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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book TV 20090905



and you remember that scene in gone with the wind where those great siege victims, rhett butler and scarlett o hare a r. racing through the flames and the falling embers, and that was in fact as presented in the movie, was that first grade bonfire caused be departing confederate. that you might ask why isn t the fall of atlanta the most significant event in american history? why would i say more so, than say, independence day, or the fall of the battle of gettysburg, or the election of franklin telemark roosevelt ordered the day or v-j day? well, the fall of atlanta meant that the confederacy s heart had been pierced. northern peace democrat who had hoped to have a negotiated settlement to the war were finished. lincoln would win a second term. and all but the diehard confederates understood that the war was over. there was a much more war to be fought, but when sherman would make sure that the conderates who were diehard would indeed die. his march to the sea departi ....

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