the civil war English Subtitles

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"We have shared the incommunicable
experience of war.

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"We have felt,
we still feel,

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"the passion of
life to its top.

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"In our youths, our hearts
were touched with fire."

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Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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By the summer of 1861,
Wilmer McLean had had enough.

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Two great armies were
converging on his farm,

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and what would be the first
major battle of the Civil War--

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At the Willard Hotel
in Washington, D.C.,

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the poet Julia
Ward Howe

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awoke from a
spectacular dream.

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That day, she had heard a New
England regiment singing on parade

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and had fallen asleep with
the song "John Brown's Body"

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ringing in her head.

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Now, in the dark,
she got up

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and scribbled out the
words with a pencil stub.

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Private Edwin Tennison,

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killed in action
at Malvern Hill,

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July 1st, 1862.

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During the Civil War, photographers
followed the armies everywhere

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to make proud portraits
for the boys to send home

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and to capture as much of the
action as cumbersome equipment

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and slow shutter
speeds allowed.

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Near the battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia,
Captain George Armstrong Custer

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"In this army,

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"one hole in the seat of the
britches indicates a captain;

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"two holes--a lieutenant,

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"and the seat of
the pants all out

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"indicates that the
individual is a private."

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They both have a
particular way of yelling:

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the northern troops
made a sort of hurrah.

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It was called--one soldier--
"the deep, generous

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There's a photograph
I’m very fond of.

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It shows three Confederate soldiers
who were captured at Gettysburg,

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and they have posed

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in front of or alongside
a snake-rail fence.

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And you see exactly how the
Confederate soldier was dressed.

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You see something in his
attitude toward the camera

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that's revealing
of his nature,

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and one of
them has his

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"I have just this moment
heard from the front.

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"There is nothing yet
of a movement,

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"but each side is
continually on the alert,

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"expecting something
to happen.

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"To think

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"we are to have here soon what
I have seen so many times,

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"the awful loads and trains and
boatloads of bloody and pale,

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"and wounded
young men again.

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"I require able-bodied men
with good horse and gun.

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"I wish none but those who
desire to be actively engaged.

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"Come on, boys,
if you want a heap of fun

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"and to kill
some Yankees."

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Nathan Bedford Forrest.

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Bedford Forrest’s granddaughter
lived here in Memphis.

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She recently died,
and I got to know her,

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and she even let me swing the
general's saber around my head once,

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"We believed that it
was most desirable

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"that the North
should win.

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"We believed in the
principle that the Union

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"is indissoluble.

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"We, or many of us at
least, also believed

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"that the conflict
was inevitable

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"and that slavery had
lasted long enough,

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"but we equally believed that
those who stood against us

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"Were these
things real?

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"Did I 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 I see our country
laid waste and in ruins?

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"Did I see soldiers marching,
the earth trembling

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"and jarring beneath
their measured tread?

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"Did I see the ruins
of smoldering cities

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"and deserted homes?

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