Thursday, December 4, 2008

THE CIVIL WAR IN FOUR MINUTES:

COMMON CENTS is taking the day off of blogging about the issues of the day. No politics, no economics and no controversy today. This is a fascinating video that compresses the American Civil War into four minutes. Each second corresponds with one week of our American Civil War. The Civil War is the seminal event in the American Experience - over 600,000 died and it was fought in 10,000 places. This is a fascinating video folks:


via videosift.com

2 comments:

Trader Rick said...

Thanks so much for posting this, it was remarkable. I couldn't get it to run on your page, but it worked perfect on the linked site. Just wish the graphics of the date and the casualties weren't so tiny and blurry. But a really neat deal! Thanks again.

Trader Rick said...

This really highlights how important, and how long Vicksburg held out...