Climactic scene on the floor of the house on the day of the vote, january 1st, 1865, they have james spader and john hay running to the white house to get the note from lincoln. None of that happened. The note, we think, is real, though we dont have the original of it. Its a recollection from james ashley, but James Spaders character, william bilbo, was in new york at the time, at the st. Nicolas hotel. The lobbyists were in new york in the final weeks of the fight working the press. The race scene is just a hollywood chase scene. Its no different than the airport race scene in argo and i have no problem with that, like i said, but key moments in this story are altered. And theyre altered for dramatic reasons. We need to understand that if were going to teach it and appreciate it. I call it fiction and i dont mean it as an insult, but i do think people need to appreciate the difference betweenviction and the record. The record is far more complicated. I think its just as interesting, b
You can always find American History tv on the weekends, but with congress on recess throughout august, cspan3 is featuring highlights during the week. We continue our focus on the civil war, with a look at the Atlanta Campaign. In may 1864, Union General William Sherman marched into georgia, and after a series of battles on september 2nd, the union army seized the city. The march to the sea through georgia, and general Joseph E Johnston who led the confederates in atlanta during the spring and summer of 1864. And later, a look at confederate weapons manufacturing in Central Georgia during and after the fall of atlanta. Friday night on American History tv, slavery and the cinema. A look at the depiction of slavery in the films since the 1930s. The 2012 movie lincoln and the debate and passage of the 13th amendment. A discussion about the 1939 movie gone with the wind and its depiction of southern society, friday night, 8 00 eastern, here on cspan3. This weekend on American History tv,
And had the federal authorities not arrested him, put him in a cell at fort monroe, clamped him in irons and made a martyr out of him, he would have been denounced through much of southern history. But they turned him into the man who was persecuted for the white south but made him a hero. Even so, postwar confederates did not like to air their dirty linen in public and most of them did not do so. Johnston was also praised in the writings of his federal opponents. William t. Sherman had good things to say about johnston in his memoirs published in 1875. U. S. Grant had good things to say about johnston. I mean, after all, grant said i worried more when joe johnston was in command in front of my army than when robert e. Lee was. I dont know if grant actually said that or not, but if he did, that alone should take his reputation down many notches. Because among other things, johnston almost never commanded troops in front of grants army. Only for a few weeks in january and february 1864
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