April 29, 2010

The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic - Orson Wells



This is fascinating - you want to reject it as gooey propaganda; it does have that hokey 70s video sheen. But cutting through, this is the song the Union Army sang in the camps. The song called - and calls- upon a great moral and national duty to end slavery, to prepare to die to for this end.

Let me end Confederate history month this way: when you hold to nostalgic whitewashing of the Confederate cause, you share not in any glory of the Confederacy, but only in its everlasting shame.

1 Comments:

Blogger The Front said...

Thanks much - I had been looking for something like this. Confederate History Month has really helped me clarify my views on the war.

April 30, 2010 at 10:54 AM  

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