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Man: "WERE THESE THINGS REAL?
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"DID | SEE THOSE BRAVE
AND NOBLE COUNTRYMEN OF MINE
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"LAID LOW IN DEATH
AND WELTERING IN THEIR BLOOD?
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"DID | SEE OUR COUNTRY
LAID WASTE AND IN RUINS?
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"DID | SEE
SOLDIERS MARCHING,
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"THE EARTH TREMBLING AND JARRING
BENEATH THEIR MEASURED TREAD?
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"DID | SEE THE RUINS
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"OF SMOLDERING CITIES
AND DESERTED HOMES?
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"DID | SEE THE FLAG
OF MY COUNTRY,
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"THAT I HAD FOLLOWED
SO LONG,
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FURLED TO BE
NO MORE UNFURLED FOREVER?"
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"SURELY THEY ARE
BUT THE VAGARIES
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OF MINE OWN IMAGINATION."
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CANNON FIRE
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"BUT HUSH! | NOW HEAR
THE APPROACH OF BATTLE.
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"THAT LOW, RUMBLING SOUND
IN THE WEST
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IS THE ROAR OF CANNON
IN THE DISTANCE."
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PRIVATE SAM WATKINS, COMPANY H,
1st TENNESSEE REGIMENT.
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Different man:
"STRANGE, IS IT NOT,
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"THAT BATTLES, MARTYRS, BLOOD,
EVEN ASSASSINATION
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SHOULD SO CONDENSE
A NATIONALITY?"
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WALT WHITMAN.
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IT IS THE EVENT
IN AMERICAN HISTORY
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IN THAT
IT IS THE MOMENT
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THAT MADE THE UNITED STATES
AS A NATION,
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AND I MEAN THAT
IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
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THE UNITED STATES
WAS OBVIOUSLY A NATION
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WHEN IT ADOPTED
A CONSTITUTION,
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BUT IT ADOPTED A CONSTITUTION
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THAT, UH, REQUIRED A WAR
TO BE SORTED OUT
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AND THEREFORE REQUIRED A WAR
TO MAKE A REAL NATION
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OUT OF WHAT WAS
ATHEORETICAL NATION
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AS--AS IT WAS DESIGNED AT
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
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BEFORE THE WAR, IT WAS SAID,
"THE UNITED STATES ARE."
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GRAM MATICALLY,
IT WAS SPOKEN THAT WAY
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AND THOUGHT OF AS A COLLECTION
OF INDEPENDENT STATES.
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AFTER THE WAR, IT WAS ALWAYS
"THE UNITED STATES IS,"
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AS WE SAY TODAY WITHOUT BEING
SELF-CONSCIOUS AT ALL.
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AND THAT SUMS UP
WHAT THE WAR ACCOMPLISHED.
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IT MADE US AN "IS."
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Narrator: THE CONFEDERATE STATES
OF AMERICA HAD ONCE STRETCHED
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FROM THE RAPPAHANNOCK
TO THE RIO GRANDE.
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ITS LEADERS HAD ONCE DREAMED
OF ATROPICAL EMPIRE
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REACHING EVER SOUTHWARD
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TO MEXICO, GUATEMALA,
NICARAGUA, BRAZIL.
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BY APRIL 1865,
THE DREAM WAS GONE.
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RICHMOND HAD FALLEN.
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THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT,
AND JEFFERSON DAVIS WITH IT,
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HAD FLED INTO THE WILDERNESS
OF NORTH CAROLINA.
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THE CONFEDERATE ARMIES,
ONCE THE TERROR OF THE UNION,
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HAD BEEN BATTERED AND STARVED
ALMOST OUT OF EXISTENCE
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AND THEN FORCED TO SURRENDER
AT APPOMATTOX,
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WHERE ULYSSES 8. GRANT HAD
FINALLY CORNERED ROBERT E. LEE.
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IN APRIL 1865,
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ELISHA HUNT RHODES WOULD RECEIVE
THE BEST NEWS OF THE WAR
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AND THEN THE WORST.
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IN THE WOODS OF NORTH CAROLINA,
TWO OLD ADVERSARIES,
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WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN
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AND JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON,
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WOULD MEET ON THE FIELD
OF BATTLE ONE LAST TIME.
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BY THEN, CONFEDERATE SAM WATKINS
WOULD WRITE,
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"THE ONCE PROUD ARMY
OF TENNESSEE
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HAD DEGENERATED TO A MOB."
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IN APRIL 1861,
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN HAD IMPLORED
HIS COUNTRYMEN NOT TO GO TO WAR,
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TO LISTEN TO "THE BETTER ANGELS
OF THEIR NATURE."
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NOW IN APRIL 1865,
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THE BLOODSHED WAS FINALLY
COMING TO AN END.
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BUT IN WASHINGTON,
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JOHN WILKES BOOTH COULD NOT
ACCEPT THAT THE WAR WAS OVER.
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IN FOUR YEARS,
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MORE THAN A MILLION PHOTOGRAPHS
WERE MADE OF THE WAR.
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NOW NO ONE SEEMED
TO WANT THEM ANYMORE.
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MATHEW BRADY WENT BANKRUPT.
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THOUSANDS OF
GLASS-PLATE NEGATIVES WERE LOST,
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MISLAID OR FORGOTTEN.
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THOUSANDS MORE WERE SOLD
TO GARDENERS,
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NOT FOR THE IMAGES THEY HELD,
BUT FOR THE GLASS |TSELF.
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IN THE YEARS
THAT FOLLOWED APPOMATTOX,
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THE SUN SLOWLY BURNED
THE IMAGE OF WAR
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FROM THOUSANDS
OF GREENHOUSE GLASS PANES.
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"THE CIVIL WAR," A HARVARD
PROFESSOR WROTE AT THE TIME,
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"OPENED A GREAT GULF
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"BETWEEN WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE
IN OUR CENTURY
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"AND WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE.
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"IT DOES NOT SEEM TO ME
AS IF I WERE LIVING
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IN THE COUNTRY
IN WHICH | WAS BORN."
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THE WAR WAS OVER,
AND IT WAS NOT OVER.
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Man: "MY SHOES ARE GONE.
MY CLOTHES ARE GONE.
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"I'M WEARY, I'M SICK,
I'M HUNGRY.
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"MY FAMILY HAVE ALL BEEN KILLED
OR SCATTERED.
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"AND I HAVE SUFFERED ALL THIS
FOR MY COUNTRY.
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"I LOVE MY COUNTRY,
BUT IF THIS WAR IS EVER OVER,
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I'LL BE DAMNED IF I EVER
LOVE ANOTHER COUNTRY."
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Different man: "80 BLACKWOOD
AND I LEFT THE ARMY--OUR ARMY--
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"LEFT THEM THERE
ON THE HILL
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"WITH THEIR ARMS STACKED
IN THE FIELD,
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"ALL IN ROWS,
NEVER TO SEE IT ANYMORE.
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"TELLING CLARKE AND BELL
GOOD-BYE,
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"WE CROSSED THE ROAD
INTO THE FIELDS AND THICKETS
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"AND IN A LITTLE WHILE
LOST SIGHT OF ALL THAT TOLD
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OF THE PRESENCE
OF WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE ARMY."
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BARRY BENSON.
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Different man:
"MONDAY, APRIL 10.
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"LEE AND HIS ARMY
HAVE SURRENDERED!
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"GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO.
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"THEY CAN BOTHER AND PERPLEX
NONE BUT HISTORIANS HENCEFORTH,
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"FOREVER.
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THERE IS NO SUCH ARMY ANYMORE.
GOD BE PRAISED."
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GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG.
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Different man: "NEAR APPOMATTOX
COURTHOUSE, VIRGINIA.
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"GLORY TO GOD
IN THE HIGHEST!
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"PEACE ON EARTH,
GOOD WILL TO MEN!
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"THANK GOD LEE HAS SURRENDERED,
AND THE WAR WILL SOON END.
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"HOW CAN I RECORD
THE EVENTS OF THIS DAY?
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"SUCH A SCENE ONLY HAPPENS
ONCE IN CENTURIES.
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"GENERAL MEADE RODE LIKE MAD
DOWN THE ROAD WITH HIS HAT OFF,
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SHOUTING, "THE WAR IS OVER,
AND WE ARE GOING HOME.
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"THE MEN THREW THEIR KNAPSACKS
AND CANTEENS INTO THE AIR
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"AND HOWLED LIKE MAD.
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"THE REBELS ARE HALF-STARVED,
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"AND OUR MEN DIVIDED
THEIR RATIONS WITH THEM.
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"| CRIED AND LAUGHED
BY TURNS.
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"| WAS NEVER SO HAPPY
IN MY LIFE.
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"| THANK GOD
FOR ALL HIS BLESSINGS TO ME
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AND THAT MY LIFE HAS BEEN SPARED
TO SEE THIS GLORIOUS DAY."
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ELISHA HUNT RHODES.
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Narrator: WORD OF LEE'S
SURRENDER SPREAD FAST.
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AGALLOPING RIDER
SHOUTED THE GOOD NEWS
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TO SHERMAN'S ARMY
IN NORTH CAROLINA,
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AND ONE GLEEFUL SOLDIER
BELLOWED BACK AT HIM,
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"YOU'RE THE SON OF A BITCH
WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR
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ALL THESE FOUR YEARS!"
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BELLS TOLLING
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CHURCH BELLS RANG OUT
IN EVERY NORTHERN TOWN.
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THE PEOPLE
OF DEER ISLE, MAINE,
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HAD FOLLOWED THE STEADY MARCH
OF UNION VICTORIES
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WITH THE SAME JOY FELT BY TOWNS
ALL OVER THE NORTH,
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AND WHEN NEWS OF APPOMATTOX
GOT OUT TO THE ISLANDS,
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SHOUTING HORSEMEN CARRIED IT
FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE,
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BUT THE GRIEVING
DID NOT END.
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PRIVATE WILLIAM TOOTHAKER
SUCCUMBED TO DISEASE
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ABOARD A TRANSPORT SHIP,
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LEAVING FOUR SMALL CHILDREN
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WHOSE MEMORIES OF HIM
WOULD QUICKLY FADE.
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AND A LETTER CAME, INFORMING
PRIVATE ALBION STINSON'S WIFE
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THAT HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN KILLED
NEAR APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE
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JUST FIVE DAYS BEFORE
THE CONFEDERATE SURRENDER.
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WHEN THE NEWS REACHED
CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE,
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THE UNION MILITARY GOVERNOR
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ORDERED A GRAND
CITYWIDE CELEBRATION.
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Woman: "ALL THE STOREHOUSES
WERE BRILLIANTLY LIGHTED.
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"THESE BLUE DEVILS
DESECRATED OUR CHURCHES
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"BY RINGING THE BELLS.
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THEY DID ALL IN THEIR POWER
TO A—RILE US."
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NANNIE HASKINS.
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STEAM WHISTLE BLOWS
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Narrator: AT VICKSBURG,
2,000 LIBERATED UNION PRISONERS
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CROWDED ONTO THE DECKS
OF THE STEAMBOAT SULTANA,
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GLEEFUL TO BE ON THEIR WAY NORTH
AT LAST.
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NEAR MEMPHIS,
ABOILER EXPLODED,
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AND SHE BURST INTO FLAMES.
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MORE THAN 1,200 MEN DIED,
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STILL HUNDREDS OF MILES
FROM HOME.
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Woman: "WE ARE SCATTERED,
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STUNNED..."
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"THE REMNANT OF HEART
LEFT ALIVE IN US
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"IS FILLED
WITH BROTHERLY HATE.
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00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:36,171
"WHOSE FAULT?
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"EVERYBODY BLAMED
BY SOMEBODY ELSE.
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"ONLY THE DEAD HEROES
LEFT STIFF AND STARK
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ON THE BATTLEFIELD
ESCAPE."
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MARY CHESNUT.
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Narrator: WHEN THE NEWS
OF THE SURRENDER
REACHED EDMUND RUFFIN,
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THE OLD VIRGINIA SECESSIONIST
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WHO HAD FIRED ONE OF
THE FIRST SHOTS AT FORT SUMTER,
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HE DRAPED A REBEL FLAG OVER
HIS SHOULDERS AND SHOT HIMSELF
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RATHER THAN LIVE, HE WROTE,
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IN A RESTORED UNION WITH MEMBERS
OF "THE YANKEE RACE."
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"YOU MAY FORGIVE US,"
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ASURRENDERING REBEL OFFICER
TOLD JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN
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AFTER THE CEREMONY
AT APPOMATTOX,
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"BUT WE WON'T BE FORGIVEN.
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"THERE IS A RANCOR IN OUR HEARTS
WHICH YOU LITTLE DREAM OF.
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WE HATE YOU, SIR."
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APRIL 14, 1865
WAS GOOD FRIDAY.
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IT ALSO MARKED TO THE DAY
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THE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE SURRENDER OF FORT SUMTER,
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AND WITHIN THE FORT'S
PULVERIZED WALLS THAT MORNING,
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EVERYTHING WAS BEING READIED
FOR A NOONTIME CEREMONY.
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THE FORT'S OLD UNION COMMANDER,
COLONEL ROBERT ANDERSON,
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WAS TO RAISE THE SAME FLAG
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HE HAD BEEN FORCED
TO HAUL DOWN IN 1861.
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AN AUDIENCE OF NORTHERN SOLDIERS
AND DIGNITARIES
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AND SOME 4,000 FORMER SLAVES
WATCHED.
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FEW LOCAL WHITES
CHOSE TO ATTEND.
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THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER
PLAYING
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Woman: "AT FIRST, I COULD
NOT HEAR COLONEL ANDERSON,
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"FOR HIS VOICE
CAME THICKLY,
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00:12:19,774 --> 00:12:21,568
"BUT IN A MOMENT,
HE SAID CLEARLY,
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"I THANK GOD THAT I HAVE LIVED
TO SEE THIS DAY.
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"AND AFTER A FEW MORE WORDS,
HE BEGAN TO HOIST THE FLAG.
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00:12:29,659 --> 00:12:32,495
"IT WENT UP SLOWLY
AND HUNG LIMP,
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"A WEATHER-BEATEN,
FRAYED, AND SHELL-TORN OLD FLAG
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"NOT FIT FOR MUCH MORE WORK,
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00:12:38,168 --> 00:12:41,338
"BUT WHEN IT HAD CREPT CLEAR
OF THE SHELTER OF THE WALLS,
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"A SUDDEN BREATH OF WIND
CAUGHT IT,
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"AND IT SHOOK ITS FOLDS AND FLEW
STRAIGHT OUT ABOVE US.
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"I THINK WE STOOD UP.
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00:12:52,849 --> 00:12:55,185
"SOMEBODY STARTED
THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER.
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"AND WE SANG THE FIRST VERSE,
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"WHICH IS
ALL THAT MOST PEOPLE KNOW.
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"BUT IT DID NOT MAKE
MUCH DIFFERENCE,
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"FOR A GREAT GUN WAS FIRED CLOSE
TO US FROM THE FORT ITSELF,
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"FOLLOWED, IN OBEDIENCE
TO THE PRESIDENT'S ORDER,
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"BYA NATIONAL SALUTE
FROM EVERY FORTAND BATTERY
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THAT FIRED UPON FORT SUMTER. "
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CANNON FIRE
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Narrator:
IN WASHINGTON THAT SAME DAY,
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00:13:23,546 --> 00:13:26,299
JOHN WILKES BOOTH DROPPED
BY FORD'S THEATRE
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00:13:26,466 --> 00:13:28,301
TO PICK UP HIS MAIL.
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ASTAGEHAND TOLD HIM
THE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL GRANT
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WERE BOTH EXPECTED TO ATTEND
THAT NIGHT
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TO SEE THE ACTRESS LAURA KEENE
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IN A BRITISH COMEDY
CALLED OUR AMERICAN COUSIN.
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BOOTH TOLD HIS BAND OF
DEVOTED FOLLOWERS OF A NEW PLAN.
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HE WOULD SHOOT LINCOLN
AND GRANT.
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00:13:46,778 --> 00:13:48,655
LEWIS PAINE WAS TO KILL
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00:13:48,822 --> 00:13:50,490
SECRETARY OF STATE
WILLIAM SEWARD.
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GEORGE ATZERODT WAS TO SHOOT
THE VICE PRESIDENT,
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ANDREW JOHNSON.
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EARLY THAT EVENING,
BOOTH LED HIS HORSE
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00:14:00,166 --> 00:14:03,002
OUT OF THE LIVERY STABLE
NEAR FORD'S THEATRE.
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00:14:03,169 --> 00:14:07,924
AYOUNG BOY WAS TOLD TO HOLD IT
AT THE STAGE DOOR.
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00:14:08,091 --> 00:14:10,009
AT THE LAST MINUTE,
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00:14:10,176 --> 00:14:12,512
GENERAL AND MRS. GRANT
BEGGED OFF THE THEATRE PARTY
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00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,014
AND LEFT THE CITY
FOR PHILADELPHIA.
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THE LINCOLNS ARRIVED
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00:14:16,683 --> 00:14:20,520
AND TOOK THEIR SEATS
IN THE PRESIDENTIAL BOX.
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00:14:20,687 --> 00:14:23,022
WITH THEM WERE
MAJOR HENRY RATHBONE
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00:14:23,189 --> 00:14:25,358
AND HIS FIANCEE,
CLARA HARRIS.
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00:14:26,901 --> 00:14:28,820
Woman: WHAT WOULD YOU
ADVISE, MA?
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00:14:28,987 --> 00:14:31,156
Mother." JUST REMEMBER,
DEAR, HE'S RICH.
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00:14:31,322 --> 00:14:32,657
LA UGHTER
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00:14:32,824 --> 00:14:35,452
HUSH! HERE HE COMES.
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00:14:35,618 --> 00:14:36,995
AH, MR. TRENCHARD!
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00:14:37,162 --> 00:14:38,997
WE WERE JUST SAYING
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00:14:39,164 --> 00:14:43,042
HOW YOU ALWAYS
SEEM SURE OF
HITTING YOUR MARK.
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LA UGHTER
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00:14:44,836 --> 00:14:47,672
Narrator: THE PRESIDENT SEEMED
TO BE ENJOYING THE PLAY.
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00:14:47,839 --> 00:14:50,758
HIS WIFE HELD HIS HAND.
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00:14:50,925 --> 00:14:53,845
BOOTH SWALLOWED TWO BRANDIES
AT A NEARBY BAR,
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00:14:54,012 --> 00:14:55,847
THEN RETURNED
TO THE THEATRE.
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00:14:56,014 --> 00:14:58,850
HE WAITED
FOR THE LAUGHTER TO RISE,
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00:14:59,017 --> 00:15:03,062
THEN SLIPPED SILENTLY
INTO THE PRESIDENT'S BOX.
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00:15:03,229 --> 00:15:07,275
HE HELD A DAGGER
IN HIS LEFT HAND,
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00:15:07,442 --> 00:15:08,693
A DERRINGER PISTOL
IN HIS RIGHT.
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00:15:08,860 --> 00:15:10,695
Woman:
THE NASTY BEAST!
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00:15:10,862 --> 00:15:12,697
LA UGHTER
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00:15:12,864 --> 00:15:17,702
Mother: SIR, YOUR
VUL GARI TY RENDERS
YOU INTOLERABLE
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00:15:17,869 --> 00:15:19,704
IN POL/TE SOCIETY.
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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,
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00:15:27,295 --> 00:15:32,133
BUTI GUESS I KNOW ENOUGH
TO TURN YOU INSIDE OUT,
OLD GAL,
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00:15:32,300 --> 00:15:35,303
YOU SOCKDOLAGIZING
OLD MAN-TRAP.
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00:15:35,470 --> 00:15:37,472
LA UGHTER
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00:15:37,639 --> 00:15:40,266
GUNSHOT
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00:15:40,433 --> 00:15:42,810
Narrator: BOOTH FIRED,
THEN VAULTED OVER
THE FRONT OF THE BOX,
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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.
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00:15:49,067 --> 00:15:50,485
HE WAVED HIS DAGGER
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00:15:50,652 --> 00:15:53,488
AND SHOUTED SOMETHING
TO THE STUNNED AUDIENCE.
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00:15:53,655 --> 00:15:56,491
SOME THOUGHT HE SAID,
"SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS"—-
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00:15:56,658 --> 00:15:58,993
THUS BE IT EVER
TO TYRANTS,
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00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:00,495
VIRGINIA'S STATE MOTTO.
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00:16:00,662 --> 00:16:04,666
OTHERS HEARD IT
AS "THE SOUTH IS AVENGED!"
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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.
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00:16:13,341 --> 00:16:15,176
THE BULLET FROM BOOTH'S PISTOL
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00:16:15,343 --> 00:16:17,178
HAD ENTERED THE BACK
OF LINCOLN'S HEAD,
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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
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00:16:33,820 --> 00:16:37,198
INTO A BOARDING HOUSE
ACROSS 10th STREET.
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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
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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.
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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.
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00:17:17,363 --> 00:17:20,199
Narrator:
THE DOCTORS COULD DO NOTHING.
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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,
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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,
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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
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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
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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,
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00:17:56,819 --> 00:17:58,655
NAVY SECRETARY WELLES
STEPPED OUTSIDE
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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."
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00:18:24,347 --> 00:18:28,601
AT 7:22 ON THE MORNING
OF APRIL 15, 1865,
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00:18:28,768 --> 00:18:31,104
ABRAHAM LINCOLN DIED.
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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,
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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,
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00:18:45,451 --> 00:18:47,787
APOCKET KNIFE,
ALINEN HANDKERCHIEF,
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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.
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00:19:28,828 --> 00:19:30,663
Narrator:
THE TELEGRAPH CARRIED THE NEWS
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00:19:30,830 --> 00:19:32,665
ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN MINUTES.
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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‘
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