Galveston had been taken by the Union in October 1862, and its recapture by the Confederates returned to them an important shipping port. In this battle on the Gulf Coast, a Confederate force recaptured Galveston from a Union force that was occupying the city. On New Year’s Day 1863, when the second day of the Battle of Murfreesboro took place, a much less known but nonetheless fierce battle occurred at Galveston, Texas. As it happens, the Civil War had something of a Taras Bulba episode, and it occurred at the Battle of Galveston. Near the end of the movie, the enraged father kills his son for supporting the cause that he opposes. During the movie, the son falls in love with a Polish woman and makes the decision to fight with the Poles in their conflict against the Cossacks. The father and son in the movie are members of a Cossack community, and this community is in conflict with a Polish principality. The movie stars Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis as, respectively, a father and son, and I suppose that this pairing strains credulity for genetic inheritance of physical appearance. I remember when I was much younger, maybe age 12, my father took my brother and me to see the movie Taras Bulba. Carrino, Roundtable HistorianĬopyright © 2017-2018, All Rights ReservedĮditor’s note: This article was the history brief for the November 2017 meeting of the Cleveland Civil War Roundtable.
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