American Civil War Battles

[C-Mag]

I started Ken Burns' Civil War series last night.

Found myself skipping through one helluva a lot of 'it was Slavery, don't you feel bad shit'. The remaining content was OK.

[Smitty-48]

I find it to be one long love letter to the Lost Cause, Ken Burns under the spell of Shelby Foote, but the liberals don't notice, cause it's PBS, so how can it be sympathizing with the Confederacy? None the less, it does. Which is fine by me, that's what I love about it, go Shelby go.

[Fife]

Clone Wars ftw

Cotton, Tobacco and Clones! Yeehaw!

/salute

You've posted clips from the 2nd S.C. before haven't you Smits? As they say along the Tennessee, those boys can jar down.

[Smitty-48]

[C-Mag]

I fell asleep, with no whiskey assistance somewhere in episode 2, and I still hadn't gotten to Shiloh.

[Smitty-48]

Then you haven't caught the Civil War Fever.

[C-Mag]

Then you haven't caught the Civil War Fever.

Not feeling it yet. Maybe I need to go US Grant and drink Whiskey all day before I watch.

I'm not a huge Ken Burns fan. So, that doesn't help...………… though I really, really liked his prohibition piece.

[Smitty-48]

Then you haven't caught the Civil War Fever.

Not feeling it yet. Maybe I need to go US Grant and drink Whiskey all day before I watch.

I'm not a huge Ken Burns fan. So, that doesn't help...………… though I really, really liked his prohibition piece.

I caught the fever cause I'm a Nova Scotia good ol' boy, the Yankees have always been our enemy, the Southrons were always our allies.

Plus I don't like that Yankee liberal purity spiraling.

I love Dixie, cause she's salt o' the earth.

[Smitty-48]

In terms of the armies themselves, I love all four of them.

I love Marse Robert, Billy Sherman, Nate Forrest, and Phil Sheridan.

What's not to love?

The charm of the Civil War is that it was actually feudal.

The military commanders were warlords, knights of their realms.

Medieval, with guns.

US Grant actually became Emperor of America for a short time, in the aftermath, he was like a Roman Dictator.

[Fife]

In terms of the armies themselves, I love all four of them.

I love Marse Robert, Billy Sherman, Nate Forrest, and Phil Sheridan.

What's not to love?

Speaking of Forrest and Sherman, have you seen Nathan Bedford Forrest: In Search of the Enigma?

It talks about Forrest's correspondence with Sherman around '73 concerning the early possibilty of US/Spanish war over Cuba. Bedford offered his services to the US, and Sherman reportedly sent glowing recomendations / demands to the War Dept. basically insisting that he get NBF in on the fight with him.

Given how business turned in Memphis after the war and NBF's disposition, I expect Bedford would have liked nothing better than to go to Cuba and lay it to them.

Also, I've seen this report a time or two, but not really confirmed, AFAICT: https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/5813

In September of 1870 the Shenandoah Herald reported a conversation overheard between General William Tecumseh Sherman (U.S.) and General Nathan Bedford Forrest (formerly C.S.A) on a riverboat somewhere on the Mississippi River. The article reported that Sherman explained to Forrest the trouble he had created for him filling not only his every waking thought, but his dreams as well. Forrest replied by telling Sherman that if he had been given the command he had asked for he would have not only been a dream but a real nightmare pressing Sherman’s flanks on their “march to the sea” and forcing them to walk through the most hazardous land.