There is a channel on YouTube called “Life in the 1800s” that brings to life the proverbial days of yore. This video, from a voice recording made by Julius Franklin Howell, gives a view of the Confederate side of the Civil War, in which he fought as a young man. As today is Thanksgiving in the US, I think about our history, real and fabricated. What we think today is not necessarily what was thought when history was being made. This was a fascinating video, an oral history, of someone who was there.
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