America The Story Of Us....Tonight 9:00 est

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Anyone else been watching this ? Tonight it covers the American Civil War. I'm not much of a TV watcher however I've been checking this out since episode # 1 its very well done IMO. History Channel ...9:00 est / 8:00 cst.

[MP]

Been watching it too. Good show.  A little pc in a couple comments, but very good.

MP

[big turkey]

Count me in.

[Tundra]

Good stuff If you gotta watch the boob tube, it's something worth watching. I wish all of America would tune in, especially the younger generation.

[big turkey]

I reccomend the Movie "Glory" , it changed my whole perspective of the Civil War.

Try it and you will come away looking at things completely different.

Be sure to have a tissue or two though.

Mathew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman just to name a few .

Well done and looked very factual.

Big Al

It is still a struggle today between all races, but as we Americans know we love freedom.

If the Confederates had won I think it would still have turned out, we would have freed the slaves.

Industrial Revolution would have made them unneeded in that capacity.

Technology would have made the Slavery Thing a mute point.

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[hubcapsc]

I reccomend the Movie "Glory" , it changed my whole perspective of the Civil War.

I avoided it on first-run, I figured it would be one of those PeeCee Confederates-are-evil stories...

Later I saw it one Saturday at the In-law's house (New York/Canadian background)...

My Great Grandfather was an artillery man in Charleston, and I knew the general story of the war
in Charleston, but not the story of the battle at Fort Wagner.

We were all glued to the tube, and my in-laws looked at me kind of weird when I started
cheering that the flag was still flying over the fort through the smoke in the morning... 



-Mike

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

I reccomend the Movie "Glory" , it changed my whole perspective of the Civil War.

 

My Great Grandfather was an artillery man in Charleston.
 

 



-Mike

Is that Great Grand-Dad in the photo ?

[hubcapsc]

Is that Great Grand-Dad in the photo ?


I got the picture from his daughter, but I didn't explicitly ask questions like that
when I was a little boy... I can only say I think it is...

Very many of those "posed" pictures of South Carolina soldiers were taken at a very few places,
and some pretty good guesses can be made about the place and the uniform by
the right people... one such person recently retired from the Confederate Relic Room in Columbia
http://crr.sc.gov/ but he is still active in the SCV community... He was the speaker at
my camp a few years back, but I didn't know I should have brought the picture until after I heard
him speak... Another person from the Relic Room was the speaker just a couple of months ago, and I
showed the picture to him, but he just invoked the other guy...

-Mike "as far as I'm concerned, it is my Great Grandfather..."

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Is that Great Grand-Dad in the photo ?


I got the picture from his daughter, but I didn't explicitly ask questions like that
when I was a little boy... I can only say I think it is...

Very many of those "posed" pictures of South Carolina soldiers were taken at a very few places,
and some pretty good guesses can be made about the place and the uniform by
the right people... one such person recently retired from the Confederate Relic Room in Columbia
http://crr.sc.gov/ but he is still active in the SCV community... He was the speaker at
my camp a few years back, but I didn't know I should have brought the picture until after I heard
him speak... Another person from the Relic Room was the speaker just a couple of months ago, and I
showed the picture to him, but he just invoked the other guy...

-Mike "as far as I'm concerned, it is my Great Grandfather..."

Below is my Great Grandfather on my Dad's side. His name was Joseph May same as mine. He fought in The Spanish–American War . The story I was told he came in from the fields and was holding my Grandfather who was two and told his wife " Get him " and fell dead in the floor...He was 32 years old    The picture below hangs in the living room at my home.I can see his headstone along with my entire families from my bedroom window.

[big turkey]

By the way Mike, Ft. Wagner never did surrender.

The South held that Fort.

The North won so that is a mute point, but liked the Movie.

Big Al

CSA Patriot. In fact one of my tattoos is of a Confederate Battle Flag.Got it for the Blue and Gray Ride.

Southern to the bone.

[thumper]

Check out the movie Shanandoah with Jimmy Stewart.  Interesting take on the war.  One of my favorites.

[Charlie]

It has been a great series so far.  Six shows total in it.  My wife and I plan on watching them all.

[Sludge]

Been watching it too. Good show.  A little pc in a couple comments, but very good.

MP

Yea its a good show overall, but they do PC it a bit here and there that kinda rubs me wrong.  Just tell the history like it is with no slant.  Thats all I ask.

A specific gripe I had was with the revolutionary war part.  No mention was made of General Cornwallis in the south and battles like Guilford Courthouse, Kings Mountain, or Cow Pens.  By the sound of it you would have thought the South was completely un-involved.