58:02,097 NARRATOR: HELD IN RESERVE OUTSIDE SHARPSBURG, 1116 00:58:02,264 --> 00:58:04,808 THE 20th MAINE INCLUDED FARMERS AND LUMBERMEN, 1117 00:58:04,975 --> 00:58:07,436 SEAMEN AND SHOPKEEPERS AND TRAPPERS. 1118 00:58:07,603 --> 00:58:10,856 ITS COLONEL WAS JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN, 1119 00:58:11,023 --> 00:58:13,942 A 33-YEAR-OLD PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC, ORATORY, 1120 00:58:14,109 --> 00:58:17,071 AND MODERN LANGUAGES AT BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 1121 00:58:17,237 --> 00:58:19,490 DENIED A LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO ENLIST, 1122 00:58:19,656 --> 00:58:21,950 HE APPLIED FOR A SABBATICAL TO STUDY IN EUROPE, 1123 00:58:22,117 --> 00:58:23,952 THEN VOLUNTEERED. 1124 00:58:24,119 --> 00:58:26,955 ON PAPER, HIS ONLY QUALIFICATION FOR COMMAND 1125 00:58:27,122 --> 00:58:29,625 WAS THAT HE WAS A GENTLEMAN OF THE HIGHEST MORAL, 1126 00:58:29,792 --> 00:58:31,710 INTELLECTUAL, AND LITERARY WORTH. 1127 00:58:34,505 --> 00:58:36,006 CHAMBERLAIN WAS STILL AT SHARPSBURG 1128 00:58:36,173 --> 00:58:38,675 WHEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN CAME TO SEE THE BATTLEFIELD. 1129 00:58:43,889 --> 00:58:45,516 MAN: "WE COULD SEE THE DEEP SADNESS 1130 00:58:45,682 --> 00:58:47,017 "IN THE PRESIDENT'S FACE 1131 00:58:47,184 --> 00:58:49,603 "AND FEEL THE BURDEN ON HIS HEART, 1132 00:58:49,770 --> 00:58:52,481 "THINKING OF HIS GREAT COMMISSION TO SAVE THIS PEOPLE 1133 00:58:52,648 --> 00:58:54,983 "AND KNOWING THAT HE COULD DO THIS NO OTHERWISE 1134 00:58:55,150 --> 00:58:56,860 "THAN AS HE HAD BEEN DOING-- 1135 00:58:57,027 --> 00:58:59,196 BY AND THROUGH THE MANLINESS OF THESE MEN." 1136 00:59:04,743 --> 00:59:06,870 NARRATOR: WATCHING THE PRESIDENT REVIEW HIS TROOPS, 1137 00:59:07,037 --> 00:59:09,540 IT SEEMED TO JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN 1138 00:59:09,706 --> 00:59:13,001 THAT A "MYSTIC BOND, WONDERFUL IN ITS INTENSITY," 1139 00:59:13,168 --> 00:59:15,087 JOINED THE MEN TO THEIR COMMANDER IN CHIEF. 1140 00:59:19,883 --> 00:59:21,385 THE OBJECT OF LINCOLN'S VISIT 1141 00:59:21,552 --> 00:59:25,264 WAS TO GET MCCLELLAN TO PURSUE LEE. 1142 00:59:25,430 --> 00:59:27,683 MAN: "I CAME BACK THINKING HE WOULD MOVE AT ONCE. 1143 00:59:27,850 --> 00:59:29,017 "BUT WHEN I GOT HOME, 1144 00:59:29,184 --> 00:59:31,979 "HE BEGAN TO ARGUE WHY HE OUGHT NOT TO MOVE. 1145 00:59:32,146 --> 00:59:35,023 "| PEREMPTORILY ORDERED HIM TO ADVANCE. 1146 00:59:35,190 --> 00:59:38,527 "IT WAS 19 DAYS BEFORE HE PUT A MAN OVER THE RIVER, 1147 00:59:38,694 --> 00:59:41,613 "AND 9 DAYS LONGER BEFORE HE GOT HIS ARMY ACROSS. 1148 00:59:41,780 --> 00:59:43,574 AND THEN HE STOPPED AGAIN." 1149 00:59:46,869 --> 00:59:50,330 NARRATOR: LINCOLN AT LAST HAD HAD ENOUGH OF GEORGE MCCLELLAN. 1150 00:59:50,497 --> 00:59:54,042 THE PRESIDENT RELIEVED HIM OF COMMAND PERMANENTLY. 1151 00:59:54,209 --> 00:59:56,879 MAN: "THEY HAVE MADE A GREAT MISTAKE. 1152 00:59:57,045 --> 00:59:58,797 ALAS, FOR MY POOR COUNTRY." 1153 01:00:07,556 --> 01:00:10,559 WOMAN: "SEPTEMBER 21, 1862. 1154 01:00:10,726 --> 01:00:12,603 "DEAR SAM, JR., 1155 01:00:12,769 --> 01:00:15,022 "A GREAT MANY OF YOUR OLD FRIENDS AND SCHOOLMATES 1156 01:00:15,189 --> 01:00:18,066 "HAVE DIED OR BEEN KILLED. 1157 01:00:18,233 --> 01:00:23,030 "I WILL MERELY NAME LEM AMBERCROMBIE, 1158 01:00:23,197 --> 01:00:25,490 "JEFF MONTGOMERY, 1159 01:00:25,657 --> 01:00:27,576 "JOHN GARRETT, 1160 01:00:27,743 --> 01:00:31,747 "LEM HATCH, JOHN HILL, 1161 01:00:31,914 --> 01:00:35,709 "PROCTOR PORTER, BILL HUMES, 1162 01:00:35,876 --> 01:00:37,753 "JOHN WHITE, 1163 01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:40,547 "WALTER MAXEY, 1164 01:00:40,714 --> 01:00:43,592 "ANGUS ALSTON. 1165 01:00:43,759 --> 01:00:45,928 "OLD MRS. THOMAS OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD 1166 01:00:46,094 --> 01:00:49,097 "HAS LOST 5 SONS. 1167 01:00:49,264 --> 01:00:51,266 YOUR MOTHER, MARGARET HOUSTON." 1168 01:00:55,562 --> 01:00:59,983 YOU DO HAVE A BIG PROBLEM WHEN YOU HAVE UNITS 1169 01:01:00,150 --> 01:01:03,779 THAT ARE FROM STATES AND COUNTIES AND EVEN TOWNS. 1170 01:01:03,946 --> 01:01:05,072 AND ONE OF THOSE REGIMENTS 1171 01:01:05,239 --> 01:01:07,032 CAN GET IN AVERY TIGHT SPOT 1172 01:01:07,199 --> 01:01:08,867 IN A PARTICULAR BATTLE, 1173 01:01:09,034 --> 01:01:11,245 LIKE IN THE CORNFIELD AT SHARPSBURG, 1174 01:01:11,411 --> 01:01:12,621 AND THE NEWS MAY BE 1175 01:01:12,788 --> 01:01:15,082 THAT THERE ARE NO MORE YOUNG MEN IN THAT TOWN. 1176 01:01:15,249 --> 01:01:16,166 THEY'RE ALL DEAD. 1177 01:01:32,766 --> 01:01:36,812 NARRATOR: IN OCTOBER OF 1862, AT HIS NEW YORK GALLERY, 1178 01:01:36,979 --> 01:01:39,690 MATHEW BRADY OPENED AN EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS 1179 01:01:39,856 --> 01:01:42,526 ENTITLED "THE DEAD OF ANTIETAM." 1180 01:01:42,693 --> 01:01:45,487 NOTHING LIKE THEM HAD EVER BEEN SEEN IN AMERICA BEFORE. 1181 01:01:50,826 --> 01:01:54,079 MAN: "THE DEAD OF THE BATTLEFIELD COME UP TO US VERY RARELY, 1182 01:01:54,246 --> 01:01:55,539 "EVEN IN DREAMS. 1183 01:01:58,917 --> 01:02:01,420 "WE SEE THE LISTS IN THE MORNING PAPER AT BREAKFAST, 1184 01:02:01,586 --> 01:02:03,255 "BUT DISMISS ITS RECOLLECTION WITH THE COFFEE. 1185 01:02:08,885 --> 01:02:10,512 "MR. MATHEW BRADY HAS DONE SOMETHING 1186 01:02:10,679 --> 01:02:12,472 "TO BRING TO US THE TERRIBLE REALITY 1187 01:02:12,639 --> 01:02:13,890 "AND EARNESTNESS OF THE WAR. 1188 01:02:16,476 --> 01:02:17,853 "IF HE HAS NOT BROUGHT BODIES 1189 01:02:18,020 --> 01:02:21,398 "AND LAID THEM IN OUR DOORYARDS AND ALONG OUR STREETS, 1190 01:02:21,565 --> 01:02:23,233 HE HAS DONE SOMETHING VERY LIKE IT." 1191 01:02:35,829 --> 01:02:37,998 NARRATOR: AGAINST THE ADVICE OF HIS ADVISERS, 1192 01:02:38,165 --> 01:02:41,877 LINCOLN REINSTATED U.S. GRANT TO FIELD COMMAND. 1193 01:02:42,044 --> 01:02:45,047 "I CAN'T SPARE THIS MAN," LINCOLN SAID. "HE FIGHTS." 1194 01:02:47,924 --> 01:02:49,509 1,000 MILES TO THE WEST, 1195 01:02:49,676 --> 01:02:53,055 VICKSBURG, HIGH ON A BLUFF OVERLOOKING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, 1196 01:02:53,221 --> 01:02:54,890 REMAINED CONFEDERATE. 1197 01:02:55,057 --> 01:02:56,975 "VICKSBURG," JEFFERSON DAVIS SAID, 1198 01:02:57,142 --> 01:03:00,520 "IS THE NAIL THAT HOLDS THE SOUTH'S TWO HALVES TOGETHER." 1199 01:03:02,981 --> 01:03:04,524 THAT FALL, GRANT TRIED TO TAKE 1200 01:03:04,691 --> 01:03:07,069 THE HEAVILY FORTIFIED CITY. 1201 01:03:07,235 --> 01:03:09,404 HE FAILED. 1202 01:03:09,571 --> 01:03:10,947 THE CONFEDERACY WAS ON THE OFFENSIVE 1203 01:03:11,114 --> 01:03:14,076 OVER A 1,000-MILE FRONT. 1204 01:03:14,242 --> 01:03:16,536 MR. GLADSTONE, A POWER IN THE ENGLISH CABINET, 1205 01:03:16,703 --> 01:03:19,414 IS SAYING, "JEFF DAVIS HAS MADE A NAVY. 1206 01:03:19,581 --> 01:03:21,792 HE'S MADE AN ARMY," AND, WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT, 1207 01:03:21,958 --> 01:03:24,336 INTIMATING THAT HE'S MADE A NATION. 1208 01:03:24,503 --> 01:03:27,255 BUT THE INVASION OF MARYLAND FAILS. 1209 01:03:29,091 --> 01:03:31,927 LEE IS DEFEATED, FALLS BACK. 1210 01:03:32,094 --> 01:03:34,513 THEY LOSE AT PERRYVILLE IN KENTUCKY. 1211 01:03:34,679 --> 01:03:36,431 THEY LOSE AT IUKA AND CORINTH IN MISSISSIPPI, 1212 01:03:36,598 --> 01:03:37,933 AND EVEN NEWTONIA IN MISSOURI. 1213 01:03:38,100 --> 01:03:42,062 AND THE CONFEDERATE TIDE ROLLS BACK. 1214 01:03:42,229 --> 01:03:44,731 LINCOLN, AS A RESULT OF ANTIETAM, 1215 01:03:44,898 --> 01:03:46,775 CONVERTED THE WAR TO A HIGHER PLANE, 1216 01:03:46,942 --> 01:03:49,653 AGAIN THE MASTER POLITICIAN. 1217 01:03:49,820 --> 01:03:52,948 HE ANNOUNCES A PRELIMINARY EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. 1218 01:03:53,115 --> 01:03:55,117 OF COURSE, IT DOESN'T FREE ASINGLE SLAVE IN REVOLT, 1219 01:03:55,283 --> 01:03:56,618 FREES ONLY AS A WAR MEASURE 1220 01:03:56,785 --> 01:03:59,788 AND ONLY FREES THE SLAVES IN STATES 1221 01:03:59,955 --> 01:04:02,582 WHERE THE CONFEDERACY IS IN CONTROL, 1222 01:04:02,749 --> 01:04:05,460 AND IT WILL TAKE EFFECT ON THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY. 1223 01:04:07,671 --> 01:04:09,798 MAN AS LINCOLN: "ON THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, 1224 01:04:09,965 --> 01:04:14,553 "IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1863, 1225 01:04:14,719 --> 01:04:17,806 "ALL PERSONS HELD AS SLAVES WITHIN ANY STATE 1226 01:04:17,973 --> 01:04:20,684 "OR DESIGNATED PART OF A STATE, 1227 01:04:20,851 --> 01:04:23,061 "THE PEOPLE WHEREOF SHALL THEN BE IN REBELLION 1228 01:04:23,228 --> 01:04:25,647 "AGAINST THE UNITED STATES, 1229 01:04:25,814 --> 01:04:31,445 "SHALL BE THEN, THENCEFORTH, AND FOREVER FREE. 1230 01:04:31,611 --> 01:04:32,654 ABRAHAM LINCOLN." 1231 01:04:35,574 --> 01:04:37,576 NARRATOR: ON SEPTEMBER 22nd, 1232 01:04:37,742 --> 01:04:40,495 JUST 5 DAYS AFTER THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM, 1233 01:04:40,662 --> 01:04:44,624 THE PRESIDENT ISSUED HIS EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. 1234 01:04:44,791 --> 01:04:46,877 "IF MY NAME EVER GOES INTO HISTORY," 1235 01:04:47,043 --> 01:04:48,086 LINCOLN SAID, 1236 01:04:48,253 --> 01:04:49,921 "IT WILL BE FOR THIS ACT." 1237 01:04:52,257 --> 01:04:54,134 THE SOUTH WAS OUTRAGED. 1238 01:04:54,301 --> 01:04:56,887 JEFFERSON DAVIS CALLED IT THE "MOST EXECRABLE MEASURE 1239 01:04:57,053 --> 01:04:59,181 RECORDED IN THE HISTORY OF GUILTY MAN." 1240 01:05:11,067 --> 01:05:12,861 AT A WASHINGTON DINNER, JOHN HAY, 1241 01:05:13,028 --> 01:05:15,572 THE PRESIDENT'S 23-YEAR-OLD SECRETARY, 1242 01:05:15,739 --> 01:05:17,491 NOTED THAT "EVERYONE SEEMED TO FEEL 1243 01:05:17,657 --> 01:05:20,452 "A NEW SORT OF EXHILARATING LIFE. 1244 01:05:20,619 --> 01:05:23,079 "THE PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION HAD FREED THEM, 1245 01:05:23,246 --> 01:05:24,623 AS WELL AS THE SLAVES." 1246 01:05:27,751 --> 01:05:29,044 MAN: "IT WAS NO LONGER A QUESTION 1247 01:05:29,211 --> 01:05:31,630 "OF THE UNION AS IT WAS 1248 01:05:31,796 --> 01:05:33,548 "THAT WAS TO BE RE-ESTABLISHED. 1249 01:05:33,715 --> 01:05:36,760 "IT WAS THE UNION AS IT SHOULD BE-- 1250 01:05:36,927 --> 01:05:39,763 "THAT IS TO SAY, WASHED CLEAN 1251 01:05:39,930 --> 01:05:42,390 "FROM ITS ORIGINAL SIN. 1252 01:05:42,557 --> 01:05:44,392 "WE WERE NO LONGER MERELY THE SOLDIERS 1253 01:05:44,559 --> 01:05:46,645 "OF A POLITICAL CONTROVERSY. 1254 01:05:46,811 --> 01:05:47,896 "WE WERE NOW THE MISSIONARIES 1255 01:05:48,063 --> 01:05:49,940 "OF A GREAT WORK OF REDEMPTION, 1256 01:05:50,106 --> 01:05:53,109 "THE ARMED LIBERATORS OF MILLIONS. 1257 01:05:53,276 --> 01:05:57,572 THE WAR WAS ENNOBLED. THE OBJECT WAS HIGHER." 1258 01:06:01,201 --> 01:06:03,203 NARRATOR: ABROAD, THE PROCLAMATION HAD THE EFFECT 1259 01:06:03,370 --> 01:06:04,746 LINCOLN HAD HOPED FOR. 1260 01:06:04,913 --> 01:06:08,250 NEITHER ENGLAND NOR FRANCE WAS WILLING OPENLY TO OPPOSE 1261 01:06:08,416 --> 01:06:11,419 A UNITED STATES PLEDGE TO END SLAVERY. 1262 01:06:13,588 --> 01:06:15,382 MAN: "THE TRIUMPH OF THE CONFEDERACY 1263 01:06:15,549 --> 01:06:17,717 "WOULD BEAVICTORY OF THE POWERS OF EVIL, 1264 01:06:17,884 --> 01:06:20,554 "WHICH WOULD GIVE COURAGE TO THE ENEMIES OF PROGRESS 1265 01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:22,430 "AND DAMP THE SPIRITS OF FRIENDS 1266 01:06:22,597 --> 01:06:25,350 "ALL OVER THE CIVILIZED WORLD. 1267 01:06:25,517 --> 01:06:26,935 "THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1268 01:06:27,102 --> 01:06:29,020 "IS DESTINED TO BE ATURNING POINT, 1269 01:06:29,187 --> 01:06:30,939 "FOR GOOD OR EVIL, 1270 01:06:31,106 --> 01:06:33,441 OF THE COURSE OF HUMAN AFFAIRS." 1271 01:06:33,608 --> 01:06:34,734 JOHN STUART MILL. 1272 01:06:39,239 --> 01:06:41,533 MAN: "PUT NOT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES, 1273 01:06:41,700 --> 01:06:46,079 "AND REST NOT YOUR HOPES ON FOREIGN NATIONS. 1274 01:06:46,246 --> 01:06:48,081 "THIS WAR IS OURS. 1275 01:06:48,248 --> 01:06:52,085 WE MUST FIGHT IT OUT OURSELVES." 1276 01:06:52,252 --> 01:06:53,461 JEFFERSON DAVIS. 1277 01:06:59,718 --> 01:07:04,264 NARRATOR: THAT DECEMBER, LINCOLN SPOKE TO CONGRESS. 1278 01:07:04,431 --> 01:07:06,057 MAN AS LINCOLN: "THE DOGMAS OF THE QUIET PAST 1279 01:07:06,224 --> 01:07:09,644 "ARE INADEQUATE TO THE STORMY PRESENT. 1280 01:07:09,811 --> 01:07:13,356 "AS OUR CASE IS NEW, 80 WE MUST THINK ANEW 1281 01:07:13,523 --> 01:07:15,358 "AND ACT AN EW. 1282 01:07:15,525 --> 01:07:17,861 "WE MUST DISENTHRALL OURSELVES, 1283 01:07:18,028 --> 01:07:22,282 "AND THEN WE SHALL SAVE OUR COUNTRY. 1284 01:07:22,449 --> 01:07:26,494 "FELLOW CITIZENS, WE CANNOT ESCAPE HISTORY. 1285 01:07:26,661 --> 01:07:28,622 "THE FIERY TRIAL THROUGH WHICH WE PASS 1286 01:07:28,788 --> 01:07:30,957 "WILL LIGHT US DOWN, IN HONOR OR DISHONOR, 1287 01:07:31,124 --> 01:07:33,835 "TO THE LATEST GENERATION. 1288 01:07:34,002 --> 01:07:37,339 "WE SAY WE ARE FOR UNION. 1289 01:07:37,505 --> 01:07:41,635 "THE WORLD WILL NOT FORGET THAT WE SAY THIS. 1290 01:07:41,801 --> 01:07:44,346 "IN GIVING FREEDOM TO THE SLAVE, 1291 01:07:44,512 --> 01:07:47,682 "WE ASSURE FREEDOM TO THE FREE-- 1292 01:07:47,849 --> 01:07:50,727 "HONORABLE ALIKE IN WHAT WE GIVE 1293 01:07:50,894 --> 01:07:53,146 "AND WHAT WE PRESERVE. 1294 01:07:53,313 --> 01:07:56,816 "WE SHALL NOBLY SAVE OR MEANLY LOSE 1295 01:07:56,983 --> 01:07:59,653 THE LAST BEST HOPE OF EARTH." 1296 01:08:11,748 --> 01:08:14,084 MAN AS RHODES: "DECEMBER 31. 1297 01:08:14,250 --> 01:08:17,671 "WELL, THE YEAR 1862 IS DRAWING TO A CLOSE, 1298 01:08:17,837 --> 01:08:19,422 "AND AS I LOOK BACK, IAM BEWILDERED 1299 01:08:19,589 --> 01:08:21,091 "WHEN I THINK OF THE HUNDREDS OF MILES 1300 01:08:21,257 --> 01:08:22,592 "I HAVE TRAMPED, 1301 01:08:22,759 --> 01:08:25,887 "THE THOUSANDS OF DEAD AND WOUNDED THAT I HAVE SEEN. 1302 01:08:26,054 --> 01:08:27,639 "BUT WE HOPE FOR THE BEST 1303 01:08:27,806 --> 01:08:31,768 "AND FEEL SURE THAT IN THE END, THE UNION WILL BE RESTORED. 1304 01:08:31,935 --> 01:08:34,312 GOODBYE, 1862." 1305 01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:35,772 ELISHA HUNT RHODES. 1306 01:08:40,276 --> 01:08:42,779 MAN 2: "WE SHOUT FOR JOY THAT WE LIVE TO RECORD 1307 01:08:42,946 --> 01:08:47,242 "THIS RIGHTEOUS DEGREE-- FREE FOREVER! 1308 01:08:47,409 --> 01:08:50,537 "OH, YE MILLIONS OF FREE AND LOYAL MEN 1309 01:08:50,704 --> 01:08:51,788 "WHO HAVE EARNESTLY SOUGHT 1310 01:08:51,955 --> 01:08:53,540 "TO FREE YOUR BLEEDING COUNTRY 1311 01:08:53,707 --> 01:08:57,001 "FROM THE DREADFUL RAVAGES OF REVOLUTION AND ANARCHY, 1312 01:08:57,168 --> 01:09:00,588 "LIFT UP NOW YOUR VOICES WITH JOY AND THANKSGIVING, 1313 01:09:00,755 --> 01:09:02,257 "FOR WITH FREEDOM TO THE SLAVE 1314 01:09:02,424 --> 01:09:06,136 WILL COME PEACE AND SAFETY TO YOUR COUNTRY." 1315 01:09:06,302 --> 01:09:07,887 FREDERICK DOUGLASS. 1316 01:09:08,054 --> 01:09:09,556 BELL TOLLS 1317 01:09:09,723 --> 01:09:13,143 NARRATOR: ON DECEMBER 31st, A LARGE CROWD OF ABOLITIONISTS, 1318 01:09:13,309 --> 01:09:15,395 INCLUDING HARRIET TUBMAN AND WENDELL PHILLIPS, 1319 01:09:15,562 --> 01:09:18,398 GATHERED TOGETHER IN THE MUSIC HALL IN BOSTON. 1320 01:09:18,565 --> 01:09:20,650 AT MIDNIGHT, THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 1321 01:09:20,817 --> 01:09:23,111 WOULD TAKE EFFECT. 1322 01:09:23,278 --> 01:09:25,196 ON THE STAGE, WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON 1323 01:09:25,363 --> 01:09:29,325 WEPT WITH JOY BESIDE FREDERICK DOUGLASS. 1324 01:09:29,492 --> 01:09:31,870 THE CHEERING CROWD CALLED FOR HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. 1325 01:09:35,165 --> 01:09:37,459 SHE STOOD IN THE BALCONY, TEARS IN HER EYES. 1326 01:09:40,420 --> 01:09:43,256 AT A WASHINGTON, D.C., CONTRABAND CAMP, 1327 01:09:43,423 --> 01:09:45,675 FORMER SLAVES TESTIFIED. 1328 01:09:45,842 --> 01:09:48,428 ONE REMEMBERED THE SALE OF HIS DAUGHTER. 1329 01:09:48,595 --> 01:09:51,306 "NOW NO MORE OF THAT," HE SAID. 1330 01:09:51,473 --> 01:09:55,185 "THEY CAN'T SELL MY WIFE AND CHILDREN ANYMORE. 1331 01:09:55,351 --> 01:09:56,436 BLESS THE LORD." 1332 01:10:01,441 --> 01:10:03,735 ON THE SEA ISLANDS OFF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1333 01:10:03,902 --> 01:10:06,529 FEDERAL AGENTS READ THE PROCLAMATION ALOUD 1334 01:10:06,696 --> 01:10:08,364 TO FORMER SLAVES 1335 01:10:08,531 --> 01:10:12,452 UNDER THE SPREADING BOUGHS OF A HUGE OAK TREE. 1336 01:10:12,619 --> 01:10:15,163 AS THE COMMANDER OF A NEW ALL-BLACK REGIMENT 1337 01:10:15,330 --> 01:10:17,248 UNFURLED AN AMERICAN FLAG, 1338 01:10:17,415 --> 01:10:21,252 HIS MEN BROKE INTO SONG. 1339 01:10:21,419 --> 01:10:23,379 "IT SEEMED THE CHOKED VOICE 1340 01:10:23,546 --> 01:10:26,341 OF A RACE AT LAST UNLOOSED," HE WROTE. 1341 01:10:34,224 --> 01:10:37,435 CHORUS: J‘ IN THE BEAUTY OF THE L|L|ES J‘ 1342 01:10:37,602 --> 01:10:42,774 J‘ CHRIST WAS BORN ACROSS THE SEA J‘ 1343 01:10:42,941 --> 01:10:46,486 J‘ WITH A GLORY IN HIS BOSOM J‘ 1344 01:10:46,653 --> 01:10:51,241 J‘ THAT TRANSFIGURES YOU AND ME J‘ 1345 01:10:51,407 --> 01:10:55,078 J‘AS HE DIED TO MAKE MEN HOLY J‘ 1346 01:10:55,245 --> 01:10:59,499 J‘ LET US DIE TO MAKE MEN FREE J‘ 1347 01:10:59,666 --> 01:11:06,422 J‘ WHILE GOD IS MARCHING ON J‘ 1348 01:11:06,589 --> 01:11:12,136 J‘ GLORY, GLORY HALLELUJAH J‘ 1349 01:11:12,303 --> 01:11:18,017 J‘ GLORY, GLORY HALLELUJAH J‘ 1350 01:11:18,184 --> 01:11:24,190 J‘ GLORY, GLORY HALLELUJAH J‘ 1351 01:11:24,357 --> 01:11:34,450 J‘ HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON J‘ 102086

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