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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:11,589 --> 00:00:14,425 Man: "WERE THESE THINGS REAL? 2 00:00:14,592 --> 00:00:17,428 "DID | SEE THOSE BRAVE AND NOBLE COUNTRYMEN OF MINE 3 00:00:17,595 --> 00:00:21,265 "LAID LOW IN DEATH AND WELTERING IN THEIR BLOOD? 4 00:00:21,432 --> 00:00:26,604 "DID | SEE OUR COUNTRY LAID WASTE AND IN RUINS? 5 00:00:26,770 --> 00:00:29,148 "DID | SEE SOLDIERS MARCHING, 6 00:00:29,315 --> 00:00:34,695 "THE EARTH TREMBLING AND JARRING BENEATH THEIR MEASURED TREAD? 7 00:00:34,862 --> 00:00:37,239 "DID | SEE THE RUINS 8 00:00:37,406 --> 00:00:40,951 "OF SMOLDERING CITIES AND DESERTED HOMES? 9 00:00:41,118 --> 00:00:44,079 "DID | SEE THE FLAG OF MY COUNTRY, 10 00:00:44,246 --> 00:00:46,582 "THAT I HAD FOLLOWED SO LONG, 11 00:00:46,749 --> 00:00:49,960 FURLED TO BE NO MORE UNFURLED FOREVER?" 12 00:00:53,589 --> 00:00:55,924 "SURELY THEY ARE BUT THE VAGARIES 13 00:00:56,091 --> 00:00:58,135 OF MINE OWN IMAGINATION." 14 00:01:01,764 --> 00:01:03,098 CANNON FIRE 15 00:01:03,265 --> 00:01:06,935 "BUT HUSH! | NOW HEAR THE APPROACH OF BATTLE. 16 00:01:07,102 --> 00:01:09,938 "THAT LOW, RUMBLING SOUND IN THE WEST 17 00:01:10,105 --> 00:01:12,941 IS THE ROAR OF CANNON IN THE DISTANCE." 18 00:01:13,108 --> 00:01:17,821 PRIVATE SAM WATKINS, COMPANY H, 1st TENNESSEE REGIMENT. 19 00:01:22,284 --> 00:01:24,286 Different man: "STRANGE, IS IT NOT, 20 00:01:24,453 --> 00:01:28,248 "THAT BATTLES, MARTYRS, BLOOD, EVEN ASSASSINATION 21 00:01:28,415 --> 00:01:32,753 SHOULD SO CONDENSE A NATIONALITY?" 22 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:34,963 WALT WHITMAN. 23 00:01:37,174 --> 00:01:40,761 IT IS THE EVENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY 24 00:01:40,928 --> 00:01:43,764 IN THAT IT IS THE MOMENT 25 00:01:43,931 --> 00:01:46,767 THAT MADE THE UNITED STATES AS A NATION, 26 00:01:46,934 --> 00:01:49,770 AND I MEAN THAT IN DIFFERENT WAYS. 27 00:01:49,937 --> 00:01:52,773 THE UNITED STATES WAS OBVIOUSLY A NATION 28 00:01:52,940 --> 00:01:54,942 WHEN IT ADOPTED A CONSTITUTION, 29 00:01:55,109 --> 00:01:57,277 BUT IT ADOPTED A CONSTITUTION 30 00:01:57,444 --> 00:02:02,783 THAT, UH, REQUIRED A WAR TO BE SORTED OUT 31 00:02:02,950 --> 00:02:06,787 AND THEREFORE REQUIRED A WAR TO MAKE A REAL NATION 32 00:02:06,954 --> 00:02:09,790 OUT OF WHAT WAS ATHEORETICAL NATION 33 00:02:09,957 --> 00:02:13,585 AS--AS IT WAS DESIGNED AT THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. 34 00:02:13,752 --> 00:02:17,464 BEFORE THE WAR, IT WAS SAID, "THE UNITED STATES ARE." 35 00:02:17,631 --> 00:02:19,967 GRAM MATICALLY, IT WAS SPOKEN THAT WAY 36 00:02:20,134 --> 00:02:23,470 AND THOUGHT OF AS A COLLECTION OF INDEPENDENT STATES. 37 00:02:23,637 --> 00:02:27,391 AFTER THE WAR, IT WAS ALWAYS "THE UNITED STATES IS," 38 00:02:27,558 --> 00:02:30,394 AS WE SAY TODAY WITHOUT BEING SELF-CONSCIOUS AT ALL. 39 00:02:30,561 --> 00:02:33,397 AND THAT SUMS UP WHAT THE WAR ACCOMPLISHED. 40 00:02:33,564 --> 00:02:35,524 IT MADE US AN "IS." 41 00:02:51,915 --> 00:02:54,752 Narrator: THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA HAD ONCE STRETCHED 42 00:02:54,918 --> 00:02:58,088 FROM THE RAPPAHANNOCK TO THE RIO GRANDE. 43 00:02:58,255 --> 00:03:01,759 ITS LEADERS HAD ONCE DREAMED OF ATROPICAL EMPIRE 44 00:03:01,925 --> 00:03:03,761 REACHING EVER SOUTHWARD 45 00:03:03,927 --> 00:03:08,682 TO MEXICO, GUATEMALA, NICARAGUA, BRAZIL. 46 00:03:08,849 --> 00:03:13,604 BY APRIL 1865, THE DREAM WAS GONE. 47 00:03:13,771 --> 00:03:15,439 RICHMOND HAD FALLEN. 48 00:03:15,606 --> 00:03:18,442 THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT, AND JEFFERSON DAVIS WITH IT, 49 00:03:18,609 --> 00:03:21,779 HAD FLED INTO THE WILDERNESS OF NORTH CAROLINA. 50 00:03:21,945 --> 00:03:25,199 THE CONFEDERATE ARMIES, ONCE THE TERROR OF THE UNION, 51 00:03:25,365 --> 00:03:29,203 HAD BEEN BATTERED AND STARVED ALMOST OUT OF EXISTENCE 52 00:03:29,369 --> 00:03:32,706 AND THEN FORCED TO SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX, 53 00:03:32,873 --> 00:03:37,920 WHERE ULYSSES 8. GRANT HAD FINALLY CORNERED ROBERT E. LEE. 54 00:03:38,086 --> 00:03:40,297 IN APRIL 1865, 55 00:03:40,464 --> 00:03:43,884 ELISHA HUNT RHODES WOULD RECEIVE THE BEST NEWS OF THE WAR 56 00:03:44,051 --> 00:03:45,844 AND THEN THE WORST. 57 00:03:46,011 --> 00:03:50,224 IN THE WOODS OF NORTH CAROLINA, TWO OLD ADVERSARIES, 58 00:03:50,390 --> 00:03:52,226 WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN 59 00:03:52,392 --> 00:03:54,228 AND JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, 60 00:03:54,394 --> 00:03:58,273 WOULD MEET ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE ONE LAST TIME. 61 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:02,569 BY THEN, CONFEDERATE SAM WATKINS WOULD WRITE, 62 00:04:02,736 --> 00:04:05,239 "THE ONCE PROUD ARMY OF TENNESSEE 63 00:04:05,405 --> 00:04:08,158 HAD DEGENERATED TO A MOB." 64 00:04:08,325 --> 00:04:11,161 IN APRIL 1861, 65 00:04:11,328 --> 00:04:15,415 ABRAHAM LINCOLN HAD IMPLORED HIS COUNTRYMEN NOT TO GO TO WAR, 66 00:04:15,582 --> 00:04:19,419 TO LISTEN TO "THE BETTER ANGELS OF THEIR NATURE." 67 00:04:19,586 --> 00:04:22,756 NOW IN APRIL 1865, 68 00:04:22,923 --> 00:04:25,884 THE BLOODSHED WAS FINALLY COMING TO AN END. 69 00:04:27,469 --> 00:04:29,179 BUT IN WASHINGTON, 70 00:04:29,346 --> 00:04:34,059 JOHN WILKES BOOTH COULD NOT ACCEPT THAT THE WAR WAS OVER. 71 00:04:37,104 --> 00:04:38,522 IN FOUR YEARS, 72 00:04:38,689 --> 00:04:42,818 MORE THAN A MILLION PHOTOGRAPHS WERE MADE OF THE WAR. 73 00:04:42,985 --> 00:04:46,738 NOW NO ONE SEEMED TO WANT THEM ANYMORE. 74 00:04:48,365 --> 00:04:51,201 MATHEW BRADY WENT BANKRUPT. 75 00:04:51,368 --> 00:04:54,705 THOUSANDS OF GLASS-PLATE NEGATIVES WERE LOST, 76 00:04:54,872 --> 00:04:57,124 MISLAID OR FORGOTTEN. 77 00:04:57,291 --> 00:05:00,711 THOUSANDS MORE WERE SOLD TO GARDENERS, 78 00:05:00,878 --> 00:05:05,215 NOT FOR THE IMAGES THEY HELD, BUT FOR THE GLASS |TSELF. 79 00:05:05,382 --> 00:05:08,051 IN THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED APPOMATTOX, 80 00:05:08,218 --> 00:05:11,054 THE SUN SLOWLY BURNED THE IMAGE OF WAR 81 00:05:11,221 --> 00:05:14,391 FROM THOUSANDS OF GREENHOUSE GLASS PANES. 82 00:05:14,558 --> 00:05:18,395 "THE CIVIL WAR," A HARVARD PROFESSOR WROTE AT THE TIME, 83 00:05:18,562 --> 00:05:19,897 "OPENED A GREAT GULF 84 00:05:20,063 --> 00:05:22,900 "BETWEEN WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE IN OUR CENTURY 85 00:05:23,066 --> 00:05:26,194 "AND WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE. 86 00:05:26,361 --> 00:05:28,322 "IT DOES NOT SEEM TO ME AS IF I WERE LIVING 87 00:05:28,488 --> 00:05:31,325 IN THE COUNTRY IN WHICH | WAS BORN." 88 00:05:31,491 --> 00:05:35,412 THE WAR WAS OVER, AND IT WAS NOT OVER. 89 00:05:36,914 --> 00:05:40,751 Man: "MY SHOES ARE GONE. MY CLOTHES ARE GONE. 90 00:05:40,918 --> 00:05:42,753 "I'M WEARY, I'M SICK, I'M HUNGRY. 91 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,756 "MY FAMILY HAVE ALL BEEN KILLED OR SCATTERED. 92 00:05:45,923 --> 00:05:48,759 "AND I HAVE SUFFERED ALL THIS FOR MY COUNTRY. 93 00:05:48,926 --> 00:05:52,262 "I LOVE MY COUNTRY, BUT IF THIS WAR IS EVER OVER, 94 00:05:52,429 --> 00:05:55,933 I'LL BE DAMNED IF I EVER LOVE ANOTHER COUNTRY." 95 00:05:58,268 --> 00:06:01,605 Different man: "80 BLACKWOOD AND I LEFT THE ARMY--OUR ARMY-- 96 00:06:01,772 --> 00:06:03,023 "LEFT THEM THERE ON THE HILL 97 00:06:03,190 --> 00:06:05,484 "WITH THEIR ARMS STACKED IN THE FIELD, 98 00:06:05,651 --> 00:06:10,113 "ALL IN ROWS, NEVER TO SEE IT ANYMORE. 99 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:12,616 "TELLING CLARKE AND BELL GOOD-BYE, 100 00:06:12,783 --> 00:06:16,119 "WE CROSSED THE ROAD INTO THE FIELDS AND THICKETS 101 00:06:16,286 --> 00:06:18,789 "AND IN A LITTLE WHILE LOST SIGHT OF ALL THAT TOLD 102 00:06:18,956 --> 00:06:23,001 OF THE PRESENCE OF WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE ARMY." 103 00:06:23,168 --> 00:06:26,254 BARRY BENSON. 104 00:06:52,906 --> 00:06:55,075 Different man: "MONDAY, APRIL 10. 105 00:06:55,242 --> 00:06:58,578 "LEE AND HIS ARMY HAVE SURRENDERED! 106 00:06:58,745 --> 00:07:02,249 "GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO. 107 00:07:02,416 --> 00:07:05,919 "THEY CAN BOTHER AND PERPLEX NONE BUT HISTORIANS HENCEFORTH, 108 00:07:06,086 --> 00:07:07,421 "FOREVER. 109 00:07:07,587 --> 00:07:11,591 THERE IS NO SUCH ARMY ANYMORE. GOD BE PRAISED." 110 00:07:11,758 --> 00:07:13,969 GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG. 111 00:07:21,435 --> 00:07:24,104 Different man: "NEAR APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE, VIRGINIA. 112 00:07:24,271 --> 00:07:26,565 "GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST! 113 00:07:26,732 --> 00:07:30,277 "PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TO MEN! 114 00:07:30,444 --> 00:07:33,864 "THANK GOD LEE HAS SURRENDERED, AND THE WAR WILL SOON END. 115 00:07:34,031 --> 00:07:37,534 "HOW CAN I RECORD THE EVENTS OF THIS DAY? 116 00:07:37,701 --> 00:07:40,704 "SUCH A SCENE ONLY HAPPENS ONCE IN CENTURIES. 117 00:07:40,871 --> 00:07:43,373 "GENERAL MEADE RODE LIKE MAD DOWN THE ROAD WITH HIS HAT OFF, 118 00:07:43,540 --> 00:07:47,210 SHOUTING, "THE WAR IS OVER, AND WE ARE GOING HOME. 119 00:07:47,377 --> 00:07:51,214 "THE MEN THREW THEIR KNAPSACKS AND CANTEENS INTO THE AIR 120 00:07:51,381 --> 00:07:53,216 "AND HOWLED LIKE MAD. 121 00:07:53,383 --> 00:07:55,218 "THE REBELS ARE HALF-STARVED, 122 00:07:55,385 --> 00:07:58,221 "AND OUR MEN DIVIDED THEIR RATIONS WITH THEM. 123 00:07:58,388 --> 00:08:00,724 "| CRIED AND LAUGHED BY TURNS. 124 00:08:00,891 --> 00:08:04,978 "| WAS NEVER SO HAPPY IN MY LIFE. 125 00:08:05,145 --> 00:08:08,482 "| THANK GOD FOR ALL HIS BLESSINGS TO ME 126 00:08:08,648 --> 00:08:12,486 AND THAT MY LIFE HAS BEEN SPARED TO SEE THIS GLORIOUS DAY." 127 00:08:12,652 --> 00:08:15,822 ELISHA HUNT RHODES. 128 00:08:15,989 --> 00:08:19,159 Narrator: WORD OF LEE'S SURRENDER SPREAD FAST. 129 00:08:19,326 --> 00:08:21,828 AGALLOPING RIDER SHOUTED THE GOOD NEWS 130 00:08:21,995 --> 00:08:23,663 TO SHERMAN'S ARMY IN NORTH CAROLINA, 131 00:08:23,830 --> 00:08:26,124 AND ONE GLEEFUL SOLDIER BELLOWED BACK AT HIM, 132 00:08:26,291 --> 00:08:29,336 "YOU'RE THE SON OF A BITCH WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR 133 00:08:29,503 --> 00:08:32,172 ALL THESE FOUR YEARS!" 134 00:08:32,339 --> 00:08:33,632 BELLS TOLLING 135 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:36,843 CHURCH BELLS RANG OUT IN EVERY NORTHERN TOWN. 136 00:08:53,068 --> 00:08:54,903 THE PEOPLE OF DEER ISLE, MAINE, 137 00:08:55,070 --> 00:08:57,405 HAD FOLLOWED THE STEADY MARCH OF UNION VICTORIES 138 00:08:57,572 --> 00:09:01,284 WITH THE SAME JOY FELT BY TOWNS ALL OVER THE NORTH, 139 00:09:01,451 --> 00:09:03,912 AND WHEN NEWS OF APPOMATTOX GOT OUT TO THE ISLANDS, 140 00:09:04,079 --> 00:09:08,083 SHOUTING HORSEMEN CARRIED IT FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE, 141 00:09:08,250 --> 00:09:11,211 BUT THE GRIEVING DID NOT END. 142 00:09:11,378 --> 00:09:13,672 PRIVATE WILLIAM TOOTHAKER SUCCUMBED TO DISEASE 143 00:09:13,839 --> 00:09:15,674 ABOARD A TRANSPORT SHIP, 144 00:09:15,841 --> 00:09:17,676 LEAVING FOUR SMALL CHILDREN 145 00:09:17,843 --> 00:09:20,846 WHOSE MEMORIES OF HIM WOULD QUICKLY FADE. 146 00:09:21,012 --> 00:09:24,349 AND A LETTER CAME, INFORMING PRIVATE ALBION STINSON'S WIFE 147 00:09:24,516 --> 00:09:28,186 THAT HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN KILLED NEAR APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE 148 00:09:28,353 --> 00:09:31,565 JUST FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE CONFEDERATE SURRENDER. 149 00:09:33,859 --> 00:09:36,278 WHEN THE NEWS REACHED CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE, 150 00:09:36,444 --> 00:09:37,779 THE UNION MILITARY GOVERNOR 151 00:09:37,946 --> 00:09:41,908 ORDERED A GRAND CITYWIDE CELEBRATION. 152 00:09:42,075 --> 00:09:45,203 Woman: "ALL THE STOREHOUSES WERE BRILLIANTLY LIGHTED. 153 00:09:45,370 --> 00:09:48,707 "THESE BLUE DEVILS DESECRATED OUR CHURCHES 154 00:09:48,874 --> 00:09:50,917 "BY RINGING THE BELLS. 155 00:09:51,084 --> 00:09:54,546 THEY DID ALL IN THEIR POWER TO A—RILE US." 156 00:09:54,713 --> 00:09:56,256 NANNIE HASKINS. 157 00:09:57,757 --> 00:09:59,217 STEAM WHISTLE BLOWS 158 00:09:59,384 --> 00:10:02,220 Narrator: AT VICKSBURG, 2,000 LIBERATED UNION PRISONERS 159 00:10:02,387 --> 00:10:05,557 CROWDED ONTO THE DECKS OF THE STEAMBOAT SULTANA, 160 00:10:05,724 --> 00:10:09,227 GLEEFUL TO BE ON THEIR WAY NORTH AT LAST. 161 00:10:09,394 --> 00:10:11,730 NEAR MEMPHIS, ABOILER EXPLODED, 162 00:10:11,897 --> 00:10:14,232 AND SHE BURST INTO FLAMES. 163 00:10:14,399 --> 00:10:16,735 MORE THAN 1,200 MEN DIED, 164 00:10:16,902 --> 00:10:19,779 STILL HUNDREDS OF MILES FROM HOME. 165 00:10:22,908 --> 00:10:25,160 Woman: "WE ARE SCATTERED, 166 00:10:25,327 --> 00:10:26,870 STUNNED..." 167 00:10:28,663 --> 00:10:31,499 "THE REMNANT OF HEART LEFT ALIVE IN US 168 00:10:31,666 --> 00:10:33,793 "IS FILLED WITH BROTHERLY HATE. 169 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:36,171 "WHOSE FAULT? 170 00:10:36,338 --> 00:10:39,007 "EVERYBODY BLAMED BY SOMEBODY ELSE. 171 00:10:39,174 --> 00:10:41,927 "ONLY THE DEAD HEROES LEFT STIFF AND STARK 172 00:10:42,093 --> 00:10:44,638 ON THE BATTLEFIELD ESCAPE." 173 00:10:44,804 --> 00:10:47,641 MARY CHESNUT. 174 00:10:47,807 --> 00:10:51,186 Narrator: WHEN THE NEWS OF THE SURRENDER REACHED EDMUND RUFFIN, 175 00:10:51,353 --> 00:10:53,188 THE OLD VIRGINIA SECESSIONIST 176 00:10:53,355 --> 00:10:56,650 WHO HAD FIRED ONE OF THE FIRST SHOTS AT FORT SUMTER, 177 00:10:56,816 --> 00:11:00,487 HE DRAPED A REBEL FLAG OVER HIS SHOULDERS AND SHOT HIMSELF 178 00:11:00,654 --> 00:11:02,489 RATHER THAN LIVE, HE WROTE, 179 00:11:02,656 --> 00:11:08,370 IN A RESTORED UNION WITH MEMBERS OF "THE YANKEE RACE." 180 00:11:10,205 --> 00:11:12,040 "YOU MAY FORGIVE US," 181 00:11:12,207 --> 00:11:15,210 ASURRENDERING REBEL OFFICER TOLD JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN 182 00:11:15,377 --> 00:11:17,712 AFTER THE CEREMONY AT APPOMATTOX, 183 00:11:17,879 --> 00:11:19,714 "BUT WE WON'T BE FORGIVEN. 184 00:11:19,881 --> 00:11:24,511 "THERE IS A RANCOR IN OUR HEARTS WHICH YOU LITTLE DREAM OF. 185 00:11:24,678 --> 00:11:26,721 WE HATE YOU, SIR." 186 00:11:37,357 --> 00:11:40,193 APRIL 14, 1865 WAS GOOD FRIDAY. 187 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:42,696 IT ALSO MARKED TO THE DAY 188 00:11:42,862 --> 00:11:46,157 THE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SURRENDER OF FORT SUMTER, 189 00:11:46,324 --> 00:11:49,202 AND WITHIN THE FORT'S PULVERIZED WALLS THAT MORNING, 190 00:11:49,369 --> 00:11:52,706 EVERYTHING WAS BEING READIED FOR A NOONTIME CEREMONY. 191 00:11:52,872 --> 00:11:56,209 THE FORT'S OLD UNION COMMANDER, COLONEL ROBERT ANDERSON, 192 00:11:56,376 --> 00:11:58,712 WAS TO RAISE THE SAME FLAG 193 00:11:58,878 --> 00:12:02,215 HE HAD BEEN FORCED TO HAUL DOWN IN 1861. 194 00:12:02,382 --> 00:12:05,719 AN AUDIENCE OF NORTHERN SOLDIERS AND DIGNITARIES 195 00:12:05,885 --> 00:12:09,347 AND SOME 4,000 FORMER SLAVES WATCHED. 196 00:12:09,514 --> 00:12:11,891 FEW LOCAL WHITES CHOSE TO ATTEND. 197 00:12:12,058 --> 00:12:15,270 THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER PLAYING 198 00:12:15,437 --> 00:12:17,230 Woman: "AT FIRST, I COULD NOT HEAR COLONEL ANDERSON, 199 00:12:17,397 --> 00:12:19,607 "FOR HIS VOICE CAME THICKLY, 200 00:12:19,774 --> 00:12:21,568 "BUT IN A MOMENT, HE SAID CLEARLY, 201 00:12:21,735 --> 00:12:24,946 "I THANK GOD THAT I HAVE LIVED TO SEE THIS DAY. 202 00:12:25,113 --> 00:12:29,492 "AND AFTER A FEW MORE WORDS, HE BEGAN TO HOIST THE FLAG. 203 00:12:29,659 --> 00:12:32,495 "IT WENT UP SLOWLY AND HUNG LIMP, 204 00:12:32,662 --> 00:12:35,498 "A WEATHER-BEATEN, FRAYED, AND SHELL-TORN OLD FLAG 205 00:12:35,665 --> 00:12:38,001 "NOT FIT FOR MUCH MORE WORK, 206 00:12:38,168 --> 00:12:41,338 "BUT WHEN IT HAD CREPT CLEAR OF THE SHELTER OF THE WALLS, 207 00:12:41,504 --> 00:12:44,132 "A SUDDEN BREATH OF WIND CAUGHT IT, 208 00:12:44,299 --> 00:12:50,305 "AND IT SHOOK ITS FOLDS AND FLEW STRAIGHT OUT ABOVE US. 209 00:12:50,472 --> 00:12:52,682 "I THINK WE STOOD UP. 210 00:12:52,849 --> 00:12:55,185 "SOMEBODY STARTED THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER. 211 00:12:55,352 --> 00:12:57,187 "AND WE SANG THE FIRST VERSE, 212 00:12:57,354 --> 00:13:00,065 "WHICH IS ALL THAT MOST PEOPLE KNOW. 213 00:13:00,231 --> 00:13:02,525 "BUT IT DID NOT MAKE MUCH DIFFERENCE, 214 00:13:02,692 --> 00:13:07,072 "FOR A GREAT GUN WAS FIRED CLOSE TO US FROM THE FORT ITSELF, 215 00:13:07,238 --> 00:13:10,200 "FOLLOWED, IN OBEDIENCE TO THE PRESIDENT'S ORDER, 216 00:13:10,367 --> 00:13:13,703 "BYA NATIONAL SALUTE FROM EVERY FORTAND BATTERY 217 00:13:13,870 --> 00:13:16,039 THAT FIRED UPON FORT SUMTER. " 218 00:13:16,206 --> 00:13:17,749 CANNON FIRE 219 00:13:21,628 --> 00:13:23,380 Narrator: IN WASHINGTON THAT SAME DAY, 220 00:13:23,546 --> 00:13:26,299 JOHN WILKES BOOTH DROPPED BY FORD'S THEATRE 221 00:13:26,466 --> 00:13:28,301 TO PICK UP HIS MAIL. 222 00:13:28,468 --> 00:13:31,805 ASTAGEHAND TOLD HIM THE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL GRANT 223 00:13:31,971 --> 00:13:34,307 WERE BOTH EXPECTED TO ATTEND THAT NIGHT 224 00:13:34,474 --> 00:13:36,810 TO SEE THE ACTRESS LAURA KEENE 225 00:13:36,976 --> 00:13:40,355 IN A BRITISH COMEDY CALLED OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. 226 00:13:40,522 --> 00:13:43,817 BOOTH TOLD HIS BAND OF DEVOTED FOLLOWERS OF A NEW PLAN. 227 00:13:43,983 --> 00:13:46,611 HE WOULD SHOOT LINCOLN AND GRANT. 228 00:13:46,778 --> 00:13:48,655 LEWIS PAINE WAS TO KILL 229 00:13:48,822 --> 00:13:50,490 SECRETARY OF STATE WILLIAM SEWARD. 230 00:13:50,657 --> 00:13:53,493 GEORGE ATZERODT WAS TO SHOOT THE VICE PRESIDENT, 231 00:13:53,660 --> 00:13:55,036 ANDREW JOHNSON. 232 00:13:57,163 --> 00:13:59,999 EARLY THAT EVENING, BOOTH LED HIS HORSE 233 00:14:00,166 --> 00:14:03,002 OUT OF THE LIVERY STABLE NEAR FORD'S THEATRE. 234 00:14:03,169 --> 00:14:07,924 AYOUNG BOY WAS TOLD TO HOLD IT AT THE STAGE DOOR. 235 00:14:08,091 --> 00:14:10,009 AT THE LAST MINUTE, 236 00:14:10,176 --> 00:14:12,512 GENERAL AND MRS. GRANT BEGGED OFF THE THEATRE PARTY 237 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,014 AND LEFT THE CITY FOR PHILADELPHIA. 238 00:14:15,181 --> 00:14:16,516 THE LINCOLNS ARRIVED 239 00:14:16,683 --> 00:14:20,520 AND TOOK THEIR SEATS IN THE PRESIDENTIAL BOX. 240 00:14:20,687 --> 00:14:23,022 WITH THEM WERE MAJOR HENRY RATHBONE 241 00:14:23,189 --> 00:14:25,358 AND HIS FIANCEE, CLARA HARRIS. 242 00:14:26,901 --> 00:14:28,820 Woman: WHAT WOULD YOU ADVISE, MA? 243 00:14:28,987 --> 00:14:31,156 Mother." JUST REMEMBER, DEAR, HE'S RICH. 244 00:14:31,322 --> 00:14:32,657 LA UGHTER 245 00:14:32,824 --> 00:14:35,452 HUSH! HERE HE COMES. 246 00:14:35,618 --> 00:14:36,995 AH, MR. TRENCHARD! 247 00:14:37,162 --> 00:14:38,997 WE WERE JUST SAYING 248 00:14:39,164 --> 00:14:43,042 HOW YOU ALWAYS SEEM SURE OF HITTING YOUR MARK. 249 00:14:43,209 --> 00:14:44,669 LA UGHTER 250 00:14:44,836 --> 00:14:47,672 Narrator: THE PRESIDENT SEEMED TO BE ENJOYING THE PLAY. 251 00:14:47,839 --> 00:14:50,758 HIS WIFE HELD HIS HAND. 252 00:14:50,925 --> 00:14:53,845 BOOTH SWALLOWED TWO BRANDIES AT A NEARBY BAR, 253 00:14:54,012 --> 00:14:55,847 THEN RETURNED TO THE THEATRE. 254 00:14:56,014 --> 00:14:58,850 HE WAITED FOR THE LAUGHTER TO RISE, 255 00:14:59,017 --> 00:15:03,062 THEN SLIPPED SILENTLY INTO THE PRESIDENT'S BOX. 256 00:15:03,229 --> 00:15:07,275 HE HELD A DAGGER IN HIS LEFT HAND, 257 00:15:07,442 --> 00:15:08,693 A DERRINGER PISTOL IN HIS RIGHT. 258 00:15:08,860 --> 00:15:10,695 Woman: THE NASTY BEAST! 259 00:15:10,862 --> 00:15:12,697 LA UGHTER 260 00:15:12,864 --> 00:15:17,702 Mother: SIR, YOUR VUL GARI TY RENDERS YOU INTOLERABLE 261 00:15:17,869 --> 00:15:19,704 IN POL/TE SOCIETY. 262 00:15:19,871 --> 00:15:21,206 FOOTSTEPS 263 00:15:21,372 --> 00:15:22,207 LA UGHTER 264 00:15:22,373 --> 00:15:24,334 DOOR CLOSES 265 00:15:24,501 --> 00:15:27,128 Trenchard: MAYBE I DON'T KNOW THE MANNERS OF POL/TE SOCIETY, 266 00:15:27,295 --> 00:15:32,133 BUTI GUESS I KNOW ENOUGH TO TURN YOU INSIDE OUT, OLD GAL, 267 00:15:32,300 --> 00:15:35,303 YOU SOCKDOLAGIZING OLD MAN-TRAP. 268 00:15:35,470 --> 00:15:37,472 LA UGHTER 269 00:15:37,639 --> 00:15:40,266 GUNSHOT 270 00:15:40,433 --> 00:15:42,810 Narrator: BOOTH FIRED, THEN VAULTED OVER THE FRONT OF THE BOX, 271 00:15:42,977 --> 00:15:45,813 CAUGHT HIS RIGHT SPUR IN THE DRAPED FLAG, 272 00:15:45,980 --> 00:15:48,900 AND LANDED ON STAGE, BREAKING HIS LEFT LEG. 273 00:15:49,067 --> 00:15:50,485 HE WAVED HIS DAGGER 274 00:15:50,652 --> 00:15:53,488 AND SHOUTED SOMETHING TO THE STUNNED AUDIENCE. 275 00:15:53,655 --> 00:15:56,491 SOME THOUGHT HE SAID, "SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS"—- 276 00:15:56,658 --> 00:15:58,993 THUS BE IT EVER TO TYRANTS, 277 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:00,495 VIRGINIA'S STATE MOTTO. 278 00:16:00,662 --> 00:16:04,666 OTHERS HEARD IT AS "THE SOUTH IS AVENGED!" 279 00:16:04,832 --> 00:16:08,002 FOR A LONG MOMENT, THE THEATRE WAS STILL, 280 00:16:08,169 --> 00:16:11,381 THEN MARY LINCOLN SCREAMED. 281 00:16:13,341 --> 00:16:15,176 THE BULLET FROM BOOTH'S PISTOL 282 00:16:15,343 --> 00:16:17,178 HAD ENTERED THE BACK OF LINCOLN'S HEAD, 283 00:16:17,345 --> 00:16:19,180 TORN THROUGH HIS BRAIN, 284 00:16:19,347 --> 00:16:22,684 AND LODGED BEHIND HIS RIGHT EYE. 285 00:16:22,850 --> 00:16:26,854 A SURGEON FROM THE AUDIENCE PRONOUNCED THE WOUND MORTAL. 286 00:16:30,650 --> 00:16:33,653 SOLDIERS CARRIED THE UNCONSCIOUS PRESIDENT FROM THE THEATRE 287 00:16:33,820 --> 00:16:37,198 INTO A BOARDING HOUSE ACROSS 10th STREET. 288 00:16:38,992 --> 00:16:41,828 Man: "WE PUT HIM ON THE FIRST FLOOR 289 00:16:41,995 --> 00:16:44,080 "AND LAID HIM ON THE BED. 290 00:16:44,247 --> 00:16:46,332 "WHEN WE TOOK HIM INTO THE ROOM, WE HAD TO GET OUT. 291 00:16:46,499 --> 00:16:48,334 "THEY WOULDN'T LET ANYBODY IN 292 00:16:48,501 --> 00:16:51,337 WITHOUT IT WAS A DOCTOR OR SOMETHING." 293 00:16:51,504 --> 00:16:53,715 PRIVATE JACOB SOLES. 294 00:16:56,342 --> 00:17:00,179 Different man: "THE GIANT SUFFERER LAY EXTENDED DIAGONALLY ACROSS THE BED, 295 00:17:00,346 --> 00:17:03,182 "WHICH WAS NOT LONG ENOUGH FOR HIM. 296 00:17:03,349 --> 00:17:05,059 "HE HAD BEEN STRIPPED OF HIS CLOTHES. 297 00:17:05,226 --> 00:17:08,146 "HIS SLOW, FULL RESPIRATION LIFTED THE COVERS 298 00:17:08,313 --> 00:17:10,440 "WITH EACH BREATH HE TOOK. 299 00:17:10,607 --> 00:17:15,111 HIS FEATURES WERE CALM AND STRIKING." 300 00:17:15,278 --> 00:17:17,196 GIDEON WELLES. 301 00:17:17,363 --> 00:17:20,199 Narrator: THE DOCTORS COULD DO NOTHING. 302 00:17:20,366 --> 00:17:23,202 MARY IMPLORED HER HUSBAND TO SPEAK TO HER 303 00:17:23,369 --> 00:17:25,121 AND WEPT SO INCONSOLABLY, 304 00:17:25,288 --> 00:17:28,583 SHE WAS FINALLY TAKEN INTO THE FRONT PARLOR. 305 00:17:28,750 --> 00:17:31,461 CABINET OFFICERS STOOD BY HELPLESS ALL NIGHT, 306 00:17:31,628 --> 00:17:33,463 DOUBLY SHOCKED TO HEAR 307 00:17:33,630 --> 00:17:35,465 THAT BOOTH'S ACCOMPLICE LEWIS PAINE 308 00:17:35,632 --> 00:17:38,009 HAD STABBED SECRETARY OF STATE SEWARD, 309 00:17:38,176 --> 00:17:39,969 THEN RUN OUT INTO THE STREET CRYING, 310 00:17:40,136 --> 00:17:43,014 "I'M MAD! I'M MAD!" 311 00:17:46,768 --> 00:17:49,145 GEORGE ATZERODT HAD BEEN TOO FRIGHTENED 312 00:17:49,312 --> 00:17:53,191 TO CARRY OUT BOOTH'S ORDER TO KILL THE VICE PRESIDENT. 313 00:17:54,817 --> 00:17:56,653 AROUND 6:00 IN THE MORNING, 314 00:17:56,819 --> 00:17:58,655 NAVY SECRETARY WELLES STEPPED OUTSIDE 315 00:17:58,821 --> 00:18:02,158 AND FOUND THE STREETS FILLED WITH SILENT, ANXIOUS PEOPLE. 316 00:18:02,325 --> 00:18:06,287 Man: "A LITTLE BEFORE 7:00, | WENT BACK INTO THE ROOM. 317 00:18:06,454 --> 00:18:08,665 "THE DEATH STRUGGLE HAD BEGUN. 318 00:18:08,831 --> 00:18:12,669 "ROBERT, HIS SON, STOOD AT THE HEAD OF THE BED. 319 00:18:12,835 --> 00:18:14,671 "HE BORE HIMSELF WELL, 320 00:18:14,837 --> 00:18:18,675 "BUT ON TWO OCCASIONS GAVE WAY AND SOBBED ALOUD, 321 00:18:18,841 --> 00:18:22,220 LEANING ON THE SHOULDER OF SENATOR SUMNER." 322 00:18:24,347 --> 00:18:28,601 AT 7:22 ON THE MORNING OF APRIL 15, 1865, 323 00:18:28,768 --> 00:18:31,104 ABRAHAM LINCOLN DIED. 324 00:18:31,270 --> 00:18:34,107 HE WAS 56 YEARS OLD. 325 00:18:34,273 --> 00:18:37,110 SECRETARY OF WAR EDWIN STANTON SAID, 326 00:18:37,276 --> 00:18:40,321 "NOW HE BELONGS TO THE AGES." 327 00:18:42,448 --> 00:18:45,284 HIS POCKETS CONTAINED TWO PAIRS OF SPECTACLES, 328 00:18:45,451 --> 00:18:47,787 APOCKET KNIFE, ALINEN HANDKERCHIEF, 329 00:18:47,954 --> 00:18:49,622 AND A WALLET. 330 00:18:49,789 --> 00:18:52,625 IN IT WERE NINE NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS 331 00:18:52,792 --> 00:18:55,336 AND A CONFEDERATE $5.00 BILL. 332 00:19:04,137 --> 00:19:08,766 Man: "MOTHER PREPARED BREAKFAST AND OTHER MEALS AS USUAL, 333 00:19:08,933 --> 00:19:12,770 "BUT NOT A MOUTHFUL WAS EATEN ALL DAY BY EITHER OF US. 334 00:19:12,937 --> 00:19:16,274 "WE EACH DRANK HALF A CUP OF COFFEE. THAT WAS ALL. 335 00:19:16,441 --> 00:19:17,817 "LITTLE WAS SAID. 336 00:19:17,984 --> 00:19:20,820 "WE GOT EVERY NEWSPAPER, MORNING AND EVENING, 337 00:19:20,987 --> 00:19:24,157 AND PASSED THEM SILENTLY TO EACH OTHER." 338 00:19:24,323 --> 00:19:26,200 WALT WHITMAN. 339 00:19:28,828 --> 00:19:30,663 Narrator: THE TELEGRAPH CARRIED THE NEWS 340 00:19:30,830 --> 00:19:32,665 ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN MINUTES. 341 00:19:32,832 --> 00:19:34,167 NO PRESIDENT 342 00:19:34,333 --> 00:19:36,294 HAD EVER BEEN MURDERED. 343 00:19:42,425 --> 00:19:44,469 PEOPLE WOULD REMEMBER FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES 344 00:19:44,635 --> 00:19:46,512 WHERE THEY WERE AND WHAT THEY FELT 345 00:19:46,679 --> 00:19:48,181 AND WHAT THE WEATHER WAS LIKE 346 00:19:48,347 --> 00:19:52,602 WHEN THEY HEARD WHAT HAD HAPPENED. 347 00:19:52,769 --> 00:19:55,688 Man: "NEAR APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE, VIRGINIA, 348 00:19:55,855 --> 00:19:58,191 "SATURDAY, APRIL 15. 349 00:19:58,357 --> 00:20:00,860 "BAD NEWS HAS JUST ARRIVED. 350 00:20:01,027 --> 00:20:05,364 "CORPORAL THOMAS PARKER HAS JUST SAID PRESIDENT LINCOLN IS DEAD, 351 00:20:05,531 --> 00:20:06,908 "MURDERED. 352 00:20:07,074 --> 00:20:10,870 "WE CANNOT REALIZE THAT OUR PRESIDENT IS DEAD. 353 00:20:11,037 --> 00:20:14,373 MAY GOD HELP HIS FAMILY AND OUR DISTRACTED COUNTRY." 354 00:20:14,540 --> 00:20:16,918 ELISHA HUNT RHODES. 355 00:20:19,545 --> 00:20:21,380 Different man: "I HAVE BEEN EXPECTING THIS. 356 00:20:21,547 --> 00:20:22,882 "I AM STUNNED, 357 00:20:23,049 --> 00:20:26,177 "AS BY A FEARFUL PERSONAL CALAMITY, 358 00:20:26,344 --> 00:20:28,137 "THOUGH I CAN SEE THAT THIS THING 359 00:20:28,304 --> 00:20:30,306 "OCCURRING JUST AT THIS TIME 360 00:20:30,473 --> 00:20:33,017 "MAY BE OVERRULED TO OUR GREAT GOOD. 361 00:20:33,184 --> 00:20:36,854 WE SHALL APPRECIATE HIM AT LAST." 362 00:20:37,021 --> 00:20:40,775 GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG. 363 00:20:40,942 --> 00:20:44,195 Different man: "ON THE AVENUE IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE 364 00:20:44,362 --> 00:20:46,197 "WERE SEVERAL HUNDRED COLORED PEOPLE, 365 00:20:46,364 --> 00:20:48,199 "MOSTLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN, 366 00:20:48,366 --> 00:20:50,201 "WEEPING AND WAILING THEIR LOSS. 367 00:20:50,368 --> 00:20:52,203 "THIS CROWD DID NOT DIMINISH 368 00:20:52,370 --> 00:20:55,206 "THROUGH THE WHOLE OF THAT COLD, WET DAY. 369 00:20:55,373 --> 00:20:59,252 "THEY SEEMED NOT TO KNOW WHAT WAS TO BE THEIR FATE 370 00:20:59,418 --> 00:21:02,129 "SINCE THEIR GREAT BENEFACTOR WAS DEAD, 371 00:21:02,296 --> 00:21:05,716 "AND THOUGH STRONG AND BRAVE MEN WEPT WHEN I MET THEM, 372 00:21:05,883 --> 00:21:09,720 "THE HOPELESS GRIEF OF THOSE POOR COLORED PEOPLE 373 00:21:09,887 --> 00:21:13,057 AFFECTED ME MORE THAN ALMOST ANYTHING ELSE." 374 00:21:13,224 --> 00:21:15,601 GIDEON WELLES. 375 00:21:18,229 --> 00:21:21,065 Narrator: LINCOLN'S CASKET LAY IN STATE, 376 00:21:21,232 --> 00:21:23,568 FIRST IN THE EAST ROOM OF THE WHITE HOUSE, 377 00:21:23,734 --> 00:21:26,571 THEN IN THE ROTUNDA OF THE CAPITOL. 378 00:21:26,737 --> 00:21:30,700 HE WAS TO BE BURIED IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, 379 00:21:30,867 --> 00:21:32,785 HIS ADOPTED HOME. 380 00:21:32,952 --> 00:21:34,954 THE SMALL COFFIN OF HIS SON WILLY, 381 00:21:35,121 --> 00:21:36,414 WHO HAD DIED IN WASHINGTON, 382 00:21:36,581 --> 00:21:39,292 WAS DISINTERRED TO MAKE THE JOURNEY WITH HIM. 383 00:21:39,458 --> 00:21:43,379 MARY LINCOLN WAS TOO OVERCOME WITH GRIEF TO GO. 384 00:21:46,340 --> 00:21:49,176 THE FUNERAL TRAIN TOOK 12 DAYS 385 00:21:49,343 --> 00:21:54,265 AND TRAVELED 1,662 MILES THROUGH THE SOFT SPRING LANDSCAPE, 386 00:21:54,432 --> 00:21:57,184 RETRACING THE ROUTE LINCOLN HAD TAKEN TO WASHINGTON 387 00:21:57,351 --> 00:21:59,186 FOUR YEARS EARLIER. 388 00:21:59,353 --> 00:22:01,230 TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS 389 00:22:13,784 --> 00:22:15,202 IN PHILADELPHIA, 390 00:22:15,369 --> 00:22:17,705 LINCOLN'S COFFIN LAY IN INDEPENDENCE HALL, 391 00:22:17,872 --> 00:22:21,208 WHERE HE HAD DECLARED HE WOULD "RATH ER BE ASSASSINATED" 392 00:22:21,375 --> 00:22:23,210 THAN SURRENDER THE PRINCIPLES 393 00:22:23,377 --> 00:22:26,088 EMBODIED IN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. 394 00:22:26,255 --> 00:22:28,799 DRUM AND FIFE PLAYING FUNEREAL MARCH 395 00:22:40,519 --> 00:22:43,731 IN NEW YORK, THE PROCESSION TOOK FOUR HOURS. 396 00:22:45,608 --> 00:22:49,528 SCALPERS SOLD CHOICE WINDOW POSITIONS ALONG THE ROUTE 397 00:22:49,695 --> 00:22:52,073 FOR $4.00 AND UP. 398 00:22:53,532 --> 00:22:55,534 FROM HIS GRANDFATHER'S WINDOW, 399 00:22:55,701 --> 00:22:59,246 AYOUNG THEODORE ROOSEVELT WATCHED THE PROCESSION PASS. 400 00:23:10,716 --> 00:23:12,551 AT CLEVELAND, 10,000 MOURNERS 401 00:23:12,718 --> 00:23:15,554 PASSED THROUGH A SPECIALLY BUILT OUTDOOR PAVILION 402 00:23:15,721 --> 00:23:18,015 EVERY HOUR, ALL DAY, 403 00:23:18,182 --> 00:23:20,434 DESPITE A DRIVING RAIN. 404 00:23:33,322 --> 00:23:36,701 IT ENDED IN SPRINGFIELD ON MAY 4th. 405 00:23:38,327 --> 00:23:41,163 THE COFFIN RODE TO THE ILLINOIS STATE HOUSE 406 00:23:41,330 --> 00:23:44,166 IN A MAGNIFICENT BLACK-AND-SILVER HEARSE 407 00:23:44,333 --> 00:23:46,168 BORROWED FROM ST. LOUIS 408 00:23:46,335 --> 00:23:49,672 AND LAY OPEN IN THE CHAMBER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 409 00:23:49,839 --> 00:23:51,674 WHERE LINCOLN HAD WARNED 410 00:23:51,841 --> 00:23:55,720 THAT "A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT STAND." 411 00:24:01,517 --> 00:24:05,354 AMONG THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO SHUFFLED PAST HIS COFFIN 412 00:24:05,521 --> 00:24:09,400 WERE MANY WHO HAD KNOWN HIM IN THE OLD DAYS-- 413 00:24:09,567 --> 00:24:11,694 FARMERS FROM NEW SALEM, 414 00:24:11,861 --> 00:24:14,572 LAW CLIENTS AND RIVAL ATTORNEYS, 415 00:24:14,739 --> 00:24:19,785 NEIGHBORS WHO HAD NODDED TO HIM EACH MORNING ON HIS WAY TO WORK. 416 00:24:19,952 --> 00:24:21,704 SARAH, THE PRESIDENT'S STEPMOTHER, 417 00:24:21,871 --> 00:24:23,205 HAD HAD A PREMONITION 418 00:24:23,372 --> 00:24:26,125 WHEN LINCOLN LEFT FOR WASHINGTON FOUR YEARS BEFORE. 419 00:24:26,292 --> 00:24:30,087 "I FELT IT IN MY HEART THAT SOMETHING WOULD HAPPEN TO HIM," 420 00:24:30,254 --> 00:24:35,176 SHE SAID, "AND THAT I SHOULD SEE HIM NO MORE." 421 00:24:40,306 --> 00:24:41,640 GENERAL JOSEPH HOOKER 422 00:24:41,807 --> 00:24:45,144 LED THE FINAL, SLOW MARCH TO OAK RIDGE CEMETERY 423 00:24:45,311 --> 00:24:47,354 THROUGH A GENTLE SPRING RAIN. 424 00:24:58,824 --> 00:25:05,164 "YOU WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 425 00:25:05,331 --> 00:25:09,877 "WE ARE AT BEST ONLY HIS STEPCHILDREN. 426 00:25:10,044 --> 00:25:14,173 "VIEWED FROM THE GENUINE ABOLITION GROUND, 427 00:25:14,340 --> 00:25:21,013 "MR. LINCOLN SEEMED TARDY, COLD, DULL, INDIFFERENT, 428 00:25:21,180 --> 00:25:25,601 "BUT MEASURING HIM BY THE SENTIMENT OF HIS COUNTRY, 429 00:25:25,768 --> 00:25:28,646 "A SENTIMENT HE WAS BOUND AS A STATESMAN TO CONSULT, 430 00:25:28,813 --> 00:25:33,818 "HE WAS SWIFT, ZEALOUS, RADICAL, AND DETERMINED. 431 00:25:33,984 --> 00:25:36,654 "TAKING HIM ALL IN ALL, 432 00:25:36,821 --> 00:25:39,698 "MEASURING THE TREMENDOUS MAGNITUDE 433 00:25:39,865 --> 00:25:41,659 "OF THE WORK BEFORE HIM, 434 00:25:41,826 --> 00:25:45,162 "CONSIDERING THE NECESSARY MEANS TO ENDS, 435 00:25:45,329 --> 00:25:49,667 "INFINITE WISDOM HAS SELDOM SENT ANY MAN INTO THE WORLD 436 00:25:49,834 --> 00:25:55,005 BETTER FITTED FOR HIS MISSION THAN ABRAHAM LINCOLN." 437 00:25:55,172 --> 00:25:57,716 FREDERICK DOUGLASS. 438 00:26:01,512 --> 00:26:02,847 HOOFBEATS 439 00:26:03,013 --> 00:26:04,390 NEIGH 440 00:26:08,102 --> 00:26:09,687 Narrator: ON APRIL 26, 441 00:26:09,854 --> 00:26:12,189 UNION CAVALRY TRAPPED JOHN WILKES BOOTH 442 00:26:12,356 --> 00:26:15,693 IN A VIRGINIA TOBACCO BARN AND SET IT AFIRE. 443 00:26:15,860 --> 00:26:18,195 HIS ACCOMPLICE DAVID HEROLD SURRENDERED. 444 00:26:18,362 --> 00:26:19,697 BOOTH PREFERRED DEATH. 445 00:26:19,864 --> 00:26:21,782 ASOLDIER SHOT HIM IN THE NECK. 446 00:26:21,949 --> 00:26:23,868 GUNSHOT 447 00:26:24,034 --> 00:26:26,787 AT THE END, HE ASKED TO HAVE HIS HANDS RAISED, 448 00:26:26,954 --> 00:26:31,333 LOOKED AT THEM, AND SAID, "USELESS, USELESS." 449 00:26:34,461 --> 00:26:38,299 THAT DAY, IN A FARMHOUSE NEAR DURHAM STATION, NORTH CAROLINA, 450 00:26:38,465 --> 00:26:40,301 CONFEDERATE GENERAL JOSEPH JOHNSTON 451 00:26:40,467 --> 00:26:43,304 SURRENDERED WHAT WAS LEFT OF HIS ARMY 452 00:26:43,470 --> 00:26:45,347 TO WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN. 453 00:26:47,975 --> 00:26:50,144 JEFFERSON DAVIS, EXHAUSTED BUT STILL DEFIANT, 454 00:26:50,311 --> 00:26:51,645 FLED SOUTHWARD, 455 00:26:51,812 --> 00:26:55,816 HOPING SOMEHOW TO RALLY THE CONFEDERACY FROM TEXAS. 456 00:26:55,983 --> 00:26:59,820 Man: "IT MAY BE THAT WITH A DEVOTED BAND OF CAVALRY, 457 00:26:59,987 --> 00:27:02,823 "I CAN FORCE MY WAY ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI, 458 00:27:02,990 --> 00:27:05,451 "AND IF NOTHING CAN BE DONE THERE, 459 00:27:05,618 --> 00:27:07,786 "THEN I CAN GO TO MEXICO 460 00:27:07,953 --> 00:27:12,333 AND HAVE THE WORLD FROM WHICH TO CHOOSE A LOCATION." 461 00:27:12,499 --> 00:27:15,419 Narrator: ON MAY 10 AT IRWINVILLE, GEORGIA, 462 00:27:15,586 --> 00:27:18,339 UNION CAVALRY CAUGHT UP WITH HIM. 463 00:27:18,505 --> 00:27:20,925 WITH THE ARREST OF ITS PRESIDENT, 464 00:27:21,091 --> 00:27:23,427 THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT CEASED TO EXIST. 465 00:27:23,594 --> 00:27:28,224 DAVIS WAS SENT NORTH TO VIRGINIA UNDER HEAVY GUARD. 466 00:27:28,390 --> 00:27:30,851 NORTHERN NEWSPAPERS SPREAD THE FALSE RUMOR 467 00:27:31,018 --> 00:27:34,355 THAT DAVIS HAD BEEN APPREHENDED WEARING WOMEN'S CLOTHES. 468 00:27:34,521 --> 00:27:39,818 NORTH AND SOUTH, HE WAS REVILED AS THE VILLAIN OF THE WAR. 469 00:27:39,985 --> 00:27:42,696 THESE MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT DAVIS ARE SO STRANGE, 470 00:27:42,863 --> 00:27:45,699 THAT IT'S AS IF A GIGANTIC CONSPIRACY WAS LAUNCHED. 471 00:27:45,866 --> 00:27:48,702 IT WAS PARTLY LAUNCHED BY SOUTHERNERS WHO, 472 00:27:48,869 --> 00:27:50,246 HAVING LOST THE WAR, 473 00:27:50,412 --> 00:27:52,248 DID NOT WANT TO BLAME IT ON THEIR GENERALS, 474 00:27:52,414 --> 00:27:54,083 SO THEY BLAMED IT ON THE POLITICIANS, 475 00:27:54,250 --> 00:27:56,210 AND, OF COURSE, DAVIS WAS THE CHIEF POLITICIAN. 476 00:27:56,377 --> 00:27:58,504 80 IT WAS THE SOUTHERNERS MORE THAN THE NORTHERNERS 477 00:27:58,671 --> 00:28:00,506 WHO V|L|F|ED JEFFERSON DAVIS. 478 00:28:00,673 --> 00:28:03,717 THE NORTHERNERS WANTED TO HANG HIM FROM A SOUR APPLE TREE, 479 00:28:03,884 --> 00:28:07,972 BUT, UH, THE SOUTHERNERS REALLY TORE HIM DOWN AFTER THE WAR. 480 00:28:08,138 --> 00:28:10,557 Narrator: DAVIS WAS IMPRISONED AT FORTRESS MONROE 481 00:28:10,724 --> 00:28:13,060 IN A CELL KEPT PERPETUALLY LIT 482 00:28:13,227 --> 00:28:15,562 AND WAS MADE TO WEAR CHAINS, 483 00:28:15,729 --> 00:28:17,106 THOUGH HE PROTESTED 484 00:28:17,273 --> 00:28:20,067 THAT "THOSE ARE ORDERS FOR A SLAVE, 485 00:28:20,234 --> 00:28:24,071 AND NO MAN WITH A SOUL IN HIM WOULD OBEY SUCH ORDERS." 486 00:28:24,238 --> 00:28:29,368 Man: "DEAR VARINA, THIS IS NOT THE FATE TO WHICH I INVITED YOU 487 00:28:29,535 --> 00:28:33,372 "WHEN THE FUTURE WAS ROSE-COLORED FOR US BOTH, 488 00:28:33,539 --> 00:28:38,377 "BUT I KNOW YOU WILL BEAR IT EVEN BETTER THAN MYSELF, 489 00:28:38,544 --> 00:28:40,879 "AND THAT, OF US TWO, 490 00:28:41,046 --> 00:28:45,092 | ALONE WILL EVER LOOK BACK REPROACHFULLY ON MY CAREER." 491 00:28:48,304 --> 00:28:50,014 CANNON FIRE 492 00:28:50,180 --> 00:28:52,891 Narrator: SCATTERED FIGHTING STUTTERED ON IN LOUISIANA, ALABAMA, 493 00:28:53,058 --> 00:28:55,894 AND MISSISSIPPI, AND EVEN FURTHER WEST, 494 00:28:56,061 --> 00:28:58,814 WHERE ON MAY 13, 1865, 495 00:28:58,981 --> 00:29:01,900 PRIVATE JOHN J. WILLIAMS OF THE 34th INDIANA 496 00:29:02,067 --> 00:29:05,404 BECAME THE LAST MAN KILLED IN THE CIVIL WAR, 497 00:29:05,571 --> 00:29:08,574 IN A BATTLE AT PALMITTO RANCH, TEXAS. 498 00:29:08,741 --> 00:29:14,163 THE FINAL SKIRMISH WAS A CONFEDERATE VICTORY. 499 00:29:14,330 --> 00:29:16,790 MARCHING BAND PLAYING 500 00:29:18,917 --> 00:29:21,754 ON THE MORNING OF MAY 23, 1865, 501 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:26,258 THE AMERICAN FLAG FLEW AT FULL STAFF ABOVE THE WHITE HOUSE 502 00:29:26,425 --> 00:29:29,261 FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE LINCOLN'S DEATH. 503 00:29:29,428 --> 00:29:32,264 U.S. GRANT AND THE NEW PRESIDENT, ANDREW JOHNSON, 504 00:29:32,431 --> 00:29:34,266 STOOD SIDE BY SIDE 505 00:29:34,433 --> 00:29:37,102 TO WATCH THE GRAND ARMIES OF THE REPUBLIC PASS IN REVIEW 506 00:29:37,269 --> 00:29:42,649 DOWN PENNSYLVANIAAVENUE FROM THE CAPITOL. 507 00:29:42,816 --> 00:29:44,443 Woman: "AND 80 IT CAME, 508 00:29:44,610 --> 00:29:47,446 "THIS GLORIOUS OLD ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, 509 00:29:47,613 --> 00:29:49,698 "FOR SIX HOURS MARCHING PAST, 510 00:29:49,865 --> 00:29:51,784 "18 OR 20 MILES LONG, 511 00:29:51,950 --> 00:29:54,286 "THEIR COLORS TELLING THEIR SAD HISTORY. 512 00:29:54,453 --> 00:29:56,288 "IT WAS A STRANGE FEELING 513 00:29:56,455 --> 00:29:59,458 "TO BE SO INTENSELY HAPPY AND TRIUMPHANT 514 00:29:59,625 --> 00:30:02,461 AND YET TO FEEL LIKE CRYING." 515 00:30:02,628 --> 00:30:05,005 APPLAUSE 516 00:30:08,133 --> 00:30:11,345 Narrator: THE GREAT PROCESSION TOOK TWO DAYS. 517 00:30:13,138 --> 00:30:14,973 GENERAL GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER 518 00:30:15,140 --> 00:30:17,476 STOLE THE SHOW THE FIRST DAY, 519 00:30:17,643 --> 00:30:20,979 GALLOPING PAST THE DIGNITARIES FAR AHEAD OF HIS MEN, 520 00:30:21,146 --> 00:30:22,481 BRANDISHING HIS SABRE, 521 00:30:22,648 --> 00:30:26,443 HIS LONG YELLOW HAIR WHIPPING IN THE WIND. 522 00:30:26,610 --> 00:30:29,405 BUT THE CROWDS CHEERED LOUDEST THE NEXT MORNING 523 00:30:29,571 --> 00:30:31,949 AS WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN RODE PAST 524 00:30:32,116 --> 00:30:36,954 AT THE HEAD OF THE GREAT ARMY HE HAD LED TO THE SEA. 525 00:30:41,083 --> 00:30:43,419 BY MAY, MOST OF THE YANKEES 526 00:30:43,585 --> 00:30:45,421 HAD WITHDRAWN FROM CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE. 527 00:30:45,587 --> 00:30:48,924 WHAT REMAINED OF THE 49th AND 14th TENNESSEE REGIMENTS 528 00:30:49,091 --> 00:30:50,717 CAME HOME. 529 00:30:50,884 --> 00:30:53,762 PRIVATE JOHN J. DENNY OF COMPANY K 530 00:30:53,929 --> 00:30:55,431 WAS NOT AMONG THEM. 531 00:30:55,597 --> 00:30:58,934 HE HAD DIED AT CHANCELLORSVILLE. 532 00:30:59,101 --> 00:31:02,938 OF THE 29 STEWART COLLEGE SENIORS WHO WENT TO WAR, 533 00:31:03,105 --> 00:31:05,482 16 HAD BEEN KILLED IN BATTLE. 534 00:31:05,649 --> 00:31:09,486 7 MORE HAD DIED OF WOUNDS AND DISEASE. 535 00:31:12,614 --> 00:31:16,994 IN SEPTEMBER, RAILWAY SERVICE TO CLARKSVILLE WAS RESUMED. 536 00:31:20,998 --> 00:31:24,376 DEER ISLE, MAINE, WAS AN INDIRECT CASUALTY OF THE WAR. 537 00:31:24,543 --> 00:31:25,794 WHEN ITS MEN CAME HOME, 538 00:31:25,961 --> 00:31:27,796 THEY FOUND FISHING HAD FALLEN OFF. 539 00:31:27,963 --> 00:31:30,382 THERE WAS NEW MONEY TO BE MADE IN OTHER INDUSTRIES 540 00:31:30,549 --> 00:31:32,217 IN NEARBY TOWNS. 541 00:31:32,384 --> 00:31:34,428 THE OLD FAMILIES MOVED AWAY. 542 00:31:34,595 --> 00:31:37,347 SOME OF THE HOUSES THEY LEFT BEHIND 543 00:31:37,514 --> 00:31:40,184 BECAME SUMMER HOMES FOR VACATIONERS, 544 00:31:40,350 --> 00:31:44,271 MOST OF WHOM WERE UNAWARE OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED THERE. 545 00:31:50,152 --> 00:31:51,987 JOHN WILKES BOOTH'S ACCOMPLICES 546 00:31:52,154 --> 00:31:54,990 WERE SWIFTLY TRIED BEFORE A MILITARY COMMISSION. 547 00:31:55,157 --> 00:31:57,701 ALL EIGHT WERE FOUND GUILTY. 548 00:31:57,868 --> 00:31:59,870 FOUR WERE SENTENCED TO BE HANGED, 549 00:32:00,037 --> 00:32:02,706 INCLUDING MARY SURRATT, WHOSE ONLY CRIME MAY HAVE BEEN 550 00:32:02,873 --> 00:32:05,209 THAT SHE OWNED THE BOARDING HOUSE 551 00:32:05,375 --> 00:32:07,753 IN WHICH THE CONSPIRATORS MET. 552 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:09,880 THE EXECUTIONS TOOK PLACE 553 00:32:10,047 --> 00:32:12,883 IN THE COURTYARD OF THE OLD PENITENTIARY BUILDING 554 00:32:13,050 --> 00:32:14,843 ON JULY 7. 555 00:32:17,554 --> 00:32:19,890 THE PRISONERS CLIMBED THE 13 STEPS 556 00:32:20,057 --> 00:32:23,936 AND SAT IN CHAIRS WHILE THE CHARGES WERE READ ALOUD. 557 00:32:25,562 --> 00:32:27,397 TWO PRIESTS COMFORTED MRS. SURRATT 558 00:32:27,564 --> 00:32:29,942 AND SHIELDED HER FROM THE SUN. 559 00:32:31,735 --> 00:32:35,739 WHITE HOODS WERE SLIPPED OVER THEIR HEADS. 560 00:32:39,952 --> 00:32:43,288 GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK, THE HERO OF GETTYSBURG, 561 00:32:43,455 --> 00:32:45,290 CLAPPED HIS HANDS THREE TIMES, 562 00:32:45,457 --> 00:32:48,794 AND SOLDIERS KNOCKED THE FRONT PART OF THE PLATFORM 563 00:32:48,961 --> 00:32:51,046 OUT FROM UNDER THE CONDEMNED. 564 00:32:51,213 --> 00:32:53,340 TRAP DOOR OPENS 565 00:33:07,479 --> 00:33:11,024 IT TOOK THEM MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES TO DIE. 566 00:33:12,442 --> 00:33:14,444 A NORTHERN NEWSPAPER SAID, 567 00:33:14,611 --> 00:33:17,990 "WE WANT TO KNOW THEIR NAMES NO MORE." 568 00:33:24,621 --> 00:33:29,459 Man: "SOMEWHERE THEY CRAWLED TO DIE ALONE IN BUSHES, 569 00:33:29,626 --> 00:33:33,463 "LOW GULLIES, OR ON THE SIDES OF HILLS. 570 00:33:33,630 --> 00:33:35,465 "THERE, IN SECLUDED SPOTS, 571 00:33:35,632 --> 00:33:38,969 "THEIR SKELETONS, BLEACHED BONES, TUFTS OF HAIR, 572 00:33:39,136 --> 00:33:41,388 "BUTTONS, FRAGMENTS OF CLOTHING 573 00:33:41,555 --> 00:33:43,932 ARE OCCASIONALLY FOUND YET." 574 00:33:45,559 --> 00:33:50,397 "OUR YOUNG MEN, ONCE SO HANDSOME AND SO JOYOUS, 575 00:33:50,564 --> 00:33:51,898 "TAKEN FROM US-- 576 00:33:52,065 --> 00:33:54,401 "THE SON FROM THE MOTHER, 577 00:33:54,568 --> 00:33:56,820 "THE HUSBAND FROM THE WIFE, 578 00:33:56,987 --> 00:34:00,907 THE DEAR FRIEND FROM THE DEAR FRIEND." 579 00:34:01,074 --> 00:34:02,784 WALT WHITMAN. 580 00:34:19,593 --> 00:34:23,430 Narrator: 3.5 MILLION MEN WENT TO WAR. 581 00:34:23,597 --> 00:34:26,933 620,000 MEN DIED IN IT, 582 00:34:27,100 --> 00:34:31,980 AS MANY AS IN ALL THE REST OF AMERICA'S WARS COMBINED. 583 00:34:35,108 --> 00:34:40,447 1/4 OF THE SOUTH'S WHITE MEN OF MILITARY AGE WERE DEAD. 584 00:34:41,907 --> 00:34:44,868 IN IOWA, HALF THE MEN ELIGIBLE TO FIGHT 585 00:34:45,035 --> 00:34:46,870 SERVED IN THE UNION ARMY, 586 00:34:47,037 --> 00:34:49,873 FILLING 46 REGIMENTS IN ALL. 587 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,877 13,001 IOWANS DIED-- 588 00:34:54,044 --> 00:34:57,881 3,540 IN BATTLE, 589 00:34:58,048 --> 00:35:01,885 515 WHILE PRISONERS OF WAR, 590 00:35:02,052 --> 00:35:07,391 AND 8,498 OF DISEASE. 591 00:35:07,557 --> 00:35:11,144 THOSE FIGURES WERE TYPICAL. 592 00:35:11,311 --> 00:35:13,063 THE 5th NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT 593 00:35:13,230 --> 00:35:17,401 STARTED OUT FROM CONCORD IN 1861 WITH 1,200 MEN. 594 00:35:17,567 --> 00:35:19,903 WHEN THEY RETURNED TO NEW HAMPSHIRE 595 00:35:20,070 --> 00:35:21,405 AFTER GETTYSBURG, 596 00:35:21,571 --> 00:35:23,615 THERE WERE ONLY 380 LEFT. 597 00:35:26,243 --> 00:35:28,912 IN MISSISSIPPI IN 1866, 598 00:35:29,079 --> 00:35:31,915 1/5 OF THE STATES ENTIRE BUDGET 599 00:35:32,082 --> 00:35:35,335 WAS SPENT ON ARTIFICIAL LIMBS. 600 00:35:35,502 --> 00:35:39,506 MILLIONS WERE LEFT WITH VIVID MEMORIES OF MEN 601 00:35:39,673 --> 00:35:42,426 WHO SHOULD HAVE STILL BEEN LIVING BUT WERE NOT. 602 00:35:44,553 --> 00:35:46,388 THE SURVIVORS WENT HOME 603 00:35:46,555 --> 00:35:50,100 AND GOT ON WITH THE BUSINESS OF LIVING. 604 00:35:52,060 --> 00:35:54,396 Man: "THE MORNING AFTER MY ARRIVAL HOME, 605 00:35:54,563 --> 00:35:57,399 "I DOFFED MY UNIFORM OF FIRST LIEUTENANT, 606 00:35:57,566 --> 00:35:59,401 "PUT ON SOME OF MY FATHER'S OLD CLOTHES, 607 00:35:59,568 --> 00:36:03,905 "AND PROCEEDED TO WAGE WAR ON THE STANDING CORN. 608 00:36:04,072 --> 00:36:05,907 "THE FEELING I HAD WAS SORT OF QUEER. 609 00:36:06,074 --> 00:36:07,909 "IT ALMOST SEEMED, SOMETIMES, 610 00:36:08,076 --> 00:36:12,080 "AS IF I HAD BEEN AWAY ONLY A DAY OR TWO 611 00:36:12,247 --> 00:36:14,791 "AND HAD JUST TAKEN UP THE FARM WORK 612 00:36:14,958 --> 00:36:17,294 WHERE I HAD LEFT OFF." 613 00:36:17,461 --> 00:36:22,966 LEANDER STILLWELL, FORMERLY 61st ILLINOIS. 614 00:36:23,133 --> 00:36:27,929 Narrator: THE BOYS WHO HAD GONE OFF TO WAR WERE OLD MEN NOW. 615 00:36:28,096 --> 00:36:30,432 THEY WALKED OVER THE OLD BATTLEFIELDS 616 00:36:30,599 --> 00:36:32,142 WITH THEIR FAMILIES, 617 00:36:32,309 --> 00:36:34,686 POINTING OUT THE PLACES WHERE THEY HAD ONCE DONE THINGS 618 00:36:34,853 --> 00:36:38,857 THAT NOW SEEMED IMPOSSIBLE, EVEN TO THEM. 619 00:36:39,024 --> 00:36:43,361 Foote: THEY HAD A THEORETICAL NOTION OF HAVING A COUNTRY, 620 00:36:43,528 --> 00:36:47,407 BUT WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER, 621 00:36:47,574 --> 00:36:49,242 ON BOTH SIDES, THEY KNEW THEY HAD A COUNTRY. 622 00:36:49,409 --> 00:36:51,036 THEY'D BEEN THERE. 623 00:36:51,203 --> 00:36:54,372 THEY HAD WALKED ITS HILLS AND TRAMPED ITS ROADS. 624 00:36:54,539 --> 00:36:56,374 UH, THEY--THEY SAW THE COUNTRY, 625 00:36:56,541 --> 00:36:58,293 AND THEY KNEW THEY HAD A COUNTRY, 626 00:36:58,460 --> 00:37:01,838 AND THEY KNEW THE--THE EFFORT THAT THEY HAD EXPENDED 627 00:37:02,005 --> 00:37:04,925 AND THEIR DEAD FRIENDS HAD EXPENDED TO PRESERVE IT. 628 00:37:05,091 --> 00:37:06,885 IT DID THAT. 629 00:37:07,052 --> 00:37:09,930 IT MADE THEIR COUNTRY AN ACTUALITY. 630 00:37:13,683 --> 00:37:15,560 BIRDS CHIRPING 631 00:37:24,861 --> 00:37:27,239 BY THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, 632 00:37:27,405 --> 00:37:29,241 MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS AND STATUES 633 00:37:29,407 --> 00:37:32,244 STOOD IN CITY PARKS AND COURTHOUSE SQUARES 634 00:37:32,410 --> 00:37:34,204 FROM MAINE TO MISSISSIPPI. 635 00:37:34,371 --> 00:37:37,916 Man: "NUMBER 220-- STATUE OF AMERICAN SOLDIER. 636 00:37:38,083 --> 00:37:39,876 "PRICE, $450. 637 00:37:40,043 --> 00:37:42,379 "WHEN USED AS A FAMILY MONUMENT 638 00:37:42,546 --> 00:37:45,757 "AND PHOTOS OF THE DECEASED SOLDIER CAN BE FURNISHED, 639 00:37:45,924 --> 00:37:48,385 "WE WILL MODELA NEW HEAD IN ATRUE LIKENESS. 640 00:37:48,552 --> 00:37:52,180 THE EXTRA COST WILL BE BUT $150." 641 00:37:52,347 --> 00:37:55,433 THE MONUMENTAL BRONZE COMPANY, BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT. 642 00:38:00,063 --> 00:38:04,901 Man: "HALL'S HILL, VIRGINIA, JULY 4, 1865. 643 00:38:05,068 --> 00:38:07,404 "ANOTHER INDEPENDENCE DAY IN THE ARMY, 644 00:38:07,571 --> 00:38:09,906 "AND THIS HAS BEEN MY FIFTH. 645 00:38:10,073 --> 00:38:13,410 "THE FIRST WE PASSED AT CAMP CLARK NEAR WASHINGTON, 646 00:38:13,577 --> 00:38:15,412 "THE SECOND AT HARRISON'S LANDING, 647 00:38:15,579 --> 00:38:17,414 "THE THIRD AT GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, 648 00:38:17,581 --> 00:38:19,916 "THE FOURTH AT PETERSBURG, 649 00:38:20,083 --> 00:38:22,919 "AND TODAY WE ARE BACK IN WASHINGTON 650 00:38:23,086 --> 00:38:24,921 "WITH OUR WORK FINISHED. 651 00:38:25,088 --> 00:38:26,923 THE DAY HAS BEEN FUN." 652 00:38:27,090 --> 00:38:28,466 ELISHA HUNT RHODES. 653 00:38:32,095 --> 00:38:34,931 Narrator: THE WAR MADE ELISHA HUNT RHODES. 654 00:38:35,098 --> 00:38:38,435 HAVING RISEN FROM PRIVATE TO COLONEL DURING THE WAR, 655 00:38:38,602 --> 00:38:41,438 HE WAS PROMOTED TO BRIGADIER GENERAL AFTER IT, 656 00:38:41,605 --> 00:38:45,442 THEN WENT INTO THE COTTON AND WOOL BUSINESS IN PROVIDENCE. 657 00:38:45,609 --> 00:38:48,945 HE DEVOTED NEARLY EVERY IDLE HOUR TO VETERANS' AFFAIRS 658 00:38:49,112 --> 00:38:52,490 AND NEVER MISSED AREGIMENTAL REUNION. 659 00:39:23,146 --> 00:39:29,277 Man: "AMERICA HAS NO NORTH, NO SOUTH, NO EAST, NO WEST. 660 00:39:29,444 --> 00:39:32,489 "THE SUN RISES OVER THE HILLS AND SETS OVER THE MOUNTAINS. 661 00:39:32,656 --> 00:39:35,492 "THE COMPASS JUST POINTS UP AND DOWN, 662 00:39:35,659 --> 00:39:37,994 "AND WE CAN LAUGH NOW AT THE ABSURD NOTION 663 00:39:38,161 --> 00:39:40,413 "OF THERE BEING A NORTH AND ASOUTH. 664 00:39:40,580 --> 00:39:43,541 WE ARE ONE AND UNDIVIDED." 665 00:39:43,708 --> 00:39:45,627 SAM WATKINS. 666 00:39:47,420 --> 00:39:49,756 Narrator: SAM WATKINS RETURNED TO COLUMBIA, TENNESSEE, 667 00:39:49,923 --> 00:39:51,758 RAN THE FAMILY FARM, 668 00:39:51,925 --> 00:39:54,135 AND IN THE EVENINGS WORKED ON HIS MEMOIRS, 669 00:39:54,302 --> 00:39:55,595 COMPANY AYTCH, 670 00:39:55,762 --> 00:39:59,224 DESPITE, HE SAID, "A HOUSE FULL OF YOUNG REBELS 671 00:39:59,391 --> 00:40:04,020 CLUSTERING AROUND MY KNEES AND BUMPING MY ELBOWS." 672 00:40:04,187 --> 00:40:05,939 BUT FOR THE WAR, 673 00:40:06,106 --> 00:40:10,819 THESE MEN WERE LIKE ANY OTHER POSSIBLE FRIENDS. 674 00:40:10,986 --> 00:40:16,324 YOU CAN, UH, REMEMBER THE-- THOMAS HARDY'S POEM. 675 00:40:16,491 --> 00:40:18,827 "HAD HE AND I BUT MET, IN SOME OLD ANCIENT INN, 676 00:40:18,994 --> 00:40:21,830 WE MIGHT SIT DOWN TO WET RIGHT MANYA NIPPERKIN." 677 00:40:21,997 --> 00:40:24,833 YOU KNOW, "BUT RANGED AS INFANTRY, STANDING FACE TO FACE, 678 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,462 "I SHOT AT HIM AS HE AT ME, AND KILLED HIM IN HIS PLACE. 679 00:40:29,629 --> 00:40:31,965 "STRANGE AND CURIOUS, AWAR IS. 680 00:40:32,132 --> 00:40:34,843 "YOU SHOOT A FELLOW DOWN YOU'D TREAT WHERE ANY BAR IS, 681 00:40:35,010 --> 00:40:36,970 OR HELP TO HALF A CROWN." 682 00:40:37,137 --> 00:40:38,513 ISN'T THAT IT? 683 00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,765 ESPECIALLY IN OUR OWN, UH--OUR OWN SOCIETY, 684 00:40:40,932 --> 00:40:43,768 WHERE THESE MEN SHARED A COMMON HISTORY, 685 00:40:43,935 --> 00:40:45,770 MEN AND WOMEN, 686 00:40:45,937 --> 00:40:47,772 SHARED A COMMON LOVE OF LIBERTY, 687 00:40:47,939 --> 00:40:50,775 GAVE IT SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT ENGLISH 688 00:40:50,942 --> 00:40:54,779 AS IT SPUN THROUGH THEIR LIVES, 689 00:40:54,946 --> 00:40:59,909 BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WHEN DEATH CAME 690 00:41:00,076 --> 00:41:02,912 AND THERE WAS NO MORE TO FIGHT ABOUT, 691 00:41:03,079 --> 00:41:05,915 THE SORT OF OCEAN OF--OF LOVE AND RESPECT 692 00:41:06,082 --> 00:41:07,917 CLOSED OVER THEM AGAIN, 693 00:41:08,084 --> 00:41:09,961 AND THEY WERE TOGETHER. 694 00:41:10,128 --> 00:41:14,924 Man: "I THINK WE UNDERSTAND WHAT MILITARY FAME IS-- 695 00:41:15,091 --> 00:41:17,761 "TO BE KILLED ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE 696 00:41:17,927 --> 00:41:21,264 AND HAVE OUR NAMES SPELLED WRONG IN THE NEWSPAPERS." 697 00:41:21,431 --> 00:41:23,475 WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN. 698 00:41:25,602 --> 00:41:28,438 Narrator: WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN REMAINED A SOLDIER, 699 00:41:28,605 --> 00:41:30,440 FIGHTING INDIANS AND SHUNNING POLITICS 700 00:41:30,607 --> 00:41:33,443 UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 1883. 701 00:41:33,610 --> 00:41:35,945 "IF NOMINATED, I WILL NOT RUN," 702 00:41:36,112 --> 00:41:40,408 HE TOLD A REPUBLICAN DELEGATION URGING HIM TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT. 703 00:41:40,575 --> 00:41:42,702 "IF ELECTED, I WILL NOT SERVE." 704 00:41:42,869 --> 00:41:47,248 HE DIED IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE WINTER OF 1891. 705 00:41:47,415 --> 00:41:50,251 AMONG THE HONORARY PALLBEARERS WHO STOOD BAREHEADED 706 00:41:50,418 --> 00:41:52,921 IN THE COLD WIND OUTSIDE THE CHURCH 707 00:41:53,088 --> 00:41:54,923 WAS 82-YEAR-OLD JOE JOHNSTON, 708 00:41:55,090 --> 00:41:58,968 WHO HAD FOUGHT SHERMAN IN GEORGIAAND THE CAROLINAS. 709 00:41:59,135 --> 00:42:02,138 WHEN A FRIEND WARNED HIM HE MIGHT FALL ILL, 710 00:42:02,305 --> 00:42:05,141 JOHNSTON TOLD HIM, "IF I WERE IN SHERMAN'S PLACE 711 00:42:05,308 --> 00:42:07,143 "AND HE WERE STANDING HERE IN MINE, 712 00:42:07,310 --> 00:42:09,854 HE WOULD NOT PUT ON HIS HAT." 713 00:42:10,021 --> 00:42:13,858 JOHNSTON DIED 10 DAYS LATER OF PNEUMONIA. 714 00:42:16,611 --> 00:42:19,447 Woman: "APRIL 1866. 715 00:42:19,614 --> 00:42:22,450 "THERE ARE NIGHTS HERE WITH THE MOONLIGHT, 716 00:42:22,617 --> 00:42:25,453 "COLD AND GHASTLY, AND THE WHIPPOORWILLS 717 00:42:25,620 --> 00:42:29,457 "AND THE SCREECH OWLS ALONE DISTURBING THE SILENCE, 718 00:42:29,624 --> 00:42:32,961 "WHEN I COULD TEAR MY HAIR AND CRY ALONE 719 00:42:33,128 --> 00:42:36,005 FOR ALL THAT IS PAST AND GONE." 720 00:42:37,632 --> 00:42:39,467 MARY CHESNUT. 721 00:42:41,553 --> 00:42:43,388 Narrator: WHEN JAMES AND MARY CHESNUT 722 00:42:43,555 --> 00:42:45,390 RETURNED TO MULBERRY PLANTATION, 723 00:42:45,557 --> 00:42:48,893 THEY FOUND THE OLD HOUSE STRIPPED BY UNION MEN, 724 00:42:49,060 --> 00:42:51,896 THE COTTON BURNED. 725 00:42:52,063 --> 00:42:54,149 MARY MANAGED TO MAKE A LITTLE MONEY 726 00:42:54,315 --> 00:42:55,608 SELLING BUTTER AND EGGS 727 00:42:55,775 --> 00:42:57,902 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HER FORMER SLAVE, 728 00:42:58,069 --> 00:42:59,904 AND SHE CONTINUED TO WRITE, 729 00:43:00,071 --> 00:43:02,907 BUT SHE NEVER COMPLETED THE MAMMOTH TASK 730 00:43:03,074 --> 00:43:04,951 OF REWORKING HER WAR DIARY. 731 00:43:12,083 --> 00:43:14,919 JEFFERSON DAVIS WAS NEVER TRIED FOR TREASON, 732 00:43:15,086 --> 00:43:18,882 NOR COULD HE EVER BRING HIMSELF TO ASK FOR A PARDON. 733 00:43:19,048 --> 00:43:20,925 AFTER TWO YEARS IN PRISON, 734 00:43:21,092 --> 00:43:23,720 HE WAS RELEASED ON BOND AND SPENT THE REST OF HIS LIFE 735 00:43:23,887 --> 00:43:26,097 LIVING OFF THE CHARITY OF A WEALTHY WIDOW 736 00:43:26,264 --> 00:43:28,808 AND WORKING ON A MASSIVE MEMOIR, 737 00:43:28,975 --> 00:43:33,188 THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT. 738 00:43:33,354 --> 00:43:36,733 HE DIED, STILL PERSUADED OF THE JUSTICE OF HIS CAUSE, 739 00:43:36,900 --> 00:43:39,903 AT THE AGE OF 81. 740 00:43:40,069 --> 00:43:43,448 HIRAM REVELS OF MISSISSIPPI BECAME THE FIRST BLACK MAN 741 00:43:43,615 --> 00:43:46,451 EVER ELECTED TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE, 742 00:43:46,618 --> 00:43:50,330 FILLING THE SEAT LAST HELD BY JEFFERSON DAVIS. 743 00:43:50,496 --> 00:43:53,458 VICE PRESIDENT ALEXANDER STEPHENS 744 00:43:53,625 --> 00:43:56,461 WAS IMPRISONED BRIEFLY AND THEN RE-ELECTED 745 00:43:56,628 --> 00:43:59,464 TO HIS OLD CONGRESSIONAL SEAT FROM GEORGIA 746 00:43:59,631 --> 00:44:02,508 AS IF THERE HAD NEVER BEEN ACONFEDERACY. 747 00:44:05,637 --> 00:44:06,971 MARY TODD LINCOLN 748 00:44:07,138 --> 00:44:09,474 NEVER RECOVERED FROM HER HUSBAND'S MURDER. 749 00:44:09,641 --> 00:44:11,976 HER SON TAD DIED IN 1871. 750 00:44:12,143 --> 00:44:14,979 FIVE YEARS LATER, HER ELDEST SON ROBERT 751 00:44:15,146 --> 00:44:17,982 HAD HER COMMITTED TO A MENTAL INSTITUTION. 752 00:44:18,149 --> 00:44:20,985 SHE SPENT HER LAST YEARS IN SPRINGFIELD, 753 00:44:21,152 --> 00:44:22,987 RARELY LEAVING A ROOM 754 00:44:23,154 --> 00:44:25,031 WHOSE CURTAINS WERE NEVER RAISED. 755 00:44:28,159 --> 00:44:29,494 FOR CLARA BARTON, 756 00:44:29,661 --> 00:44:31,496 THE ANGEL OF THE BATTLEFIELD, 757 00:44:31,663 --> 00:44:33,498 THE GRIM WORK CONTINUED. 758 00:44:33,665 --> 00:44:35,792 AFTER THE WAR, SHE WENT DOWN TO ANDERSONVILLE 759 00:44:35,959 --> 00:44:37,877 AND HELPED ARRANGE DIGNIFIED BURIAL 760 00:44:38,044 --> 00:44:39,587 FOR THOUSANDS OF THE UNION PRISONERS 761 00:44:39,754 --> 00:44:41,089 WHO HAD DIED THERE, 762 00:44:41,256 --> 00:44:46,344 THEN WENT ON TO FOUND THE AMERICAN RED CROSS. 763 00:44:46,511 --> 00:44:50,473 ON NOVEMBER 10, 1865, HENRY WIRZ, 764 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,351 COMMANDANT AT ANDERSONVILLE PRISON, 765 00:44:53,518 --> 00:44:54,686 WAS HANGED IN THE YARD 766 00:44:54,852 --> 00:44:57,480 OF THE OLD CAPITOL PRISON IN WASHINGTON 767 00:44:57,647 --> 00:44:58,982 FOR WAR CRIMES. 768 00:44:59,148 --> 00:45:02,527 HE PLEADED HE HAD ONLY FOLLOWED ORDERS. 769 00:45:04,487 --> 00:45:06,990 WALT WHITMAN PUBLISHED DRUM TAPS, 770 00:45:07,156 --> 00:45:10,994 A BOOK OF CIVIL WAR POEMS HE THOUGHT HIS FINEST, 771 00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:13,496 THEN TURNED LARGELY TO PROSE. 772 00:45:13,663 --> 00:45:18,042 HIS WRITINGS REVOLUTIONIZED AMERICAN LITERATURE. 773 00:45:20,461 --> 00:45:23,548 PHIL SHERIDAN WENT OUT WEST TO TAKE ON A NEW ENEMY, 774 00:45:23,715 --> 00:45:27,010 DECLARING THAT THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN WAS A DEAD INDIAN. 775 00:45:27,176 --> 00:45:30,013 GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER WENT WEST, TOO, 776 00:45:30,179 --> 00:45:34,017 CARRYING WITH HIM HIS BELIEF IN HIS OWN INVINCIBILITY. 777 00:45:34,183 --> 00:45:38,479 IN 1876, THE SIOUX AND CHEYENNE PROVED HIM WRONG. 778 00:45:38,646 --> 00:45:41,441 GEORGE MCCLELLAN STAYED ABROAD FOR THREE YEARS 779 00:45:41,607 --> 00:45:43,943 AFTER LOSING THE ELECTION TO LINCOLN. 780 00:45:44,110 --> 00:45:47,447 HE HEARD NO SLANDER ABOUT HIMSELF THERE, HE SAID. 781 00:45:47,613 --> 00:45:49,449 THEN HE CAME HOME 782 00:45:49,615 --> 00:45:52,076 AND GOT HIMSELF ELECTED GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY. 783 00:45:52,243 --> 00:45:54,120 THE CONQUEROR OF FORT SUMTER, 784 00:45:54,287 --> 00:45:56,456 PIERRE GUSTAVE TOUTANT BEAU REGARD, 785 00:45:56,622 --> 00:45:57,957 PROMOTED RAILROADS, 786 00:45:58,124 --> 00:45:59,959 MANAGED THE LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY, 787 00:46:00,126 --> 00:46:02,045 AND GOT RICH. 788 00:46:02,211 --> 00:46:04,005 NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST 789 00:46:04,172 --> 00:46:07,592 PROMOTED RAILROADS, TOO, BUT FAILED. 790 00:46:07,759 --> 00:46:10,970 IN 1867, HE BECAME THE FIRST IMPERIAL WIZARD 791 00:46:11,137 --> 00:46:12,972 OF THE KU KLUX KLAN 792 00:46:13,139 --> 00:46:19,062 BUT QUIT WHEN THE KLAN GREW TOO VIOLENT EVEN FOR HIM. 793 00:46:19,228 --> 00:46:22,482 GENERAL DAN SICKLES SOMEHOW ESCAPED COURT-MARTIAL 794 00:46:22,648 --> 00:46:24,484 FOR HIS BLUNDER AT GETTYSBURG. 795 00:46:24,650 --> 00:46:27,195 HE HAD THE LEG HE LOST IN THE PEACH ORCHARD 796 00:46:27,362 --> 00:46:29,030 MOUNTED IN A MINIATURE CASKET 797 00:46:29,197 --> 00:46:32,408 AND GAVE IT TO THE ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON, 798 00:46:32,575 --> 00:46:38,081 WHERE HE VISITED IT REGULARLY FOR 50 YEARS. 799 00:46:38,247 --> 00:46:40,208 JOHN BELL HOOD, WHO HAD SURVIVED 800 00:46:40,375 --> 00:46:42,293 SOME OF THE FIERCEST FIGHTING OF THE WAR, 801 00:46:42,460 --> 00:46:43,878 DIED WITH HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER 802 00:46:44,045 --> 00:46:47,632 IN THE NEW ORLEANS YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC OF 1878, 803 00:46:47,799 --> 00:46:51,302 LEAVING 10 ORPHANED CHILDREN. 804 00:46:51,469 --> 00:46:53,930 GEORGE PICKETT NEVER OVERCAME HIS BITTERNESS 805 00:46:54,097 --> 00:46:56,933 OVER THE DESTRUCTION OF HIS DIVISION AT GETTYSBURG. 806 00:46:57,100 --> 00:46:58,935 SUFFERING FROM SEVERE DEPRESSION, 807 00:46:59,102 --> 00:47:02,772 HE TURNED DOWN OFFERS OF COMMAND FROM THE RULER OF EGYPT 808 00:47:02,939 --> 00:47:04,774 AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 809 00:47:04,941 --> 00:47:08,611 AND ENDED UP IN THE INSURANCE BUSINESS. 810 00:47:08,778 --> 00:47:11,781 CONFEDERATE GENERAL JAMES LONGSTREET 811 00:47:11,948 --> 00:47:13,783 JOINED THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, 812 00:47:13,950 --> 00:47:16,285 SERVED AS GRANT'S MINISTER TO TURKEY, 813 00:47:16,452 --> 00:47:19,288 DARED TO CRITICIZE LEE'S STRATEGY AT GETTYSBURG, 814 00:47:19,455 --> 00:47:21,124 AND FOR ALL THESE THINGS 815 00:47:21,290 --> 00:47:23,126 WAS CONSIDERED A TRAITOR TO THE SOUTH 816 00:47:23,292 --> 00:47:26,921 BY HIS FORMER COMRADES—lN-ARMS. 817 00:47:27,088 --> 00:47:29,632 FREDERICK DOUGLASS 818 00:47:29,799 --> 00:47:31,467 CONTINUED TO FIGHT AS HARD FOR CIVIL RIGHTS 819 00:47:31,634 --> 00:47:33,469 AS HE HAD AGAINST SLAVERY 820 00:47:33,636 --> 00:47:38,349 AND BECAME THE MOST POWERFUL BLACK POLITICIAN IN AMERICA. 821 00:47:38,516 --> 00:47:42,645 AYOUNG VISITOR ONCE ASKED HIM WHAT HE SHOULD DO WITH HIS LIFE. 822 00:47:42,812 --> 00:47:47,483 "AGITATE!" THE OLD MAN ANSWERED. "AGITATE! AGITATE!" 823 00:47:49,152 --> 00:47:50,945 JULIA WARD HOWE 824 00:47:51,112 --> 00:47:53,948 HELPED LEAD THE AMERICAN WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 825 00:47:54,115 --> 00:47:56,367 FOR 55 YEARS. 826 00:47:56,534 --> 00:47:59,454 AT HER FUNERAL IN 1910, 827 00:47:59,620 --> 00:48:01,956 4,000 MOURNERS JOINED IN SINGING 828 00:48:02,123 --> 00:48:05,209 THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC. 829 00:48:05,376 --> 00:48:06,961 COLONEL WASHINGTON ROEBLING 830 00:48:07,128 --> 00:48:09,464 LEFT THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, 831 00:48:09,630 --> 00:48:12,175 FINISHED HIS FATHER'S BRIDGE AT CINCINNATI, 832 00:48:12,341 --> 00:48:14,302 AND WENT ON TO BUILD 833 00:48:14,469 --> 00:48:18,764 THE GREATEST SUSPENSION BRIDGE IN THE WORLD IN BROOKLYN. 834 00:48:20,391 --> 00:48:22,935 Man: "I HAVE FOUGHT AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF THE NORTH 835 00:48:23,102 --> 00:48:26,314 "BECAUSE I BELIEVED THEY WERE SEEKING TO WREST FROM THE SOUTH 836 00:48:26,481 --> 00:48:28,524 "ITS DEAREST RIGHTS, 837 00:48:28,691 --> 00:48:30,860 "BUT I HAVE NEVER CHERISHED TOWARD THEM 838 00:48:31,027 --> 00:48:32,987 "BITTER OR VINDICTIVE FEELINGS, 839 00:48:33,154 --> 00:48:38,534 AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN THE DAY WHEN I DID NOT PRAY FOR THEM." 840 00:48:38,701 --> 00:48:41,204 Narrator: ROBERT E. LEE 841 00:48:41,370 --> 00:48:43,498 SWORE RENEWED ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES 842 00:48:43,664 --> 00:48:47,502 AND BY SO DOING PERSUADED THOUSANDS OF HIS FORMER SOLDIERS 843 00:48:47,668 --> 00:48:49,504 TO DO THE SAME. 844 00:48:49,670 --> 00:48:52,507 HE WAS WEARY, AILING, AND WITHOUT WORK 845 00:48:52,673 --> 00:48:55,510 IN THE SUMMER OF 1865 846 00:48:55,676 --> 00:48:58,513 WHEN AN INSURANCE FIRM OFFERED HIM $50,000 847 00:48:58,679 --> 00:49:01,516 JUST FOR THE USE OF HIS NAME. 848 00:49:01,682 --> 00:49:03,518 HE TURNED IT DOWN. 849 00:49:03,684 --> 00:49:06,020 "I CANNOT CONSENT TO RECEIVE PAY 850 00:49:06,187 --> 00:49:08,523 FOR SERVICES IDO NOT RENDER." 851 00:49:08,689 --> 00:49:13,027 Foote: HE ENDED UP IN THE NOBLE WAY YOU MIGHT HAVE EXPECTED 852 00:49:13,194 --> 00:49:15,363 AFTER YOU'D LEARNED TO EXPECT IT. 853 00:49:15,530 --> 00:49:18,491 HE WAS, UH--D|DN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH HIMSELF AFTER THE WAR. 854 00:49:18,658 --> 00:49:20,076 HIS PROFESSION WAS GONE. 855 00:49:20,243 --> 00:49:22,245 EVEN HIS COUNTRY WAS GONE. 856 00:49:22,411 --> 00:49:25,248 UH, AND HE WAS APPROACHED, WITH A GOOD DEAL OF HESITATION, 857 00:49:25,414 --> 00:49:27,083 BY THESE PEOPLE FROM A LITTLE SCHOOL 858 00:49:27,250 --> 00:49:29,919 CALLED WASHINGTON COLLEGE, 859 00:49:30,086 --> 00:49:32,880 AND HE ACCEPTED THE PRESIDENCY OF WASHINGTON COLLEGE. 860 00:49:33,047 --> 00:49:37,635 HE HAD AN ANNUAL SALARY OF $1,500 AND A HOUSE TO LIVE IN, 861 00:49:37,802 --> 00:49:39,595 AND HE SPENT THE REST OF HIS LIFE 862 00:49:39,762 --> 00:49:43,474 AT WHAT AFTER HIS DEATH WAS CALLED WASHINGTON AND LEE. 863 00:49:43,641 --> 00:49:46,018 Narrator: "THE GREATEST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE," HE SAID, 864 00:49:46,185 --> 00:49:48,980 "WAS TAKING A MILITARY EDUCATION." 865 00:49:49,146 --> 00:49:50,606 AND WHENEVER HIS STUDENTS 866 00:49:50,773 --> 00:49:52,858 AND THOSE OF THE NEIGHBORING VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE 867 00:49:53,025 --> 00:49:54,318 MARCHED TOGETHER, 868 00:49:54,485 --> 00:49:58,197 LEE MADE A POINT OF STAYING OUT OF STEP. 869 00:49:59,949 --> 00:50:01,993 HE NEVER RETURNED TO ARLINGTON AGAIN. 870 00:50:02,159 --> 00:50:04,495 ONCE, ON HIS WAY TO WASHINGTON, 871 00:50:04,662 --> 00:50:08,040 HE GLIMPSED HIS OLD HOME FROM A PASSING TRAIN. 872 00:50:09,458 --> 00:50:12,503 HE DIED IN 1870. 873 00:50:12,670 --> 00:50:16,507 IN HIS LAST MOMENTS, HE WENT BACK TO THE WAR, 874 00:50:16,674 --> 00:50:19,510 ORDERING A.P. HILL TO BRING UP HIS TROOPS, 875 00:50:19,677 --> 00:50:21,512 JUST AS STONEWALL JACKSON HAD 876 00:50:21,679 --> 00:50:23,764 ON HIS DEATHBED AT CHANCELLORSVILLE. 877 00:50:28,686 --> 00:50:32,732 THEN LEE CALLED OUT, "STRIKE THE TENT." 878 00:50:42,658 --> 00:50:44,493 Foote: "FOR HE WILL SMILE 879 00:50:44,660 --> 00:50:47,997 "AND GIVE YOU WITH UNFLINCHING COURTESY, 880 00:50:48,164 --> 00:50:51,500 "PRAYERS, TRAPPINGS, LETTERS, UNIFORMS AND ORDERS, 881 00:50:51,667 --> 00:50:56,005 "PHOTOGRAPHS, KINDNESS, VALOR AND ADVICE, 882 00:50:56,172 --> 00:50:59,008 "AND DO IT WITH SUCH GRACE AND GENTLENESS 883 00:50:59,175 --> 00:51:02,928 "THAT YOU WILL KNOW YOU HAVE THE WHOLE OF HIM PINNED DOWN, 884 00:51:03,095 --> 00:51:06,015 "MAPPED OUT, EASY TO UNDERSTAND-- 885 00:51:06,182 --> 00:51:08,017 "AND SO YOU HAVE. 886 00:51:08,184 --> 00:51:10,519 "ALL THINGS EXCEPT THE HEART. 887 00:51:10,686 --> 00:51:13,439 "THE HEART HE KEPT... A SECRET TO THE END 888 00:51:13,606 --> 00:51:16,233 FROM ALL THE PICKLOCKS OF BIOGRAPHERS." 889 00:51:21,697 --> 00:51:25,409 Man: "I FEEL THAT WE ARE ON THE EVE OF A NEW ERA 890 00:51:25,576 --> 00:51:27,161 "WHEN THERE IS TO BE A GREAT HARMONY 891 00:51:27,328 --> 00:51:30,581 "BETWEEN THE FEDERAL AND THE CONFEDERATE. 892 00:51:30,748 --> 00:51:32,500 "I CANNOT STAY TO BE A LIVING WITNESS 893 00:51:32,667 --> 00:51:34,669 "TO THE CORRECTNESS OF THIS PROPHECY, 894 00:51:34,835 --> 00:51:40,466 BUT I FEEL IT WITHIN ME THAT IT IS TO BE SO." 895 00:51:41,592 --> 00:51:42,885 Narrator: THE QUALITIES 896 00:51:43,052 --> 00:51:45,971 THAT SERVED ULYSSES 8. GRANT SO WELL IN WAR-- 897 00:51:46,138 --> 00:51:49,975 STUBBORNNESS, INDEPENDENCE, AVERSION TO POLITICS-- 898 00:51:50,142 --> 00:51:52,561 DESERTED HIM IN PEACETIME. 899 00:51:52,728 --> 00:51:54,146 HE ENTERED THE WHITE HOUSE 900 00:51:54,313 --> 00:51:56,732 PLEDGED TO PEACE, HONESTY, AND CIVIL RIGHTS, 901 00:51:56,899 --> 00:52:00,736 BUT CORRUPTION TAINTED HIS TWO TERMS. 902 00:52:00,903 --> 00:52:03,989 AFTER THE PRESIDENCY, HE SETTLED IN MANHATTAN, 903 00:52:04,156 --> 00:52:08,494 WHERE HE LENT HIS NAME TO A WALL STREET BROKERAGE FIRM. 904 00:52:08,661 --> 00:52:10,496 ANOTHER PARTNER IN THE FIRM 905 00:52:10,663 --> 00:52:13,499 STOLE MILLIONS FROM THE SHAREHOLDERS IN 1884 906 00:52:13,666 --> 00:52:16,001 AND BANKRUPTED THE GRANT FAMILY. 907 00:52:16,168 --> 00:52:20,756 ONCE AGAIN, U.S. GRANT WAS PENNILESS. 908 00:52:20,923 --> 00:52:25,010 AT ALMOST THE SAME MOMENT, HE WAS FOUND TO BE SUFFERING 909 00:52:25,177 --> 00:52:28,431 FROM INOPERABLE CANCER OF THE THROAT. 910 00:52:28,597 --> 00:52:32,017 DETERMINED TO PROVIDE FOR HIS FAMILY BEFORE HE DIED, 911 00:52:32,184 --> 00:52:35,438 HE SET TO WORK WRITING HIS MEMOIRS. 912 00:52:35,604 --> 00:52:38,566 IN THE SUMMER OF 1885, HE MOVED TO A COTTAGE 913 00:52:38,733 --> 00:52:42,069 AT MOUNT MCGREGOR IN THE ADIRONDACKS. 914 00:52:42,236 --> 00:52:44,613 UNABLE NOW TO EAT OR SPEAK, 915 00:52:44,780 --> 00:52:48,117 HE SAT ON THE FRONT PORCH IN THE AFTERNOONS, 916 00:52:48,284 --> 00:52:50,453 LABORING OVER HIS MANUSCRIPT. 917 00:52:50,619 --> 00:52:53,956 HE FINISHED IT ON JULY 16 918 00:52:54,123 --> 00:52:56,333 AND DIED ONE WEEK LATER. 919 00:52:59,128 --> 00:53:02,965 GRANT'S MEMOIRS SOLD HALF A MILLION COPIES 920 00:53:03,132 --> 00:53:05,843 AND RESTORED HIS FAMILY'S FORTUNE. 921 00:53:18,647 --> 00:53:22,485 IN 1913, THE GOVERNMENT HELD A 50th ANNIVERSARY REUNION 922 00:53:22,651 --> 00:53:24,487 AT GETTYSBURG. 923 00:53:24,653 --> 00:53:27,364 IT LASTED THREE DAYS. 924 00:53:27,531 --> 00:53:28,991 THOUSANDS OF SURVIVORS 925 00:53:29,158 --> 00:53:30,993 BIVOUACKED ON THE OLD BATTLEFIELD, 926 00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:34,538 SWAPPING STORIES, LOOKING UP OLD COMRADES. 927 00:53:40,085 --> 00:53:41,962 THE CLIMAX WAS TO BE 928 00:53:42,129 --> 00:53:44,465 A RE-ENACTMENT OF PICKETT'S CHARGE. 929 00:53:44,632 --> 00:53:47,009 AS THE REBEL YELL RANG OUT 930 00:53:47,176 --> 00:53:49,011 AND THE OLD CONFEDERATES STARTED FORWARD AGAIN 931 00:53:49,178 --> 00:53:50,721 ACROSS THE FIELDS, 932 00:53:50,888 --> 00:53:53,933 A MOAN, "A GIGANTIC GASP OF UNBELIEF," 933 00:53:54,099 --> 00:53:57,478 ROSE FROM THE UNION MEN ON CEMETERY RIDGE. 934 00:53:57,645 --> 00:53:59,980 "IT WAS THEN," ONE ONLOOKER SAID, 935 00:54:00,147 --> 00:54:02,983 "THAT THE YANKEES, UNABLE TO RESTRAIN THEMSELVES LONGER, 936 00:54:03,150 --> 00:54:05,486 "BURST FROM BEHIND THE STONE WALL 937 00:54:05,653 --> 00:54:08,739 "AND FLUNG THEMSELVES UPON THEIR FORMER ENEMIES, 938 00:54:08,906 --> 00:54:12,993 "NOT IN MORTAL COMBAT, BUT EMBRACING THEM 939 00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:15,871 IN BROTHERLY LOVE AND AFFECTION." 940 00:54:20,668 --> 00:54:22,503 Man: "PAGEANT HAS PASSED. 941 00:54:22,670 --> 00:54:25,506 "THE DAY IS OVER, BUT WE LINGER, 942 00:54:25,673 --> 00:54:29,510 "LOATH TO THINK WE SHALL SEE THEM NO MORE TOGETHER-- 943 00:54:29,677 --> 00:54:34,515 THESE MEN, THESE HORSES, THESE COLORS AFIELD." 944 00:54:34,682 --> 00:54:37,017 JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN. 945 00:54:37,184 --> 00:54:40,020 Narrator: JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN 946 00:54:40,187 --> 00:54:41,939 WAS AT THE GETTYSBURG REUNION, 947 00:54:42,106 --> 00:54:46,443 STILL IMPOSING AT 83, DESPITE ALMOST CONSTANT PAIN 948 00:54:46,610 --> 00:54:49,446 FROM THE UNHEALED INTERNAL DAMAGE DONE HIM 949 00:54:49,613 --> 00:54:52,741 BYACONFEDERATE MINIE BALL AT PETERSBURG. 950 00:54:52,908 --> 00:54:57,454 THE REUNION WAS, HE SAID, ATRANSCENDENTAL EXPERIENCE, 951 00:54:57,621 --> 00:55:01,250 "A RADIANT FELLOWSHIP OF THE FALLEN." 952 00:55:01,417 --> 00:55:02,960 HE HAD RECEIVED THE MEDAL OF HONOR 953 00:55:03,127 --> 00:55:05,963 FOR HIS COURAGE AT LITTLE ROUND TOP, 954 00:55:06,130 --> 00:55:08,591 SERVED FOUR TERMS AS GOVERNOR OF MAINE, 955 00:55:08,757 --> 00:55:11,468 THEN BECAME PRESIDENT OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE, 956 00:55:11,635 --> 00:55:14,430 WHERE HE MANAGED TO TEACH EVERY SUBJECT IN THE CURRICULUM 957 00:55:14,597 --> 00:55:17,057 EXCEPT MATHEMATICS. 958 00:55:17,224 --> 00:55:22,021 HE DIED OF HIS ANCIENT WOUND IN 1914. 959 00:55:24,481 --> 00:55:26,358 THE WAR WAS OVER. 960 00:55:38,162 --> 00:55:41,123 WHO WON THE WAR? 961 00:55:41,290 --> 00:55:43,792 THE UNION ARMY OBVIOUSLY WON THE WAR 962 00:55:43,959 --> 00:55:46,962 IN THE SENSE THAT THEY WERE THE ARMY LEFT STANDING 963 00:55:47,129 --> 00:55:47,963 AND HOLDING THEIR WEAPONS 964 00:55:48,130 --> 00:55:50,966 WHEN IT WAS ALL OVER. 965 00:55:51,133 --> 00:55:54,470 UH, SO THE SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT IN THE UNION ARMY, 966 00:55:54,637 --> 00:55:56,472 THE GENERALS WHO DIRECTED IT, 967 00:55:56,639 --> 00:55:59,475 THE PRESIDENT WHO LED THE COUNTRY DURING |T 968 00:55:59,642 --> 00:56:01,977 WON THE WAR. 969 00:56:02,144 --> 00:56:05,981 IF WE'RE NOT TALKING JUST ABOUT THE SERIES OF BATTLES 970 00:56:06,148 --> 00:56:09,109 THAT FINISHED UP WITH THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX, 971 00:56:09,276 --> 00:56:12,488 BUT TALKING INSTEAD ABOUT THE STRUGGLE 972 00:56:12,655 --> 00:56:16,992 TO MAKE SOMETHING HIGHER AND BETTER OUT OF THE COUNTRY, 973 00:56:17,159 --> 00:56:19,495 THEN THE QUESTION GETS MORE COMPLICATED. 974 00:56:19,662 --> 00:56:23,499 THE SLAVES WON THE WAR, AND THEY LOST THE WAR 975 00:56:23,666 --> 00:56:28,921 BECAUSE THEY WON FREEDOM, THAT IS, THE REMOVAL OF SLAVERY, 976 00:56:29,088 --> 00:56:34,093 BUT THEY DID NOT WIN FREEDOM AS THEY UNDERSTOOD FREEDOM. 977 00:56:34,259 --> 00:56:37,179 ISUPPOSE THAT SLAVERY 978 00:56:37,346 --> 00:56:43,852 IS MERELY THE, UH--THE HORRIBLE STATUTORY EXPRESSION 979 00:56:44,019 --> 00:56:50,442 OF A DEEPER--OF A DEEPER RIFT BETWEEN PEOPLE BASED ON RACE, 980 00:56:50,609 --> 00:56:58,450 AND THAT IS WHAT WE STRUGGLE STILL TO--TO HEAL. 981 00:56:58,617 --> 00:57:02,955 AND, UH, I THINK THE--THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LINCOLN'S LIFE 982 00:57:03,122 --> 00:57:04,456 AND HIS VICTORY 983 00:57:04,623 --> 00:57:07,459 WAS THAT--THAT WE WILL NEVER AGAIN 984 00:57:07,626 --> 00:57:10,462 ENSHRINE THESE CONCEPTS INTO LAW, 985 00:57:10,629 --> 00:57:14,967 BUT NOW LET'S SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO ERASE THEM 986 00:57:15,134 --> 00:57:18,887 FROM THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF--OF PEOPLE. 987 00:57:19,054 --> 00:57:20,431 THE CIVIL WAR 988 00:57:20,597 --> 00:57:23,475 IS NOT ONLY THE CENTRAL EVENT OF AMERICAN HISTORY, 989 00:57:23,642 --> 00:57:27,312 BUT IT'S A CENTRAL EVENT IN LARGE WAYS FOR THE WORLD ITSELF. 990 00:57:27,479 --> 00:57:29,982 IF WE BELIEVE, TODAY, IN THE 20th CENTURY, AS SURELY WE MUST, 991 00:57:30,149 --> 00:57:32,609 THAT POPULAR GOVERNMENT IS THE WAY TO GO, 992 00:57:32,776 --> 00:57:33,944 IT IS THE WAY 993 00:57:34,111 --> 00:57:35,904 FOR THE EMANCIPATION OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT, 994 00:57:36,071 --> 00:57:38,282 THEN THE CIVIL WAR ESTABLISHED THE FACT 995 00:57:38,449 --> 00:57:40,701 THAT A POPULAR GOVERNMENT COULD SURVIVE, 996 00:57:40,868 --> 00:57:43,370 THAT IT COULD OVERCOME AN INTERNAL SECESSION MOVEMENT 997 00:57:43,537 --> 00:57:44,913 THAT COULD DESTROY IT. 998 00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:47,708 SO THE WAR BECOMES--|N ESSENCE, IT BECOMES 999 00:57:47,875 --> 00:57:49,752 ATESTAMENT FOR THE LIBERATION 1000 00:57:49,918 --> 00:57:52,463 OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT FOR ALL TIME. 1001 00:57:58,093 --> 00:58:00,429 Narrator: FOUR MILLION AMERICANS HAD BEEN FREED 1002 00:58:00,596 --> 00:58:02,431 AFTER FOUR YEARS OF AGONY, 1003 00:58:02,598 --> 00:58:05,434 BUT THE MEANING OF FREEDOM IN AMERICAN LIFE 1004 00:58:05,601 --> 00:58:08,812 REMAINED UN RESOLVED. 1005 00:58:08,979 --> 00:58:11,607 "EMANCIPATED SLAVES OWN NOTHING," 1006 00:58:11,774 --> 00:58:13,609 ONE TENNESSEE PLANTER WROTE, 1007 00:58:13,776 --> 00:58:17,821 "BECAUSE NOTHING BUT FREEDOM HAS BEEN GIVEN THEM." 1008 00:58:17,988 --> 00:58:20,449 THOUSANDS OF BLACKS WANDERED SOUTHERN ROADS 1009 00:58:20,616 --> 00:58:25,120 SEARCHING FOR RELATIVES OR LOOKING FOR WORK OR FOOD. 1010 00:58:25,287 --> 00:58:27,623 THOUSANDS MORE STAYED ON THEIR PLANTATIONS 1011 00:58:27,790 --> 00:58:31,627 AS HIRED HANDS OR SHARECROPPERS. 1012 00:58:31,794 --> 00:58:33,295 THE 13th AMENDMENT 1013 00:58:33,462 --> 00:58:36,298 WAS FOLLOWED BY A 14th AND A 15th, 1014 00:58:36,465 --> 00:58:37,800 PROMISING FULL CITIZENSHIP 1015 00:58:37,966 --> 00:58:40,803 AND DUE PROCESS FOR ALL AMERICAN MEN, 1016 00:58:40,969 --> 00:58:42,221 WHITE AND BLACK. 1017 00:58:42,387 --> 00:58:44,973 BUT THE PROMISES WERE SOON OVERLOOKED 1018 00:58:45,140 --> 00:58:47,976 IN THE SCRAMBLE FOR A NEW PROSPERITY, 1019 00:58:48,143 --> 00:58:50,646 AND WHITE SUPREMACY WAS BRUTALLY REIMPOSED 1020 00:58:50,813 --> 00:58:53,023 THROUGHOUT THE OLD CONFEDERACY. 1021 00:58:53,190 --> 00:58:56,652 THE WHITE SOUTH WON THAT WAR OF ATTRITION. 1022 00:58:56,819 --> 00:58:58,654 IT WOULD TAKE ANOTHER CENTURY 1023 00:58:58,821 --> 00:59:01,156 BEFORE BLACKS GAINED BACK THE GROUND 1024 00:59:01,323 --> 00:59:05,035 FOR WHICH SO MANY HAD GIVEN THEIR LIVES. 1025 00:59:08,831 --> 00:59:12,668 Fields: I THINK WHAT WE NEED TO REMEMBER MOST OF ALL 1026 00:59:12,835 --> 00:59:18,173 IS THAT THE CIVIL WAR IS NOT OVER 1027 00:59:18,340 --> 00:59:23,178 UNTIL WE, TODAY, HAVE DONE OUR PART IN FIGHTING IT, 1028 00:59:23,345 --> 00:59:26,181 AS WELL AS UNDERSTANDING WHAT HAPPENED 1029 00:59:26,348 --> 00:59:29,268 WHEN THE CIVIL WAR GENERATION FOUGHT IT. 1030 00:59:29,434 --> 00:59:33,188 WILLIAM FAULKNER, UH, SAID ONCE 1031 00:59:33,355 --> 00:59:39,695 THAT HISTORY IS NOT "WAS," IT'S "IS," 1032 00:59:39,862 --> 00:59:43,615 AND WHAT WE NEED TO REMEMBER ABOUT THE CIVIL WAR 1033 00:59:43,782 --> 00:59:46,118 IS THAT THE CIVIL WAR 1034 00:59:46,285 --> 00:59:49,621 IS IN THE PRESENT AS WELL AS IN THE PAST. 1035 00:59:49,788 --> 00:59:52,124 THE GENERATION THAT FOUGHT THE WAR, 1036 00:59:52,291 --> 00:59:55,294 THE GENERATION THAT ARGUED OVER THE DEFINITION OF THE WAR, 1037 00:59:55,460 --> 00:59:58,755 THE GENERATION THAT HAD TO PAY THE PRICE IN BLOOD, 1038 00:59:58,922 --> 01:00:01,466 THAT HAD TO PAY THE PRICE IN BLASTED HOPES 1039 01:00:01,633 --> 01:00:03,635 AND A LOST FUTURE, 1040 01:00:03,802 --> 01:00:09,600 ALSO ESTABLISHED A STANDARD THAT WILL NOT MEAN ANYTHING 1041 01:00:09,766 --> 01:00:11,935 UNTIL WE HAVE FINISHED THE WORK. 1042 01:00:12,102 --> 01:00:15,147 YOU CAN SAY THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SLAVERY ANYMORE 1043 01:00:15,314 --> 01:00:16,815 WE'RE ALL CITIZENS. 1044 01:00:16,982 --> 01:00:21,153 BUT IF WE'RE ALL CITIZENS, THEN WE HAVE A TASK TO DO 1045 01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:24,072 TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT, TOO, IS NOT A JOKE. 1046 01:00:24,239 --> 01:00:29,328 IF SOME CITIZENS LIVE IN HOUSES AND OTHERS LIVE ON THE STREET, 1047 01:00:29,494 --> 01:00:32,164 THE CIVIL WAR IS STILL GOING ON. 1048 01:00:32,331 --> 01:00:34,666 IT'S STILL TO BE FOUGHT, 1049 01:00:34,833 --> 01:00:37,044 AND REGRETTABLY, IT CAN STILL BE LOST. 1050 01:00:42,090 --> 01:00:45,427 J‘ WE'RE CAMPING TONIGHTJ‘ 1051 01:00:45,594 --> 01:00:49,097 J‘ ON THE OLD CAMPGROUND J‘ 1052 01:00:49,264 --> 01:00:54,603 J‘ GIVE USA SONG TO CHEER J‘ 1053 01:00:54,770 --> 01:00:57,606 J‘ OUR WEARY HEARTS... J‘ 1054 01:00:57,773 --> 01:01:02,611 Marshall: GE TTYSBURG'S GUNS ARE STILL, AND THE DEAD SLEEP ON. 1055 01:01:02,778 --> 01:01:06,114 AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS BATTLEGROUND ISA CAMPAGAIN 1056 01:01:06,281 --> 01:01:08,158 WITHA ROAD DIV/DING THE BLUEAND GRAY. 1057 01:01:08,325 --> 01:01:10,369 THERE IS NO OTHER DIV/DING LINE NOW 1058 01:01:10,535 --> 01:01:13,789 AS 2,500 VETERANS GATHER FROM NORTH AND SOUTH 1059 01:01:13,956 --> 01:01:18,377 TO MARK THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICA '8 ARMAGEDDON. 1060 01:01:18,543 --> 01:01:19,628 HELLO. 1061 01:01:19,795 --> 01:01:21,129 HELLO. HOWARE YOU? 1062 01:01:21,296 --> 01:01:23,632 GLAD TO SEE YOU. 1063 01:01:23,799 --> 01:01:26,134 HA HA HA! YOU'RE ALL RIGHT. 1064 01:01:26,301 --> 01:01:28,637 W00! W00! W00! 1065 01:01:28,804 --> 01:01:30,639 W00! W00! W00! 1066 01:01:30,806 --> 01:01:32,140 HA HA HA! 1067 01:01:32,307 --> 01:01:33,392 THAT'S THE REBEL YELL. 1068 01:01:33,558 --> 01:01:35,852 W00! W00! W00! 1069 01:01:36,019 --> 01:01:38,647 WE THINK THAT WE ARE 1070 01:01:38,814 --> 01:01:41,817 A WHOLLY SUPERIOR PEOPLE. 1071 01:01:41,984 --> 01:01:44,611 IF WE'D BEEN ANYTHING LIKE AS SUPERIOR AS WE THINK WE ARE, 1072 01:01:44,778 --> 01:01:46,822 WE WOULD NOT HAVE FOUGHT THAT WAR, 1073 01:01:46,989 --> 01:01:48,407 BUT SINCE WE DID FIGHT IT, 1074 01:01:48,573 --> 01:01:52,119 WE HAVE TO MAKE IT THE GREATEST WAR OF ALL TIMES 1075 01:01:52,286 --> 01:01:55,122 AND OUR GENERALS WERE THE GREATEST GENERALS OF ALL TIME. 1076 01:01:55,289 --> 01:01:57,499 IT'S VERY AMERICAN TO DO THAT. 1077 01:01:57,666 --> 01:02:00,669 SNARE DRUM BEATING 1078 01:02:15,309 --> 01:02:17,352 DRUM BEATING STOPS 1079 01:02:34,328 --> 01:02:37,164 IN TIME, EVEN DEATH ITSELF MIGHT BE ABOLISHED. 1080 01:02:37,331 --> 01:02:40,083 SERGEANT BARRY BENSON, A SOUTH CAROLINA VETERAN 1081 01:02:40,250 --> 01:02:42,586 FROM MCGOWEN'S BRIGADE, WILCOX'S DIVISION, 1082 01:02:42,753 --> 01:02:45,589 A.P. HILL'S CORP, ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, 1083 01:02:45,756 --> 01:02:47,591 HE HAD ENLISTED THREE MONTHS BEFORE SUMTER, 1084 01:02:47,758 --> 01:02:50,635 AT AGE 18, AND SERVED THROUGH APPOMATTOX-- 1085 01:02:50,802 --> 01:02:54,139 SAW IT SO WHEN HE GOT AROUND TO COMPOSING THE REMINISCENCES 1086 01:02:54,306 --> 01:02:56,475 HE HOPED WOULD "GO DOWN AMONGST MY DESCENDANTS 1087 01:02:56,641 --> 01:02:59,728 FOR A LONG TIME." 1088 01:02:59,895 --> 01:03:01,772 RELIVING THE WAR IN WORDS, 1089 01:03:01,938 --> 01:03:04,858 HE BEGAN TO WISH HE COULD RELIVE IT IN FACT. 1090 01:03:05,025 --> 01:03:08,779 AND HE CAME TO BELIEVE THAT HE AND HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS, 1091 01:03:08,945 --> 01:03:10,280 GRAY AND BLUE, 1092 01:03:10,447 --> 01:03:13,408 MIGHT ONE DAY BE ABLE TO DO JUST THAT, 1093 01:03:13,575 --> 01:03:17,496 IF NOT HERE ON EARTH, THEN AFTERWARDS |N VALHALLA. 1094 01:03:17,662 --> 01:03:21,625 "WHO KNOWS?" HE ASKED, AS HIS NARRATIVE DREW TOWARD ITS CLOSE, 1095 01:03:21,792 --> 01:03:24,628 "BUT IT MAY BE GIVEN TO US, AFTER THIS LIFE, 1096 01:03:24,795 --> 01:03:26,463 "TO MEET AGAIN IN THE OLD QUARTERS, 1097 01:03:26,630 --> 01:03:28,131 "TO PLAY CHESS AND DRAUGHTS, 1098 01:03:28,298 --> 01:03:31,259 "TO GET UP SOON TO ANSWER THE MORNING ROLL CALL, 1099 01:03:31,426 --> 01:03:35,430 "TO FALL IN AT THE TAP OF THE DRUM FOR DRILL AND DRESS PARADE, 1100 01:03:35,597 --> 01:03:38,141 "AND AGAIN TO HASTILY DON OUR WAR GEAR 1101 01:03:38,308 --> 01:03:39,810 "WHILE THE MONOTONOUS PATTER OF THE LONG ROLL 1102 01:03:39,976 --> 01:03:42,437 "SUMMONS TO BATTLE. 1103 01:03:42,604 --> 01:03:46,525 "WHO KNOWS, BUT AGAIN THE OLD FLAGS, RAGGED AND TORN, 1104 01:03:46,691 --> 01:03:49,986 "SNAPPING IN THE WIND, MAY FACE EACH OTHER AND FLUTTER, 1105 01:03:50,153 --> 01:03:51,696 "PURSUING AND PURSUED, 1106 01:03:51,863 --> 01:03:55,200 "WHILE THE CRIES OF VICTORY FILLASUMMER DAY. 1107 01:03:55,367 --> 01:03:56,993 "AND AFTER THE BATTLE, 1108 01:03:57,160 --> 01:03:59,788 "THEN THE SLAIN AND WOUNDED WILL ARISE 1109 01:03:59,955 --> 01:04:01,957 "AND ALL MEET TOGETHER UNDER THE TWO FLAGS, 1110 01:04:02,124 --> 01:04:03,625 "ALL SOUND AND WELL. 1111 01:04:03,792 --> 01:04:06,962 "THERE WILL BE TALKING AND LAUGHTER AND CHEERS, 1112 01:04:07,129 --> 01:04:10,632 "AND ALL WILL SAY, DID IT NOT SEEM REAL? 1113 01:04:10,799 --> 01:04:14,052 WAS IT NOT AS IN THE OLD DAYS?" 1114 01:04:28,358 --> 01:04:29,776 J‘WE ARE J‘ 1115 01:04:29,943 --> 01:04:31,027 J‘WE ARE J‘ 1116 01:04:31,194 --> 01:04:32,487 J‘ CLIMBING J‘ 1117 01:04:32,654 --> 01:04:33,864 J‘ CLIMBING J‘ 1118 01:04:34,030 --> 01:04:35,198 J‘ JACOB'S J‘ 1119 01:04:35,365 --> 01:04:38,076 J‘ JACOB'S LADDER J‘ 1120 01:04:38,243 --> 01:04:39,661 J‘ LADDER J‘ 1121 01:04:39,828 --> 01:04:40,871 J‘ OH, WE ARE J‘ 1122 01:04:41,037 --> 01:04:42,038 J‘WE ARE J‘ 1123 01:04:42,205 --> 01:04:43,415 J‘ CLIMBING J‘ 1124 01:04:43,582 --> 01:04:44,541 J‘ CLIMBING J‘ 1125 01:04:44,708 --> 01:04:46,209 J‘ JACOB'S J‘ 1126 01:04:46,376 --> 01:04:48,879 J‘ JACOB'S LADDER J‘ 1127 01:04:49,045 --> 01:04:51,214 J‘ OH, OH...WE ARE J‘ 1128 01:04:51,381 --> 01:04:52,507 J‘WE ARE J‘ 1129 01:04:52,674 --> 01:04:54,092 J‘ CLIMBING J‘ 1130 01:04:54,259 --> 01:04:55,594 J‘ CLIMBING J‘ 1131 01:04:55,760 --> 01:05:00,348 J‘ JACOB'S LADDER J‘ 1132 01:05:00,515 --> 01:05:08,940 J‘ SOLDIERS OF THE CROSS J‘ 1133 01:05:09,107 --> 01:05:10,442 J‘ EVERY J‘ 1134 01:05:10,609 --> 01:05:11,443 J‘ EVERY J‘ 1135 01:05:11,610 --> 01:05:12,694 J‘ ROUND GOES J‘ 1136 01:05:12,861 --> 01:05:13,820 J‘ ROUND GOES J‘ 1137 01:05:13,987 --> 01:05:19,201 J‘ HIGHER AND HIGHER J‘ 1138 01:05:19,367 --> 01:05:20,202 J‘ EVERY J‘ 1139 01:05:20,368 --> 01:05:21,578 J‘ EVERY J‘ 1140 01:05:21,745 --> 01:05:22,871 J‘ ROUND GOES J‘ 1141 01:05:23,038 --> 01:05:24,247 J‘ ROUND GOES J‘ 1142 01:05:24,414 --> 01:05:26,833 J‘ HIGHER J‘ 1143 01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:29,503 J‘ HIGHER AND HIGHER J‘ 1144 01:05:29,669 --> 01:05:30,504 J‘ EVERY J‘ 1145 01:05:30,670 --> 01:05:31,963 J‘ EVERY J‘ 1146 01:05:32,130 --> 01:05:33,089 J‘ ROUND GOES J‘ 1147 01:05:33,256 --> 01:05:34,549 J‘ ROUND GOES J‘ 1148 01:05:34,716 --> 01:05:36,676 J‘ HIGHER J‘ 1149 01:05:36,843 --> 01:05:38,428 J‘ HIGHER J‘ 1150 01:05:38,595 --> 01:05:39,888 J‘OHJ‘ 1151 01:05:40,055 --> 01:05:41,014 J‘ SOLDIERS J‘ 1152 01:05:41,181 --> 01:05:42,224 J‘ SOLDIERS J‘ 1153 01:05:42,390 --> 01:05:47,229 J‘ OF THE CROSS J‘ 1154 01:05:47,395 --> 01:05:48,605 J‘ DO YOU J‘ 1155 01:05:48,772 --> 01:05:50,065 J‘ DO YOU J‘ 1156 01:05:50,232 --> 01:05:51,149 J‘ THINK I'LL J‘ 1157 01:05:51,316 --> 01:05:52,609 J‘ THINK I'LL J‘ 1158 01:05:52,776 --> 01:05:53,985 J‘ MAKE AJ‘ 1159 01:05:54,152 --> 01:05:57,614 J‘ MAKE A CHRISTIAN SOLDIER? J‘ 1160 01:05:57,781 --> 01:05:59,241 J‘ DO YOU J‘ 1161 01:05:59,407 --> 01:06:00,450 J‘ DO YOU J‘ 1162 01:06:00,617 --> 01:06:01,868 J‘ THINK I'LL J‘ 1163 01:06:02,035 --> 01:06:02,994 J‘ THINK I'LL J‘ 1164 01:06:03,161 --> 01:06:04,663 J‘ MAKE AJ‘ 1165 01:06:04,829 --> 01:06:08,291 J‘ MAKE A CHRISTIAN SOLDIER? J‘ 1166 01:06:08,458 --> 01:06:09,584 J‘ DO YOU J‘ 1167 01:06:09,751 --> 01:06:10,877 J‘ DO YOU J‘ 1168 01:06:11,044 --> 01:06:12,170 J‘ THINK I'LL J‘ 1169 01:06:12,337 --> 01:06:13,547 J‘ THINK I'LL J‘ 1170 01:06:13,713 --> 01:06:15,715 J‘ MAKE AJ‘ 1171 01:06:15,882 --> 01:06:18,134 J‘ SOLDIER J‘ 1172 01:06:18,301 --> 01:06:19,302 J‘ SOLDIER J‘ 1173 01:06:19,469 --> 01:06:20,595 J‘ SOLDIER J‘ 1174 01:06:20,762 --> 01:06:25,517 J‘ OF THE CROSS? J‘ 1175 01:06:25,684 --> 01:06:27,143 J‘ RISE J‘ 1176 01:06:27,310 --> 01:06:28,395 J‘ RISE J‘ 1177 01:06:28,562 --> 01:06:29,396 J‘ SHINE J‘ 1178 01:06:29,563 --> 01:06:30,855 J‘ SHINE J‘ 1179 01:06:31,022 --> 01:06:34,693 J‘ GIVE GOD YOUR GLORY J‘ 1180 01:06:34,859 --> 01:06:36,111 J‘ GLORY J‘ 1181 01:06:36,278 --> 01:06:37,320 J‘ RISE J‘ 1182 01:06:37,487 --> 01:06:38,488 J‘ RISE J‘ 1183 01:06:38,655 --> 01:06:39,739 J‘ SHINE J‘ 1184 01:06:39,906 --> 01:06:40,991 J‘ SHINE J‘ 1185 01:06:41,157 --> 01:06:44,536 J‘ GIVE GOD YOUR GLORY J‘ 1186 01:06:44,703 --> 01:06:45,954 J‘ GLORY J‘ 1187 01:06:46,121 --> 01:06:47,080 J‘ RISE J‘ 1188 01:06:47,247 --> 01:06:48,123 J‘ RISE J‘ 1189 01:06:48,290 --> 01:06:49,207 J‘ SHINE J‘ 1190 01:06:49,374 --> 01:06:50,417 J‘ SHINE J‘ 1191 01:06:50,584 --> 01:06:53,920 J‘ GIVE GOD YOUR GLORY J‘ 1192 01:06:54,087 --> 01:06:55,297 J‘ GLORY J‘ 1193 01:06:55,463 --> 01:07:02,596 J‘ SOLDIERS OF THE CROSS J‘ 1194 01:07:02,762 --> 01:07:04,222 J‘ KEEP ON J‘ 1195 01:07:04,389 --> 01:07:05,473 J‘ KEEP ON J‘ 1196 01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:06,683 J‘ CLIMBING J‘ 1197 01:07:06,850 --> 01:07:07,892 J‘ CLIMBING J‘ 1198 01:07:08,059 --> 01:07:09,060 J‘ WE WILL J‘ 1199 01:07:09,227 --> 01:07:12,689 J‘ WE WILL SURELY MAKE IT J‘ 1200 01:07:12,856 --> 01:07:13,857 J‘ KEEP ON J‘ 1201 01:07:14,024 --> 01:07:15,108 J‘ KEEP ON J‘ 1202 01:07:15,275 --> 01:07:16,192 J‘ CLIMBING J‘ 1203 01:07:16,359 --> 01:07:17,319 J‘ CLIMBING J‘ 1204 01:07:17,485 --> 01:07:18,528 J‘ WE WILL J‘ 1205 01:07:18,695 --> 01:07:22,115 J‘ WE WILL SURELY MAKE IT J‘ 1206 01:07:22,282 --> 01:07:23,283 J‘ KEEP ON J‘ 1207 01:07:23,450 --> 01:07:24,659 J‘ KEEP ON J‘ 1208 01:07:24,826 --> 01:07:25,827 J‘ CLIMBING J‘ 1209 01:07:25,994 --> 01:07:27,037 J‘ CLIMBING J‘ 1210 01:07:27,203 --> 01:07:28,413 J‘ WE WILL J‘ 1211 01:07:28,580 --> 01:07:31,416 J‘ WE WILL MAKE IT J‘ 1212 01:07:31,583 --> 01:07:38,715 J‘ SOLDIERS OF THE CROSS J‘ 1213 01:07:38,882 --> 01:07:40,258 J‘ DO YOU J‘ J‘ CHILDREN J‘ 1214 01:07:40,425 --> 01:07:41,551 J‘ DO YOU J‘ 1215 01:07:41,718 --> 01:07:42,802 J‘ DO YOU J‘ 1216 01:07:42,969 --> 01:07:43,845 J‘ DO YOU J‘ 1217 01:07:44,012 --> 01:07:47,557 J‘ WANT YOUR FREEDOM? J‘ 1218 01:07:47,724 --> 01:07:48,725 J‘ FREEDOM J‘ 1219 01:07:48,892 --> 01:07:49,976 J‘ CHILDREN J‘ 1220 01:07:50,143 --> 01:07:51,144 J‘ TELL ME J‘ 1221 01:07:51,311 --> 01:07:52,145 J‘ DO YOU J‘ 1222 01:07:52,312 --> 01:07:53,313 J‘ DO YOU J‘ 1223 01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:56,983 J‘ WANT YOUR FREEDOM? J‘ 1224 01:07:57,150 --> 01:07:58,068 J‘ TELL ME J‘ 1225 01:07:58,234 --> 01:07:59,152 J‘ DO YOU J‘ 1226 01:07:59,319 --> 01:08:00,236 J‘ DO YOU J‘ 1227 01:08:00,403 --> 01:08:01,321 J‘ DO YOU J‘ 1228 01:08:01,488 --> 01:08:02,405 J‘ DO YOU J‘ 1229 01:08:02,572 --> 01:08:07,369 J‘ WANT YOUR FREEDOM? J‘ 1230 01:08:07,535 --> 01:08:14,376 J‘ SOLDIERS OF THE CROSS J‘ 1231 01:08:14,542 --> 01:08:20,715 J‘ SOLDIERS OF THE CROSS J‘ 93745

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