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Sullivan Ballou (March 28, 1829 – July 29, 1861) was an American lawyer and politician from Rhode Island, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered for an eloquent letter he wrote to his wife Sarah a week before he was mortally wounded in the First Battle of Bull Run. He was left behind by retreating ...
The film was co-produced by Ken's brother Ric Burns, written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ric Burns with Ken Burns, and edited by Paul Barnes with cinematography by Buddy Squires. It was funded by General Motors , the National Endowment for the Humanities , the Corporation for Public Broadcasting , the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations , and the John ...
Paul Roebling (March 1, 1934 – July 27, 1994) was an American actor noted for Blue Thunder, Prince of the City and Carolina Skeletons.In the 1990 Ken Burns PBS documentary The Civil War, [1] Roebling was the voice of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and read the famous letter written by Sullivan Ballou.
In The War, Ken Burns does away with his traditional overview mode of storytelling in exchange for a zoomed-in look at World War II through the lenses of four small towns and the folks who resided ...
The film features a letter from Sullivan Carew to his wife written two days before his death. It is a parody of the real-life letter by Union Army soldier Sullivan Ballou, which was used by Ken Burns in his documentary The Civil War.
Ken Burns and his team typically tackle expansive topics: The Civil War.National Parks. Baseball. Country music. But sometimes he does embrace singular historical figures such as Thomas Jefferson ...
Meeker’s prayer followed Ken Burns’ jolting departure during a recent commencement address at Brandies University from a lifetime of “conscious neutrality” to note that we face “an ...
"Ashokan Farewell" / ə ˈ ʃ oʊ ˌ k æ n / is a musical piece composed by the American folk musician Jay Ungar in 1982. For many years, it served as a goodnight or farewell waltz at the annual Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camps, run by Ungar and his wife Molly Mason, who named the tune after the Ashokan Field Campus (now the Ashokan Center) of SUNY New Paltz in Upstate New York.