Introducing 1865: Season 2

1865

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

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Secretary of War Edwin Stanton returns in Season Two, still fighting to carry forward President Lincoln’s legacy. To finish the job of Reconstruction, Stanton joins with newly elected President Ulysses S. Grant to fight a political battle in Washington and win a war against a menacing threat wreaking havoc all across the South: the Ku Klux Klan.

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0:00.0	How will your story end, Mr. Stanton?
0:04.0	Sometimes, Mr. Dickens, the best way to see the end of the story is to go back to the beginning.
0:09.0	The war on the battlefield is over, but the fight for the soul of the country continues.
0:14.0	U.S. Grant, welcome back to Washington, General.
0:18.0	Thank you, Mr. President.
0:19.0	The radicals have found their general and that is Stevens.
0:22.0	I think it's time we appointed a general of our own.
0:25.0	I know you don't want the nomination,
0:28.0	but if you're called by your country to serve, I do not want the office.
0:32.0	You didn't touch your drink. I'm not thirsty.
0:35.0	Who do you think the people are gonna believe, Grant?
0:38.0	The president of the United States or a miserable drunk?
0:42.0	He doesn't want the nomination.
0:44.0	Which is precisely why we should give it to him.
0:46.0	Johnson wouldn't stand a chance against him, no man would.
0:49.0	Washington had been a Dick don't. Hamilton had burr.
0:53.0	Andrew Johnson has your Lissie's asked Grant.
0:56.0	He cannot be tamed. Mr. Parker, there are no better angels in him to which he can be guided.
1:01.0	Grant is a fool if he thinks otherwise.
1:04.0	I suspended Stanton and replaced him with you, Mr. Interim Secretary.
1:10.0	I no longer serve in that capacity, Mr. President.
1:13.0	I God, yes you do, and you will until I say otherwise.
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