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Al Benson

About Western/Southern “Civil War” Movies

3/18/2023

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For a little recreation, instead of following the news channels, I put on the Western movie channel and watched Outlaw Joey Wales. I’ve seen it several times before but it is always good for a little recreation and there is a certain amount of truth to it .It was a Western/Southern that Clint Eastwood made back in 1976, I think, and if I am correct, he never made another Western until 1985. I can recall thinking after watching it several years ago that I wonder if Hollyweird warned Eastwood about making anymore movies like it, lest his film career suffer for it. I read the book it was taken from by Forrest Carter. Needless to say the book wasn’t exactly like the movie–but then they seldom are.

A couple places in the movie often struck me as not all that far from the truth. One was after the Confederate guerillas surrendered when, after they had been fed, they were just massacred by the Union troops–or as Redleg Jim Lane said in the movie “They were decently fed and decently shot!” It reminded me of what happened when Jesse James answered the federal amnesty and came into surrender to the Yankee troops. Instead of taking his surrender they shot him! So it would seem that their pleas of amnesty to Southerners were, in many cases, little more than an excuse to get them in pistol range! After that incident Jesse James never surrendered again–and can you blame him?

Another place in the movie that was of interest was when the Cherokee, Lone Watie told Josey Wales about his trip to Washington where they were met by the Secretary of the Interior. The Cherokees in that instance complained about all the land the federal government had stolen off them, which was considerable in real life. In the movie the Interior Secretary’s reply to them was, and I never forgot this, was “Endeavor to persevere.!” Which was a polite way of saying “Don’t worry about what we stole from you because you ain’t ever getting it back again.!”

​This was one of the few movies I have seen over the years that didn’t seek to paint all Southern folks as inhuman, racist monsters, totally addicted to fighting to preserve slavery. In fact slavery was never even mentioned in the movie – and the Kansas Redlegs were actually pictured as what they were – murderers of folks in Missouri they disagree with! I can see why Hollyweird didn’t want too many movies like this that hinted at the truth of what the Kansas Redlegs, of whom Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill were both members, actually did. You are not supposed to know this, as it interferes with the leftist lies about what the War of Northern Aggression was really all about.

Another movie that made it into the theaters for only a brief time was the “Civil War” movie Ride With the Devil directed by Ang Lee, who was originally from Formosa I am told. That being the case, he didn’t have lots of politically correct swill to wade through about the War. He painted a fairly accurate picture of the Northern invasion of Missouri and how the Missourians tried to resist that. You have a hard time finding this movie anymore. It only made it into theaters for about three weeks before Hollyweird realized what they had on their hands and pulled it! They gave Ang Lee another movie to direct that he won an academy award for to pacify him for pulling Ride With The Devil. The movie showed a black man riding with the Confederate guerillas–a definite no-no for today’s movies! In truth, you had whites, blacks, American Indians and Mexicans who were all part of various Confederate units–but you are not supposed to know that! You are supposed to believe that it was only about all whites trying to enslave all blacks and nothing else was ever involved–and that is so much bovine fertilizer! The Deep State doesn’t want you to know the truth about that war and its causes anymore than they want you to know the truth about what happened on January 6, 2021! Mull that thought over for awhile. Government liars in the 1860s were no different than they are today, except today they are a bit more sophisticated.
This was originally published on Revised History on March 11, 2023.
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H. V. Traywick, Jr link
3/19/2023 06:27:27 am

"There ain't no fergittin.'"
- Josey Wales

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Billy P
3/20/2023 06:41:19 am

"We thought about it for a long time. 'Endeavour to persevere'. And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the union."

Lone Watie wasn't fooled, he knew who he was dealing with. A bunch of blue bellied liars.

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Al Benson Jr. link
3/20/2023 06:49:23 pm

You got that right Billy!

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Perrin Lovett
3/20/2023 09:07:00 am

Stirring and accurate, Al!

One of the grandest devices of the late, great Tom Moore's novel, A FATAL MERCY, came at the end when Southern protagonist Drayton FitzHenry is fast-forwarded to 1913. There, in between the Civil War and our present, Moore deftly linked the wickedness of Lincoln's nascent empire to the late horror's of the matured GAE. I do not hold my breath for Hollywood treatment, although I know some (Indy) ideas were once discussed.

Had the book been published in 1949 or 1959, rather than 2019, it would have sold 10 million copies and been required reading in Dixie.

Y'all, have a read, and create a movie in your heads:

https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Mercy-Man-Lost-Civil/dp/1947660195/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-5-fkmrnull

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Al Benson Jr. link
3/20/2023 06:52:59 pm

I did a review of A Fatal Mercy a few years back. It was a good book.

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Martin Wilson
3/20/2023 06:45:13 pm

Clint Eastwood is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Perhaps he visualized himself as Josey Wales.

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