around a white person. i've never had a complete conversation to even become associates. >> do you think that the civil war is relevant to your life? >> i feel that it is relevant because your past, your history, is your story. whether or not you know it or not, it is your story. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> these are 209,245. americans in the union army, it's one of the civil war. they started every branch of the army. 142 regiments. seven cavalry regiments. 13 --