1 00:00:09,592 --> 00:00:11,761 PRIVATE EDWIN TENNISON, 2 00:00:11,761 --> 00:00:14,481 KILLED IN ACTION AT MALVERN HILL, 3 00:00:14,481 --> 00:00:17,734 JULY 1, 1862. 4 00:00:56,189 --> 00:00:58,358 DURING THE CIVIL WAR, 5 00:00:58,358 --> 00:01:00,527 PHOTOGRAPHERS FOLLOWED THE ARMIES EVERYWHERE 6 00:01:00,527 --> 00:01:04,314 TO MAKE PROUD PORTRAITS FOR THE BOYS TO SEND HOME 7 00:01:04,314 --> 00:01:07,033 AND TO CAPTURE AS MUCH OF THE ACTION 8 00:01:07,567 --> 00:01:08,651 AS CUMBERSOME EQUIPMENT 9 00:01:08,651 --> 00:01:10,820 AND SLOW SHUTTER SPEEDS ALLOWED. 10 00:01:10,820 --> 00:01:13,540 NEAR THE BATTLE OF FAIR OAKS, VIRGINIA, 11 00:01:13,540 --> 00:01:15,708 CAPTAIN GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER 12 00:01:15,708 --> 00:01:17,877 PAUSED TO HAVE HIS PICTURE TAKEN 13 00:01:17,877 --> 00:01:19,496 WITH J.B. WASHINGTON, 14 00:01:19,496 --> 00:01:22,749 CLOSE FRIEND AND CLASSMATE FROM WEST POINT-- 15 00:01:22,749 --> 00:01:24,384 AND NOW A CONFEDERATE LIEUTENANT 16 00:01:24,384 --> 00:01:26,553 WHO HAD JUST THAT MORNING 17 00:01:26,553 --> 00:01:28,721 BEEN CAPTURED BY FEDERAL PICKETS. 18 00:01:44,437 --> 00:01:48,775 AS 1862 DRAGGED ON, 19 00:01:48,775 --> 00:01:53,663 AND MUCH OF THE COUNTRY WAS CHANGING WITH IT. 20 00:01:55,832 --> 00:01:58,535 BY 1862, MORE THAN A MILLION FARM WORKERS 21 00:01:59,085 --> 00:02:00,703 HAD ENLISTED IN THE UNION ARMY, 22 00:02:01,754 --> 00:02:03,373 AND TRAVELERS IN THE MIDWEST 23 00:02:03,373 --> 00:02:08,795 SAW MORE WOMEN AT WORK IN THE FIELDS THAN MEN. 24 00:02:15,802 --> 00:02:20,140 THE YEAR, WHICH HAD BEGUN SO PROMISINGLY FOR THE NORTH, 25 00:02:20,140 --> 00:02:22,308 HAD NOW GONE AWRY. 26 00:02:22,308 --> 00:02:25,478 U.S. GRANT'S TRIUMPHS AT DONELSON AND SHILOH 27 00:02:25,478 --> 00:02:30,366 WERE BEING OVERSHADOWED BY DISASTERS IN THE EAST. 28 00:02:30,366 --> 00:02:33,620 IN VIRGINIA, UNION GENERAL GEORGE McCLELLAN'S ARMY 29 00:02:33,620 --> 00:02:35,788 SAT OUTSIDE RICHMOND, 30 00:02:35,788 --> 00:02:40,126 ITS COMMANDER IN POSSESSION OF VASTLY GREATER FORCES, 31 00:02:40,126 --> 00:02:42,829 BUT WITHOUT THE WILL TO FIGHT. 32 00:02:44,998 --> 00:02:48,251 MEANWHILE, THE CONFEDERACY WAS BEGINNING TO APPRECIATE 33 00:02:48,251 --> 00:02:50,970 THE BRILLIANCE OF A NEW COMMANDER, 34 00:02:50,970 --> 00:02:53,139 ROBERT E. LEE, 35 00:02:53,139 --> 00:02:55,308 WHO WOULD SOON ESTABLISH A REPUTATION 36 00:02:55,308 --> 00:02:59,646 AS ONE OF THE GREATEST MILITARY LEADERS OF ALL TIME. 37 00:03:02,899 --> 00:03:05,602 AND THERE WAS STILL MORE TROUBLE FOR THE UNION. 38 00:03:06,686 --> 00:03:07,770 AT BLACKBURN, ENGLAND, 39 00:03:07,770 --> 00:03:11,024 A PUBLIC MEETING DECLARED THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE 40 00:03:11,024 --> 00:03:13,743 FOR THE NORTH TO VANQUISH THE SOUTH 41 00:03:13,743 --> 00:03:18,081 AND CALLED FOR A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT OF THE WAR. 42 00:03:18,081 --> 00:03:20,783 WITH EUROPE POISED TO RECOGNIZE THE CONFEDERACY, 43 00:03:20,783 --> 00:03:24,037 THE UNTHINKABLE LOOKED INCREASINGLY LIKELY-- 44 00:03:24,037 --> 00:03:27,840 THE UNION WAS GOING TO LOSE THE WAR. 45 00:03:30,009 --> 00:03:33,263 "WE MUST CHANGE OUR TACTICS OR LOSE THE GAME," 46 00:03:33,263 --> 00:03:35,431 ABRAHAM LINCOLN WROTE IN 1862. 47 00:03:35,431 --> 00:03:37,050 TO LINCOLN, IT WAS CLEAR NOW 48 00:03:37,050 --> 00:03:40,303 THAT IT WAS NO LONGER POSSIBLE 49 00:03:40,303 --> 00:03:42,472 TO RESTORE THE OLD UNION. 50 00:03:42,472 --> 00:03:45,725 A NEW ONE HAD TO BE EMBRACED. 51 00:03:45,725 --> 00:03:47,894 BY SUMMER, HE KNEW WHAT TACTIC WAS NEEDED 52 00:03:47,894 --> 00:03:50,613 TO WIN THE WAR-- EMANCIPATION-- 53 00:03:50,613 --> 00:03:53,316 BUT DOUBTED WHETHER HE WOULD EVER HAVE 54 00:03:53,316 --> 00:03:56,536 THE POLITICAL OR MILITARY OPPORTUNITY TO USE IT. 55 00:03:58,705 --> 00:04:03,042 "I FIND IT HARD TO MAINTAIN MY LIVELY FAITH 56 00:04:03,576 --> 00:04:05,745 IN THE TRIUMPH OF THE NATION AND THE LAW," 57 00:04:05,745 --> 00:04:11,167 NEW YORK LAWYER GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG 58 00:04:11,167 --> 00:04:14,420 "THESE ARE THE DARKEST DAYS WE HAVE SEEN SINCE BULL RUN." 59 00:04:17,140 --> 00:04:20,393 WHAT NO ONE KNEW WAS THAT THE YEAR 60 00:04:20,393 --> 00:04:23,646 WOULD SOON SEE THE BLOODIEST DAY OF THE WAR 61 00:04:23,646 --> 00:04:25,815 AND THEN THE BRIGHTEST. 62 00:04:27,433 --> 00:04:30,653 IT COULD HAVE BEEN A VERY UGLY, FILTHY WAR 63 00:04:31,204 --> 00:04:35,541 WITH NO REDEEMING CHARACTERISTICS AT ALL... 64 00:04:35,541 --> 00:04:38,795 AND IT WAS THE BATTLE FOR EMANCIPATION 65 00:04:39,329 --> 00:04:41,497 AND THE PEOPLE WHO PUSHED IT FORWARD-- 66 00:04:41,497 --> 00:04:44,751 THE SLAVES, THE FREE BLACK PEOPLE, THE ABOLITIONISTS, 67 00:04:45,301 --> 00:04:47,470 AND A LOT OF ORDINARY CITIZENS-- 68 00:04:47,470 --> 00:04:49,639 IT WAS THEY WHO ENNOBLED 69 00:04:49,639 --> 00:04:53,426 WHAT OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE BEEN MEANINGLESS CARNAGE 70 00:04:53,426 --> 00:04:55,595 INTO SOMETHING HIGHER. 71 00:05:08,608 --> 00:05:10,226 OUTSIDE RICHMOND, 72 00:05:10,777 --> 00:05:12,395 GEORGE McCLELLAN CONTINUED TO CALL ANXIOUSLY 73 00:05:12,395 --> 00:05:15,114 FOR MORE TROOPS, 74 00:05:15,114 --> 00:05:17,817 THOUGH HIS 110,000-MAN FORCE 75 00:05:17,817 --> 00:05:21,621 ALREADY GREATLY OUTNUMBERED JOSEPH JOHNSTON'S ARMY. 76 00:05:22,705 --> 00:05:25,408 MEANWHILE, WEST OF THE BLUE RIDGE 77 00:05:25,408 --> 00:05:27,043 IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY, 78 00:05:27,043 --> 00:05:28,661 GENERAL THOMAS J. JACKSON 79 00:05:28,661 --> 00:05:31,381 WAS KEEPING THREE FEDERAL ARMIES BUSY. 80 00:05:43,843 --> 00:05:46,012 "ALWAYS MYSTIFY, MISLEAD, AND SURPRISE THE ENEMY. 81 00:05:46,562 --> 00:05:48,731 "AND WHEN YOU STRIKE AND OVERCOME HIM, 82 00:05:49,265 --> 00:05:51,434 "NEVER LET UP IN THE PURSUIT. 83 00:05:51,434 --> 00:05:53,603 "NEVER FIGHT AGAINST HEAVY ODDS 84 00:05:53,603 --> 00:05:55,772 "IF YOU CAN HURL YOUR FORCE 85 00:05:55,772 --> 00:06:00,109 "ON ONLY A PART OF YOUR ENEMY AND CRUSH IT. 86 00:06:00,109 --> 00:06:03,363 "A SMALL ARMY MAY THUS DESTROY A LARGE ONE, 87 00:06:03,363 --> 00:06:06,082 AND REPEATED VICTORY WILL MAKE IT INVINCIBLE." 88 00:06:06,082 --> 00:06:08,251 GENERAL T.J. JACKSON. 89 00:06:09,869 --> 00:06:13,089 HE WAS A TRUE ECCENTRIC. 90 00:06:13,089 --> 00:06:15,792 HE BELIEVED THAT IF HE HAD PEPPER IN HIS FOOD, 91 00:06:15,792 --> 00:06:19,045 IT WOULD MAKE HIS LEFT LEG ACHE. 92 00:06:19,045 --> 00:06:20,129 HE WOULD NEVER MAIL A LETTER 93 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:24,467 THAT WOULD BE IN TRANSIT ON A SUNDAY. 94 00:06:24,467 --> 00:06:27,186 HE WAS A STRICT OBSERVER OF THE SABBATH. 95 00:06:27,186 --> 00:06:30,440 YET SO MANY OF HIS BATTLES WERE FOUGHT ON SUNDAYS 96 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,608 THAT SOLDIERS BELIEVED HE FOUGHT ON SUNDAY 97 00:06:32,608 --> 00:06:35,862 BECAUSE THE LORD WOULD BE EVEN MORE WITH HIM. 98 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,199 JACKSON WAS A PIOUS, BLUE-EYED KILLER, 99 00:06:40,199 --> 00:06:43,453 UTTERLY UNTROUBLED BY THE LIKELIHOOD OF DEATH. 100 00:06:43,453 --> 00:06:46,139 IT WAS A MAN'S "ENTIRE DUTY," HE SAID, 101 00:06:46,139 --> 00:06:48,291 "TO PRAY AND FIGHT." 102 00:06:48,291 --> 00:06:52,628 "HE WOULD HAVE A MAN SHOT AT THE DROP OF A HAT, 103 00:06:52,628 --> 00:06:54,797 AND HE'D DROP IT HIMSELF." 104 00:06:54,797 --> 00:06:56,416 SAM WATKINS. 105 00:06:56,966 --> 00:07:00,219 HE HAD A STRANGE QUALITY OF OVERLOOKING SUFFERING. 106 00:07:00,219 --> 00:07:04,006 DURING ONE OF THE BATTLES, HE HAD A YOUNG COURIER. 107 00:07:04,557 --> 00:07:06,175 JACKSON LOOKED AROUND FOR HIM, 108 00:07:06,175 --> 00:07:07,810 AND HE WASN'T THERE. 109 00:07:07,810 --> 00:07:10,513 HE SAID, "WHERE IS LIEUTENANT SO-AND-SO?" 110 00:07:10,513 --> 00:07:12,682 THEY SAID, "HE WAS KILLED." 111 00:07:12,682 --> 00:07:14,317 JACKSON SAID, "VERY COMMENDABLE," 112 00:07:14,317 --> 00:07:17,570 AND THEN PUT HIM OUT OF HIS MIND. 113 00:07:19,188 --> 00:07:21,357 "ALL OLD JACKSON GAVE US 114 00:07:21,357 --> 00:07:24,610 "WAS A MUSKET, 100 ROUNDS, AND A GUM BLANKET, 115 00:07:24,610 --> 00:07:27,330 AND HE DROVE US LIKE HELL." 116 00:07:27,330 --> 00:07:29,499 HIS MEN DID NOT LOVE HIM. 117 00:07:29,499 --> 00:07:33,252 HE WAS TOO GRIM, TOO REMOTE, AND HE DEMANDED TOO MUCH. 118 00:07:33,252 --> 00:07:34,871 SOME THOUGHT HIM MAD. 119 00:07:34,871 --> 00:07:37,590 HE BELIEVED THAT KEEPING ONE HAND IN THE AIR 120 00:07:37,590 --> 00:07:40,843 COULD STOP HIM FROM GOING OUT OF BALANCE. 121 00:07:40,843 --> 00:07:42,462 HE SUCKED CONSTANTLY ON LEMONS, 122 00:07:42,462 --> 00:07:44,630 EVEN IN THE MIDST OF BATTLE. 123 00:07:44,630 --> 00:07:46,265 OTHERS WORRIED THAT HIS RELIGIOUS FERVOR 124 00:07:46,265 --> 00:07:46,799 THE CHARACTER OF THE WAR WAS CHANGING, 125 00:07:46,799 --> 00:07:48,434 WOULD CLOUD HIS JUDGMENT. 126 00:07:48,434 --> 00:07:49,519 HIS COMMAND, JACKSON SAID, 127 00:07:50,052 --> 00:07:52,772 WAS "AN ARMY OF THE LIVING GOD, 128 00:07:52,772 --> 00:07:55,475 AS WELL AS OF ITS COUNTRY." 129 00:07:55,475 --> 00:07:58,194 BUT HIS MEN WERE WILLING TO ENDURE 130 00:07:58,194 --> 00:08:00,897 THE 36-MILE-A-DAY MARCHES HE DEMANDED 131 00:08:00,897 --> 00:08:03,616 BECAUSE HE BROUGHT THEM VICTORIES. 132 00:08:05,785 --> 00:08:09,038 IT WAS JACKSON'S DUTY IN THE SHENANDOAH 133 00:08:09,038 --> 00:08:11,207 TO UNSETTLE THE UNION 134 00:08:11,207 --> 00:08:14,994 AND KEEP WASHINGTON FROM REINFORCING McCLELLAN. 135 00:08:16,078 --> 00:08:19,332 OPERATING IN THE MIDST OF THREE FEDERAL ARMIES, 136 00:08:19,332 --> 00:08:23,135 EACH WITH MORE MEN THAN HIS OWN FORCE OF 17,000, 137 00:08:23,135 --> 00:08:25,838 JACKSON LASHED OUT AT ONE ARMY AND THEN ANOTHER. 138 00:08:26,389 --> 00:08:30,176 ARMED WITH A DETAILED MAP THAT STRETCHED 8 1/2 FEET, 139 00:08:30,176 --> 00:08:32,345 HE SURPRISED THEM EVERY TIME-- 140 00:08:32,345 --> 00:08:32,895 AT WINCHESTER, 141 00:08:33,429 --> 00:08:34,514 FRONT ROYAL, 142 00:08:34,514 --> 00:08:36,148 CROSS KEYS, 143 00:08:36,148 --> 00:08:37,767 PORT REPUBLIC, 144 00:08:37,767 --> 00:08:40,486 AND A HALF DOZEN OTHER PLACES. 145 00:08:43,189 --> 00:08:44,824 AFTER ROUTING NATHANIEL BANKS' ARMY 146 00:08:45,358 --> 00:08:46,993 AT THE BATTLE OF WINCHESTER, 147 00:08:47,527 --> 00:08:49,161 JACKSON CHASED IT TO THE POTOMAC. 148 00:08:49,695 --> 00:08:52,365 "STOP, MEN!" BANKS SHOUTED TO HIS RETREATING TROOPS. 149 00:08:52,365 --> 00:08:54,000 "DON'T YOU LOVE YOUR COUNTRY?" 150 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,618 "YES, BY GOD," SAID ONE, 151 00:08:55,618 --> 00:08:58,337 "AND I'M TRYING TO GET BACK TO IT 152 00:08:58,337 --> 00:09:00,506 JUST AS FAST AS I CAN." 153 00:09:15,688 --> 00:09:18,941 JACKSON'S VALLEY CAMPAIGN WAS A TRIUMPH. 154 00:09:20,026 --> 00:09:21,110 IN JUST OVER A MONTH, 155 00:09:21,110 --> 00:09:24,363 HIS MEN MARCHED ALMOST 400 MILES, 156 00:09:24,363 --> 00:09:26,532 INFLICTED 7,000 CASUALTIES, 157 00:09:26,532 --> 00:09:29,785 SEIZED HUGE QUANTITIES OF BADLY NEEDED SUPPLIES, 158 00:09:29,785 --> 00:09:31,954 AND KEPT ALMOST 40,000 FEDERAL TROOPS 159 00:09:31,954 --> 00:09:33,573 OFF THE PENINSULA. 160 00:09:36,292 --> 00:09:40,079 "HE WHO DOES NOT SEE THE HAND OF GOD IN THIS 161 00:09:40,079 --> 00:09:42,798 IS BLIND, SIR, BLIND." 162 00:09:47,136 --> 00:09:50,389 "THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT JEFFERSON DAVIS 163 00:09:50,389 --> 00:09:53,092 "AND OTHER LEADERS OF THE SOUTH 164 00:09:53,092 --> 00:09:55,261 "HAVE MADE AN ARMY. 165 00:09:55,261 --> 00:09:57,980 "THEY ARE MAKING, IT APPEARS, A NAVY, 166 00:09:57,980 --> 00:10:00,683 "AND THEY HAVE MADE WHAT IS MORE THAN EITHER. 167 00:10:00,683 --> 00:10:02,318 "THEY HAVE MADE A NATION. 168 00:10:02,318 --> 00:10:05,021 "WE MAY ANTICIPATE WITH CERTAINTY 169 00:10:05,021 --> 00:10:07,740 THE SUCCESS OF THE SOUTHERN STATES." 170 00:10:07,740 --> 00:10:09,909 WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. 171 00:10:10,993 --> 00:10:13,696 CONFEDERATE GOSPEL HELD THAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE 172 00:10:13,696 --> 00:10:17,500 COULD NOT SURVIVE WITHOUT SOUTHERN COTTON. 173 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:20,753 BEFORE LONG, ONE OR BOTH WOULD SURELY INTERVENE 174 00:10:20,753 --> 00:10:22,922 ON BEHALF OF THE CONFEDERACY 175 00:10:22,922 --> 00:10:25,091 TO END THE UNION BLOCKADE. 176 00:10:25,091 --> 00:10:26,175 TO PUT MORE PRESSURE ON EUROPE, 177 00:10:26,709 --> 00:10:31,047 THE CONFEDERATES CUT COTTON PRODUCTION 9O%. 178 00:10:31,047 --> 00:10:33,215 2.5 MILLION BALES WERE BURNED 179 00:10:33,215 --> 00:10:36,469 OR LEFT TO ROT ON CONFEDERATE WHARVES 180 00:10:36,469 --> 00:10:39,188 TO KEEP IT OUT OF ENGLISH HANDS. 181 00:10:39,188 --> 00:10:42,441 NOW, IN ADDITION TO DIRECTING A WAR AT HOME, 182 00:10:42,441 --> 00:10:45,695 LINCOLN HAD TO FIND A WAY TO KEEP EUROPE 183 00:10:45,695 --> 00:10:49,482 FROM COMING IN ON THE SIDE OF THE SOUTH. 184 00:10:49,482 --> 00:10:51,651 AND INCREASINGLY, IN THE NORTH, 185 00:10:51,651 --> 00:10:53,819 THERE WAS PRESSURE FOR EMANCIPATION, 186 00:10:53,819 --> 00:10:56,539 AND IT CAME FROM UNLIKELY PEOPLE 187 00:10:56,539 --> 00:10:58,708 IN UNLIKELY PLACES. 188 00:11:10,636 --> 00:11:12,672 ON MAY 1, 1862, 189 00:11:12,672 --> 00:11:15,925 LINCOLN NAMED GENERAL BENJAMIN F. BUTLER 190 00:11:15,925 --> 00:11:19,178 MILITARY GOVERNOR OF OCCUPIED NEW ORLEANS. 191 00:11:19,178 --> 00:11:20,813 BUTLER WENT RIGHT TO WORK. 192 00:11:20,813 --> 00:11:22,431 HE HANGED A MAN 193 00:11:22,431 --> 00:11:25,151 SUSPECTED OF HAVING DESECRATED THE AMERICAN FLAG. 194 00:11:25,151 --> 00:11:27,319 HE CLOSED A SECESSIONIST NEWSPAPER, 195 00:11:27,319 --> 00:11:28,938 CONFISCATED THE PROPERTY 196 00:11:28,938 --> 00:11:31,657 OF CITIZENS WHO REFUSED TO SWEAR ALLEGIANCE 197 00:11:31,657 --> 00:11:33,275 TO THE UNION, 198 00:11:33,275 --> 00:11:35,995 AND WAS GIVEN THE SCORNFUL NICKNAME "SPOONS" 199 00:11:35,995 --> 00:11:39,248 FOR ALLEGEDLY POCKETING SILVERWARE. 200 00:11:39,248 --> 00:11:44,120 NEW ORLEANS WOMEN ROUTINELY INSULTED HIS TROOPS. 201 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,288 WHEN A WOMAN IN THE FRENCH QUARTER 202 00:11:46,839 --> 00:11:48,457 DUMPED HER CHAMBER POT 203 00:11:48,457 --> 00:11:51,177 ON THE HEAD OF ADMIRAL FARRAGUT, 204 00:11:51,177 --> 00:11:53,345 BUTLER ISSUED GENERAL ORDER NUMBER 28. 205 00:11:53,345 --> 00:11:57,683 "AS THE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE UNITED STATES 206 00:11:57,683 --> 00:12:00,936 "HAVE BEEN SUBJECT TO REPEATED INSULTS 207 00:12:00,936 --> 00:12:05,808 "FROM THE WOMEN CALLING THEMSELVES LADIES OF NEW ORLEANS, 208 00:12:06,358 --> 00:12:07,977 "IT IS ORDERED THAT, HEREAFTER, 209 00:12:07,977 --> 00:12:10,696 "WHEN ANY FEMALE SHALL, 210 00:12:11,230 --> 00:12:13,399 "BY WORD, GESTURE, OR MOVEMENT, 211 00:12:13,399 --> 00:12:16,118 "INSULT OR SHOW CONTEMPT 212 00:12:16,118 --> 00:12:20,456 "FOR ANY OFFICER OR SOLDIER OF THE UNITED STATES, 213 00:12:20,990 --> 00:12:23,709 "SHE SHALL BE REGARDED AND HELD LIABLE 214 00:12:23,709 --> 00:12:28,047 "TO BE TREATED AS A WOMAN OF THE TOWN, 215 00:12:28,047 --> 00:12:30,750 PLYING HER AVOCATION." 216 00:12:31,300 --> 00:12:34,003 GENERAL BENJAMIN BUTLER. 217 00:12:34,553 --> 00:12:36,172 SOUTHERNERS WERE OUTRAGED 218 00:12:36,172 --> 00:12:37,807 AND CALLED BUTLER "THE BEAST." 219 00:12:38,340 --> 00:12:41,060 A NEW ORLEANS ENTREPRENEUR SOLD CHAMBER POTS 220 00:12:41,060 --> 00:12:44,313 FEATURING BUTLER'S PORTRAIT INSIDE THE BOWL. 221 00:12:45,397 --> 00:12:47,483 IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, 222 00:12:47,483 --> 00:12:50,186 A PRIVATE CITIZEN OFFERED A $10,000 REWARD 223 00:12:50,186 --> 00:12:53,439 FOR THE CAPTURE OF "BEAST" BEN BUTLER-- 224 00:12:53,439 --> 00:12:55,074 DEAD OR ALIVE. 225 00:12:55,074 --> 00:12:59,411 BUT THE HARASSMENT OF HIS MEN STOPPED. 226 00:12:59,411 --> 00:13:02,114 WITH THE UNION ARMY SO NEAR, 227 00:13:02,114 --> 00:13:05,918 UNREST ON LOUISIANA PLANTATIONS INCREASED. 228 00:13:05,918 --> 00:13:07,536 WHEN DESPERATE SLAVE OWNERS 229 00:13:08,087 --> 00:13:10,256 BEGAN COMPLAINING OF REBELLIOUS BLACKS, 230 00:13:10,256 --> 00:13:13,509 BUTLER DECLARED THE PLANTERS DISLOYAL TO THE UNION, 231 00:13:13,509 --> 00:13:16,212 THEN TOOK AWAY THEIR SLAVES. 232 00:13:16,212 --> 00:13:18,380 "GO TO THE YANKEES," 233 00:13:18,380 --> 00:13:20,549 ONE SLAVE-HOLDER TOLD HIS SLAVES. 234 00:13:20,549 --> 00:13:23,269 "THEY ARE KINGS HERE NOW." 235 00:13:23,269 --> 00:13:26,522 "I HAVE BEEN READING SO MUCH ABOUT THE YANKEES, 236 00:13:26,522 --> 00:13:29,225 "I WAS VERY ANXIOUS TO SEE THEM. 237 00:13:29,775 --> 00:13:31,393 "THE WHITES WOULD TELL THEIR COLORED PEOPLE 238 00:13:31,393 --> 00:13:33,562 "NOT TO GO TO THE YANKEES, 239 00:13:34,113 --> 00:13:38,984 "FOR THEY WOULD HARNESS THEM TO CARTS IN PLACE OF HORSES. 240 00:13:38,984 --> 00:13:42,788 "I ASKED GRANDMOTHER ONE DAY IF THIS WAS TRUE. 241 00:13:42,788 --> 00:13:44,373 "SHE REPLIED, CERTAINLY NOT, 242 00:13:44,907 --> 00:13:46,492 "THAT THE WHITE PEOPLE 243 00:13:46,492 --> 00:13:49,745 "DID NOT WANT SLAVES TO GO OVER TO THE YANKEES 244 00:13:49,745 --> 00:13:52,464 "AND TOLD THEM THESE THINGS TO FRIGHTEN THEM. 245 00:13:52,464 --> 00:13:55,718 "I WANTED TO SEE THOSE WONDERFUL YANKEES SO MUCH, 246 00:13:55,718 --> 00:13:57,336 "AS I HEARD MY PARENTS SAY 247 00:13:57,887 --> 00:14:01,674 THAT THE YANKEES WAS GOING TO SET ALL THE SLAVES FREE." 248 00:14:01,674 --> 00:14:03,843 SUSAN KING TAYLOR. 249 00:14:06,614 --> 00:14:10,401 THE SLAVES UNDERSTOOD THAT THAT WAR WAS ABOUT SLAVERY 250 00:14:10,401 --> 00:14:12,570 BEFORE IT WAS A WAR. 251 00:14:12,570 --> 00:14:15,823 THEY MADE A NUISANCE FOR THE ARMY 252 00:14:15,823 --> 00:14:19,076 AND AN ISSUE THE ARMY HAD TO DEAL WITH. 253 00:14:19,076 --> 00:14:21,796 IF THE ARMY HAD TO DEAL WITH IT, 254 00:14:22,330 --> 00:14:25,049 THE WAR DEPARTMENT HAD TO DEAL WITH IT. 255 00:14:25,049 --> 00:14:27,218 CONGRESS HAD TO DEAL WITH IT. 256 00:14:27,218 --> 00:14:30,471 EVERY FUGITIVE SLAVE WHO MADE A NUISANCE OF HIMSELF 257 00:14:30,471 --> 00:14:32,640 TO THE LOCAL COMMANDER 258 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:34,809 EVENTUALLY MADE A FIGURE OF HIMSELF 259 00:14:34,809 --> 00:14:38,062 TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. 260 00:14:39,146 --> 00:14:41,315 CONGRESS, CONTROLLED BY REPUBLICANS, 261 00:14:41,315 --> 00:14:42,933 NOW FORBADE THE ARMY 262 00:14:42,933 --> 00:14:45,653 TO RETURN SLAVES TO THEIR MASTERS. 263 00:14:46,737 --> 00:14:49,440 IT OUTLAWED SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES, 264 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:52,159 FINALLY REVERSING THE OLD DRED SCOTT DECISION. 265 00:14:52,159 --> 00:14:54,862 "ONLY THE DAMNEDEST OF DAMNED ABOLITIONISTS 266 00:14:54,862 --> 00:14:58,115 "DREAMED OF SUCH THINGS A YEAR AGO. 267 00:14:58,115 --> 00:15:00,835 "JOHN BROWN'S SOUL IS MARCHING ON, 268 00:15:00,835 --> 00:15:03,003 WITH THE PEOPLE AFTER IT." 269 00:15:03,003 --> 00:15:05,706 GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG. 270 00:15:05,706 --> 00:15:07,875 "THE SLAVERY QUESTION PERPLEXES THE PRESIDENT 271 00:15:07,875 --> 00:15:10,044 "ALMOST AS MUCH AS EVER, 272 00:15:10,044 --> 00:15:12,763 "AND YET I THINK HE IS ABOUT TO EMERGE 273 00:15:13,297 --> 00:15:14,932 "FROM THE OBSCURITIES 274 00:15:14,932 --> 00:15:17,101 "WHERE HE HAS BEEN GROPING 275 00:15:17,101 --> 00:15:19,270 "INTO SOMEWHAT CLEARER LIGHT. 276 00:15:19,270 --> 00:15:24,692 SO, YOU SEE, THE MAN MOVES." 277 00:15:24,692 --> 00:15:26,861 "JULY 4, 1862. 278 00:15:26,861 --> 00:15:29,029 "I WOULD DO IT 279 00:15:29,029 --> 00:15:30,648 "IF I WERE NOT AFRAID 280 00:15:31,198 --> 00:15:34,452 "THAT HALF THE OFFICERS WOULD FLING DOWN THEIR ARMS 281 00:15:34,452 --> 00:15:37,154 AND THREE MORE STATES WOULD RISE." 282 00:15:37,154 --> 00:15:39,874 LINCOLN CONTINUED TO BACK A PLAN 283 00:15:39,874 --> 00:15:42,576 TO PAY $400 FOR EVERY SLAVE FREED 284 00:15:42,576 --> 00:15:44,745 AND THEN ENCOURAGE THE FREED MEN 285 00:15:44,745 --> 00:15:50,167 TO SAIL OFF TO A COLONY IN AFRICA OR CENTRAL AMERICA. 286 00:15:50,167 --> 00:15:52,887 THE ABOLITIONIST WENDELL PHILLIPS 287 00:15:52,887 --> 00:15:53,971 CALLED ABRAHAM LINCOLN 288 00:15:53,971 --> 00:15:56,674 A FIRST-RATE SECOND-RATE MAN. 289 00:15:58,843 --> 00:16:01,562 I LOSE PATIENCE WITH THE ARGUMENT 290 00:16:01,562 --> 00:16:03,731 THAT BECAUSE OF SOMEONE'S TIME, 291 00:16:03,731 --> 00:16:08,602 HIS LIMITATIONS ARE THEREFORE EXCUSABLE OR EVEN PRAISEWORTHY. 292 00:16:09,153 --> 00:16:11,856 IT IS NOT TRUE THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE 293 00:16:11,856 --> 00:16:13,491 IN THAT TIME AND PLACE 294 00:16:13,491 --> 00:16:15,659 TO LOOK ANY HIGHER. 295 00:16:15,659 --> 00:16:17,278 THINK OF WENDELL PHILLIPS, WHO, 296 00:16:17,278 --> 00:16:18,913 COMMENTING ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S PROPOSAL 297 00:16:18,913 --> 00:16:22,166 TO COLONIZE BLACK PEOPLE OUT OF THE COUNTRY, 298 00:16:22,166 --> 00:16:23,250 WAS SARCASTIC. 299 00:16:23,250 --> 00:16:24,869 HE SAID, "COLONIZE THE BLACKS? 300 00:16:24,869 --> 00:16:28,122 "A MAN MIGHT AS WELL COLONIZE HIS OWN HANDS. 301 00:16:28,122 --> 00:16:31,375 "OR WHEN THE ROBBER IS IN HIS HOUSE, 302 00:16:31,375 --> 00:16:34,094 HE MIGHT AS WELL COLONIZE HIS REVOLVER." 303 00:16:37,348 --> 00:16:41,685 "EMANCIPATION IS THE DEMAND OF CIVILIZATION. 304 00:16:41,685 --> 00:16:44,388 "THAT IS A PRINCIPLE. 305 00:16:44,388 --> 00:16:48,159 ALL ELSE IS INTRIGUE." 306 00:16:48,159 --> 00:16:50,327 RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 307 00:17:03,824 --> 00:17:06,544 ON THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA, THE RAINS CAME, 308 00:17:07,077 --> 00:17:09,246 INUNDATING THE BOTTOMLANDS. 309 00:17:11,415 --> 00:17:13,050 ALONG THE ROADS OUTSIDE RICHMOND, 310 00:17:13,050 --> 00:17:15,753 GEORGE McCLELLAN'S FORCE WAS DIVIDED IN TWO 311 00:17:16,303 --> 00:17:18,472 BY THE FLOODED CHICKAHOMINY RIVER. 312 00:17:20,641 --> 00:17:22,810 THE REBELS SAW THEIR CHANCE 313 00:17:22,810 --> 00:17:26,597 AND ATTACKED THE SMALLER FORCE ON MAY 31st. 314 00:17:26,597 --> 00:17:28,766 IN THE FIERCE FIGHTING THAT FOLLOWED, 315 00:17:28,766 --> 00:17:30,935 THE CONFEDERATES DID BEST 316 00:17:30,935 --> 00:17:33,103 NEAR A CROSSROADS CALLED SEVEN PINES. 317 00:17:33,103 --> 00:17:34,738 THE UNION SOLDIERS 318 00:17:35,272 --> 00:17:37,992 WERE MOST SUCCESSFUL AT FAIR OAKS. 319 00:17:45,499 --> 00:17:48,202 WHEN THE BATTLE OF FAIR OAKS WAS OVER, 320 00:17:48,202 --> 00:17:50,921 THE NORTH HAD LOST 5,000 MEN, 321 00:17:51,455 --> 00:17:52,540 THE SOUTH, 6,000, 322 00:17:52,540 --> 00:17:55,259 AND IT HADN'T CHANGED A THING. 323 00:17:55,259 --> 00:17:56,343 JOSEPH JOHNSTON, 324 00:17:56,343 --> 00:17:58,512 THE OVERALL CONFEDERATE COMMANDER, 325 00:17:58,512 --> 00:18:00,681 WAS HIMSELF SEVERELY WOUNDED 326 00:18:00,681 --> 00:18:02,850 AND CARRIED FROM THE FIELD. 327 00:18:03,934 --> 00:18:06,103 "THE SHOT THAT STRUCK ME DOWN 328 00:18:06,103 --> 00:18:08,806 "WAS THE BEST EVER FIRED FOR THE CONFEDERACY, 329 00:18:08,806 --> 00:18:10,441 "FOR I POSSESSED IN NO DEGREE 330 00:18:10,441 --> 00:18:12,610 "THE CONFIDENCE OF THE GOVERNMENT, 331 00:18:12,610 --> 00:18:15,863 "AND NOW A MAN WHO DOES ENJOY IT WILL SUCCEED ME 332 00:18:15,863 --> 00:18:18,032 AND ACCOMPLISH WHAT I NEVER COULD." 333 00:18:18,032 --> 00:18:19,116 "HIS NAME MIGHT BE AUDACITY. 334 00:18:19,116 --> 00:18:20,734 "HE WILL TAKE MORE CHANCES, 335 00:18:20,734 --> 00:18:22,369 "AND TAKE THEM QUICKER, 336 00:18:22,369 --> 00:18:25,072 "THAN ANY OTHER GENERAL IN THIS COUNTRY, 337 00:18:25,072 --> 00:18:26,707 NORTH OR SOUTH." 338 00:18:26,707 --> 00:18:28,876 NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE WAR, 339 00:18:28,876 --> 00:18:31,579 ROBERT E. LEE WAS PLACED 340 00:18:31,579 --> 00:18:34,298 AT THE HEAD OF A MAJOR ARMY. 341 00:18:34,832 --> 00:18:38,085 "I PREFER LEE TO JOHNSTON. 342 00:18:38,085 --> 00:18:39,720 "LEE IS TOO CAUTIOUS 343 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,889 "AND WEAK UNDER GRAVE RESPONSIBILITY. 344 00:18:41,889 --> 00:18:45,142 "PERSONALLY BRAVE AND ENERGETIC TO A FAULT, 345 00:18:45,142 --> 00:18:46,760 "HE IS YET WANTING IN MORAL FIRMNESS 346 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:48,929 WHEN PRESSED BY HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY." 347 00:18:48,929 --> 00:18:50,564 GEORGE McCLELLAN. 348 00:18:50,564 --> 00:18:52,733 McCLELLAN COMPLETELY MISJUDGED 349 00:18:52,733 --> 00:18:54,902 THE NEW CONFEDERATE COMMANDER. 350 00:18:54,902 --> 00:18:57,605 ROBERT E. LEE WAS A FIGHTER. 351 00:18:57,605 --> 00:18:59,239 WANTING TO GET AT THE UNION MEN 352 00:18:59,239 --> 00:19:01,942 WHO HAD DARED INVADE HIS STATE, 353 00:19:01,942 --> 00:19:05,746 LEE RENAMED HIS FORCE THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, 354 00:19:05,746 --> 00:19:10,084 SEIZED THE INITIATIVE, AND NEVER LET IT GO. 355 00:19:10,084 --> 00:19:13,337 FIRST, LEE SENT HIS CAVALRY CHIEF, JEB STUART, 356 00:19:13,337 --> 00:19:16,040 TO RECONNOITER McCLELLAN'S FORCES. 357 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:18,175 STUART NOW LED 1,200 TROOPERS 358 00:19:18,175 --> 00:19:21,962 ON A POUNDING THREE-DAY, 150-MILE RIDE 359 00:19:22,513 --> 00:19:24,682 AROUND McCLELLAN'S HUGE ARMY. 360 00:19:25,149 --> 00:19:27,301 HIS MEN BURNED FEDERAL CAMPS, 361 00:19:27,301 --> 00:19:28,385 CUT DOWN TELEGRAPH POLES, 362 00:19:28,936 --> 00:19:31,105 TOOK PRISONERS AND HORSES AND MULES, 363 00:19:31,105 --> 00:19:34,358 AND SLOWED ONLY TO ACCEPT BOUQUETS AND KISSES 364 00:19:34,358 --> 00:19:35,976 FROM WOMEN ALONG THE WAY. 365 00:19:35,976 --> 00:19:37,611 IN VAIN PURSUIT 366 00:19:37,611 --> 00:19:39,229 WAS STUART'S OWN FATHER-IN-LAW, 367 00:19:39,229 --> 00:19:41,949 WHO HAD STAYED LOYAL TO THE UNION 368 00:19:41,949 --> 00:19:43,567 AND BECOME A GENERAL-- 369 00:19:43,567 --> 00:19:47,371 A DECISION STUART SAID HE WOULD "REGRET BUT ONCE, 370 00:19:47,905 --> 00:19:50,074 AND THAT WILL BE CONTINUOUSLY." 371 00:19:58,749 --> 00:20:00,384 THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE CAMPAIGN, 372 00:20:00,384 --> 00:20:02,553 LEE CAREFULLY OBSERVED 373 00:20:02,553 --> 00:20:05,806 McCLELLAN'S TENTATIVE ADVANCE UP THE PENINSULA. 374 00:20:06,306 --> 00:20:08,342 AS McCLELLAN WAS PREPARING AT LAST 375 00:20:08,342 --> 00:20:10,511 TO LAY SIEGE TO RICHMOND, 376 00:20:10,511 --> 00:20:12,146 LEE SURPRISED HIM FIRST, 377 00:20:12,146 --> 00:20:14,314 AT MECHANICSVILLE ON JUNE 26th. 378 00:20:14,314 --> 00:20:15,933 IT WAS A DARING MOVE. 379 00:20:16,483 --> 00:20:18,102 DEFYING ALL MILITARY CONVENTION, 380 00:20:18,102 --> 00:20:20,270 LEE DIVIDED HIS TINY FORCE 381 00:20:20,270 --> 00:20:23,524 AND THEN ATTACKED THE HUGE UNION ARMY, 382 00:20:23,524 --> 00:20:26,243 GAMBLING THAT McCLELLAN WOULD BE TOO CAUTIOUS 383 00:20:26,243 --> 00:20:28,412 TO MOVE INTO RICHMOND. 384 00:20:28,412 --> 00:20:30,030 LEE'S ASSAULT DIDN'T WORK. 385 00:20:30,030 --> 00:20:32,199 HE LOST 1,500 MEN AT MECHANICSVILLE, 386 00:20:32,750 --> 00:20:35,452 BUT HE WOULD NOT LET UP. 387 00:20:35,452 --> 00:20:38,172 DETERMINED TO DRIVE McCLELLAN OUT OF VIRGINIA, 388 00:20:38,172 --> 00:20:40,340 LEE KEPT ON THE ATTACK. 389 00:20:40,340 --> 00:20:41,959 AND SO IT WENT. 390 00:20:41,959 --> 00:20:44,678 FOR SEVEN DAYS, THE TWO ARMIES CLASHED. 391 00:20:44,678 --> 00:20:47,381 FROM GAINE'S MILL... 392 00:20:47,381 --> 00:20:50,634 FROM SAVAGE'S STATION... 393 00:20:50,634 --> 00:20:53,353 TO FRAYSER'S FARM... 394 00:20:53,887 --> 00:20:54,972 AND MALVERN HILL, 395 00:20:54,972 --> 00:20:57,691 WHERE FEDERAL GUNNERS STOPPED THE CONFEDERATES 396 00:20:57,691 --> 00:21:00,944 WHO CAME AT THEM UP THE LONG SLOPE. 397 00:21:04,198 --> 00:21:07,451 "OUR EARS HAD BEEN FILLED ALL NIGHT 398 00:21:07,451 --> 00:21:10,704 "WITH AGONIZING CRIES BEFORE THE FOG WAS LIFTED. 399 00:21:10,704 --> 00:21:12,873 "BUT NOW OUR EYES SAW 400 00:21:12,873 --> 00:21:15,025 "THAT 5,000 DEAD OR WOUNDED MEN 401 00:21:15,559 --> 00:21:17,161 "WERE ON THE GROUND. 402 00:21:17,161 --> 00:21:20,964 "A THIRD OF THEM WERE DEAD OR DYING, 403 00:21:20,964 --> 00:21:23,667 "BUT ENOUGH OF THEM WERE ALIVE AND MOVING 404 00:21:24,218 --> 00:21:27,471 TO GIVE THE FIELD A SINGULAR CRAWLING EFFECT." 405 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:34,511 "EACH OF THE BATTLES OF THOSE SEVEN DAYS 406 00:21:34,511 --> 00:21:36,146 "BROUGHT A HARVEST OF WOUNDED 407 00:21:36,146 --> 00:21:37,765 "TO OUR HOSPITAL. 408 00:21:38,315 --> 00:21:39,933 "I USED TO VEIL MYSELF CLOSELY 409 00:21:40,484 --> 00:21:42,653 "AS I WALKED TO AND FROM MY HOTEL, 410 00:21:42,653 --> 00:21:44,271 "THAT I MIGHT SHUT OUT 411 00:21:44,822 --> 00:21:45,906 "THE DREADFUL SIGHTS. 412 00:21:45,906 --> 00:21:49,159 "ONCE I DID SEE ONE OF THOSE DREADFUL WAGONS. 413 00:21:49,159 --> 00:21:51,862 "IN IT, A STIFF ARM WAS RAISED, 414 00:21:51,862 --> 00:21:55,115 "AND IT SHOOK AS IT WAS DRIVEN DOWN THE STREET, 415 00:21:55,115 --> 00:21:57,284 "AS THOUGH THE DEAD OWNER 416 00:21:57,284 --> 00:21:59,453 APPEALED TO HEAVEN FOR VENGEANCE." 417 00:22:19,523 --> 00:22:23,310 ALL BUT ONE OF THE BATTLES OF THE SEVEN DAYS 418 00:22:23,310 --> 00:22:25,479 WERE UNION VICTORIES, 419 00:22:25,479 --> 00:22:28,198 YET McCLELLAN TREATED THEM AS DEFEATS, 420 00:22:28,732 --> 00:22:29,817 CONTINUING TO BACK DOWN 421 00:22:30,367 --> 00:22:33,070 UNTIL HE REACHED THE SAFETY OF FEDERAL GUNBOATS 422 00:22:33,070 --> 00:22:36,323 AT HARRISON'S LANDING ON THE JAMES RIVER. 423 00:22:36,323 --> 00:22:37,958 UNION OFFICERS URGED A COUNTERATTACK. 424 00:22:38,492 --> 00:22:40,127 LEE HAD LOST 20,000 MEN. 425 00:22:40,127 --> 00:22:41,745 McCLELLAN REFUSED. 426 00:22:41,745 --> 00:22:44,464 ONE OFFICER SUGGESTED 427 00:22:44,464 --> 00:22:46,083 HIS COMMANDER WAS MOTIVATED 428 00:22:46,083 --> 00:22:49,887 EITHER BY "COWARDICE OR TREASON." 429 00:22:49,887 --> 00:22:52,589 IN JUST ONE WEEK, 430 00:22:52,589 --> 00:22:55,309 LEE HAD COMPLETELY UNNERVED THE UNION GENERAL 431 00:22:55,309 --> 00:22:58,011 AND DEMONSTRATED FOR THE FIRST TIME 432 00:22:58,011 --> 00:23:00,731 THE STRENGTHS THAT WOULD MAKE HIM A LEGEND-- 433 00:23:00,731 --> 00:23:01,815 SURPRISE, AUDACITY, 434 00:23:01,815 --> 00:23:05,602 AND AN EERIE ABILITY TO READ HIS OPPONENT'S MIND. 435 00:23:06,153 --> 00:23:07,771 IN JUST SEVEN DAYS, 436 00:23:07,771 --> 00:23:11,024 McCLELLAN HAD BEEN TOTALLY OUT-GENERALED. 437 00:23:12,659 --> 00:23:16,446 "I AM TIRED OF THE SICKENING SIGHT OF THE BATTLEFIELD, 438 00:23:16,446 --> 00:23:19,700 "WITH ITS MANGLED CORPSES AND POOR SUFFERING WOUNDED. 439 00:23:19,700 --> 00:23:21,869 "VICTORY HAS NO CHARMS FOR ME 440 00:23:21,869 --> 00:23:25,672 WHEN PURCHASED AT SUCH COST." 441 00:23:26,757 --> 00:23:27,841 ON JULY 7th, 442 00:23:27,841 --> 00:23:30,544 AN EXASPERATED LINCOLN SAILED DOWN TO SEE 443 00:23:30,544 --> 00:23:32,713 HIS COMMANDING GENERAL. 444 00:23:32,713 --> 00:23:34,882 HE HAD NOT LOST, McCLELLAN INSISTED. 445 00:23:34,882 --> 00:23:37,601 HE HAD MERELY FAILED TO WIN. 446 00:23:37,601 --> 00:23:40,854 HE NEEDED 50,000 MORE MEN, OR PERHAPS 100,000. 447 00:23:40,854 --> 00:23:41,939 NO SUCH NUMBERS WERE AVAILABLE, 448 00:23:41,939 --> 00:23:44,641 LINCOLN TOLD HIM. 449 00:23:44,641 --> 00:23:46,276 IF McCLELLAN DID NOT FEEL 450 00:23:46,276 --> 00:23:48,445 HE COULD RESUME THE OFFENSIVE, 451 00:23:48,445 --> 00:23:51,148 HIS MEN WOULD BE WITHDRAWN FROM THE PENINSULA. 452 00:23:51,148 --> 00:23:53,317 "IF I GAVE McCLELLAN THE MEN HE ASKS FOR, 453 00:23:53,317 --> 00:23:56,570 "THEY COULDN'T FIND ROOM TO LIE DOWN. 454 00:23:56,570 --> 00:23:59,289 "THEY'D HAVE TO SLEEP STANDING UP. 455 00:23:59,289 --> 00:24:00,908 "SENDING MEN TO THAT ARMY 456 00:24:00,908 --> 00:24:04,161 "IS LIKE SHOVELING FLEAS ACROSS A BARNYARD-- 457 00:24:04,161 --> 00:24:07,414 NOT HALF OF THEM GET THERE." 458 00:24:07,414 --> 00:24:09,583 "SEPTEMBER 3. 459 00:24:09,583 --> 00:24:11,218 "TODAY WE TOOK A STEAMER 460 00:24:11,218 --> 00:24:13,387 AND WENT UP THE POTOMAC AND LANDED AT GEORGETOWN. 461 00:24:13,387 --> 00:24:15,555 "IT IS HARD TO HAVE REACHED 462 00:24:15,555 --> 00:24:18,258 "THE POINT WE STARTED FROM LAST MARCH, 463 00:24:18,258 --> 00:24:21,511 AND RICHMOND IS STILL THE REBEL CAPITAL." 464 00:24:21,511 --> 00:24:23,680 ELISHA HUNT RHODES. 465 00:25:09,076 --> 00:25:11,795 UNION GUNS BATTERED FORT PULASKI, GEORGIA, 466 00:25:11,795 --> 00:25:13,413 INTO SURRENDERING 467 00:25:13,413 --> 00:25:16,133 AND CHOKED OFF THE SAVANNAH RIVER 468 00:25:16,133 --> 00:25:17,200 TO SOUTHERN SHIPS. 469 00:25:17,718 --> 00:25:18,669 THERE WAS FIGHTING 470 00:25:18,669 --> 00:25:21,388 AT FOYT'S PLANTATION, NORTH CAROLINA, 471 00:25:21,388 --> 00:25:24,091 ST. ANDREW'S BAY, FLORIDA, 472 00:25:24,091 --> 00:25:26,093 WARTRACE, TENNESSEE, 473 00:25:26,093 --> 00:25:29,896 AND AT ALBUQUERQUE IN FAR-OFF NEW MEXICO TERRITORY. 474 00:25:33,650 --> 00:25:36,236 "SEA ISLANDS, GEORGIA. 475 00:25:36,770 --> 00:25:38,939 "HERE I AM, SURROUNDED BY TROOPERS, 476 00:25:38,939 --> 00:25:41,108 "MISSIONARIES, CONTRABANDS, 477 00:25:41,108 --> 00:25:43,276 "COTTON FIELDS, AND SERPENTS, 478 00:25:43,276 --> 00:25:44,361 "IN A SUMMER CLIMATE, 479 00:25:44,911 --> 00:25:47,080 "DISGUSTED WITH ALL THINGS MILITARY 480 00:25:47,614 --> 00:25:48,699 "AND FIGHTING OFF MALARIA 481 00:25:48,699 --> 00:25:51,418 "WITH WHISKEY AND TOBACCO. 482 00:25:51,418 --> 00:25:55,205 "NO MAN SEEMS TO REALIZE THAT IN THIS ISLAND, 483 00:25:55,205 --> 00:25:57,924 "ALL AROUND US, HAS BEGUN THE SOLUTION 484 00:25:57,924 --> 00:26:01,178 "OF THE TREMENDOUS NIGGER QUESTION. 485 00:26:01,712 --> 00:26:03,347 "SOME 10,000 FORMER SLAVES 486 00:26:03,347 --> 00:26:05,515 "ARE THROWN UPON THE HANDS 487 00:26:05,515 --> 00:26:07,134 "OF THE UNFORTUNATE GOVERNMENT. 488 00:26:07,684 --> 00:26:09,302 "THEY ARE THE FORERUNNERS 489 00:26:09,302 --> 00:26:12,022 OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MORE." 490 00:26:12,022 --> 00:26:15,275 LIEUTENANT CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. 491 00:26:15,275 --> 00:26:16,893 STATIONED IN PLACES 492 00:26:16,893 --> 00:26:18,528 LIKE HILTON HEAD AND BEAUFORT, 493 00:26:18,528 --> 00:26:21,782 NEW ENGLANDERS FIRST TASTED THE TROPICS. 494 00:26:22,315 --> 00:26:24,484 NONE OF THE 2nd MASSACHUSETTS 495 00:26:24,484 --> 00:26:27,738 HAD EVER SEEN A PALM TREE BEFORE. 496 00:26:27,738 --> 00:26:31,541 WHEN UNION FORCES TOOK PARTS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA COAST, 497 00:26:31,541 --> 00:26:33,160 PLANTATION OWNERS FLED, 498 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:38,582 LEAVING BEHIND EMPTY HOUSES AND 10,000 SLAVES. 499 00:26:38,582 --> 00:26:40,751 MISSIONARIES, TEACHERS, AND OTHER VOLUNTEERS 500 00:26:41,301 --> 00:26:44,554 SOON ARRIVED TO HELP THE NEWLY-LIBERATED. 501 00:26:45,088 --> 00:26:47,808 "WE HAVE COME TO DO ANTISLAVERY WORK," 502 00:26:47,808 --> 00:26:49,426 ONE TEACHER WROTE. 503 00:26:49,426 --> 00:26:51,595 "WE THINK IT NOBLE WORK, 504 00:26:51,595 --> 00:26:54,314 AND WE WILL DO IT NOBLY." 505 00:26:57,567 --> 00:27:00,270 "MY DEAR WIFE, 506 00:27:00,270 --> 00:27:02,439 "THIS DAY I CAN ADDRESS YOU, 507 00:27:02,439 --> 00:27:06,243 "THANK GOD, AS A FREE MAN. 508 00:27:06,243 --> 00:27:08,328 "I HAD A LITTLE TROUBLE GETTING AWAY, 509 00:27:08,328 --> 00:27:12,666 "BUT AS THE LORD LED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO THE LAND OF CANAAN, 510 00:27:12,666 --> 00:27:15,919 "SO HE LED ME TO A LAND WHERE FREEDOM WILL REIGN 511 00:27:15,919 --> 00:27:18,622 "IN SPITE OF EARTH AND HELL. 512 00:27:18,622 --> 00:27:21,875 "MY DEAR, I TRUST THE TIME WILL COME 513 00:27:21,875 --> 00:27:24,044 "WHEN WE WILL MEET AGAIN. 514 00:27:24,044 --> 00:27:27,297 "AND IF WE DON'T MEET ON EARTH, 515 00:27:27,297 --> 00:27:30,016 "WE WILL MEET IN HEAVEN, WHERE JESUS REIGNS. 516 00:27:30,550 --> 00:27:33,270 "DEAR WIFE, I MUST CLOSE. 517 00:27:33,270 --> 00:27:37,057 "REST YOURSELF CONTENTED. I AM FREE. 518 00:27:37,057 --> 00:27:39,226 "YOUR AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND. 519 00:27:39,226 --> 00:27:41,394 KISS DANIEL FOR ME." 520 00:27:41,394 --> 00:27:43,029 JOHN BOSTON. 521 00:27:47,367 --> 00:27:48,452 AT DEER ISLE, MAINE, 522 00:27:48,452 --> 00:27:51,705 PEOPLE WERE AFRAID TO GO TO THE POST OFFICE, 523 00:27:51,705 --> 00:27:54,958 WHERE THE CASUALTY LISTS WERE POSTED. 524 00:27:54,958 --> 00:27:56,576 "NEW BERNE, NORTH CAROLINA. 525 00:27:57,127 --> 00:27:58,745 "MARCH 20, 1862. 526 00:27:58,745 --> 00:28:00,914 "TO MR. JOHN WEBSTER, JR., 527 00:28:00,914 --> 00:28:03,083 "DEER ISLE, MAINE. 528 00:28:03,083 --> 00:28:05,802 "DEAR SIR... 529 00:28:05,802 --> 00:28:07,420 "IT IS WITH PAIN 530 00:28:07,420 --> 00:28:10,674 "THAT I HAVE TO ANNOUNCE TO YOU 531 00:28:10,674 --> 00:28:13,393 "THE DEATH OF YOUR BROTHER, CHARLES GRAY. 532 00:28:13,393 --> 00:28:15,011 "BY HIS GOOD CONDUCT 533 00:28:15,011 --> 00:28:16,646 "AND BRAVERY WHILE WITH ME, 534 00:28:16,646 --> 00:28:19,900 "HE HAD RISEN TO THE RANK OF CORPORAL, 535 00:28:19,900 --> 00:28:21,518 "AND HAD HE LIVED, 536 00:28:21,518 --> 00:28:23,687 "I SHOULD HAVE PROMOTED HIM AGAIN. 537 00:28:23,687 --> 00:28:26,940 "HE WAS SHOT AT THE BATTLE OF NEW BERNE. 538 00:28:26,940 --> 00:28:30,744 "HIS LAST WORDS WERE, WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP. 539 00:28:30,744 --> 00:28:35,081 "HE IS BURIED HERE. 540 00:28:35,081 --> 00:28:37,250 "AT THE EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY. 541 00:28:37,250 --> 00:28:42,672 "YOURS TRULY, E.A.P. BREWSTER, 542 00:28:42,672 --> 00:28:44,841 23rd MASSACHUSETTS." 543 00:28:46,459 --> 00:28:49,713 DEER ISLE HAD LOST ITS FIRST SOLDIER. 544 00:28:49,713 --> 00:28:52,432 A PARCEL CONTAINING CHARLES GRAY'S PERSONAL EFFECTS 545 00:28:52,432 --> 00:28:52,432 ARRIVED IN THE MAIL-- 546 00:28:52,432 --> 00:28:55,685 SHALL SEND HOME 547 00:28:55,685 --> 00:28:58,388 HIS HAT, PROMOTION PAPERS ATTESTING TO HIS VALOR, 548 00:28:58,388 --> 00:29:00,557 AND A CARTRIDGE BOX 549 00:29:00,557 --> 00:29:02,192 IN WHICH SOMEONE HAD PLACED 550 00:29:02,192 --> 00:29:04,895 THE MANGLED BULLET THAT KILLED HIM. 551 00:29:04,895 --> 00:29:07,614 HIS MOTHER REFUSED TO LOOK AT IT. 552 00:29:07,614 --> 00:29:11,401 THE MEN OF THE REDUCED FISHING FLEET 553 00:29:11,401 --> 00:29:13,036 STRUGGLED TO HARVEST A CATCH. 554 00:29:13,036 --> 00:29:15,205 WIVES TENDED KITCHEN GARDENS 555 00:29:15,205 --> 00:29:17,374 AND SCRAPED LINEN FOR THE LINT 556 00:29:17,374 --> 00:29:20,076 FROM WHICH BANDAGES WERE MADE. 557 00:29:20,076 --> 00:29:22,245 MORE BAD NEWS ARRIVED. 558 00:29:22,245 --> 00:29:24,965 PRIVATE ALEX HENDERSON HAD DIED OF DISEASE 559 00:29:25,498 --> 00:29:27,133 AT FORT JACKSON, LOUISIANA, 560 00:29:27,133 --> 00:29:29,836 LEAVING A WIDOW AND SEVERAL CHILDREN. 561 00:29:33,089 --> 00:29:35,258 AT CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE, 562 00:29:35,258 --> 00:29:36,893 TENSIONS BETWEEN THE TOWN 563 00:29:36,893 --> 00:29:40,680 AND THE OCCUPYING UNION ARMY RAN HIGH. 564 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,817 FEDERAL TROOPS VANDALIZED STEWART COLLEGE, 565 00:29:43,817 --> 00:29:45,986 WRECKING LABORATORIES AND STEALING BOOKS, 566 00:29:45,986 --> 00:29:49,239 THEN SET UP HEADQUARTERS THERE. 567 00:29:49,239 --> 00:29:52,492 SOLDIERS BURST IN ON A CHURCH SERVICE, 568 00:29:52,492 --> 00:29:55,195 ARRESTED THE PREACHER, COMMANDEERED HORSES, 569 00:29:55,195 --> 00:29:56,830 AND FORCED RELUCTANT PARISHIONERS 570 00:29:56,830 --> 00:29:59,532 TO TAKE A LOYALTY OATH. 571 00:29:59,532 --> 00:30:04,421 AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, THE RESIDENTS STAYED AT HOME. 572 00:30:16,349 --> 00:30:20,453 IF A NORTHERNER ASKED A SOUTHERNER, "WHY ARE YOU FIGHTING?" 573 00:30:20,453 --> 00:30:23,156 HE WOULD SAY, "'CAUSE YOU'RE DOWN HERE." 574 00:30:23,156 --> 00:30:25,325 HE WAS BEING INVADED, 575 00:30:25,325 --> 00:30:28,578 AND HE FOUGHT TO DEFEND HIS HOME. 576 00:30:28,578 --> 00:30:31,298 LINCOLN HAD A MORE DIFFICULT JOB 577 00:30:31,298 --> 00:30:32,916 OF SENDING MEN OUT 578 00:30:32,916 --> 00:30:35,085 TO SHOOT UP SOMEBODY ELSE'S HOME. 579 00:30:35,085 --> 00:30:39,422 HE HAD TO UNITE THEM BEFORE HE COULD DO THAT. 580 00:30:39,422 --> 00:30:42,142 HIS WAY OF DOING IT WAS DOUBLE. 581 00:30:42,142 --> 00:30:46,479 ONE WAS TO SAY THAT THE REPUBLIC MUST BE PRESERVED, 582 00:30:46,479 --> 00:30:48,098 NOT SPLIT IN TWO. 583 00:30:48,098 --> 00:30:51,351 THE OTHER ONE HE GAVE THEM AS A CAUSE-- 584 00:30:51,351 --> 00:30:53,520 THE FREEING OF THE SLAVES. 585 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:57,724 ON THE MORNING OF JULY 22, 1862, 586 00:30:57,724 --> 00:31:00,977 THE PRESIDENT CALLED A CABINET MEETING. 587 00:31:00,977 --> 00:31:04,230 WHAT HE SAID TOOK EVERYONE BY SURPRISE. 588 00:31:04,230 --> 00:31:06,399 AFTER LONG THOUGHT, HE TOLD THEM, 589 00:31:06,933 --> 00:31:09,653 HE HAD DECIDED TO EMANCIPATE THE SLAVES. 590 00:31:11,821 --> 00:31:14,524 IT WAS A STUNNING MOMENT. 591 00:31:15,075 --> 00:31:16,693 IT WAS AGAINST EVERYTHING 592 00:31:16,693 --> 00:31:18,328 LINCOLN HAD PROMISED THE REPUBLICANS 593 00:31:18,328 --> 00:31:21,031 AND INDEED THE COUNTRY-- 594 00:31:21,031 --> 00:31:23,750 THAT HE WOULD NOT BECOME AN ABOLITIONIST, 595 00:31:23,750 --> 00:31:27,537 HE WOULD NOT STRIKE AT SLAVERY WHERE IT EXISTED. 596 00:31:27,537 --> 00:31:29,172 HERE, SUDDENLY, HE WAS CHANGING 597 00:31:29,172 --> 00:31:31,875 THE CHARACTER OF THE WAR. 598 00:31:34,044 --> 00:31:35,128 BUT SECRETARY OF STATE SEWARD WORRIED 599 00:31:35,128 --> 00:31:39,466 THAT UNTIL THE ARMY HAD WON A REAL VICTORY, 600 00:31:40,016 --> 00:31:41,634 EMANCIPATION WOULD SEEM LIKE 601 00:31:41,634 --> 00:31:44,354 THE LAST SHRIEK ON THE RETREAT. 602 00:31:44,354 --> 00:31:47,607 LINCOLN AGREED TO WAIT FOR A VICTORY. 603 00:31:48,692 --> 00:31:51,945 IT'S HARD TO SEPARATE ONE ISSUE FROM ANOTHER. 604 00:31:51,945 --> 00:31:55,198 OBVIOUSLY, LINCOLN HAD TO WIN THE WAR. 605 00:31:55,198 --> 00:31:57,333 HE HAD TO KEEP HIS RESPECTABILITY 606 00:31:57,333 --> 00:31:59,502 AS PRESIDENT OF A COUNTRY 607 00:31:59,502 --> 00:32:02,756 THAT WOULD NOT ALLOW ITSELF TO BE DEFEATED 608 00:32:02,756 --> 00:32:04,374 BY A GROUP OF REBELS. 609 00:32:04,374 --> 00:32:08,178 THAT WAS ALWAYS AN ISSUE, ESPECIALLY IN 1862. 610 00:32:08,178 --> 00:32:11,431 HE COULD NOT LET HIMSELF BE MADE A FOOL 611 00:32:11,431 --> 00:32:14,684 AND THE UNION BE MADE A FOOL 612 00:32:14,684 --> 00:32:16,853 BY STANDING UP FOR PRINCIPLES 613 00:32:16,853 --> 00:32:20,106 THAT COULD NOT BE VINDICATED ON THE BATTLEFIELD. 614 00:32:22,726 --> 00:32:27,597 ♪ I HAVE READ A FIERY GOSPEL ♪ 615 00:32:27,597 --> 00:32:33,570 ♪ WRIT IN BURNISHED ROWS OF STEEL ♪ 616 00:32:33,570 --> 00:32:36,823 ♪ AS YE DEAL WITH MY CONTEMNERS ♪ 617 00:32:37,357 --> 00:32:43,329 ♪ SO WITH YOU MY GRACE SHALL DEAL ♪ 618 00:32:43,329 --> 00:32:48,752 ♪ LET THE HERO BORN OF WOMAN ♪ 619 00:32:48,752 --> 00:32:53,623 ♪ CRUSH THE SERPENT WITH HIS HEEL ♪ 620 00:32:53,623 --> 00:33:02,298 ♪ SINCE GOD IS MARCHING ON ♪ 621 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:24,537 DESPERATE FOR A VICTORY, LINCOLN REMOVED McCLELLAN 622 00:33:24,537 --> 00:33:26,156 POPE SO OFTEN BRAGGED 623 00:33:26,156 --> 00:33:29,409 THAT HIS HEADQUARTERS WERE IN THE SADDLE, 624 00:33:29,409 --> 00:33:31,578 PEOPLE BEGAN TO SAY HE HAD HIS HEADQUARTERS 625 00:33:31,578 --> 00:33:32,128 AND PUT TALL, BOMBASTIC JOHN POPE IN COMMAND. 626 00:33:32,128 --> 00:33:34,831 WHERE HIS HINDQUARTERS SHOULD HAVE BEEN. 627 00:33:34,831 --> 00:33:37,000 LINCOLN WAS WARNED AT THE START 628 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,804 THAT POPE COULDN'T BE TRUSTED WITH TELLING THE TRUTH. 629 00:33:40,804 --> 00:33:43,506 LINCOLN SAID, "I'VE KNOWN THE POPES BACK IN ILLINOIS. 630 00:33:43,506 --> 00:33:46,226 "THEY'RE ALL LIARS AND BRAGGARTS, 631 00:33:46,226 --> 00:33:50,013 "BUT I DON'T KNOW WHY A LIAR AND A BRAGGART 632 00:33:50,013 --> 00:33:52,182 SHOULDN'T MAKE A GOOD GENERAL." 633 00:33:52,182 --> 00:33:54,901 POPE WASTED NO TIME CHARGING INTO NORTHERN VIRGINIA 634 00:33:54,901 --> 00:33:57,070 AFTER THE REBEL ARMIES, 635 00:33:57,070 --> 00:34:00,857 BUT HE WAS IN TROUBLE FROM THE START. 636 00:34:00,857 --> 00:34:04,077 FIRST, STONEWALL JACKSON FOUGHT HIM TO A STAND-OFF 637 00:34:04,077 --> 00:34:05,695 AT CEDAR MOUNTAIN. 638 00:34:05,695 --> 00:34:07,864 JEB STUART HIT HIM NEXT, 639 00:34:07,864 --> 00:34:08,948 RAIDING HIS HEADQUARTERS 640 00:34:08,948 --> 00:34:12,202 AND GETTING AWAY WITH $35,000 IN CASH 641 00:34:12,202 --> 00:34:14,370 AND THE UNION COMMANDER'S DRESS COAT. 642 00:34:14,370 --> 00:34:18,174 THEN THE REBELS SIMPLY DISAPPEARED. 643 00:34:21,377 --> 00:34:24,097 IT TOOK POPE TWO DAYS TO FIND THEM, 644 00:34:24,097 --> 00:34:26,799 DUG IN ALONG AN ABANDONED RAILROAD 645 00:34:26,799 --> 00:34:29,519 OVERLOOKING THE OLD BULL RUN BATTLEFIELD. 646 00:34:30,053 --> 00:34:33,857 ON AUGUST 29th, POPE ATTACKED, 647 00:34:33,857 --> 00:34:37,110 PROMISING TO "BAG THE WHOLE CROWD." 648 00:34:37,110 --> 00:34:39,279 BUT THE CONFEDERATES HELD, 649 00:34:39,279 --> 00:34:43,616 JACKSON'S MEN HURLING ROCKS WHEN AMMUNITION RAN LOW. 650 00:34:43,616 --> 00:34:46,870 AT 2:00 THE NEXT AFTERNOON, 651 00:34:46,870 --> 00:34:49,572 CONFEDERATE GENERAL JAMES LONGSTREET 652 00:34:49,572 --> 00:34:55,545 SENT FIVE DIVISIONS STORMING INTO THE UNION FLANK. 653 00:34:55,545 --> 00:34:58,248 IT WAS ANOTHER UNION DISASTER. 654 00:35:05,305 --> 00:35:08,007 25,000 MEN WERE KILLED, WOUNDED, OR MISSING 655 00:35:08,007 --> 00:35:09,642 AT SECOND BULL RUN, 656 00:35:09,642 --> 00:35:11,811 FIVE TIMES THE FIGURE 657 00:35:12,345 --> 00:35:12,896 THAT HAD SO HORRIFIED THE COUNTRY 658 00:35:13,429 --> 00:35:17,767 THE FIRST TIME NORTH AND SOUTH FOUGHT THERE. 659 00:35:17,767 --> 00:35:20,403 LINCOLN SENT POPE WEST TO MINNESOTA 660 00:35:20,403 --> 00:35:23,656 TO DEAL WITH AN UPRISING AMONG THE SIOUX 661 00:35:23,656 --> 00:35:25,275 AND RELUCTANTLY PUT GEORGE McCLELLAN 662 00:35:25,275 --> 00:35:27,443 BACK IN COMMAND. 663 00:35:27,443 --> 00:35:29,996 "WE MUST USE THE TOOLS WE HAVE," 664 00:35:29,996 --> 00:35:32,699 LINCOLN SAID. 665 00:35:32,699 --> 00:35:34,334 McCLELLAN TOLD HIS WIFE 666 00:35:34,334 --> 00:35:37,587 HE HAD BEEN CALLED UPON TO SAVE THE COUNTRY 667 00:35:38,121 --> 00:35:39,756 ONCE AGAIN. 668 00:35:47,347 --> 00:35:48,965 "WE WOULD ASK THE NORTH CAROLINIANS 669 00:35:48,965 --> 00:35:51,684 "IF THEY HAD ANY TAR 670 00:35:51,684 --> 00:35:53,853 "AND CALL THEM TAR HEELS. 671 00:35:53,853 --> 00:35:55,471 "THEY REPLIED NO, 672 00:35:55,471 --> 00:35:57,640 "AS THEY'D LET US VIRGINIANS HAVE IT ALL 673 00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,893 "TO MAKE US STICK IN THE LAST FIGHT 674 00:36:00,893 --> 00:36:01,894 "AND CALL US SORE BACKS, 675 00:36:01,894 --> 00:36:04,564 "AS THEY'D KNOCKED THE SKIN OFF OUR BACKS 676 00:36:04,564 --> 00:36:06,733 "RUNNING OVER US TO GET INTO BATTLE. 677 00:36:06,733 --> 00:36:09,452 "SO IT WENT, IN GOOD HUMOR, 678 00:36:09,452 --> 00:36:11,621 KNOWING ALL DID THEIR DUTY." 679 00:36:11,621 --> 00:36:16,492 JOHN CASLER, 33rd REGIMENT, VIRGINIA INFANTRY, STONEWALL'S BRIGADE. 680 00:36:17,043 --> 00:36:19,212 THEY WERE FROM THE SAME STATE. 681 00:36:19,212 --> 00:36:21,381 THEY HAD FOLLOWED THE SAME FLAG. 682 00:36:21,381 --> 00:36:23,549 THE BATTLES THEY HAD FOUGHT IN, 683 00:36:24,083 --> 00:36:26,803 THE NAMES WERE STITCHED ON THAT FLAG. 684 00:36:26,803 --> 00:36:28,421 THERE WAS UNIT PRIDE. 685 00:36:28,421 --> 00:36:31,674 THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF SADNESS 686 00:36:31,674 --> 00:36:34,394 OVER THE LOSSES THEY SUFFERED. 687 00:36:34,394 --> 00:36:36,562 THERE WAS A CLOSENESS AMONG THOSE MEN 688 00:36:36,562 --> 00:36:39,816 THAT CAME FROM YEARS OF EOSURE 689 00:36:39,816 --> 00:36:43,069 TO THE MOST HORRENDOUS WARFARE I KNOW OF. 690 00:36:43,069 --> 00:36:44,687 "DEAR FATHER, THE NEXT MORNING, 691 00:36:44,687 --> 00:36:46,856 "WE HAD OUR SECOND BATTLE. 692 00:36:46,856 --> 00:36:48,491 "IT WAS RATHER STRANGE MUSIC 693 00:36:48,491 --> 00:36:52,829 "TO HEAR THE BALLS SCREAM WITHIN AN INCH OF MY HEAD. 694 00:36:52,829 --> 00:36:56,082 "A BULLET STRUCK ME ON TOP OF THE HEAD 695 00:36:56,082 --> 00:36:59,335 "JUST AS I WAS GOING TO FIRE. 696 00:36:59,335 --> 00:37:02,588 "A BALL HIT MY FINGER. ANOTHER HIT MY THUMB. 697 00:37:02,588 --> 00:37:04,207 "THE FIRING INCREASED TENFOLD, 698 00:37:04,207 --> 00:37:06,926 "THEN IT SOUNDED LIKE THE ROLLS OF THUNDER, 699 00:37:06,926 --> 00:37:09,629 "ALL THE TIME EVERY MAN SHOUTING 700 00:37:09,629 --> 00:37:11,264 "AS LOUD AS HE COULD. 701 00:37:11,264 --> 00:37:13,433 "I GOT RATHER MORE EXCITED 702 00:37:13,433 --> 00:37:15,601 THAN I WISH TO AGAIN." 703 00:37:16,686 --> 00:37:18,304 "I SAW THE BODY 704 00:37:18,304 --> 00:37:21,557 "OF A MAN KILLED THE PREVIOUS DAY, 705 00:37:21,557 --> 00:37:24,277 "AND A HORRIBLE SIGHT IT WAS. 706 00:37:24,277 --> 00:37:27,530 "SUCH SIGHTS DON'T AFFECT ME AS THEY ONCE DID. 707 00:37:28,064 --> 00:37:29,148 "I CANNOT DESCRIBE THE CHANGE, 708 00:37:29,148 --> 00:37:32,952 "NOR DO I KNOW WHEN IT HAPPENED, 709 00:37:32,952 --> 00:37:37,290 "BUT I LOOK ON THE CARCASS OF A MAN NOW 710 00:37:37,290 --> 00:37:41,627 LIKE I WOULD WERE IT A HORSE OR A HOG." 711 00:37:41,627 --> 00:37:44,797 "SUNDAY A SOLDIER OF COMPANY A DIED AND WAS BURIED. 712 00:37:44,797 --> 00:37:46,416 "EVERYTHING WENT ON 713 00:37:46,416 --> 00:37:49,135 "AS IF NOTHING HAD HAPPENED, 714 00:37:49,135 --> 00:37:51,838 "FOR DEATH IS SO COMMON, LITTLE SENTIMENT IS WASTED. 715 00:37:51,838 --> 00:37:55,641 IT IS NOT LIKE DEATH AT HOME." 716 00:37:55,641 --> 00:37:58,344 ELISHA HUNT RHODES. 717 00:38:01,597 --> 00:38:03,766 FALLING BACK FROM THE BULL RUN BATTLEFIELD, 718 00:38:03,766 --> 00:38:07,019 UNION TROOPS SKIRMISHED BRIEFLY WITH REBEL FORCES 719 00:38:07,019 --> 00:38:09,188 AT FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA, 720 00:38:09,188 --> 00:38:12,442 WHERE THE MEN PAUSED TO SCRIBBLE THEIR NAMES 721 00:38:12,442 --> 00:38:14,610 ON THE CHAPEL WALLS. 722 00:38:16,245 --> 00:38:17,864 "IN GREAT CONTESTS," 723 00:38:17,864 --> 00:38:20,032 ABRAHAM LINCOLN WROTE AS THE SUMMER WANED, 724 00:38:20,032 --> 00:38:23,286 "EACH PARTY CLAIMS TO ACT IN ACCORDANCE 725 00:38:23,286 --> 00:38:25,455 "WITH THE WILL OF GOD. 726 00:38:25,455 --> 00:38:29,709 "BOTH MAY BE, BUT ONE MUST BE, WRONG. 727 00:38:29,709 --> 00:38:33,513 "GOD CANNOT BE FOR AND AGAINST THE SAME THING 728 00:38:34,046 --> 00:38:36,215 AT THE SAME TIME." 729 00:38:41,104 --> 00:38:43,272 "AUGUST 20, 1862. 730 00:38:43,272 --> 00:38:45,975 AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT." 731 00:38:47,610 --> 00:38:49,779 "WE THINK YOU ARE UNDULY INFLUENCED 732 00:38:49,779 --> 00:38:53,032 "BY THE COUNSELS OF CERTAIN FOSSIL POLITICIANS 733 00:38:53,032 --> 00:38:54,650 "HAILING FROM BORDER SLAVE STATES. 734 00:38:54,650 --> 00:38:57,904 "WE ASK YOU TO CONSIDER THAT SLAVERY 735 00:38:57,904 --> 00:39:00,623 "IS EVERYWHERE THE INCITING CAUSE AND SUSTAINING BASE 736 00:39:00,623 --> 00:39:02,241 "OF TREASON. 737 00:39:02,241 --> 00:39:04,961 "IT SEEMS TO US THE MOST OBVIOUS TRUTH 738 00:39:04,961 --> 00:39:07,663 "THAT WHATEVER STRENGTHENS OR FORTIFIES SLAVERY 739 00:39:07,663 --> 00:39:09,832 "DRIVES HOME THE WEDGE 740 00:39:09,832 --> 00:39:12,552 INTENDED TO DIVIDE THE UNION." 741 00:39:12,552 --> 00:39:15,254 HORACE GREELEY. 742 00:39:15,254 --> 00:39:17,974 "AUGUST 22nd. 743 00:39:17,974 --> 00:39:20,676 "MY PARAMOUNT OBJECT IN THIS STRUGGLE 744 00:39:20,676 --> 00:39:22,845 "IS TO SAVE THE UNION 745 00:39:22,845 --> 00:39:25,565 "AND IS NOT EITHER TO SAVE 746 00:39:25,565 --> 00:39:27,733 "OR TO DESTROY SLAVERY. 747 00:39:27,733 --> 00:39:29,769 "IF I COULD SAVE THE UNION 748 00:39:29,769 --> 00:39:31,404 "WITHOUT FREEING ANY SLAVE, 749 00:39:31,404 --> 00:39:32,488 "I WOULD DO IT. 750 00:39:33,022 --> 00:39:35,741 "IF I COULD SAVE IT BY FREEING ALL SLAVES, 751 00:39:35,741 --> 00:39:37,360 "I WOULD DO IT. 752 00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:41,164 "IF I COULD SAVE IT BY FREEING ONLY SOME, 753 00:39:41,164 --> 00:39:43,332 I WOULD ALSO DO THAT." 754 00:39:46,586 --> 00:39:49,288 "IT SEEMS THAT TIME IS FAST APPROACHING 755 00:39:49,288 --> 00:39:52,008 "WHEN SOME JOINT OFFER OF MEDIATION 756 00:39:52,008 --> 00:39:53,626 "BY ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND RUSSIA 757 00:39:53,626 --> 00:39:58,514 "MIGHT BE MADE TO THE COMBATANTS IN NORTH AMERICA. 758 00:39:59,048 --> 00:40:02,852 "THE PROPOSAL WOULD BE MADE TO NORTH AND SOUTH. 759 00:40:02,852 --> 00:40:06,639 "IF BOTH ACCEPTED, WE SHOULD RECOMMEND AN ARMISTICE 760 00:40:06,639 --> 00:40:08,808 "AND CESSATION OF BLOCKADES, 761 00:40:08,808 --> 00:40:10,443 "WITH A VIEW TO NEGOTIATION 762 00:40:10,443 --> 00:40:12,612 ON THE BASIS OF SEPARATION." 763 00:40:12,612 --> 00:40:14,230 PRIME MINISTER PALMERSTON. 764 00:40:14,780 --> 00:40:17,483 LINCOLN HAD TO HAVE A VICTORY./ 765 00:40:21,287 --> 00:40:23,456 "SEPTEMBER 3, 1862. 766 00:40:23,456 --> 00:40:25,625 "THE PRESENT SEEMS TO BE 767 00:40:25,625 --> 00:40:27,793 "THE MOST PROPITIOUS TIME 768 00:40:27,793 --> 00:40:29,962 "SINCE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE WAR 769 00:40:29,962 --> 00:40:33,216 FOR THE CONFEDERATE ARMY TO ENTER MARYLAND." 770 00:40:33,216 --> 00:40:35,384 ROBERT E. LEE. 771 00:40:35,384 --> 00:40:38,638 THE BRILLIANT SOUTHERN VICTORIES OF SPRING AND SUMMER 772 00:40:38,638 --> 00:40:41,340 HAD BROUGHT LEE'S ARMY INTERNATIONAL RENOWN. 773 00:40:41,340 --> 00:40:42,975 ONE MORE SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN, 774 00:40:42,975 --> 00:40:45,144 HE WROTE JEFFERSON DAVIS, 775 00:40:45,144 --> 00:40:48,397 WOULD FORCE EUROPE TO RECOGNIZE THE CONFEDERACY. 776 00:40:48,397 --> 00:40:51,100 NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, 777 00:40:51,651 --> 00:40:54,904 LEE LED 40,000 SOLDIERS ACROSS THE POTOMAC 778 00:40:54,904 --> 00:40:57,607 AND ONTO UNION SOIL. 779 00:40:57,607 --> 00:41:00,860 "THIS BODY OF MEN MOVING ALONG WITH NO ORDER, 780 00:41:00,860 --> 00:41:04,113 "THEIR GUNS CARRIED IN EVERY FASHION, 781 00:41:04,113 --> 00:41:05,748 "NO TWO DRESSED ALIKE, 782 00:41:05,748 --> 00:41:07,366 "THEIR OFFICERS HARDLY DISTINGUISHABLE 783 00:41:07,366 --> 00:41:10,086 "FROM THE PRIVATES-- 784 00:41:10,086 --> 00:41:14,423 "WERE THESE THE MEN THAT HAD DRIVEN BACK AGAIN AND AGAIN 785 00:41:14,957 --> 00:41:17,126 OUR SPLENDID LEGIONS?" 786 00:41:18,761 --> 00:41:22,548 "THEY WERE THE DIRTIEST MEN I EVER SAW, 787 00:41:22,548 --> 00:41:23,633 "A MOST RAGGED, LEAN, 788 00:41:23,633 --> 00:41:27,436 "AND HUNGRY SET OF WOLVES. 789 00:41:27,436 --> 00:41:30,139 "YET THERE WAS A DASH ABOUT THEM 790 00:41:30,139 --> 00:41:32,308 THAT THE NORTHERN MEN LACKED." 791 00:41:34,894 --> 00:41:37,563 LEE'S TARGET WAS THE FEDERAL RAIL CENTER 792 00:41:37,563 --> 00:41:39,732 AT HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA. 793 00:41:39,732 --> 00:41:41,784 HOPING MARYLANDERS WOULD RISE UP 794 00:41:41,784 --> 00:41:43,653 AGAINST THE UNION, 795 00:41:43,653 --> 00:41:46,989 HE INSTRUCTED HIS MEN TO SING MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND 796 00:41:46,989 --> 00:41:49,158 AS THEY MARCHED. 797 00:41:49,158 --> 00:41:51,327 IT DIDN'T WORK. 798 00:41:51,327 --> 00:41:53,496 MOST RESIDENTS OF THE SMALL TOWNS 799 00:41:53,496 --> 00:41:56,215 STAYED FEARFULLY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. 800 00:41:56,749 --> 00:41:59,835 THEN, ON SEPTEMBER 13th, IN A MEADOW NEAR FREDERICK, 801 00:41:59,835 --> 00:42:02,555 A UNION SOLDIER FOUND THREE CIGARS 802 00:42:02,555 --> 00:42:04,724 WRAPPED IN A PIECE OF PAPER. 803 00:42:05,257 --> 00:42:07,977 IT WAS A COPY OF LEE'S BATTLE PLANS, 804 00:42:07,977 --> 00:42:10,146 ACCIDENTALLY LEFT BEHIND. 805 00:42:10,646 --> 00:42:12,682 McCLELLAN NOW KNEW LEE HAD DIVIDED HIS ARMY, 806 00:42:13,232 --> 00:42:15,935 SENDING ONE PART OFF TO SEIZE HARPERS FERRY. 807 00:42:15,935 --> 00:42:18,654 McCLELLAN HAD IN HIS HANDS 808 00:42:18,654 --> 00:42:22,441 THE INSTRUMENT WITH WHICH TO DESTROY LEE. 809 00:42:24,610 --> 00:42:29,498 STILL, HE DID NOTHING, FOR 18 CRUCIAL HOURS. 810 00:42:33,836 --> 00:42:35,454 ON SEPTEMBER 15th, 811 00:42:35,454 --> 00:42:37,623 LEE AND HIS CONFEDERATES TOOK UP POSITIONS 812 00:42:37,623 --> 00:42:40,343 ALONG THE CREST OF A 3-MILE RIDGE 813 00:42:40,343 --> 00:42:43,596 JUST EAST OF THE TOWN OF SHARPSBURG 814 00:42:43,596 --> 00:42:45,748 AND ONLY 52 MILES FROM WASHINGTON. 815 00:42:46,265 --> 00:42:48,300 THE POTOMAC WAS AT THEIR BACK. 816 00:42:48,300 --> 00:42:52,104 IN FRONT RAN A CREEK CALLED ANTIETAM. 817 00:42:52,104 --> 00:42:54,807 "ON THE FORENOON OF THE 15th, 818 00:42:54,807 --> 00:42:57,526 "BLUE FEDERAL UNIFORMS APPEARED AMONG THE TREES 819 00:42:57,526 --> 00:43:00,780 "ON THE EASTERN BANK OF THE ANTIETAM. 820 00:43:00,780 --> 00:43:02,948 "THE FIELD OF BLUE GREW LARGER, 821 00:43:02,948 --> 00:43:07,286 "UNTIL IT STRETCHED AS FAR AS THE EYE COULD SEE. 822 00:43:07,286 --> 00:43:11,073 "FROM THE TOPS OF THE MOUNTAINS TO THE STREAM EDGES 823 00:43:11,073 --> 00:43:13,242 GATHERED McCLELLAN'S GREAT ARMY." 824 00:43:13,242 --> 00:43:15,411 GENERAL JAMES LONGSTREET. 825 00:43:15,411 --> 00:43:17,046 HAD McCLELLAN HURLED HIS ARMY 826 00:43:17,046 --> 00:43:19,215 AT THE CONFEDERATES THAT DAY, 827 00:43:19,215 --> 00:43:23,002 THE WAR MIGHT HAVE ENDED, BUT HE DID NOT. 828 00:43:23,002 --> 00:43:25,721 "THERE WAS A SINGLE ITEM IN OUR ADVANTAGE," 829 00:43:26,255 --> 00:43:27,890 AN AIDE TO LEE REMEMBERED, 830 00:43:27,890 --> 00:43:30,059 "BUT IT WAS AN IMPORTANT ONE. 831 00:43:30,059 --> 00:43:32,228 "McCLELLAN HAD BROUGHT SUPERIOR FORCES 832 00:43:32,228 --> 00:43:34,397 TO SHARPSBURG," THE AIDE CONCEDED, 833 00:43:34,397 --> 00:43:37,099 "BUT HE HAD ALSO BROUGHT HIMSELF." 834 00:43:38,734 --> 00:43:44,607 "SEPTEMBER 16th-- THAT NIGHT, I LAY BESIDE THE CHARLESTOWN PIKE 835 00:43:44,607 --> 00:43:46,776 "AND WATCHED UNTIL MORNING 836 00:43:46,776 --> 00:43:50,029 "THE GRIMY COLUMNS COME POURING UP FROM THE PONTOONS. 837 00:43:50,029 --> 00:43:52,748 "IT WAS A WEIRD, UNCANNY SIGHT 838 00:43:52,748 --> 00:43:54,366 "AND DROVE SLEEP FROM MY EYES. 839 00:43:55,451 --> 00:43:57,086 "IT WAS SOMETHING DEMON-LIKE, 840 00:43:57,620 --> 00:43:59,255 "A SCENE FROM AN INFERNO. 841 00:43:59,255 --> 00:44:01,957 "THEY WERE SILENT AS GHOSTS, 842 00:44:01,957 --> 00:44:04,126 "RUTHLESS AND RUSHING IN THEIR SPEED, 843 00:44:04,126 --> 00:44:07,930 "RAGGED, EARTH-COLORED, DISHEVELED, AND DEVILISH. 844 00:44:07,930 --> 00:44:10,599 "THE SHUFFLE OF THEIR BADLY SHOD FEET 845 00:44:10,599 --> 00:44:12,768 "ON THE HARD SURFACE OF THE PIKE 846 00:44:12,768 --> 00:44:15,471 "WAS SO RAPID AS TO BE CONTINUOUS, 847 00:44:15,471 --> 00:44:18,190 "LIKE THE HISS OF A GREAT SERPENT. 848 00:44:18,190 --> 00:44:20,893 "THE SPECTRAL, GHOSTLY PICTURE 849 00:44:20,893 --> 00:44:24,146 WILL NEVER BE ERASED FROM MY MEMORY." 850 00:44:24,146 --> 00:44:27,399 CAPTAIN EDWARD HASTINGS RIPLEY. 851 00:44:31,654 --> 00:44:32,738 "AS NIGHT GREW NEARER, 852 00:44:32,738 --> 00:44:35,458 "WHISPERS OF A GREAT BATTLE 853 00:44:35,458 --> 00:44:38,160 "TO BE FOUGHT THE NEXT DAY GREW LOUDER, 854 00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:40,880 "AND WE SHUDDERED AT THE PROSPECT, 855 00:44:41,413 --> 00:44:44,667 "FOR THE BATTLES HAD COME TO MEAN TO US, 856 00:44:44,667 --> 00:44:46,302 "AS THEY NEVER HAD BEFORE, 857 00:44:46,302 --> 00:44:49,555 BLOOD, WOUNDS, AND DEATH." 858 00:45:05,771 --> 00:45:08,491 THE BATTLE THAT BEGAN THE NEXT DAY 859 00:45:08,491 --> 00:45:10,109 WAS REALLY THREE BATTLES. 860 00:45:10,109 --> 00:45:14,446 THE FIRST BEunGAN AT 6 A.M. ON LEE'S LEFT, 861 00:45:14,446 --> 00:45:16,081 WHERE A FEDERAL FORCE 862 00:45:16,615 --> 00:45:17,700 CHARGED ALONG THE HAGERSTOWN PIKE 863 00:45:18,250 --> 00:45:20,419 TO ATTACK STONEWALL JACKSON'S MEN 864 00:45:20,419 --> 00:45:23,672 HIDDEN IN WOODS BEYOND A BIG CORNFIELD. 865 00:45:23,672 --> 00:45:25,291 THE UNION OBJECTIVE 866 00:45:25,291 --> 00:45:28,010 WAS A PLATEAU EDGED WITH ARTILLERY 867 00:45:28,544 --> 00:45:31,263 ON WHICH STOOD A SMALL WHITEWASHED CHURCH, 868 00:45:31,263 --> 00:45:35,601 BUILT BY A GERMAN BAPTIST PACIFIST SECT, THE DUNKARDS, 869 00:45:35,601 --> 00:45:42,107 FOR WHOM EVEN A STEEPLE WAS THOUGHT IMMODEST. 870 00:45:42,107 --> 00:45:45,895 THE UNION FIELD COMMANDER WAS MAJOR GENERAL JOE HOOKER, 871 00:45:45,895 --> 00:45:48,614 A PROFANE AND HARD-DRINKING MASSACHUSETTS SOLDIER 872 00:45:48,614 --> 00:45:51,867 KNOWN AS FIGHTING JOE. 873 00:45:51,867 --> 00:45:53,485 AS HOOKER CAUTIOUSLY ADVANCED, 874 00:45:53,485 --> 00:45:57,289 HE NOTICED THE GLINT OF BAYONETS IN THE CORNFIELD 875 00:45:57,289 --> 00:45:59,992 AND ORDERED FOUR BATTERIES TO FIRE INTO IT. 876 00:45:59,992 --> 00:46:01,076 [CANNON FIRE] 877 00:46:01,076 --> 00:46:03,245 THE REBELS COUNTERCHARGED. 878 00:46:03,245 --> 00:46:05,965 THE BATTLE SURGED BACK AND FORTH 879 00:46:05,965 --> 00:46:08,133 ACROSS THE CORNFIELD 15 TIMES. 880 00:46:08,133 --> 00:46:09,752 IN A MATTER OF MINUTES, 881 00:46:09,752 --> 00:46:13,556 THE 12th MASSACHUSETTS LOST 224 OF 334 MEN. 882 00:46:13,556 --> 00:46:16,809 HOOKER HIMSELF WAS CARRIED FROM THE FIELD, 883 00:46:16,809 --> 00:46:19,511 SHOT THROUGH THE FOOT. 884 00:46:20,596 --> 00:46:22,765 "THE MEN ARE LOADING AND FIRING 885 00:46:22,765 --> 00:46:24,400 "WITH DEMONIACAL FURY AND SHOUTING AND LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY, 886 00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,653 "AND THE WHOLE FIELD BEFORE US 887 00:46:27,653 --> 00:46:30,356 "IS COVERED WITH REBELS FLEEING FOR LIFE 888 00:46:30,906 --> 00:46:33,075 INTO THE WOODS." 889 00:46:33,075 --> 00:46:36,862 HOOKER'S MEN WERE CLOSING IN THE DUNKARD CHURCH. 890 00:46:36,862 --> 00:46:39,582 THEN STONEWALL JACKSON SENT IN HIS LAST RESERVES, 891 00:46:39,582 --> 00:46:43,369 JOHN BELL HOOD'S DIVISION-- FIERCE FIGHTERS AT ANY TIME, 892 00:46:43,369 --> 00:46:46,088 BUT NOW ENRAGED AT HAVING MISSED BREAKFAST, 893 00:46:46,088 --> 00:46:49,875 WHICH HAD PROMISED TO BE THEIR FIRST REAL MEAL IN DAYS. 894 00:46:49,875 --> 00:46:51,510 THEIR FIRST VOLLEY WAS 895 00:46:51,510 --> 00:46:54,763 "LIKE A SCYTHE RUNNING THROUGH OUR LINE," 896 00:46:54,763 --> 00:46:57,466 ONE UNION SURVIVOR REMEMBERED. 897 00:46:57,466 --> 00:47:00,719 AND THEN THE CONFEDERATE COUNTERATTACK CAME ON. 898 00:47:01,270 --> 00:47:03,439 [YELLING] 899 00:47:18,070 --> 00:47:21,323 "EVERY STALK OF CORN WAS CUT AS CLOSELY 900 00:47:21,323 --> 00:47:24,576 "AS COULD HAVE BEEN DONE WITH A KNIFE, 901 00:47:24,576 --> 00:47:27,296 "AND THE SLAIN LAY IN ROWS, 902 00:47:27,296 --> 00:47:29,999 "PRECISELY AS THEY HAD STOOD IN THEIR RANKS 903 00:47:29,999 --> 00:47:32,167 A FEW MOMENTS BEFORE." 904 00:47:32,167 --> 00:47:33,802 JOSEPH HOOKER. 905 00:47:37,589 --> 00:47:41,393 THE NORTHERN TROOPS RAN BACK THROUGH THE CORNFIELD. 906 00:47:41,393 --> 00:47:44,647 HOOD'S MEN RAN AFTER THEM, BUT WERE STOPPED 907 00:47:44,647 --> 00:47:47,349 BY A HAIL OF SHELLS AND FEDERAL REINFORCEMENTS. 908 00:47:47,349 --> 00:47:50,069 WHEN THE CONFEDERATES FINALLY WITHDREW, 909 00:47:50,069 --> 00:47:53,856 ONE OFFICER ASKED HOOD WHERE HIS DIVISION WAS. 910 00:47:53,856 --> 00:47:57,660 "DEAD ON THE FIELD," HE ANSWERED. 911 00:47:57,660 --> 00:48:00,362 "I HAVE NEVER IN MY SOLDIER'S LIFE 912 00:48:00,362 --> 00:48:01,964 "SEEN SUCH A SIGHT. 913 00:48:01,964 --> 00:48:04,667 "THE DEAD AND WOUNDED COVERED THE GROUND. 914 00:48:04,667 --> 00:48:05,751 "IN ONE SPOT, 915 00:48:05,751 --> 00:48:07,920 "A REBEL OFFICER AND 20 MEN 916 00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,622 "LAY NEAR A WRECK OF A BATTERY. 917 00:48:10,622 --> 00:48:12,257 "IT IS SAID BATTERY A, 918 00:48:12,257 --> 00:48:13,876 "1st RHODE ISLAND ARTILLERY 919 00:48:13,876 --> 00:48:15,511 DID THIS WORK." 920 00:48:15,511 --> 00:48:17,129 ELISHA HUNT RHODES. 921 00:48:20,382 --> 00:48:24,720 BY 10 A.M., 8,000 MEN LAY DEAD OR WOUNDED. 922 00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:28,524 JACKSON'S LINES HAD WAVERED, BUT HELD. 923 00:48:32,311 --> 00:48:35,564 AFTER HIS PART OF THE BATTLE WAS OVER, 924 00:48:35,564 --> 00:48:38,817 JACKSON WAS SITTING ON HIS HORSE, EATING A PEACH. 925 00:48:38,817 --> 00:48:39,902 HIS MEDICAL DIRECTOR, DR. McGUIRE, WAS THERE. 926 00:48:39,902 --> 00:48:42,071 "CAPTAIN COMMANDING COMPANY A, 927 00:48:42,071 --> 00:48:44,239 HE LOOKED OUT OVER THIS FIELD 928 00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:46,959 WHERE THERE WERE DEAD OF BOTH SIDES 929 00:48:46,959 --> 00:48:48,577 LITTERED ALL OVER THE PLACE. 930 00:48:48,577 --> 00:48:52,915 HE SAID, "GOD HAS BEEN VERY KIND TO US THIS DAY." 931 00:49:02,674 --> 00:49:05,394 THE SECOND PART OF THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM 932 00:49:05,394 --> 00:49:07,563 BEGAN AT THE CENTER OF LEE'S LINE, 933 00:49:07,563 --> 00:49:09,732 A SUNKEN COUNTRY ROAD 934 00:49:09,732 --> 00:49:13,519 THAT NOW SERVED AS A READY-MADE RIFLE PIT 935 00:49:13,519 --> 00:49:15,687 FOR TWO CONFEDERATE BRIGADES. 936 00:49:15,687 --> 00:49:19,491 LEE ORDERED IT HELD AT ALL COSTS. 937 00:49:19,491 --> 00:49:20,576 GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON ASSURED HIM, 938 00:49:20,576 --> 00:49:23,278 "THESE MEN ARE GOING TO STAY HERE, GENERAL, 939 00:49:23,278 --> 00:49:26,532 TILL THE SUN GOES DOWN OR VICTORY IS WON." 940 00:49:27,082 --> 00:49:30,335 THEN THE UNION ATTACKED. 941 00:49:30,335 --> 00:49:31,954 "THE BRAVE UNION COMMANDER, 942 00:49:31,954 --> 00:49:34,673 "SUPERBLY MOUNTED, PLACED HIMSELF IN FRONT, 943 00:49:34,673 --> 00:49:36,842 "WHILE HIS BAND CHEERED THEM 944 00:49:37,376 --> 00:49:39,011 "WITH MARTIAL MUSIC. 945 00:49:39,011 --> 00:49:42,264 "I THOUGHT, WHAT A PITY TO SPOIL WITH BULLETS 946 00:49:42,798 --> 00:49:44,967 SUCH A SCENE OF MARTIAL BEAUTY." 947 00:49:44,967 --> 00:49:47,136 GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON. 948 00:49:48,220 --> 00:49:51,473 GORDON LET THE BLUE LINE GET WITHIN A FEW YARDS, 949 00:49:52,024 --> 00:49:54,726 THEN GAVE THE ORDER TO FIRE. 950 00:49:54,726 --> 00:49:57,980 THE UNION COMMANDER WAS KILLED INSTANTLY, 951 00:49:57,980 --> 00:50:01,233 HIS MEN WAVERED, RETREATED, THEN CAME BACK 952 00:50:01,233 --> 00:50:05,037 AT THE CONFEDERATES FIVE MORE TIMES. 953 00:50:07,739 --> 00:50:10,993 GORDON WAS HIT TWICE IN THE RIGHT LEG, 954 00:50:10,993 --> 00:50:13,162 ONCE IN THE LEFT ARM, 955 00:50:13,162 --> 00:50:15,330 A FOURTH TIME THROUGH THE SHOULDER. 956 00:50:15,881 --> 00:50:17,499 HE REFUSED ALL AID, 957 00:50:17,499 --> 00:50:20,752 LIMPING ALONG THE LINE TO STEADY HIS MEN 958 00:50:20,752 --> 00:50:22,387 AS THE FEDERALS KEPT COMING. 959 00:50:22,387 --> 00:50:26,175 "I WAS FINALLY SHOT DOWN BY A FIFTH BALL, 960 00:50:26,175 --> 00:50:28,343 "WHICH STRUCK ME SQUARELY IN THE FACE. 961 00:50:28,343 --> 00:50:31,063 "I FELL FORWARD AND LAY UNCONSCIOUS 962 00:50:31,063 --> 00:50:33,232 "WITH MY FACE IN MY CAP. 963 00:50:33,232 --> 00:50:35,400 "I MIGHT HAVE SMOTHERED IN BLOOD 964 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,019 "BUT FOR A YANKEE BULLET HOLE 965 00:50:37,019 --> 00:50:39,738 WHICH LET THE BLOOD RUN OUT." 966 00:50:39,738 --> 00:50:41,356 STILL THE CONFEDERATES HELD. 967 00:50:41,356 --> 00:50:43,525 UNIT AFTER UNIT OF NORTHERN TROOPS 968 00:50:44,076 --> 00:50:46,245 FELL BACK FROM THE SHEETS OF SOUTHERN FIRE. 969 00:50:46,245 --> 00:50:49,498 FINALLY, SOME NEW YORKERS MANAGED TO FIND A SPOT 970 00:50:49,498 --> 00:50:51,667 FROM WHICH THEY COULD SHOOT DOWN 971 00:50:51,667 --> 00:50:54,369 ON THE ROAD'S DEFENDERS. 972 00:50:54,369 --> 00:50:56,538 THE TIDE OF BATTLE TURNED. 973 00:50:56,538 --> 00:50:59,258 THE SUNKEN ROAD, 974 00:50:59,258 --> 00:51:00,876 REMEMBERED NOW AS BLOODY LANE, 975 00:51:00,876 --> 00:51:03,595 RAPIDLY FILLED WITH SOUTHERN BODIES, 976 00:51:03,595 --> 00:51:05,764 TWO AND THREE DEEP. 977 00:51:05,764 --> 00:51:08,467 THE TRIUMPHANT FEDERALS KNELT ON TOP 978 00:51:08,467 --> 00:51:11,186 OF WHAT ONE CALLED "THIS GHASTLY FLOORING" 979 00:51:11,720 --> 00:51:13,889 TO FIRE AT THE FLEEING SURVIVORS. 980 00:51:15,524 --> 00:51:17,693 THE CONFEDERATE CENTER HAD SPLINTERED. 981 00:51:17,693 --> 00:51:20,946 ONE MORE PUSH MIGHT HAVE BROKEN IT APART. 982 00:51:20,946 --> 00:51:23,115 GENERAL McCLELLAN, HOWEVER, 983 00:51:23,115 --> 00:51:27,452 DECIDED IT "WOULD NOT BE PRUDENT" TO ATTACK AGAIN. 984 00:51:30,155 --> 00:51:33,959 ALL DAY LONG, IN HASTILY CONSTRUCTED FIELD HOSPITALS, 985 00:51:33,959 --> 00:51:36,128 CLARA BARTON TENDED THE WOUNDED. 986 00:51:36,128 --> 00:51:37,746 SHE WORKED SO CLOSE TO THE FIGHTING 987 00:51:37,746 --> 00:51:39,915 THAT A BULLET WENT THROUGH HER SLEEVE 988 00:51:39,915 --> 00:51:42,634 AND KILLED A MAN SHE WAS TREATING. 989 00:51:42,634 --> 00:51:44,803 "I HAD TO WRING THE BLOOD 990 00:51:44,803 --> 00:51:47,506 "FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY CLOTHING 991 00:51:47,506 --> 00:51:49,675 "BEFORE I COULD STEP, 992 00:51:49,675 --> 00:51:52,394 FOR THE WEIGHT ABOUT MY FEET." 993 00:51:54,012 --> 00:51:55,647 [CANNON FIRE] 994 00:51:55,647 --> 00:51:58,350 "I WAS LYING ON MY BACK, SUPPORTED ON MY ELBOWS, 995 00:51:58,350 --> 00:52:02,154 "WATCHING THE SHELLS EXPLODE OVERHEAD AND SPECULATING 996 00:52:02,154 --> 00:52:05,407 "AS TO HOW LONG I COULD HOLD UP MY FINGER 997 00:52:05,407 --> 00:52:07,025 "BEFORE IT WOULD BE SHOT OFF. 998 00:52:07,025 --> 00:52:10,279 "WHEN THE ORDER TO GET UP WAS GIVEN, 999 00:52:10,279 --> 00:52:12,998 "I TURNED OVER TO LOOK AT COLONEL KIMBALL, 1000 00:52:12,998 --> 00:52:15,701 THINKING HE HAD BECOME SUDDENLY INSANE." 1001 00:52:15,701 --> 00:52:17,869 LIEUTENANT MATTHEW J. GROHAN. 1002 00:52:20,589 --> 00:52:23,842 THE THIRD BATTLE TOOK PLACE ON THE CONFEDERATE RIGHT, 1003 00:52:23,842 --> 00:52:27,629 WHERE THE UNION ARMY, LED BY GENERAL BURNSIDE'S CORPS, 1004 00:52:27,629 --> 00:52:29,798 TRIED TO FIGHT ITS WAY 1005 00:52:29,798 --> 00:52:31,967 ACROSS A STRONGLY DEFENDED STONE BRIDGE 1006 00:52:31,967 --> 00:52:33,602 OVER ANTIETAM CREEK. 1007 00:52:35,220 --> 00:52:38,473 AMBROSE BURNSIDE WAS A GENIAL, DAPPER MAN-- 1008 00:52:39,024 --> 00:52:42,811 HIS DISTINCTIVE WHISKERS OR SIDEBURNS SET A FASHION-- 1009 00:52:42,811 --> 00:52:44,980 BUT "HE SHRANK FROM RESPONSIBILITY," 1010 00:52:44,980 --> 00:52:47,149 AN ADMIRING FELLOW OFFICER SAID, 1011 00:52:47,149 --> 00:52:48,233 "WITH SINCERE MODESTY." 1012 00:52:48,784 --> 00:52:50,402 HE OWED HIS POSITION 1013 00:52:50,402 --> 00:52:53,121 TO HIS OLD FRIEND McCLELLAN, WHO NOW PROMISED 1014 00:52:53,121 --> 00:52:55,824 TO SUPPORT HIS ASSAULT ACROSS THE BRIDGE. 1015 00:52:55,824 --> 00:52:59,077 BURNSIDE HAD 12,500 MEN 1016 00:52:59,077 --> 00:53:01,747 AGAINST BARELY 400 GEORGIANS 1017 00:53:01,747 --> 00:53:03,915 LED BY ROBERT TOOMBS. 1018 00:53:03,915 --> 00:53:05,500 BUT THE CONFEDERATES COMMANDED THE BLUFF 1019 00:53:06,051 --> 00:53:07,636 OVERLOOKING THE BRIDGE 1020 00:53:07,636 --> 00:53:10,339 AND POURED A RELENTLESS VOLLEY OF FIRE 1021 00:53:10,839 --> 00:53:12,474 DOWN ON THE UNION TROOPS. 1022 00:53:12,474 --> 00:53:15,727 IT TOOK THREE HOURS AND THREE BLOODY CHARGES 1023 00:53:15,727 --> 00:53:18,430 FOR THE FEDERALS TO CROSS THE CREEK 1024 00:53:18,981 --> 00:53:21,683 AND BEGIN FIGHTING THEIR WAY UP THE SLOPE 1025 00:53:21,683 --> 00:53:23,852 TOWARDS SHARPSBURG. 1026 00:53:23,852 --> 00:53:27,656 SEVEN SUCCESSIVE UNION COLOR BEARERS WERE HIT 1027 00:53:27,656 --> 00:53:29,825 BEFORE THE CONFEDERATES FINALLY BROKE, 1028 00:53:29,825 --> 00:53:31,994 RACING BACK INTO THE TOWN. 1029 00:53:32,527 --> 00:53:34,696 "OH, HOW I RAN. 1030 00:53:34,696 --> 00:53:37,949 "I WAS AFRAID OF BEING STRUCK IN THE BACK, 1031 00:53:37,949 --> 00:53:41,753 "AND I FREQUENTLY TURNED AROUND IN RUNNING 1032 00:53:41,753 --> 00:53:45,007 SO AS TO AVOID SO DISGRACEFUL A WOUND." 1033 00:53:45,007 --> 00:53:47,175 PRIVATE JOHN DOOLEY. 1034 00:53:47,175 --> 00:53:50,429 UNION VICTORY AGAIN SEEMED CERTAIN. 1035 00:53:52,047 --> 00:53:54,216 BUT WHILE THE UNION TROOPS CHEERED, 1036 00:53:54,216 --> 00:53:56,385 THE CONFEDERATE LIGHT DIVISION WAS ARRIVING 1037 00:53:56,935 --> 00:53:58,553 FROM HARPERS FERRY... 1038 00:53:58,553 --> 00:54:02,357 3,000 MEN, FOOTSORE FROM THEIR 17-MILE MARCH, 1039 00:54:02,357 --> 00:54:05,060 BUT OTHERWISE READY TO FIGHT 1040 00:54:05,060 --> 00:54:07,229 AND COMMANDED BY GENERAL A.P. HILL, 1041 00:54:07,229 --> 00:54:11,566 DRESSED IN THE RED SHIRT HE LIKED TO WEAR IN BATTLE. 1042 00:54:11,566 --> 00:54:14,286 "A.P. HILL IS THE FIGHTINGEST DIVISION COMMANDER 1043 00:54:14,286 --> 00:54:16,455 "IN LEE'S ARMY. 1044 00:54:16,455 --> 00:54:19,708 "HILL ARRIVED AT ANOTHER NICK-OF-THE-MOMENT THING, 1045 00:54:19,708 --> 00:54:21,877 "AND IT WAS THE LAST ONE. 1046 00:54:22,411 --> 00:54:25,130 "IT SUCCEEDED IN THROWING BURNSIDE BACK 1047 00:54:25,130 --> 00:54:27,833 AFTER HE FINALLY GOT ACROSS THE BRIDGE." 1048 00:54:30,552 --> 00:54:34,339 HILL SLAMMED INTO THE CELEBRATING UNION TROOPS. 1049 00:54:34,339 --> 00:54:36,975 BURNSIDE BEGGED McCLELLAN TO SEND UP 1050 00:54:36,975 --> 00:54:39,144 THE REINFORCEMENTS HE HAD PROMISED. 1051 00:54:39,144 --> 00:54:40,762 McCLELLAN REFUSED. 1052 00:54:45,100 --> 00:54:46,184 AS NIGHT FELL, BURNSIDE WITHDREW 1053 00:54:46,735 --> 00:54:50,522 TO THE BRIDGE HE FOUGHT SO HARD TO SEIZE. 1054 00:54:51,573 --> 00:54:54,276 THE BATTLE WAS OVER. 1055 00:54:54,276 --> 00:54:56,445 NO GROUND HAD BEEN GAINED. 1056 00:55:31,696 --> 00:55:33,315 "BEFORE THE SUNLIGHT FADED, 1057 00:55:33,315 --> 00:55:36,034 "I WALKED OVER THE NARROW FIELD. 1058 00:55:36,034 --> 00:55:38,737 "ALL AROUND LAY THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, 1059 00:55:38,737 --> 00:55:39,821 "CLAD IN BUTTERNUT. 1060 00:55:39,821 --> 00:55:43,625 "AS I LOOKED DOWN ON THE POOR PINCHED FACES, 1061 00:55:43,625 --> 00:55:45,794 ALL ENMITY DIED OUT." 1062 00:55:49,047 --> 00:55:51,750 "THERE WASECESSIONSSI IN THOSE RIGID FORMS, 1063 00:55:51,750 --> 00:55:55,554 "NOR IN THOSE FIXED EYES STARING AT THE SKY. 1064 00:55:55,554 --> 00:55:58,807 CLEARLY, IT WAS NOT THEIR WAR." 1065 00:55:59,891 --> 00:56:03,145 "THE SUN WENT DOWN. THE THUNDER DIED AWAY. 1066 00:56:03,145 --> 00:56:05,847 "THE MUSKETRY CEASED. 1067 00:56:05,847 --> 00:56:08,016 "BIVOUAC FIRES GLEAMED OUT 1068 00:56:08,016 --> 00:56:12,354 AS IF A GREAT CITY HAD LIGHTED ITS LAMPS." 1069 00:56:14,523 --> 00:56:16,691 IT HAD BEEN THE BLOODIEST DAY 1070 00:56:16,691 --> 00:56:18,326 IN AMERICAN HISTORY. 1071 00:56:18,326 --> 00:56:22,113 THE UNION LOST 2,108 DEAD, 1072 00:56:22,113 --> 00:56:24,833 ANOTHER 10,293 WOUNDED OR MISSING-- 1073 00:56:25,367 --> 00:56:30,255 DOUBLE THE CASUALTIES OF D-DAY 82 YEARS LATER. 1074 00:56:30,255 --> 00:56:34,593 LEE LOST FEWER MEN-- 10,318 CASUALTIES-- 1075 00:56:34,593 --> 00:56:39,464 BUT THAT WAS A QUARTER OF HIS ARMY. 1076 00:56:48,139 --> 00:56:50,859 "WHY DID WE NOT ATTACK THEM 1077 00:56:50,859 --> 00:56:53,562 "AND DRIVE THEM INTO THE RIVER? 1078 00:56:53,562 --> 00:56:55,197 "I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS. 1079 00:56:55,197 --> 00:56:58,450 BUT THEN, I AM ONLY A BOY." 1080 00:56:58,450 --> 00:57:00,068 ELISHA HUNT RHODES. 1081 00:57:02,787 --> 00:57:04,406 McCLELLAN HAD PLENTY OF RESERVES 1082 00:57:04,406 --> 00:57:06,575 WAITING OUTSIDE SHARPSBURG, 1083 00:57:06,575 --> 00:57:09,294 BUT HE NEVER USED THEM. 1084 00:57:10,378 --> 00:57:11,997 LEE, OUTNUMBERED 3-TO-1, 1085 00:57:11,997 --> 00:57:15,250 BRACED FOR A NEW ATTACK ALL THE NEXT DAY. 1086 00:57:15,250 --> 00:57:17,419 IT NEVER CAME. 1087 00:57:17,969 --> 00:57:21,223 ON THE 18th, LEE AND HIS ARMY SLIPPED BACK 1088 00:57:21,223 --> 00:57:22,841 ACROSS THE POTOMAC. 1089 00:57:22,841 --> 00:57:25,343 McCLELLAN COULD CLAIM A VICTORY, 1090 00:57:25,343 --> 00:57:28,063 BUT HE COULD HAVE WON THE WAR. 1091 00:57:28,063 --> 00:57:30,232 LEE'S INVASION HAD BEEN HALTED, 1092 00:57:30,232 --> 00:57:32,934 HE HAD SUFFERED TERRIBLE LOSSES, 1093 00:57:32,934 --> 00:57:36,187 BUT HIS ARMY HAD NOT BEEN DESTROYED. 1094 00:57:45,664 --> 00:57:49,451 "THE CAUSES OF THE WAR WERE WIDE APART, 1095 00:57:49,451 --> 00:57:52,170 BUT THE MANHOOD WAS THE SAME." 1096 00:57:52,170 --> 00:57:55,957 JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN, 20th MAINE. 1097 00:57:57,926 --> 00:58:00,095 HELD IN RESERVE OUTSIDE SHARPSBURG, 1098 00:58:00,095 --> 00:58:02,797 THE 20th MAINE INCLUDED FARMERS AND LUMBERMEN, 1099 00:58:02,797 --> 00:58:05,517 SEAMEN AND SHOPKEEPERS AND TRAPPERS. 1100 00:58:05,517 --> 00:58:08,770 ITS COLONEL WAS JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN, 1101 00:58:08,770 --> 00:58:12,023 A 33-YEAR-OLD PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC, ORATORY, 1102 00:58:12,023 --> 00:58:14,192 AND MODERN LANGUAGES AT BOWDOIN COLLEGE. 1103 00:58:14,192 --> 00:58:17,445 DENIED A LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO ENLIST, 1104 00:58:17,445 --> 00:58:21,232 HE APPLIED FOR A SABBATICAL TO STUDY IN EUROPE, 1105 00:58:21,232 --> 00:58:22,317 THEN VOLUNTEERED. 1106 00:58:22,317 --> 00:58:25,036 ON PAPER, HIS ONLY QUALIFICATION FOR COMMAND 1107 00:58:25,036 --> 00:58:29,324 WAS THAT HE WAS A GENTLEMAN OF THE HIGHEST MORAL, 1108 00:58:29,324 --> 00:58:31,459 INTELLECTUAL, AND LITERARY WORTH. 1109 00:58:31,459 --> 00:58:34,162 CHAMBERLAIN WAS STILL AT SHARPSBURG 1110 00:58:34,162 --> 00:58:37,966 WHEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN CAME TO SEE THE BATTLEFIELD. 1111 00:58:41,219 --> 00:58:43,388 "WE COULD SEE THE DEEP SADNESS 1112 00:58:43,388 --> 00:58:45,557 "IN THE PRESIDENT'S FACE 1113 00:58:45,557 --> 00:58:48,259 "AND FEEL THE BURDEN ON HIS HEART, 1114 00:58:48,259 --> 00:58:51,513 "THINKING OF HIS COMMISSION TO SAVE THIS PEOPLE 1115 00:58:51,513 --> 00:58:55,317 "AND KNOWING HE COULD DO THIS NO OTHERWISE 1116 00:58:55,317 --> 00:58:56,401 "THAN AS HE HAD BEEN DOING-- 1117 00:58:56,401 --> 00:58:59,654 BY AND THROUGH THE MANLINESS OF THESE MEN." 1118 00:59:01,740 --> 00:59:04,442 WATCHING THE PRESIDENT REVIEW HIS TROOPS, 1119 00:59:04,442 --> 00:59:07,696 IT SEEMED TO JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN 1120 00:59:07,696 --> 00:59:10,949 THAT A "MYSTIC BOND, WONDERFUL IN ITS INTENSITY," 1121 00:59:10,949 --> 00:59:14,202 JOINED THE MEN TO THEIR COMMANDER IN CHIEF. 1122 00:59:16,371 --> 00:59:19,624 THE OBJECT OF LINCOLN'S VISIT 1123 00:59:19,624 --> 00:59:22,877 WAS TO GET McCLELLAN TO PURSUE LEE. 1124 00:59:22,877 --> 00:59:26,681 "I CAME BACK THINKING HE WOULD MOVE AT ONCE. 1125 00:59:26,681 --> 00:59:27,766 "WHEN I GOT HOME, 1126 00:59:28,299 --> 00:59:31,553 "HE ARGUED WHY HE OUGHT NOT TO MOVE. 1127 00:59:31,553 --> 00:59:33,722 "I ORDERED HIM TO ADVANCE. 1128 00:59:33,722 --> 00:59:37,525 "IT WAS 19 DAYS BEFORE HE PUT A MAN OVER THE RIVER, 1129 00:59:37,525 --> 00:59:42,397 "AND NINE DAYS LONGER BEFORE HE GOT HIS ARMY ACROSS. 1130 00:59:42,397 --> 00:59:44,566 AND THEN HE STOPPED AGAIN." 1131 00:59:44,566 --> 00:59:47,819 LINCOLN AT LAST HAD HAD ENOUGH OF GEORGE McCLELLAN. 1132 00:59:47,819 --> 00:59:51,623 THE PRESIDENT RELIEVED HIM OF COMMAND PERMANENTLY. 1133 00:59:51,623 --> 00:59:54,876 "THEY HAVE MADE A GREAT MISTAKE. 1134 00:59:54,876 --> 00:59:57,579 ALAS, FOR MY POOR COUNTRY." 1135 01:00:05,170 --> 01:00:07,889 "SEPTEMBER 21, 1862. 1136 01:00:07,889 --> 01:00:10,058 "DEAR SAM, JR., 1137 01:00:10,058 --> 01:00:13,311 "A GREAT MANY OF YOUR OLD FRIENDS AND SCHOOLMATES 1138 01:00:13,311 --> 01:00:16,014 "HAVE DIED OR BEEN KILLED. 1139 01:00:16,014 --> 01:00:20,351 "I WILL MERELY NAME LEM AMBERCROMBIE, 1140 01:00:20,902 --> 01:00:23,605 "JEFF MONTGOMERY, 1141 01:00:23,605 --> 01:00:25,774 "JOHN GARRETT, 1142 01:00:25,774 --> 01:00:29,577 "LEM HATCH, JOHN HILL, 1143 01:00:29,577 --> 01:00:33,331 "PROCTOR PORTER, BILL HUMES, 1144 01:00:33,865 --> 01:00:41,456 "JOHN WHITE, WALTER MAXEY, ANGUS ALSTON. 1145 01:00:41,456 --> 01:00:43,625 "OLD MRS. THOMAS OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD 1146 01:00:44,175 --> 01:00:46,344 "HAS LOST FIVE SONS. 1147 01:00:46,878 --> 01:00:50,682 YOUR MOTHER, MARGARET HOUSTON." 1148 01:00:53,384 --> 01:00:57,188 YOU DO HAVE A PROBLEM WHEN YOU HAVE UNITS 1149 01:00:57,188 --> 01:01:00,975 THAT ARE FROM STATES AND COUNTIES AND EVEN TOWNS. 1150 01:01:00,975 --> 01:01:02,610 AND ONE OF THOSE REGIMENTS 1151 01:01:02,610 --> 01:01:05,864 CAN GET IN A VERY TIGHT SPOT 1152 01:01:05,864 --> 01:01:08,032 IN A PARTICULAR BATTLE, 1153 01:01:08,032 --> 01:01:10,201 AND THE NEWS MAY BE 1154 01:01:10,201 --> 01:01:13,455 THAT THERE ARE NO MORE YOUNG MEN IN THAT TOWN. 1155 01:01:13,455 --> 01:01:15,623 THEY'RE ALL DEAD. 1156 01:01:30,054 --> 01:01:33,842 IN OCTOBER OF 1862, AT HIS NEW YORK GALLERY, 1157 01:01:33,842 --> 01:01:37,095 MATHEW BRADY OPENED AN EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS 1158 01:01:37,095 --> 01:01:39,814 ENTITLED "THE DEAD OF ANTIETAM." 1159 01:01:39,814 --> 01:01:45,770 NOTHING LIKE THEM HAD EVER BEEN SEEN IN AMERICA BEFORE. 1160 01:01:47,405 --> 01:01:51,743 "THE DEAD OF THE BATTLEFIELD COME UP TO US VERY RARELY, 1161 01:01:52,277 --> 01:01:54,445 EVEN IN DREAMS." 1162 01:01:56,614 --> 01:01:58,783 "WE SEE THE LISTS 1163 01:01:58,783 --> 01:02:00,952 "IN THE MORNING PAPER AT BREAKFAST, 1164 01:02:00,952 --> 01:02:04,205 BUT DISMISS ITS RECOLLECTION WITH THE COFFEE." 1165 01:02:06,374 --> 01:02:08,543 "MR. MATHEW BRADY HAS DONE SOMETHING 1166 01:02:08,543 --> 01:02:10,712 "TO BRING TO US THE TERRIBLE REALITY 1167 01:02:10,712 --> 01:02:13,431 AND EARNESTNESS OF THE WAR." 1168 01:02:14,516 --> 01:02:16,684 "IF HE HAS NOT BROUGHT BODIES 1169 01:02:17,218 --> 01:02:19,387 "AND LAID THEM IN OUR DOORYARDS, 1170 01:02:19,387 --> 01:02:22,640 HE HAS DONE SOMETHING VERY LIKE IT." 1171 01:02:33,484 --> 01:02:35,653 AGAINST THE ADVICE OF HIS ADVISERS, 1172 01:02:36,204 --> 01:02:39,457 LINCOLN REINSTATED U.S. GRANT TO FIELD COMMAND. 1173 01:02:39,457 --> 01:02:44,879 "I CAN'T SPARE THIS MAN," LINCOLN SAID. "HE FIGHTS." 1174 01:02:45,964 --> 01:02:48,132 1,000 MILES TO THE WEST, 1175 01:02:48,132 --> 01:02:50,835 VICKSBURG, HIGH ON A BLUFF OVERLOOKING THE MISSISSIPPI, 1176 01:02:50,835 --> 01:02:53,004 REMAINED CONFEDERATE. 1177 01:02:53,004 --> 01:02:55,173 "VICKSBURG," JEFFERSON DAVIS SAID, 1178 01:02:55,173 --> 01:02:56,257 "IS THE NAIL 1179 01:02:56,257 --> 01:03:00,061 THAT HOLDS THE SOUTH'S TWO HALVES TOGETHER." 1180 01:03:00,061 --> 01:03:02,764 THAT FALL, GRANT TRIED TO TAKE 1181 01:03:02,764 --> 01:03:04,933 THE HEAVILY FORTIFIED CITY. 1182 01:03:04,933 --> 01:03:06,568 HE FAILED. 1183 01:03:07,652 --> 01:03:09,821 THE CONFEDERACY WAS ON THE OFFENSIVE 1184 01:03:09,821 --> 01:03:11,990 OVER A 1,000-MILE FRONT. 1185 01:03:11,990 --> 01:03:15,243 MR. GLADSTONE, A POWER IN THE ENGLISH CABINET, 1186 01:03:15,243 --> 01:03:17,946 IS SAYING, "JEFF DAVIS MADE A NAVY. 1187 01:03:17,946 --> 01:03:21,199 HE'S MADE AN ARMY," AND, WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT, 1188 01:03:21,199 --> 01:03:22,800 INTIMATING HE'S MADE A NATION. 1189 01:03:23,351 --> 01:03:25,503 BUT THE INVASION OF MARYLAND FAILS. 1190 01:03:25,503 --> 01:03:28,756 LEE IS DEFEATED, FALLS BACK. 1191 01:03:28,756 --> 01:03:30,375 THEY LOSE AT PERRYVILLE IN KENTUCKY. 1192 01:03:30,375 --> 01:03:33,628 THEY LOSE AT IUKA AND CORINTH IN MISSISSIPPI, 1193 01:03:33,628 --> 01:03:35,263 EVEN NEWTONIA IN MISSOURI. 1194 01:03:35,797 --> 01:03:37,966 THE CONFEDERATE TIDE ROLLS BACK. 1195 01:03:37,966 --> 01:03:40,685 LINCOLN, AS A RESULT OF ANTIETAM, 1196 01:03:40,685 --> 01:03:43,938 CONVERTED THE WAR TO A HIGHER PLANE, 1197 01:03:43,938 --> 01:03:46,107 AGAIN THE MASTER POLITICIAN. 1198 01:03:46,107 --> 01:03:48,810 HE ANNOUNCES A PRELIMINARY EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. 1199 01:03:48,810 --> 01:03:53,147 OF COURSE, IT DOESN'T FREE A SINGLE SLAVE IN REVOLT, 1200 01:03:53,147 --> 01:03:54,782 FREES ONLY AS A WAR MEASURE 1201 01:03:55,867 --> 01:03:58,036 AND ONLY FREES SLAVES IN STATES 1202 01:03:58,036 --> 01:04:00,738 WHERE THE CONFEDERACY IS IN CONTROL, 1203 01:04:00,738 --> 01:04:04,542 AND IT TAKES EFFECT ON THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY. 1204 01:04:06,127 --> 01:04:08,796 "ON THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, 1205 01:04:08,796 --> 01:04:13,134 "IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1863, 1206 01:04:13,134 --> 01:04:15,837 "ALL PERSONS HELD AS SLAVES WITHIN ANY STATE 1207 01:04:15,837 --> 01:04:19,090 "OR DESIGNATED PART OF A STATE, 1208 01:04:19,090 --> 01:04:21,809 "THE PEOPLE WHEREOF SHALL THEN BE IN REBELLION 1209 01:04:21,809 --> 01:04:23,978 "AGAINST THE UNITED STATES, 1210 01:04:23,978 --> 01:04:28,850 "SHALL BE THEN, THENCEFORTH, AND FOREVER FREE. 1211 01:04:28,850 --> 01:04:31,569 ABRAHAM LINCOLN." 1212 01:04:33,187 --> 01:04:35,907 ON SEPTEMBER 22nd, 1213 01:04:35,907 --> 01:04:38,609 JUST FIVE DAYS AFTER THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM, 1214 01:04:39,160 --> 01:04:41,863 THE PRESIDENT ISSUED HIS EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. 1215 01:04:41,863 --> 01:04:44,582 "IF MY NAME EVER GOES INTO HISTORY," 1216 01:04:45,116 --> 01:04:46,200 LINCOLN SAID, 1217 01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:49,454 "IT WILL BE FOR THIS ACT." 1218 01:04:50,538 --> 01:04:52,173 THE SOUTH WAS OUTRAGED. 1219 01:04:52,173 --> 01:04:55,426 JEFFERSON DAVIS CALLED IT THE "MOST EXECRABLE MEASURE 1220 01:04:55,426 --> 01:04:58,680 RECORDED IN THE HISTORY OF GUILTY MAN." 1221 01:05:09,524 --> 01:05:11,693 AT A WASHINGTON DINNER, JOHN HAY, 1222 01:05:11,693 --> 01:05:14,395 THE PRESIDENT'S 23-YEAR-OLD SECRETARY, 1223 01:05:14,395 --> 01:05:16,564 NOTED "EVERYONE SEEMED TO FEEL 1224 01:05:16,564 --> 01:05:18,733 "A NEW SORT OF EXHILARATING LIFE. 1225 01:05:18,733 --> 01:05:21,452 "THE PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION HAD FREED THEM, 1226 01:05:21,452 --> 01:05:24,706 AS WELL AS THE SLAVES." 1227 01:05:26,324 --> 01:05:28,493 "IT WAS NO LONGER A QUESTION 1228 01:05:28,493 --> 01:05:30,661 "OF THE UNION AS IT WAS 1229 01:05:30,661 --> 01:05:32,830 "THAT WAS TO BE RE-ESTABLISHED. 1230 01:05:32,830 --> 01:05:36,084 "IT WAS THE UNION AS IT SHOULD BE-- 1231 01:05:36,084 --> 01:05:38,252 "THAT IS TO SAY, WASHED CLEAN 1232 01:05:38,252 --> 01:05:40,972 "FROM ITS ORIGINAL SIN. 1233 01:05:40,972 --> 01:05:43,674 "WE WERE NO LONGER MERELY THE SOLDIERS 1234 01:05:43,674 --> 01:05:45,309 "OF A POLITICAL CONTROVERSY. 1235 01:05:45,843 --> 01:05:47,478 "WE WERE NOW THE MISSIONARIES 1236 01:05:47,478 --> 01:05:49,647 "OF A GREAT WORK OF REDEMPTION, 1237 01:05:49,647 --> 01:05:51,816 "THE ARMED LIBERATORS OF MILLIONS. 1238 01:05:51,816 --> 01:05:56,687 THE WAR WAS ENNOBLED. THE OBJECT WAS HIGHER." 1239 01:05:59,407 --> 01:06:02,110 ABROAD, THE PROCLAMATION HAD THE EFFECT 1240 01:06:02,110 --> 01:06:03,745 LINCOLN HAD HOPED FOR. 1241 01:06:04,278 --> 01:06:07,532 NEITHER ENGLAND NOR FRANCE WAS WILLING OPENLY TO OPPOSE 1242 01:06:07,532 --> 01:06:11,285 A UNITED STATES PLEDGE TO END SLAVERY. 1243 01:06:11,285 --> 01:06:13,454 "THE TRIUMPH OF THE CONFEDERACY 1244 01:06:13,454 --> 01:06:15,623 "WOULD BE A VICTORY OF EVIL, 1245 01:06:15,623 --> 01:06:19,427 "WHICH WOULD GIVE COURAGE TO THE ENEMIES OF PROGRESS 1246 01:06:19,427 --> 01:06:22,130 "AND DAMP THE SPIRITS OF FRIENDS 1247 01:06:22,130 --> 01:06:24,298 "ALL OVER THE CIVILIZED WORLD. 1248 01:06:24,298 --> 01:06:25,933 "THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1249 01:06:25,933 --> 01:06:29,187 "IS DESTINED TO BE A TURNING POINT, 1250 01:06:29,187 --> 01:06:30,805 "FOR GOOD OR EVIL, 1251 01:06:30,805 --> 01:06:33,524 OF THE COURSE OF HUMAN AFFAIRS." 1252 01:06:33,524 --> 01:06:35,143 JOHN STUART MILL. 1253 01:06:36,778 --> 01:06:39,480 "PUT NOT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES, 1254 01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:43,818 "AND REST NOT YOUR HOPES ON FOREIGN NATIONS. 1255 01:06:43,818 --> 01:06:45,453 "THIS WAR IS OURS. 1256 01:06:45,987 --> 01:06:50,324 WE MUST FIGHT IT OUT OURSELVES." 1257 01:06:50,875 --> 01:06:53,044 JEFFERSON DAVIS. 1258 01:06:57,381 --> 01:07:02,253 THAT DECEMBER, LINCOLN SPOKE TO CONGRESS. 1259 01:07:02,253 --> 01:07:04,422 "THE DOGMAS OF THE QUIET PAST 1260 01:07:04,422 --> 01:07:06,591 "ARE INADEQUATE TO THE STORMY PRESENT. 1261 01:07:06,591 --> 01:07:07,675 "AS OUR CASE IS NEW, SO WE MUST THINK ANEW 1262 01:07:12,013 --> 01:07:13,447 "AND ACT ANEW. 1263 01:07:13,447 --> 01:07:16,167 "WE MUST DISENTHRALL OURSELVES, 1264 01:07:16,167 --> 01:07:20,421 "AND THEN WE SHALL SAVE OUR COUNTRY. 1265 01:07:20,421 --> 01:07:24,225 "FELLOW CITIZENS, WE CANNOT ESCAPE HISTORY. 1266 01:07:24,225 --> 01:07:26,928 "THE FIERY TRIAL THROUGH WHICH WE PASS 1267 01:07:26,928 --> 01:07:29,647 "WILL LIGHT US DOWN, IN HONOR OR DISHONOR, 1268 01:07:29,647 --> 01:07:31,816 "TO THE LATEST GENERATION. 1269 01:07:32,350 --> 01:07:35,603 "WE SAY WE ARE FOR UNION. 1270 01:07:35,603 --> 01:07:39,340 "THE WORLD WILL NOT FORGET THAT WE SAY THIS. 1271 01:07:39,874 --> 01:07:42,593 "IN GIVING FREEDOM TO THE SLAVE, 1272 01:07:42,593 --> 01:07:45,847 "WE ASSURE FREEDOM TO THE FREE-- 1273 01:07:46,380 --> 01:07:49,634 "HONORABLE ALIKE IN WHAT WE GIVE 1274 01:07:49,634 --> 01:07:51,802 "AND WHAT WE PRESERVE. 1275 01:07:51,802 --> 01:07:55,056 "WE SHALL NOBLY SAVE OR MEANLY LOSE 1276 01:07:55,056 --> 01:07:58,860 THE LAST BEST HOPE OF EARTH." 1277 01:08:09,153 --> 01:08:10,788 "DECEMBER 31. 1278 01:08:11,322 --> 01:08:14,575 "THE YEAR 1862 IS DRAWING TO A CLOSE, 1279 01:08:14,575 --> 01:08:17,295 "AND AS I LOOK BACK, I AM BEWILDERED 1280 01:08:17,295 --> 01:08:20,548 "WHEN I THINK OF THE HUNDREDS OF MILES 1281 01:08:20,548 --> 01:08:22,166 "I HAVE TRAMPED, 1282 01:08:22,166 --> 01:08:24,886 "THE THOUSANDS OF DEAD AND WOUNDED I'VE SEEN. 1283 01:08:24,886 --> 01:08:26,504 "BUT WE HOPE FOR THE BEST 1284 01:08:26,504 --> 01:08:30,841 "AND FEEL SURE THAT THE UNION WILL BE RESTORED. 1285 01:08:30,841 --> 01:08:32,476 GOODBYE, 1862." 1286 01:08:32,476 --> 01:08:34,645 ELISHA HUNT RHODES. 1287 01:08:37,348 --> 01:08:40,067 "WE SHOUT FOR JOY THAT WE LIVE TO RECORD 1288 01:08:40,601 --> 01:08:44,405 "THIS RIGHTEOUS DECREE-- FREE FOREVER! 1289 01:08:44,405 --> 01:08:47,108 "OH, YE MILLIONS OF FREE AND LOYAL MEN 1290 01:08:47,108 --> 01:08:49,827 "WHO HAVE EARNESTLY SOUGHT 1291 01:08:49,827 --> 01:08:51,996 "TO FREE YOUR BLEEDING COUNTRY 1292 01:08:51,996 --> 01:08:55,249 "FROM THE DREADFUL RAVAGES OF REVOLUTION AND ANARCHY, 1293 01:08:55,249 --> 01:08:58,502 "LIFT UP NOW YOUR VOICES WITH JOY AND THANKSGIVING, 1294 01:08:58,502 --> 01:09:01,205 "FOR WITH FREEDOM TO THE SLAVE 1295 01:09:01,205 --> 01:09:03,925 WILL COME PEACE AND SAFETY TO YOUR COUNTRY." 1296 01:09:03,925 --> 01:09:07,178 FREDERICK DOUGLASS. 1297 01:09:07,178 --> 01:09:08,262 [BELL TOLLS] 1298 01:09:08,262 --> 01:09:11,515 ON DECEMBER 31st, A LARGE CROWD OF ABOLITIONISTS, 1299 01:09:11,515 --> 01:09:14,218 INCLUDING HARRIET TUBMAN AND WENDELL PHILLIPS, 1300 01:09:14,218 --> 01:09:16,938 GATHERED TOGETHER THE MUSIC HALL IN BOSTON. 1301 01:09:16,938 --> 01:09:18,556 AT MIDNIGHT, 1302 01:09:18,556 --> 01:09:21,275 THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION WOULD TAKE EFFECT. 1303 01:09:21,275 --> 01:09:23,444 ON THE STAGE, WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON 1304 01:09:23,444 --> 01:09:26,697 WEPT WITH JOY BESIDE FREDERICK DOUGLASS. 1305 01:09:26,697 --> 01:09:30,484 THE CHEERING CROWD CALLED FOR HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. 1306 01:09:32,653 --> 01:09:36,457 SHE STOOD IN THE BALCONY, TEARS IN HER EYES. 1307 01:09:37,541 --> 01:09:40,244 AT A WASHINGTON, D.C., CONTRABAND CAMP, 1308 01:09:40,244 --> 01:09:42,964 FORMER SLAVES TESTIFIED. 1309 01:09:42,964 --> 01:09:45,666 ONE REMEMBERED THE SALE OF HIS DAUGHTER. 1310 01:09:45,666 --> 01:09:49,470 "NOW NO MORE OF THAT," HE SAID. 1311 01:09:49,470 --> 01:09:52,173 "THEY CAN'T SELL MY WIFE AND CHILDREN ANYMORE. 1312 01:09:52,173 --> 01:09:55,426 BLESS THE LORD." 1313 01:09:59,230 --> 01:10:01,932 ON THE SEA ISLANDS OFF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1314 01:10:01,932 --> 01:10:04,652 FEDERAL AGENTS READ THE PROCLAMATION ALOUD 1315 01:10:04,652 --> 01:10:06,821 TO FORMER SLAVES 1316 01:10:07,355 --> 01:10:10,608 UNDER THE SPREADING BOUGHS OF A HUGE OAK TREE. 1317 01:10:10,608 --> 01:10:13,861 AS THE COMMANDER OF A NEW ALL-BLACK REGIMENT 1318 01:10:13,861 --> 01:10:16,030 UNFURLED AN AMERICAN FLAG, 1319 01:10:16,030 --> 01:10:18,749 HIS MEN BROKE INTO SONG. 1320 01:10:18,749 --> 01:10:21,452 "IT SEEMED THE CHOKED VOICE 1321 01:10:21,452 --> 01:10:25,256 OF A RACE AT LAST UNLOOSED," HE WROTE. 1322 01:10:31,762 --> 01:10:35,549 ♪ IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES ♪ 1323 01:10:36,100 --> 01:10:40,971 ♪ CHRIST WAS BORN ACROSS THE SEA ♪ 1324 01:10:40,971 --> 01:10:44,225 ♪ WITH A GLORY IN HIS BOSOM ♪ 1325 01:10:44,225 --> 01:10:49,113 ♪ THAT TRANSFIGURES YOU AND ME ♪ 1326 01:10:49,113 --> 01:10:52,900 ♪ AS HE DIED TO MAKE MEN HOLY ♪ 1327 01:10:52,900 --> 01:10:56,704 ♪ LET US DIE TO MAKE MEN FREE ♪ 1328 01:10:56,704 --> 01:10:58,322 ♪ WHILE GOD IS MARCHING ON ♪ 1329 01:10:58,322 --> 01:11:06,464 ♪ GLORY, GLORY HALLELUJAH ♪ 1330 01:11:06,464 --> 01:11:16,757 ♪ GLORY, GLORY HALLELUJAH ♪ 1331 01:11:16,757 --> 01:11:32,807 ♪ HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON ♪ 1332 01:11:36,577 --> 01:11:39,814 CAPTIONED BY THE NATIONAL CAPTIONING INSTITUTE --www.ncicap.org--