from general beauregard and troughs in, who was sending messages to the cabinet here in montgomery. finally the unionists would not leave and they fired upon them. the orders to fire were issued from that telegraph office. it was the central bank of alabama. it was incorporated within the state laws. it was the first to loan money to the confederacy. we had the exchange hotel. where the order was given. with money needed it was not a great deal of money. at the end of the war the bank was in receivership. many of the things that happens during the civil war took place here. in may of 1861 the capital of the confederate states of america moved to richmond virginia. we had supply stores and we had cotton stored here. we don't really know how many bales of cotton. the yankees were coming. that was wilkins raid which left huntsville in july. they scoured through the whole area. the destroyed the university of alabama. what is left is the former capital of the confederacy. the unionists began moving toward montgomery. there was great anxiety. todon't know if we are going be punished trem

i say to you general beauregard. >> i do love a good southernt deep olive oil smooth accent. >> stephen: uh-huh, uh-huh, do you miss having one. do you wish you still had it? >> no.you as being from the midwest now because so many people know from you fargo, that original, that movie kind of catapulted you. did you know that movie was going to start? make make you such a it was going to be a great movie. joel and ethan cohe-- coenwas born to play the role and that see it i flatter myself that i'm pretty good at reading scripts and i knew it was going to be good, yeah. >> stephen: did they kno scramble for this part? >> oh, lord, yes. i went in for a small part. they asked if i wanted to read jerry. i said yeah, went out in the hall, sea said dok tomorrow, i said yeah, every aker in l.a. came to my house to drill me all night about how to get that script down. and then i found out they were still auditioning in new y got my jolly jolly lutheran ass on an airplane and i crashed the audition. >> stephen: you just walked in in new yomy role, don't you give it to anybody elsement i don't rec

to defeat because and many ways, when the battle of shiloh ends, when he turns command over to beauregard, the end of the first day. the next morning, as light rises from the darkness, the reinforcements have come in and sweep the confederates off the field. the confederate soldiers are embodied on both sides of the monument representing the southern soldiers who participated in the battle. what is interesting is that there are 11 on one side and one less on the other. showing the number of casualties. we also have embodiments of soldiers on both sides. on the left side, and infantry man is holding a confederate slack. an artillery man is on his side. on the other side, we have the head bowed of one officer because he was not able to secure the victory. and a cavalry man who looks. frustrated. these monuments, these embodiments of confederate soldiers and officers and the interpretation of the war itself become the main focal point for southerners in the postwar time for. they are not interested in granting immediate medical support and care for their veterans. instead, they want to make

remember what beauregard said.he said destroy everything in sherman's path so he will have nothing to live on. in the 1950s, a geographer from the university of georgia did a study of one chunk of the march to the sea. he took one chunk of it and found out what was standing there when sherman came and what was still standing there in the 1950s. guess what? a lot of houses were still standing there that have been there when sherman came through. he didn't burn everything to the ground. >> john made this argument at the museum of the confederacy. a couple years ago, they have an annual program called man of the year. four or five of us were invited to present. i thought i was going to have a tough time saying lincoln was the man of the year in 1864 because he won re-election. john had the audacity to present sherman with this argument he's created about houses that are standing and this geological record. guess what, john won sherman was elected man of the year, he got national press. the whole country took notice th

and johnson has been killed, his image is right below the monument, when he turns over command to beauregard, who is very confident at the end of the first day they are going to win a major victory here and the next morning, as light rises from the darkness, grant's armies, the reinforcements have come in and sweep the confederates off the field. the confederate soldiers are embodied on both sides of the monument themselves representing the southern soldiers who participated in the battle, but what's interesting is there's 11 on one side and one less on the other side showing the amount of casualties that have been inflicted by the battle itself. then we also have embodiments of soldiers on both sides, on the left side we have an infantry man holding a confederate flag and defiant artillery man next to his side. on the right side we have the head bowed of one particular soldier -- officer into submission because he wasn't able to secure the battle for the confederacy and a cavalry man who looks very frustrated because he hadn't been involved in the war. these things, these monuments, these e

remember what beauregard said.he said destroy everything in sherman's path so he will have nothing to live on. in the 1950s, a geographer from the university of georgia did a study of one chunk of the march to the sea. he took one chunk of it and found out what was standing there when sherman came and what was still standing there in the 1950s. guess what? a lot of houses were still standing there that have been there when sherman came through. he didn't burn everything to the ground. >> john made this argument at the museum of the confederacy. a couple years ago, they have an annual program called man of the year. four or five of us were invited to present. i thought i was going to have a tough time saying lincoln was the man of the year in 1864 because he won re-election. john had the audacity to present sherman with this argument he's created about houses that are standing and this geological record. guess what, john won sherman was elected man of the year, he got national press. the whole country took notice th