You hear very little from Holt at the beginning of the movie. Holt’s character goes through the most dramatic transformation throughout the movie, but it is a subtle transformation. My favorite character has got to be Daniel Holt, who is a former slave but remains loyal to his former master’s son, George Clyde. One of the highlights of the movie is an excellent recreation of William Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Kansas. The movie does a pretty good job of exploring the confusion of the guerilla war along with the intersection of ethnicity and shifting loyalties. The movie follows a small band of “Bushwhackers”, including Tobey Maguire (Jake Rodell or “Dutchy”), Skeet Ulrich (Jack Bull Chiles), and Simon Baker (George Clyde), along with Jewel (Sue Lee) who plays a young widower. Yesterday we finished viewing the movie, Ride With the Devil, which attempts to capture the chaos of the “Border Wars” in Missouri and Kansas. I am confident that my students both enjoyed and profited from the course. We viewed five full-length movies and numerous small videos that span the spectrum from NPS and American Experience documentaries to YouTube videos. This trimester I decided to focus the course on Civil War films. This is my second go around with this particular elective and overall I am pleased with the results. Another trimester of my Civil War Memory class has come to an end.
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