# Everything I learned from Civil War movies

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**Created:** [December 9, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-learned-from-civil-war-movies/429384 "2007-12-09T15:30:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-learned-from-civil-war-movies/429384/41 "2007-12-11T02:46:02Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]  
Ken Burns also quoted some elderly Confederate vet, asked years after the war to do a rebel yell after a banquet, said it was impossible to do it justice as just a single person, after a good meal and with proper clothes on your back.  
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That actually was Foote. I believe the anecdote was also in his history.

From the movies:

All Blacks in the South were slaves.

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**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-learned-from-civil-war-movies/429384/42 "2007-12-11T03:22:27Z")

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No matter what, every person in the war spoke eloquently and longingly of their lives and love back home.

Also, if you were black, then you were always inches from being caught and sent back to slavery but it’d never happen. You’d always be saved by the former racist- turned-warm hearted white soldier that you were having problems with before.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-learned-from-civil-war-movies/429384/43 "2007-12-11T04:03:23Z")

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> Tragic resluts? Do you mean some of those flowers of Southern womanhood forced into harlotry again by the necessities of survival in the face of Northern destruction?

I’m still trying to figure out how his couscous got burdened.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-learned-from-civil-war-movies/429384/44 "2007-12-11T05:59:09Z")

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[QUOTE=Little Nemo]  
I’m still trying to figure out how his couscous got burdened.  
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So it falls to me, I see, to defend the honor of the 1st Moroccan Volunteer Infantry…

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**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-learned-from-civil-war-movies/429384/45 "2007-12-11T21:01:29Z")

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There was a TV show in the late fifties starring actor Nick Adams as Johnny Yuma, the Rebel.  
If my memory is working, He traveled the West in his Confederate uniform, and at some point in every show, he got punched out. (Take off the uniform, you dumbass!)  
Ahh…here it is.

[http://www.womenwritersblock.com/ourfavwest7.htm](http://www.womenwritersblock.com/ourfavwest7.htm)

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