Galvazined Yankees Fact or Fiction

[Frenchie]

"Howdy, Paden. Where's the dog?" 

[Montana Slim]

Good to hear others affirm that we can still enjoy an entertaining movie, even if it's not P.C.

Speaking of Galvanized Yankees, The Rock Island Arsenal Prison turned a pile of em' out & pointed them west to the frontier.

Slim

[Ottawa Creek Bill]

Well.......IMHO, the best actor in Dances With Wolves was Cisco......I got to meet him this year. He is living out his life as a tourist attraction at the 1880's town in South Dakota....At 30 years of age....he still looks like he could drag the skids of junk up the hill in the movie.

The best scene in the movie is the buffalo chase, I'm not a big fan of Kevin Costner but he is a gutsy horseman..... The most implausable aspect of DWW is the fact that the Sioux let him live at all. If they had been Comanches (as in the original screen play), it would have been a very short movie Tomahawk to the head works for me......

Bill

[ColonelFlashman]

I am looking for information about captured Southern troops that were offered a chance to serve the Union in the West instead of going to the prision camps.  I saw a book and its on order but its the only information I have found so far on this subject.  Is this true or is it another of the works of fiction that came out of the CW era?  Thanks in advance for any help and information.

Bristow Kid

The English reporter that we know as "Stanley" that found "Livingston" was one.
He was adopted by a Mississippi Merchant as I recollect from his Memoirs & grew up there, learned his adoptive fathers business, joined the Local Militia & fought for the Southern cause.
His cross belt buckle took the full impact of a Mini bullet, which knocked him out & when he woke up he was a P.o.W.
The Federals gave him the option you mentioned above & he joined the Sea Service, Jumping Ship in Liverpool, England where he started his new career as a Reporter of a London News Paper & the rest is history.