Fitzhugh Lee and 'Dixie' at West Point

Fitzhugh Lee and 'Dixie' at West Point

[@agatematt]

Fitzhugh Lee who leads the Southern cadets away from West Point in the movie was Gen. Robert E. Lee's nephew, was the last commander of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia and after the Civil War served as governor of Virginia, U.S. Counsel at Havana, Cuba during the lead up to the Spanish-American War and wore a blue uniform once more as a major general for the United States during that war.

[@teller121]

as did Fighting Joe Wheeler.

[@nagantm441]

Flower Children [Poison Ivy's Henchwomen] He allegedly said that in the Philippines, not Cuba.

[@haroldcampbell3337]

It was hardly "infamous". He called Spanish soldiers "Yankees" as they were retreating, and the men laughed. Wheeler laughed, too. And it was in Cuba, not the Philippines.

[@leondillon8723]

@@teller121 General Wheeler was not in command very long. After heavy shelling, elements of the Spanish Army decided that they had more important things to do elsewhere. Gen. Wheeler forgot where he was and what uniform he was wearing. He yelled "Look at those damn Yankees run." Colonel Leonard Wood was booted up a pay grade and assumed Wheeler's command. So was Lieu Tenant Col. Roosevelt. In time for San Juan Hill.

[@teller1290]

@@leondillon8723 just read up on it. Your comments sound like bs. Did fine, but got sick, turned over command. He wasn't but 61. He must've done okay because he was then sent to Philippines and served under Gen'l Arthur MacArthur briefly. He didn't forget where he was. Everybody laughed at Yankee crack... including him.

[@robwest9592]

From the time the song starts I get chills. God Bless America and God Bless The South...

[@mikechermonitz3065]

long live the south? HA! for what? God, had the south won the war this country would be run into the ground by now.

[@robwest9592]

Idiot. Im not talking about the confederacy. I live in the south and its my home and its beautiful. Too bad that We have more freedom down south with guns and we don't have school shootings and things of that nature. Most people down here get along no matter the color. So You are just upset most of the welfare bums live up north and the crime rates are worse up north and people are rude up north and Nobody fucking retires and moves up north. Stupid fuck.

[@mikechermonitz3065]

+Rob West the wars over. you lost.

[@robwest9592]

Mike Chermonitz LoL my family on the reservation and the other half was in Europe at the time of the war. Im talking about the being from the south and loving the south and our history. you are the fucking dipshit trying to make this about the war.

[@mikechermonitz3065]

+Rob West class it up rob! after all you are from the south!

[@WelshRabbit]

Thanks for posting. This must have been a tearful, gut-wrenching time for every cadet, North or South.

[@georg57garvy21]

One of my favorite songs DIXIE.

[@Jigaboo123456]

I'm British, but I have always found this scene intensely moving, in that it conveys perfectly the tragedy of how the immoral and self-seeking political class can use the soldier, with his sense of duty and honour to slay those most like him. Rarely do the political class use the soldier with honourable intentions, they lie, scheme and misrepresent the interests of their backers to deceive the soldier and the people that they are on the side of righteousness. A pox upon them all, the soldiers represented in this scene would have acted better by turning their guns against the war-making Yankee politicians.

[@karenbartlett1307]

Jay Igaboo: The "war-making Yankee politicians", namely Lincoln and his backers (financiers, bankers, Northern industrialists) had surrounded Washington D.C. with federal troops. That's where the federal draftees went to get training, and there were 100,000 of them in the environs. But, good idea if it could have been done.

[@Jigaboo123456]

Karen Bartlett: Thanks for the info. Lincoln was one of the first to shill for the nascent industrial military complex (as Eisenhuaer defined it.) I was 11 years in the British Army, I loved it, but when my oldest son need my permission to join at 16, I withdrew it because of Iraq, as i could see how misused the armed services were. Not one Labour Party MP that comprised the scumbags and military illiterates in Tony Blair's government had ever served a single day in uniform- and damn few from the other parties. The modern Western political class are truly dreadful.

[@karenbartlett1307]

I'm sorry that this happened. Even gov'ts with military men in the administration can be uncaring of soldiers, i'm afraid. Some are war hawks, as well, wanting to keep that military industrial complex churning out something to do.

[@64MDW]

Lincoln was a "shill"? Really...shut up, fool. You might want to confine your comments to British history, as you know absolutely nothing about that of the U.S. BTW: If you're going to make such a public fool of yourself, you might want to get the spelling right. It's "Eisenhower," not "Eisenhuaer."

[@larryaustin4291]

And the fire-eating Southern politicians who were responsible for the war.

[@mikeoforlando]

. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. The South had the right to go it's separate way, no hard feelings, just ask the Czechs and the Slovakians. None of the Confederates were guilty of treason either. To openly renounce allegiance to the US then to publicly pledge allegiance to The South is the only honorable way to do such things and all who did so have clear names and conscience. The important point being to be honest and open about it. .

[@MGTOWPaladin]

Abraham Lincoln, US Congressman, 12 January 1848 on the floor of the US House of Representatives: "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and for a new one that suits them better. THIS IS A MOST VALUABLE, - A MOST SACRED RIGHT - a RIGHT, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government, may choose to exercise it."

[@user-lh1hd8ss9i]

Secession that leads to Civil War is always a suicide pact! So, according to your theory we should be able to renounce our allegiance to the United States and then pledge loyalty to whatever government that we choose. Correct, so long as you have not taken an oath to bear allegiance to the United States! But to have taken an oath of allegiance to the United States to "Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic and bear true faith and allegiance to the same." and then betray that oath constitutes treason. The reason being that to take such an oath, ends your right to renounce such an allegiance without legal release granted by the government of the United States. To then establish a separate nation without being legally released and then declare war against the United States is another act of treason. Therefore, it does not matter what justification is offered for these acts of treason, it is still a crime and can never be an act of honor. That the Southern states committed these acts of treason in order to hold human beings in enslavement is more then dishonorable, it is an affort to God's law as well as man's. Therefore, those that committed these acts were traitors and as such would NEVER have honor or acceptance as people of faith and conscience! This the only acceptable truth of the matter!

[@commodoregirl08]

Sound Dixie.. doesn't it bring a tear to your eye..??

[@robertbertagna1672]

one of the best versions of dixie i ever heard at west point sends a very good message in those times thank you.

[@jb47vintage]

This scene pretty much reduces me to tears.

[@johnpayakovich3844]

Such loyalty

[@AlbertInTucson]

THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON: John Litel as Commandant, Philip Sheridan. Regis Toomey as Fitzhugh Lee. Errol Flynn as George Custer.

[@andrewhall2678]

There is always a greater duty to your home

[@GUARDSMAN133]

They were soldiers and gentlemen. They fought for their homeland with honor.

[@stevestringer7351]

Well, maybe so towards the beginning of the war.... but after becoming hardened Veterans they all became cold blooded killers. That war was the most unfortunate occurrence in our nation's history.

[@MGTOWPaladin]

@@stevestringer7351 That's what happens when Lincoln started a war for REVENUE TAX MONEY and destroyed 40% of the South, killing men, women and children for money to "preserve the Union"!

[@mohammedcohen]

...yes - had Lincoln LIVED he would have treated them with dignity..."To bind up the nation's wounds...with malice tpwards none - with charity to all..."

[@MGTOWPaladin]

@@mohammedcohen Since Lincoln claimed secession was a "right" but wouldn't let the South peacefully secede, since Lincoln was personally responsible for the deaths of 750,000 people, since Lincoln stated he invaded the South for tax revenue, I would doubt anything Lincoln said!

[@billroyal942]

They fought for slavery. The rit tu to conceal this fact with so-called honour and love of their country but as a matter of facts the economy of the Confederacy relied on slavery.

[@tytus7709]

Dixieland Forever 💪

[@mohammedcohen]

When Lincoln was told of Lee's Surrender at Appomattox he asked the military band to strike up 'Dixie', allowing that it was a catchy tune he much loved...

[@NamVetBuck]

Then thank God he was struck down for the tyrant he was !

[@greggorski2174]

@@NamVetBuck Down with King Lincoln!!!🖕

[@michaelplunkett5124]

@@NamVetBuck Buck, Read the last paragraph of Lincoln’s second inaugural.

[@leondillon8723]

He claimed the song as a spoil of war. Daniel D. Emmett, from Mount Vernon, Ohio, wrote the song when a freezing cold day in New York City put him in bad mood. Copyright be damned.

[@user-lh1hd8ss9i]

He also said in his last week in office that the 26 million blacks in the US would have to leave the US despite their loyalty and sacrifice to the US. Thus, he showed what a liar, a racist and a low-class ingrate that he really was..and to think that he is worshiped as a great man instead of the corrupt politician that he really was...and that the Conferate President Jefferson Davis really was. As a ordinary southern farmer and soldier captured at Gettysburg said to Federal Army First Lieutenant Thomas Chamberlain "It's a rich man's war and a poor man's fight and many a fine man has died and many more will die before it's over. Have you had enough of war, Lieutenant?" Never was a truer statement about war made and it still holds true today!

[@Daslaer]

Back when it was understood the States were sovereign and your loyalty was supposed to be to your state not the federal government

[@64MDW]

That is, until you need a handout from D.C. and the rest of the states.

[@rogerstacey4942]

Michael White That was not the tradition of the old south. All the statest slavery was a result of imported northern culture. Long live the South!

[@spartanwarrior1]

Roger Stacey poor excuse, the north moved on back then the south obviously didn’t

[@Dom_510]

Our founding father's would say otherwise.

[@teethadore]

@@spartanwarrior1 - Ha! Reckon there was an overabundance of Confed statues in Minneapolis???

[@BrendaNegri]

One of my favorite parts of this great film

[@BrendaNegri]

+Сергей Судаков They Died With Their Boots On - Errol Flynn - a classic!

[@duggiesmith4043]

I am so proud of the southerners in this and their valiant attempt to throw off the yoke of Northern ternary.

[@TheLucanicLord]

Ternary, LOL. is your uncle also your mother?

[@duggiesmith4043]

Youn appear to have a lot of experience with the TRANS, personal experience, or love interest@@TheLucanicLord

[@lengasparini2918]

'Dixie' forever!

[@marcrodriguez1146]

I cannot even imagine the feelings seeing fellow comrades either in formation or marching off knowing that you might have to kill him or to hear he has already died in battle

[@goldclaw626]

I'm an American Patriot that loves my Southern Heritage!--Dixie Forever!

[@davidamaral5100]

Good old Abe link on was not what he seemed to be historians said he was a closet Marxist go figure

[@johnpatterson4816]

I too am a Marxist.I love Groucho,Chico and Harpo.

[@Jubilo1]

Thanks for posting this !

[@Jubilo1]

Emotional and inspiring scene !

[@jasonreule4988]

Dixie makes me swell with pride

[@terrydouglas5008]

There were 2 Fitzhugh Lees, one was robert E. Lee's son another was his nephew. They both became Major Generals in the Confederacy. The Nephew later became a Major General ov Volunteers in the Spanish American war and after that a Brigidare General in the US Regular Army.

[@andrewhall2678]

That's one true gentleman the commandant of Cadets

[@freddy8479]

Which wasn't "Col. Phil Sheridan" as portrayed in the movie.

[@vittorio3814]

God bless those Men!

[@reedryals4116]

God bless Dixie

[@michaelhollingsworth4688]

That is very awesome song to listen to hear

[@boomerpo]

that song is my ring tone on my phone. i am proud i live in the south and am proud everytime it sounds off

[@mark6230]

Wonderful scene.

[@dhamrick100]

The most beautiful tune ever created.

[@samkaplan7679]

How do you know?

[@frankrathbone7299]

Written by a composer from Brooklyn, NY

[@lengasparini2918]

I'll second that emotion. Dixie will always be the greatest tune.

[@bobmasencup5819]

@@samkaplan7679 He knows and we all know!

[@budwis6489]

Lincoln liked it, maybe the only thing he and Jeff Davis could agree upon. Personally, I prefer "The Bonnie Blue Flag" and "Southern Soldier."

[@bartleypayne1454]

At least there was honor in those days.

[@molnya2]

It wasn't all about slavery, or white supremacy, and anyhow where does someone in the 21st century get off playing the victim or race card, BITCH, PLEASE!

[@molnya2]

Cry me a river, you've got know idea.

[@molnya2]

KMA

[@acdragonrider]

Frederick Wells the fact you both have to curse shows you have not an ounce of honor, respect or civility

[@infantinofan]

@@molnya2 If it wasn't about slavery and the expansion of slavery to the Western territories then what was it about?

[@josefernandez3334]

Gran pelicula que inmortalizo al 7 caballeria😊

[@marilyn420]

very touching

[@eddycresap2153]

armed rebelionm NOT, They marched of to their fate, God bless the men of the south

[@MGTOWPaladin]

Armed invasion! South Carolina seceded on 20 December, 1860. The US Army left Ft Moultrie on 26 December. 1860, under the cover of darkness, and invaded and held the unfinished, 2.4 acre Ft Sumter for 3.5 months! Why? According to Lincoln's proclamation of 19 April 1861, five days AFTER Sumter - for REVENUE TAX MONEY!

[@bcwest56]

The song "Dixie" was written by an obscure piano player for a group of actors as a walkabout after their last performance for the season. The group of actors would perform in the north until winter came and then went south to perform and initiate new acts. The song quickly became popular in the north and south alike. It was, in fact, a favorite of Lincoln at the time. Several versions of the lyrics were later written including the Confederate Army version. The Federal Army tried to write its own version of the song, but it just didn't work. Civil War magazine, in some of its earlier publications, has an article about the song and its history.

[@formwiz7096]

Like Hell. I hate it when somebody who knows nothing has to share it with the world. Daniel Decatur Emmett was hardly some obscure piano player. He was, in fact, one of the most popular composers of his time, having written Old Dan Tucker and Turkey In The Straw. It was written for Bryant’s Minstrels troupe when the played New York as closing “walk-around,” number for the group’s show.

[@roytrawick1762]

Fabulous!! Now see...the world does not stop turning when DIXIE is played..lol

[@roytrawick1762]

AMEN!!!!

[@goldclaw626]

And DIXIE was written by a, yankee

[@ukrainiansniper5916]

Although a tune of the rebellious South there are a few American volunteers in Ukraine's Donbass fighting FOR the Ukrainian side against the separatists that use this tune as a means of identifying each other. Also there is rumored to be a Ukrainian version of Dixie which pisses off the Russian PMCs in Donbass to no end....and no I do not know it.

[@MGTOWPaladin]

@@goldclaw626 And, the Declaration of Independence/Secession and the US Constitution are credited to Southerners!

[@sergiocorreadesiqueira385]

Honour, valour, courage - I wrote a book about it.

[@bongskie7640]

I love this scene

[@sir.stupidity6751]

They Died With Their Boots On is an amazing movie, even though it's inaccurate

[@Blogdorf]

Dixie was Abraham Lincoln's favorite song (I read somewhere). It's origin is debated but it has been alleged that it was written by a black man who had left the South and missed his family and place of his youth. The American Civil War, however, was not the result of a self-seeking political class, its cause lay in refusing to address the slavery issue at the founding of the country. The winners of course blame the South, but the fault belongs to the nation. You could say "we had that one a'comin". If in pubic I stand when Dixie is played.

[@lengasparini2918]

Dixie is a great anthem---spirited and memorable.

[@chipthomas4169]

It's origin is not debated... where did you read that? The composer was Daniel D. Emmett, a well-known songwriter for the traveling minstrel company, Christy's Minstrels.

[@stephenandersen4625]

A nice Hollywood touch. I always liked that scene. The reality was that southern cadets and instructors resigned piecemeal throughout the secession crisis starting with the election and even after the firing on Fort Sumter. P.T. Beauregard himself was actually briefly in command of the academy before he found employment ....elsewhere. Many Cadets did apparently line up (hat in hand) to say good bye at the departure of the popular Fitzhugh Lee.... but they didn't march out in uniform while the band played Dixie.

[@enriquetexu846]

Yes, but I prefer the poetry of Hollywood and the true americans are on the other side of the river... and wear feathers. Ha ha ha.

[@stephenandersen4625]

Enrique Texu not sure who it is that you think would name themselves after an Italian cartographer. The indigenous called themselves many different things... but not Americans, true or otherwise nor Indians... Eastern or Western flavors

[@enriquetexu846]

Of course, is a joke, with the irish officer say the day before of the battle of "Little Big Horn". Total respect by the Cheyennes, Lakotas, and many others warriors (and northern and suthern soldiers). I'm a "european native", I know the rivers, the mountains and the animals, but I like be an Apache.

[@enriquetexu846]

+Stephen Andersen In Europe we are not so polliticaly corrects, and we laugh at ourselves, and perhaps offend, I apologize. My greatfaher and my oncles died in the Spanish Civil War.

[@stephenandersen4625]

Enrique Texu not sure what you mean by political correct. ¿De qué lado hizo de la guerra civil de su abuelo y tíos en la lucha?

[@VT401]

One of the sad scenes from "They Died with their Boots on". Very important event in civil war history. Thank you for uploading, it would be nice if you could get a better copy.

[@leondillon8723]

One thing from "Boots". One movie line mentioned 600 men. The regiment was 50% undermanned. 1,200+ would have been a full regiment.

[@JohnTSloan]

@leon Dillon 1200 is the size of a USMA regiment now. Back then it would have been closer to 600.

[@williamturner1517]

As a matter of fact, "I was born in Dixieland, early on one frosty morn."

[@MegaVlad666]

"They Died With Their Boots On" with Errol Flynn. It's the story of General Custer.

[@leondillon8723]

Are you referring to General John Custer, or the glory hound who was never COMMISSIONED above the rank of Lieu Tenant Colonel(O-5)?

[@Orphen42O]

A question: Fitzhugh Lee asked men of the South to join him? On this occasion, did any of the men who lived below the Ason-Dixon line decide to stay at West Point? What about the cadets from border states? What happened to those cadets from Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, the slave-owning states that did not secede?

[@garethmorley732]

Fantastic

[@johnmoore8016]

This was one was that should never been fought, but to many harded headed people couldn't set down and talk to each other to stop it.

[@user-dv8np9gu4n]

So much I am Proud.

[@someoldcoot]

By god; Raoul Walsh knew how to direct stirring scenes.

[@henryweaver667]

Bandmaster sound Dixie!

[@arslongavitabrevis5136]

I do not know if this really happened but it is a moving and wonderful scene. The words of the commander of West Point are magnificent. Sadly, the military have no say in the declaration or making of war, this is decided and declared by cowardly and corrupt politicians who stay at home.

[@waynesarf8065]

The Southern cadets didn't all leave at once, with most of them departing after their particular state had seceded. So a good chance for a dramatic scene was lost! After the election of 1860 Cadet Custer noted in a letter home in effect that his Southern comrades had all vowed to leave once their states had seceded and that this was very distressing to him as most of his friends and roommates had been from the South. However, Custer managed to remain on friendly terms with those who crossed his path during the war itself, and resumed his friendship with rebel Gen. Thomas Rosser after the war. (Rosser would later become a U.S. general during the war with Spain.) Custer did not question their choice of loyalties and urged others (including his wife) not to judge them either.

[@arslongavitabrevis5136]

@@waynesarf8065 I did not know anything of this. Very decent of Custer. Thank you for the information. Still that scene is magnificent and very sad when you thing of the young men who were friends and who ended-up killing each other a few months later.

[@kentuckylady2990]

I did some research, sadly it didn’t happen this way.

[@stevethames2801]

how long before yahoo pulls this video clip because it features "DIXIE"??

[@stephenandersen4625]

+Steve Thames apparently very long

[@Smile4theKillCam456]

+Stephen Andersen apparently even longer

[@25FIREBALL]

+Smile4thekillcam456 ------ by god I hope never ------ this PC needs to end

[@PeggyFlouncey]

This is part of our nation's history. I think it's ridiculous to deny it ever happened. It seems that nowadays the reasons that the war even started have become clouded by "revisionists". One in fifty Americans have any idea of the complex economic and political issues that were at play when South Carolina seceded. The other 49 people would tell you that it was purely a war to abolish the abomination of slavery.

[@Jack-cd8tg]

Apparently even longer!

[@tsarjosephiibenitez954]

it's very hard to see those who are on your soil, as part of your nation fight you,this is a really good movie even though considering how old it is

[@Daslaer]

tsar Joseph ii Benitez once the states cast votes of secession they were no longer part of the "union" so they were not fighting against their own nation

[@johnpatterson4816]

Did Custer wear an Arrow shitt?

[@leondillon8723]

"Dixie" might be misplaced here. Daniel Decatur Emment wrote the song,1859, on a freezing day in New York City.The first place that he sang it.He was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio(1815-1904). It is a great song. Could be why Lincoln ignored copy right laws and declared it to be a "spoil of war".

[@michaelflorez4194]

They died with their boots on

[@williampaz2092]

I was born in Hawaii in 1956 so I have no sense of loyalty to The Union or to The Confederacy, my allegiance is to The Republic of the United States of America. I served 20 years in the US Navy upholding my allegiance. But I have always wondered what would have happened if, BEFORE the Battle of Bull Run/Manassas, both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis along with both of their cabinets had been locked in a Conference Room for an entire week.

[@MGTOWPaladin]

Do you understand that another word for "State" is country, nation, republic, nation-states? That the United States is a "union" of nations just as the countries of Europe are members of the European Union which Britain SECEDED from in 2020 after several decades?

[@waynesarf8065]

The sense of state loyalty was much stronger circa 1860. Thus Robert E. Lee was determined to go whichever way Virginia went, even though he stated that he did not believe in secession as a Constitutional right -- or that there was (yet) sufficient cause to invoke the "right of revolution" which men on both sides recognized.

[@irishjw]

Remember until the civil war they took a oath to their state. Not the United States. So when Democrat party South left they were HONOR BOUND to follow.

[@MGTOWPaladin]

The country is the united States. The "union" is a constitutional agreement of the States with it's State-created agency located in DC.

[@irishjw]

@@MGTOWPaladin Nothing that say's they can't leave. Look sat some states that have a movement today California & Texas comes to mind. Yet to hear any offical say we will attack if the do.

[@zpy-nq7wv]

DEO VINDICE !

[@jakefeatherston1548]

One day we will take back everything.

[@ukrainiansniper5916]

LOL read much Harry Turtledove do ya???? You forgot the final e in your patronymic.

[@jakefeatherston1548]

@@ukrainiansniper5916 Yeah I love his books.

[@ukrainiansniper5916]

@@jakefeatherston1548 Me too....like his concepts and all are interesting commuter train reads....once got so engrossed I missed my stop and wife had to come to the next station to pick me up...got the lecture next time call a car service....LOL

[@brerrabbit77]

what movie is this

[@williamcasey8791]

I'D LIKE TO CLEAN OUT CONGRESS. GOD BLESS DIXIE!!!!!!!!

[@josefernandez3334]

Las canciones del sur mejores que las del norte aunque perdieran la guerra

[@MrPlankinton]

I'd have made those boys Stack Arms and leave them behind.

[@guywgane3]

They Died With Their Boots On

[@RedShirtArmy]

This is the way that the crisis of '60 and '61 should have ended for good. There was no need for a war that killed 600,000 people and destroyed half of North America. By the way, as a loyal Southron, it's always nice to hear our true national anthem. God bless Dixie!

[@goober208]

southron is spelled southern

[@MGTOWPaladin]

@@goober208 Look up "southron"@

[@WV_Gray]

Well said.

[@odysseusrex5908]

No, it should have ended before it began with the southern states accepting the outcome of the presidential election. The scary thing is, had that happened, whatever political compromise was worked out, it would have been decades before slavery was ended and, even now, the descendants of slaves might not be full citizens of the United States.

[@charliejdk]

We are coming, Father Abraham, 300,000 more. . .

[@stanlefort8584]

When our loyalties is to our state instead of the federal gvt, it ends in a civil war. Were 600000 casualties not enough ?

[@charlestaylor6085]

The gentlemen of the South will march off.

[@larryboyd7979]

Following the Civil War, when were cadets from the South permitted to enter West Point?

[@tuba143]

Has anyone noticed the use of a Sousaphone in the USMA band in 1861, over thirty years before John Philip Sousa conceived it?

From which movie is that scene?

[@sir.stupidity6751]

They Died With Their Boots On

[@odysseusrex5908]

What movie is this from?

[@waynesarf8065]

THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON (1941).

[@odysseusrex5908]

@@waynesarf8065 Ah, thank you very much.

[@loneguitar13]

God Bless Dixie

[@ganimated8862]

2:20 you’re welcome

[@Jermster_91]

What is the movie called?

[@sir.stupidity6751]

They Died With Their Boots On

[@STG44tiger]

@jimpomac obviously

[@edmondhankiewicz5518]

Les cadets ont suivi la même formation pour devenir officiers ! La guerre est arrivée et ils se sont séparés pour s 'entretuer plus tard ! La musique du sud jouait : Dixie, et celle du nord : Garry oven. On entend ces 2 airs dans les films de John Ford lorsque ces 2 armées se font la guerre. Toute une jeunesse sacrifiée pendant ces 4 ans de guerre !

[@1Atomtan]

@RedShirtArmy Amen!

[@manuelmoyagonzalez2739]

"Murieron con las botas puestas". En España

[@schimmelfennig1863]

Santa fe trail!

[@molnya2]

Nope

[@anitapatel758]

The band contains a few Sousaphones which were not invented until well into the 1890s.

[@alphalunamare]

nor were cameras that could take continuous film :-)

[@auldflyer]

NIT PICKER

[@fredjones7705]

Yeah well don't let the gate hit you in the ass on the way off campus.

[@brianboisguilbert6985]

They didn’t and it was because Southern West Point cadets were officers in the Confederate army, the war was as prolonged as it was.

[@fredjones7705]

@@brianboisguilbert6985 No doubt. Who ever said traitors don't have brains?

[@MGTOWPaladin]

@@fredjones7705 Traitors to the Constitution? Like Lincoln. Who willingly admitted he violated the Constitution for Southern tax money?

[@burneraccount4704]

Imagine leaving the most prestigious military academy only to get whooped by Lincoln’s boys and humiliated 4 years later

[@MGTOWPaladin]

Imagine celebrating the destruction of 40% of the South, the deaths of 750,000 people, the rape of women, starvation of children so Lincoln can get his REVENUE TAX MONEY and financially "preserve the Union"!

[@waynesarf8065]

What's wrong with you?

[@barrycarter9289]

Can anyone name this film ......?

[@MGTOWPaladin]

They Died With Their Boots On starring Errol Flynn.

[@keithbewick1464]

scotland soon

[@jeffgoates4844]

Who won the Civil War?

[@kiahlaifaga6307]

Dud this is so long ago bruh in 1912 I guess

[@thomashogan9196]

Goodbye, gentlemen. See you again soon at Manassas, Fredericksburg, Antietam, Gettysburg. Only in America would a corps of the brightest, best trained military leaders be allowed to march away, fully armed, to lead the enemy forces. In any other country they would have been interned, if not executed.

[@waynesarf8065]

That's just another thing that makes America great! However, this scene is purely fictional, as most Southern cadets had left before a state of warfare had actually broken out. In his unfinished Civil War memoirs, Custer wondered whether there was some way that the federal government could have prevented these men from "going South," but I don't think he had any clear suggestion as to how this could be achieved.

[@thomashogan9196]

@@waynesarf8065 An interesting point I hadn't heard before. Jefferson Davis, in his memoirs, was furious that Confederate naval captains were sailing their warships to Union ports to return them to their "Rightful" owners and then taking the train home. Davis said Southern taxes had built those ships and rightfully should have been part of the CSA navy. The question Davis should have asked is why Confederates in the crews were not interned. It seems it never crossed their minds such a thing could happen.

[@FrLawRE]

Did this actually happen or is it just Hollywood?

[@Pixelsoldier5888]

They actually did this and it didn't only happen at the academy

[@MrOnthehiway2hell]

A and things got serious for a while........

[@martinfranke846]

New England shipbuilding families built fantastic fortunes operating the Middle Passage slave trade, supplying poor African blacks, enslaved by rival tribesmen and Arab slave traders to southern aristocratic families for southern plantation work. Once the British ended the trasatlantic slave trade in the early 19th century, these same sanctimonious families, their fortunes secured, turned abolitionist and sought to destroy the economy of the South, an economy that they themselves helped create and greatly profited from. The Civil War was left to be fought largely by poor whites from the South, convinced that they were fighting to defend their homeland, and Western boys from the North, likewise convinced thet they were fighting to preserve "the sacred Union". A rich man's war and a poor man's fight, indeed...

[@cretene1]

custer of the west?

[@cretene1]

oh they died with there boots on . my mistake

[@robheiden966]

Not much on spelling down south are we

[@thechington]

Buy ar15ns gasmasks camo and body armor and lot of mags and ammo .

[@louisfriend7388]

My grandfather’s great grandfather was a true Connecticut Yankee. Ivy League, Congregationalist, and a proud Union veteran. He fought throughout the southern rebellion. He commanded artillery at Antietam and many other battles as a young officer. Said he saw his cannon cut rebels clean in half and never shed a tear. Gramps said he hated rebels till his dying day. Respect.

[@carlcrisp8700]

Understood. My Great - great- great grandfather was a surgeon in the Confederate Army and suffered the horrors of war on his homeland, the starvation of friends and family, slaughter and theft of livestock, burning of homes and barns, and Reconstruction. He moved to Texas after the war to start over. He was forbidden to practice medicine, being a former Confederate Officer, but he helped folks anyway. His daughter, my granny, told me as a child how things hard times had been. She didn't hate all yankees, just William T. Sherman. Respect.

[@waynesarf8065]

Well, nobody wants to be commanded by somebody who turns on the waterworks every time his guns go off!

[@peterobbo7512]

Ah.. what a shame.

[@MrElliotc02]

So Warner Bros.....

[@josejuliopl2140]

Don't you know to record a movie?