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	Podcast:		Grant and Lee
	Episode:		014 The Creed of the Old South
	Category:		Arts and Design
	Duration:		00:00:00
	Publish Date:		2011-06-21 02:00:00
	Description:		This is Mike Vendetti a.k.a. John W Michaels, a pseudonym I have adopted as a narrator. I hope you have enjoyed the daily podcast of grant and Lee. I certainly have enjoyed narrating these two books. This is a special episode of the podcast, where I am publishing a portion of a book, ''The Creed of the Old South'' written by Basil L Gildersleeve that I narrated and published on audible.com. Basil L Gildersleeve was a 23-year-old professor of the Greek language at the University of Virginia in 1861 when the Civil War began. Like many Virginians, his sympathies were not necessarily with protecting slavery as he owned no slaves, but he was a Virginian and when Virginia joined the southern cause he joined the Confederate Army. Professor Gildersleeve had a rather unique perspective of the war, as he was a professor for nine months of the year, and a soldier for three months.Our story begins in 1916 as Prof. Gildersleeve is traveling on a train and two veterans engage in conversation behind him. He does not join in the conversation, but becomes engrossed in his own thoughts which he relates in this narrative. As is the case with most veterans who have ''Seen the Elephant'' he doesn't dwell on what he saw, but the veteran who has seen the elephant will understand what he is saying.I also believe that the veteran of the Korean War, and the Vietnam conflict can better relate to the homecoming of the Confederate soldier. The welcome mat wasn't exactly thrown out upon our return.I hope you find this podcast thought-provoking. If you would care to comment please e-mail me at mike@Vendetti.com. I would love to hear from you.
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