Ben and Maggie Geyser are Virginia farmers. Their sons—Matthew, Mark, and Luke—eventually enlist in the Confederate Army. The Hales (The Blue):
On the mill wall, time softened the mural. The faces blurred into one another until blue drifted into gray and gray into the blue, and sometimes, in the late light, the mural looked silver—neither and both. Teenagers still scrawled over it, lovers still met beneath it, politicians still posed in front of it for pictures they later denied needing. But in the panels of the city—the hospital waiting room, the union basement, the schoolyard—people could say, in a voice that was calmer because it had been earned: we are not only blue or only gray. We are a long series of small choices. The Blue and the Gray -1982- -multi sub- Civil ...
Though some modern critics find the pacing slow or the tone occasionally sentimental, The Blue and the Gray paved the way for later epics like Gettysburg and Ken Burns’ The Civil War . It remains a classic example of the , using the power of television to turn an academic subject into a deeply personal epic. Ben and Maggie Geyser are Virginia farmers
#TheBlueAndTheGray #CivilWarSeries #ClassicTV #1982 #HistoryOnScreen #MultiSub #AmericanHistory The faces blurred into one another until blue