Inside the Episode: S1E5

1865

Airship / Wondery

Fiction, Drama, Government, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, History

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 5, as the hunt for Booth continues, we discover Stanton has another problem on his hands: the last of the Rebel Generals wants terms of surrender

In this Inside the Episode bonus feature, hear director and co-producer Robert McCollum interview the writers and co-producers Steven Walters and Erik Archilla about the true history behind the podcast.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Rob McCollum, one of the producers of 1865.
0:10.0	Thank you for joining us on 1865 Inside the Episode 5.
0:15.4	Lots of new information, again, has been revealed.
0:18.4	Plot-stickin' loyalties are firmed up, and the two guys that helped write it all are
0:23.8	with me now, Stephen Walters and Eric Arturo.
0:26.3	Thank you very much for being here.
0:28.0	Thank you.
0:29.1	So Episode 5 starts with a flashback to, again, when Lincoln is alive, the war is still
0:34.6	being progressed, and it's the lead up to the Hampton Road Peace Conference.
0:38.3	What's the important piece of information that our audience needs to pull from this?
0:41.7	I think the primary thing is, Stanton wants unconditional surrender.
0:48.0	He wanted to destroy the enemy until they can force on the South, whatever change that
0:53.3	they want to impose.
0:56.5	Hampton's Road was an attempt to reach a peace conference between these two powers, which
1:02.4	Stanton would say they're not a country, they're treasonous.
1:07.0	They're an enemy force, not a...
1:09.0	And then surging company, yeah, called them.
1:11.0	Well, I think that it's also important to note, you know, for the listeners to think
1:15.0	about is that there's a reason for this, right?
1:17.5	And it's not just vengeance.
1:19.4	The reason is that the emancipation proclamation is not settled law.
1:24.7	You know, it's an executive order by a president during wartime.
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