George Felix Allen Sings

A link published by James Bennett on August 20, 2006. Tagged with bonnie-blue-flag, civil-war, george-allen and youtube. No comments posted.

Virginia Senator George Allen’s cameo, as a Confederate officer, in Gods and Generals.

Trivia:

He used to be one of my Senators.
Robert C. Byrd, who also used to be one of my Senators (and who I vastly prefer) also had a cameo in Gods and Generals, as a Confederate general.
I saw the movie in the theater with some friends. We spent almost the entire time explaining the historical inaccuracies to a mother and son who were sitting in the next row (the son, who I’m guessing was maybe 12 or 13 years old, was doing a report on the movie to get extra credit in a history class).
We joked afterward about the fact that, apparently, everyone in the Confederate army was a world-class singer. Just like the way that everyone in medieval China was a master of multiple martial arts.
The book is vastly better, both in terms of accuracy and in terms of being actually interesting.
Jeff Daniels put on a lot of weight between Gettysburg (which, by the way, is probably the finest movie ever made about the Civil War) and Gods and Generals.
I actually know most of the words to “The Bonnie Blue Flag”.
I actually know what the Bonnie Blue Flag was, and why the “Confederate flag” you see proudly displayed all over the south is actually historically inaccurate (see Wikipedia on the flags of the Confederacy for the gory details).
I know the words to more than just one verse of “Dixie”, too.
Earlier this year, I moved from a place which has a monument in front of the old courthouse commemorating its Confederate veterans, and which places Confederate battle flags on their graves each Memorial Day, to a place which deliberately left Southern states out when it named streets after the states.

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