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SonnyJ
04-05-2011, 05:02 PM
Anyone else watching this mini-series?

Parts 4&5 are on at 6:00 pm on WTVS (PBS)...:)
pyke88
04-05-2011, 05:32 PM
2 weeks ago I was lucky enough to visit the Battle at Shiloh as well as Vicksburg, Mississippi. Have the series being PVR'd. Saw the first episode and it was great.
deepfried
04-05-2011, 06:28 PM
Im watching and recording this series .... very interesting I find !!!
ex811
04-05-2011, 08:32 PM
It's an old series, I remember watching it over 10yrs ago.
IMO it's one of the best things to ever come out of PBS.
SonnyJ
04-05-2011, 08:40 PM
It's an old series, I remember watching it over 10yrs ago.
IMO it's one of the best things to ever come out of PBS.

I'm thinking it was made in 1990...but...still great!!

As to ...quote one soldier..

"Quote: The ball entered just below my left eye and excited just below my right ear but yet I survived QUOTE"

man o man that must have been brutal but not as brutal as the medics they had back then..:scared0018:
35 whelen
04-06-2011, 08:19 AM
KEN BURNS if you like this show check out his other shows all great .
fordtruckin
04-07-2011, 03:39 AM
Yup show on PBS in September of 1990. Definately Interesting. I've always been one for history. Woulda been a history major if I coulda done anything else but teach.lol.
pogo
04-07-2011, 08:27 AM
Caught part of one episode the other night. I find it interesting, too.

One particularly interesting statistic opened my eyes as to the magnitude of the war. I had not previously realized: The death and casualty toll exceeded the combined death and casualty toll of both the first and second world wars.

And, a lot of "what if's" there as well.
Bulletproof
04-07-2011, 08:39 AM
Caught part of one episode the other night. I find it interesting, too.

One particularly interesting statistic opened my eyes as to the magnitude of the war. I had not previously realized: The death and casualty toll exceeded the combined death and casualty toll of both the first and second world wars.

And, a lot of "what if's" there as well.

That was just for the Americans in WW1 and WW2. If you added up all the countries it isn't even close.

The Ken Burns series is great... I have been watching here and there.
pogo
04-07-2011, 09:35 AM
That was just for the Americans in WW1 and WW2. If you added up all the countries it isn't even close.

The Ken Burns series is great... I have been watching here and there.

Right you are! Staggering number all the same.