Ken Burns Civil War Series - Episode One: The Cause (1861)
Annnndddddddd roll “Ashokan Farewell”...
https://youtu.be/uZmxZThb084SPOILERS FOLLOW...
Episode opens with the anecdote about Wilmer McLean and how a cannonball exploded through his fireplace and went into the kitchen of his Virginian farmhouse to kick off the First Battle of Bull Run (ILTCIT because I’m a Northerner). Fast forward several years and the same dude is hosting Lee’s surrender to Grant. “The war began in my front yard and ended in my parlor.” WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
You briefly are introduced the cast of characters.. heavy hitters with the voice talent: Jason Robards, Morgan Freeman, Center, Jeremy Irons. You also get the first of many interviews with historians like Shelby Foote (raawwwrrrr) and Barbara Fields. Barbara definitely appears ready to rumble.
Film footage of FDR thanking Civil War vets that fought alongside @RaceBannon at Gettysburg.
Causes of the conflict are outlined...states' rights, the invention of the cotton gin, John Brown at Harpers Ferry, the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, bleeding Kansas, the firing on Fort Sumter...we didn’t start the fire...it was always burning, since the world’s been turning.
John C. Calhoun, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, and some Southerners write a bunch of racist crap that nobody asked for.
Mary Chestnut begins her diary, predicting a “cataclysmic” and quick end to the conflict.
The episode ends with a heart wrenching letter a Union solider Private Jacob Browning writes home to his wife, Martha, before being killed at Manassas Stadium by a superior Confederate squad, 34-17.
Comments
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Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .
Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.
@swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers. -
Imagine living somewhere completely irrelevant to the history of the country
https://mosbyheritagearea.org/mosby-heritage-area -
Spoiler:
We won.
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Speak for yourself, my family is from a southern state, the most southern state.PurpleThrobber said:Spoiler:
We won. -
The Deep South State?GrundleStiltzkin said:
Speak for yourself, my family is from a southern state, the most southern state.PurpleThrobber said:Spoiler:
We won. -
Pump my gas, Bammer.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Speak for yourself, my family is from a southern state, the most southern state.PurpleThrobber said:Spoiler:
We won.
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@Swaye sexts me pics of VA historical sites all the time.whlinder said:Imagine living somewhere completely irrelevant to the history of the country
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It's true.YellowSnow said:
@Swaye sexts me pics of VA historical sites all the time.whlinder said:Imagine living somewhere completely irrelevant to the history of the country
https://mosbyheritagearea.org/mosby-heritage-area
And in my native tongue Chanco still means "traitorous fuckface" to this day. -
Swaye said:
It's true.YellowSnow said:
@Swaye sexts me pics of VA historical sites all the time.whlinder said:Imagine living somewhere completely irrelevant to the history of the country
https://mosbyheritagearea.org/mosby-heritage-area
And in my native tongue Chanco still means "traitorous fuckface" to this day.
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“Colonial Dames of America”? 😅 Awesome.Swaye said:
It's true.YellowSnow said:
@Swaye sexts me pics of VA historical sites all the time.whlinder said:Imagine living somewhere completely irrelevant to the history of the country
https://mosbyheritagearea.org/mosby-heritage-area
And in my native tongue Chanco still means "traitorous fuckface" to this day. -
Erected!Doog_de_Jour said:
“Colonial Dames of America”? 😅 Awesome.Swaye said:
It's true.YellowSnow said:
@Swaye sexts me pics of VA historical sites all the time.whlinder said:Imagine living somewhere completely irrelevant to the history of the country
https://mosbyheritagearea.org/mosby-heritage-area
And in my native tongue Chanco still means "traitorous fuckface" to this day. -
If you have the time and the patience, I recommend Shelby Foote's Civil War Trilogy
April 12 is also the anniversary of FDR's fatal cerebral hemorrhage -
Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.YellowSnow said:Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .
Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.
@swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.
As Hank Jr sang:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk
Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.
Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.
SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football. -
Grant is my hero. He whipped your ass six ways to Sunday.SECDAWG said:
Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.YellowSnow said:Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .
Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.
@swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.
As Hank Jr sang:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk
Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.
Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.
SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football. -
I’ve read it twice. My grandfather tore through it in a week. We asked him why and he said, “couldn’t wait to find out who won!”BearsWiin said:If you have the time and the patience, I recommend Shelby Foote's Civil War Trilogy
April 12 is also the anniversary of FDR's fatal cerebral hemorrhage
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He was smart dude. Cut off supplies and starved em out. Past that, 👀.YellowSnow said:
Grant is my hero. He whipped your ass six ways to Sunday.SECDAWG said:
Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.YellowSnow said:Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .
Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.
@swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.
As Hank Jr sang:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk
Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.
Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.
SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
Is what it was. Bad deal either way.
Rebuttal now-a-days is football. If don’t believe me, watch whole series of “A history of SEC football-Saturday down south” series. It goes all the way back to them days. Don’t believe me, just watch.
#neverforget
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Criminally underchinned.Swaye said:
Erected!Doog_de_Jour said:
“Colonial Dames of America”? 😅 Awesome.Swaye said:
It's true.YellowSnow said:
@Swaye sexts me pics of VA historical sites all the time.whlinder said:Imagine living somewhere completely irrelevant to the history of the country
https://mosbyheritagearea.org/mosby-heritage-area
And in my native tongue Chanco still means "traitorous fuckface" to this day. -
BTW. Descendants of Jefferson Davis and the barrier islands here off MS gulf coast still has forts and remnants of the civil war which is pretty cool to be able to ride out and see/visit/probe around.
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“Minus slavery issues”SECDAWG said:
Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.YellowSnow said:Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .
Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.
@swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.
As Hank Jr sang:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk
Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.
Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.
SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
Good one -
Lotta good lives lost over the stupidity of the Southern fire eaters.SECDAWG said:
Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.YellowSnow said:Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .
Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.
@swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.
As Hank Jr sang:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk
Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.
Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.
SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football. -
The NorthSECDAWG said:
Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.YellowSnow said:Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .
Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.
@swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.
As Hank Jr sang:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk
Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.
Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.
SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
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We lost Football to the Confederacy.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
The NorthSECDAWG said:
Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.YellowSnow said:Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .
Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.
@swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.
As Hank Jr sang:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk
Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.
Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.
SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
1-0
The Big and Pac giving up the Rose Bowl @RaceBannon was as if Pickett's Charge had broken the Union center at Gettysburg.
More hawt talk to come in the Greatest Battle tournament. -
The South is the new NorthCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
The NorthSECDAWG said:
Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.YellowSnow said:Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .
Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.
@swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.
As Hank Jr sang:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk
Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.
Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.
SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
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Uhm yeah, no. The GDP of the union states circa 1865 still dwarfs the CSA states. Both per capita and in absolute terms. Same as it ever was.PurpleThrobber said:
The South is the new NorthCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
The NorthSECDAWG said:
Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.YellowSnow said:Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .
Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.
@swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.
As Hank Jr sang:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk
Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.
Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.
SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
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YellowSnow said:
We lost Football to the Confederacy.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
The NorthSECDAWG said:
Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.YellowSnow said:Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .
Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.
@swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.
As Hank Jr sang:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk
Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.
Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.
SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
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Objectively speaking, there’s no way around it.SECDAWG said:YellowSnow said:
We lost Football to the Confederacy.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
The NorthSECDAWG said:
Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.YellowSnow said:Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .
Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.
@swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.
As Hank Jr sang:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk
Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.
Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.
SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
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Homework assignmentYellowSnow said:
We lost Football to the Confederacy.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
The NorthSECDAWG said:
Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.YellowSnow said:Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .
Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.
@swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.
As Hank Jr sang:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk
Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.
Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.
SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
1-0
The Big and Pac giving up the Rose Bowl @RaceBannon was as if Pickett's Charge had broken the Union center at Gettysburg.
More hawt talk to come in the Greatest Battle tournament.
History Channel 3pm today
6 hours of Unconditional Surrender Grant -
California has the sixth largest economy in the world and its gone to shit.YellowSnow said:
Uhm yeah, no. The GDP of the union states circa 1865 still dwarfs the CSA states. Both per capita and in absolute terms. Same as it ever was.PurpleThrobber said:
The South is the new NorthCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
The NorthSECDAWG said:
Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.YellowSnow said:Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .
Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.
@swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.
As Hank Jr sang:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk
Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.
Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.
SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
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There are other metrics besides coin, fren
You should get east of the wasatch more often.
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The snow in Colorado sucks compared to Utah. No need to. Great quality of life there too except I’m not into armpit sex.PurpleThrobber said:
California has the sixth largest economy in the world and its gone to shit.YellowSnow said:
Uhm yeah, no. The GDP of the union states circa 1865 still dwarfs the CSA states. Both per capita and in absolute terms. Same as it ever was.PurpleThrobber said:
The South is the new NorthCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
The NorthSECDAWG said:
Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.YellowSnow said:Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .
Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.
@swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.
As Hank Jr sang:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk
Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.
Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.
SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
1-0
There are other metrics besides coin, fren
You should get east of the wasatch more often.
Sure they are other considerations, but that’s not my point about the Civil War. The North won with more bodies and with more GDP. The south has caught up some but the Union still has more bodies and more GDP.
I’m sure an argument can be made that TX or FL has a better middle class quality of life than CA, but that’s not where I was going with this. -
I'm talking present day. Both mindset and lifestyle -and, with the amount of New Yorkers and Californians fleeing, the economic tables will turn soon enough.YellowSnow said:
The snow in Colorado sucks compared to Utah. No need to. Great quality of life there too except I’m not into armpit sex.PurpleThrobber said:
California has the sixth largest economy in the world and its gone to shit.YellowSnow said:
Uhm yeah, no. The GDP of the union states circa 1865 still dwarfs the CSA states. Both per capita and in absolute terms. Same as it ever was.PurpleThrobber said:
The South is the new NorthCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
The NorthSECDAWG said:
Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.YellowSnow said:Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .
Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.
@swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.
As Hank Jr sang:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk
Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.
Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.
SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
1-0
There are other metrics besides coin, fren
You should get east of the wasatch more often.
Sure they are other considerations, but that’s not my point about the Civil War. The North won with more bodies and with more GDP. The south has caught up some but the Union still has more bodies and more GDP.
I’m sure an argument can be made that TX or FL has a better middle class quality of life than CA, but that’s not where I was going with this.
Go spend two months in the south and your perspective will change dramatically.
