Inside the Episode: S2E08

1865

Airship / Wondery

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

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 8, Grant launches a crusade to root out corruption. But his fight for good government is imperiled by the return of Andrew Johnson.

In this Inside the Episode bonus feature, co-executive producer Robert McCollum interviews the creators Steven Walters and Erik Archilla about the true history behind the podcast.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to 1865 Inside the episode for episode 8.
0:12.0	I am Rob McCollum, the director of one of the producers and joining me is always Eric
0:15.8	Archilla and Stephen Walters our creative team.
0:18.4	Guys welcome.
0:19.4	Howdy Rob.
0:20.4	Howdy.
0:21.4	We have moved through time.
0:22.4	We have all gone through the vortex and now we are all the way into 1870.
0:29.1	Here we are guys 1874 1874 the election has just happened and the Democrats did not do
0:36.2	well.
0:37.5	And Grant has has routed the KKK.
0:40.4	He has been successful as far as he knows at this point in squashing what happened in
0:45.8	South Carolina.
0:46.9	Although we will see other pockets come up throughout the rest of the series.
0:50.8	He has done well to go in there and punish the South as he talked about.
0:55.6	His decision to declare martial law in South Carolina goes a long way towards beating back
1:00.2	the first wave of the clan.
1:01.8	It is not the end of the fight.
1:03.6	Like Eric mentioned there are going to be other pockets in Louisiana and other places.
1:08.8	But the first wave of it Grant was able to be back and put down.
1:11.5	The Department of Justice did arrest and or prosecute thousands of clansmen.
1:15.6	There were clansmen who were fleeing to the woods and were too afraid to come back out
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