History of the Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 21: What Became of the Men Who Wore the Blue and the Grey

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History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 11 December 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this epilogue episode James and Scott talk about the Union and Confederate generals whom we've gotten to know so well after the war finished. They became presidents, professors, bankrupt businessmen, assassination victims, and everything in between.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast.
0:05.4	The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes, Mythbust's historical lies, and rediscoveres
0:11.9	the forgotten stories that changed our world.
0:15.5	I'm your host, Scott Rank.
0:20.7	Hi everyone, welcome to our epilogue episode on the most important battles of the Civil War.
0:29.1	We have encountered so many interesting characters throughout this process that it wouldn't
0:33.9	be right if we didn't see what happened to them.
0:36.2	I think of it at the closing credits of Animal House where it says what happened to these
0:40.9	people, one of them becomes a senator, another one just disappears without a trace.
0:46.1	The figures that have come into the Civil War are interesting because some of them are
0:49.8	politicians.
0:50.8	Almost everyone was in the military, went to West Point, fought in the American War.
0:56.0	Most known were career military men because simply the US had such a small military before
1:00.2	the Civil War.
1:01.3	So you have some of these figures who start up businesses, they fail, or they're philosophy
1:07.4	professors, they're bishops, they come from all walks of life, they're slave plantation
1:13.1	owners, and they join the war effort.
1:15.8	Some do poorly, some do fantastically.
1:17.8	But once the war is over, once America demobilizes, where do they go?
1:22.7	Do they go back to their lives?
1:23.9	Do they start up new ventures?
1:25.1	Are they post-war celebrities?
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