http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DABZ3yWv8EU
Say, Black folks hab you seen de massa, wid de muffstash on his face,
Go long de road some time dis mornin’, like he gwine to leab de place?
He seen a smoke way up de ribber, whar de Linkum gunboats lay;
He took his hat, and lef’ berry sudden, and I spec’ he’s run away!
Kingdom Coming (1862)
Steam is having its Winter Festival and has 500 free computer game demos available from February 3, 2021-February 9. 2021. A fascinating one is Victory at Sea Ironclad, which allows players to fight the Union war at sea during the Civil War. (The ability to play the Confederates will be coming later.) This is an area of the War largely hitherto untouched in computer games. The demo has a few rough patches, but allows a player to sample tactical, operational and strategic components of the Civil War on the waves, and to command combined naval/land operations. This is a fascinating aspect of the Late Unpleasantness and I am over joyed that a game now addresses it. The saying Yankee ingenuity has come down to us, but in the war at sea there was plenty of Reb ingenuity which allowed the Confederates with privateers to largely destroy the Union merchant marine, to design and build blockade runners to evade the Union blockade, and to defend and hold on to ports like Charleston, Wilmington and Mobile until near the end of the War. They made, against the odds, the Civil War at sea a contest. Go here to download the demo.
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVoATaHA63c
Ah. I learned that song as “The Year of Jubilo”.
Both titles were used.
Wasn’t criticizing. Just that when I recognized the lyrics I was surprised at the title. Never heard it. I now know a new thing, howver small a thing it may be. Thanks! (I do prefer the Jubilo title, though. I like the OT reference to the Jubilee Year.)
Wasn’t criticizing.
Understood. It was a camp favorite with Union soldiers. They liked their music sentimental, funny or patriotic and the song scored on the last two categories. I first heard the song when I was a boy in the movie On Borrowed Time (1939) in which a Civil War veteran, played by Lionel Barrymore, explains the lyrics to his grandson. In the movie the veteran says his age won’t stop him from helping his grandson, an orphan, and recalling that his age didn’t stop him at Bull Run when they said he was too young or at San Juan Hill when they said he was too old. A charming movie in which the veteran traps the Grim Reaper in a tree so that he can live and be with his grandson, only to be reminded that death is a necessary part of life and can sometimes come as a blessing.
only to be reminded that death is a necessary part of life and can sometimes come as a blessing.
Thos. Sowell, who I do not believe is a religious man, said some years back that when you get past 80, you’re disillusioned enough that you don’t mind dying. I’ve had four close relations who kept their wits and had an ordinary accumulation of infirmities. They were, past 85, ready. Where I’ve seen anguish, it’s in the face of dementia and crippling infirmity.
Where I’ve seen anguish, it’s in the face of dementia…
I’ve seen dementia patients with anguish and without. I suspect that the difference is due to painful underlying conditions which they are unable to describe.