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Its not going well. The union is losing. They start a draft this 1863, but you want to talk about inequality . In that draft you could buy your way out for 200. So the rich never served the union cause unless they were noble, unless they had a higher calling. For 200 you could get out of the draft, or you could present a live person. So if i brought you in and said, bruce, youre going to take my place, i wouldnt have to serve. I would have paid you to be my body. This really ticked off the irish. They could not pay for this. And as they rolled the barrel in the first draft in American History, the names that came out were heir began, omalley, you know, all these irish names. And so they rioted. I will not ever excuse the riot. It was the darkest point in irishAmerican History. They strung up africanamericans, they burned down buildings, they nearly destroyed new york. The ....
Beauty from old line, wasp money, meagher is a fugitive. He writes this beautiful love letter to her where he asks her her hand for her hand in marriage, and he goes, i am here alone, i am a homeless exile, i have nobody, i have no family. Im wanted by the british empire, you know . Im nothing, but the greatest thing in my life was to find you. And if you will take me as your husband, i will share everything with you. Take my past, take my heritage, let us join our lives together its a beautiful letter. And so she gives up everything to marry this irish rebel. Her father promptly disowns her. She ends up living the rest of her life on a 50amonth civil war widows pension, but they were like this. She nursed his wound. Women, i didnt know this, but women could come down to the camps. He was knocked from his horse twice, he had this horrible abscess on his knee, and also his confidence was shattered. He had lost so many people who were so close to him, people he had personally recruited w ....
Starts the next chapter with the aftermath of the assassination, so one of the great dramatic moments over the civil war era is off stage, and makes it more powerful, and i thought i want to have the impact of the little big horn there but i dont want to focus on it. I dont want to get swallowed up by huge and important event and make my book about that. How die do senate . So having it take place offstage was back way of both say, yes, its important, but also you can i can never take you not only is this book not about that but its such a complex event so lets not try. Lets show how americans struggled with and it then leave people with an incomplete understanding because thats all well ever have. I can almost see a movie producer, why other do we want to do cust center Everybody Knows how its end and usually we dont dwell too much on the end. And custers case it was backpack killer, but nevertheless this is the first book that ....
We have had amazing achievements thats country. Tend to come out were just this great enlighted people and america is wonderful, the end. Its that when we have had great struggles over the worst aspects of american history, america was the largest slaveowning nation on earth, and what happened is we had this huge war, which revolved around the issue of slavery, that led to the abolitionist slavery and within a few years, a nonracial definition of citizenship, in which africanamericans were voting, Holding Public office, sitting in congress, within a few years after chief justice ruled in dred scott that they are not fully human, basically. They have no rights. The white man is retired to respect. And a few years later you have black senators and congressmen. Its amazing. Yet its not just a straightforward line of progress. So, these issues this comfort discomfort about the way things change, the definition of whoa is an american, ....