00:11 - >>MARK LEONARD IS A LIVING

00:12 - HISTORY PERFORMER WHO PORTRAYS

00:13 - BREEDER GENERAL JOHN BUFORD

00:15 - WITH THE CONFEDERATION OF UNION

00:17 - GENERALS MARK HOW DID YOU

00:19 - BECOME INVOLVED IN LIVING

00:20 - HISTORY.

00:24 - >>THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

00:25 - IS A A VERY IMPORTANT EVENT IN

00:28 - AMERICAN HISTORY AND CERTAINLY

00:29 - THE

00:30 - THE KEY. THE EVENT IN HISTORY

00:32 - THAT HAS SPARKED MY INTEREST

00:34 - OVER MY LIFETIME.

00:36 - A WIFE AND I'VE BEEN TO

00:37 - GETTYSBURG MANY MANY TIMES AND

00:38 - OVER THE OVER THE COURSE OF

00:40 - TIMES

00:40 - WE HAD STOP IN THE

00:42 - CONFEDERATION OF UNION GENERALS

00:44 - HEADQUARTERS CAMP. THERE'S IT

00:46 - WAS A MEMBER SAID IN ON ON

00:48 - SEVERAL OF THE SUMMER HOURS

00:49 - EVERY YEAR THAT WE WERE OUT

00:51 - THERE. AND EVENTUALLY THEY BE

00:53 - STARTED TO RECRUITMENT THERE

00:57 - I HAD TO HAVE OUR TWO-YEAR OF

01:00 - CONTACTS AND INVITATIONS BEFORE

01:02 - I FINALLY AGREED THAT I WOULD

01:04 - BE

01:04 - ABLE TO FIND THE TIME AND MAKE

01:06 - THE COMMITMENT TO DO THE JOB

01:08 - WELL.

01:10 - THERE WAS NO

01:11 - GENERAL BUFORD AND THE

01:13 - ORGANIZATION THERE WAS NO

01:15 - COLONEL JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN IN

01:17 - THE ORGANIZATION EITHER IN OF

01:19 - COURSE ANY OTHER PERSON HAS

01:21 - WATER BEEN AVAILABLE IF THEY

01:22 - WERE NOT ALREADY BEING

01:24 - REPRESENTED.

01:29 - PERSONAL.

01:30 - ADMIRATION FOR

01:31 - BOTH YOUR 4 INCH AM RULE ON A

01:33 - LOT OF SIMILARITIES

01:34 - IN US IN OUR LIFE

01:37 - STORIES BESIDES HOWEVER, I DID

01:40 - NOT EVENTUALLY CHOOSE THAT WE

01:43 - REALLY BECAME A AN APPARENT.

01:47 - THAT I WAS

01:48 - IN FACT THERE'LL BE OVER

01:50 - GLOVING A 150 YEARS LATER

01:53 - PERSONALITY WAS TOO CLOSE LIVE

01:56 - HISTORY WAS WAY TOO CLOSE

01:59 - THE FACT THAT BUFORD IS A

02:01 - CALVARY COMMANDER ALSO

02:05 - REALLY GOOD FITTING IN WITH MY

02:07 - LIFESTYLE AND MY HISTORY.

02:10 - WHO GREW UP HERE AND NOT ON THE

02:11 - GREAT PLAINS OF THE UNITED

02:13 - STATES RANCHING WE STILL

02:14 - ARE RANCHERS. I SPENT A LOT OF

02:17 - MY LIFE ON HORSEBACK THERE WAS

02:19 - A NATURAL INCLINATIONS OR AS

02:22 - SEVERAL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE

02:23 - CONFEDERATION WILL TELL YOU

02:24 - THEY DIDN'T REALLY CHOOSE THEIR

02:26 - PERSONA THE PERSON OR CHOSE

02:28 - THEM. NOW IMAGINE IS ABOUT

02:30 - WHERE WE'RE AT

02:31 - THEY MENTIONED THE NEED TO HAVE

02:33 - TIME FOR THAT THE COMMITMENT.

02:35 - >>HOW MUCH COMMITMENT IS THAT

02:36 - HOW MUCH OF THE TIME IS IT FOR

02:38 - YOU TO PREPARE FOR THIS ROLE.

02:40 - >>CERTAINLY MY MY

02:41 - TIME COMMITMENTS ARE LESS THAN

02:43 - SOME OF THE OTHER GENTLEMAN

02:45 - THAT ARE IN THE ORGANIZATION

02:46 - SIMPLY BECAUSE OF WHERE I LIVE.

02:50 - TAKES ME A DAY OF

02:50 - TRAVEL TIME TO GET SOMEWHERE IN

02:53 - A FULL DAY TO GET BACK

02:56 - THAT LIMITS MY ACTIVITIES BACK

02:59 - IN THE EASTERN THEATER OF

03:00 - THE WAR. 2, 3, OR 4 EVENTS A

03:02 - YEAR THAT I THAT I GET

03:04 - TO ATTEND. THE NEWS SEVERAL

03:05 - THINGS LOCALLY I GO TO SCHOOL

03:08 - ZEIGLER AMERICAN LEGION GROUPS

03:11 - PUT ON PROGRAMS EVEN FOR

03:13 - CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION IS A

03:14 - WRONG. ALSO PROGRAMS THE

03:17 - AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. AND I'M

03:19 - THERE AS GENERAL FEEL FOR

03:21 - SO THE EVENINGS AND AND

03:24 - SEVERAL SEVERAL EVENINGS

03:25 - THROUGHOUT THE YEAR HERE AT

03:27 - HOME THAT. FOR BIG EVENTS BACK

03:30 - EAST IT'S 34 YEAR.

03:32 - HOW DO PREPARED TO

03:34 - ADOPT HIS PERSONALITY YOU DO DO

03:36 - READ HIS LETTERS YOU'RE A DIARY

03:38 - ENTRIES. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO

03:39 - TO UNDERSTAND HIM.

03:41 - >>WHO HELPS. THE FACT THAT I

03:44 - TRULY HAVE HAD A LIFETIME OF

03:45 - STUDY. WELL THE AMERICAN CIVIL

03:47 - WAR ON MY FOLKS GAVE ME A SET

03:50 - OF TOY SOLDIERS WHEN I WAS 6

03:51 - YEARS OLD AND SOME WERE BLUE

03:53 - AND SOME ARE GREAT.

03:55 - AND MY DAD AS A WORLD WAR 2

03:56 - VETS I SAID WHICH ONES ARE THE

03:59 - THERE ARE SOME OF THESE

04:00 - JAPANESE KNOW SAYS ARE ALL

04:02 - AMERICANS I SAID SO WHICH ONES

04:04 - ARE THE GOOD GUYS, HE SAID

04:05 - THEY'RE ALL

04:05 - GOOD GUYS. I SAID WELL THEN WHY

04:08 - WOULD GOOD GUY AMERICANS

04:09 - FIGHTING WITH

04:10 - EACH OTHER. AND HE EXPLAINED

04:12 - THAT THEY JUST SAW THE WORLD

04:13 - DIFFERENTLY AND THEY HAD TO

04:15 - SETTLE IN. AND THE WAR WAS THE

04:17 - ONE WAY TO SUM UP ON THAT AND

04:18 - TREAT ME SO MUCH THAT AND THEN

04:20 - THE CONCEPT OF

04:22 - I HAD NEVER THOUGHT OF SLAVERY

04:23 - WHEN I WAS 6 YEARS OLD AND TO

04:25 - HEAR WHAT THAT WAS

04:26 - THAT SOME PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS

04:27 - OK TO OWN HUMAN BEINGS AND

04:29 - OTHERS DID NOT AND WHEN YOU'RE

04:31 - 6 YEARS OLD THAT MAKES NO SENSE

04:33 - TO YOU THAT ALL LOGICALLY HOW

04:34 - CAN YOU OWN A PERSON. AND SO

04:37 - THERE WAS A ALL I JUST A GREAT

04:40 - INSPIRATION INTEREST

04:41 - FROM AN AND I BEGAN READING AND

04:43 - STUDYING FROM THE TIME I WAS A

04:45 - YOUNG YOUNG KID IN ELEMENTARY

04:47 - SCHOOL.

04:48 - >>YOU'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR

04:49 - FOR QUITE A

04:50 - WHILE WITH SOMETHING THAT YOU

04:52 - YOU KNOW NOW ABOUT LIVING

04:53 - HISTORY PERFORMANCE THAT YOU

04:55 - WISH YOU KNEW AT THE BEGINNING.

04:59 - >>WHO ARE THE GREAT JOYS HAS

05:00 - BEEN TO SEE HOW MANY OTHER

05:02 - AMERICANS ARE TRULY

05:03 - IN ARRESTED. AND WHAT MADE THIS

05:05 - COUNTRY BECOME WATER DOES MEAN

05:07 - THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

05:08 - DETERMINED WE WOULD BE

05:10 - A COUNTRY. THE AMERICAN CIVIL

05:12 - WAR DETERMINE WHAT KIND OF A

05:13 - COUNTRY WOULD BE AND FRANKLY

05:16 - WORLD WAR 2. THE SHOW THE

05:18 - WORLD. WHO WE WILL

05:20 - REALLY WORK AND WHAT WE COULD

05:22 - DO AS A UNITED NATIONS.

05:25 - I THINK THOSE ARE THE 3 GREAT

05:27 - EVENT UNFORTUNATELY THEY HAPPEN

05:28 - TO BE WARS BUT

05:30 - THOSE ARE THE 3 GREAT DEFINING

05:31 - EVENTS IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY

05:33 - IS AND

05:34 - THERE ARE THOUSANDS AND

05:35 - THOUSANDS OF GOOD PATRIOTIC

05:37 - LOYAL AMERICANS. I REALLY WANT

05:39 - TO KNOW AND THAT'S BEEN THE

05:40 - GREATEST JOY OF THE WHOLE

05:42 - THING. WE ASKED HOW

05:47 - WE

05:47 - REALLY PREPARE AS IS LOTS AND

05:49 - LOTS OF IT CONTINUE CONTINUAL

05:51 - RESEARCH I READ EVERY DAY.

05:53 - I THOUGHT YOU KNOW BILL FOR THE

05:54 - VARIOUS CAMPAIGNS.

05:56 - I HAVE INTEREST IN WHAT OTHER

05:58 - OFFICERS WERE DOING AND

06:00 - OTHER. ARENAS OF THE WAR I READ

06:02 - AND STUDY THAT TOO BUT

06:04 - EVERY DAY I TRY AND READ MORE

06:05 - LETTERS MORE COMMENTS WHO OR

06:08 - BATTLE REPORTS

06:10 - OF EVENTS GENERAL BUFORD WAS

06:13 - ENGAGED IN INCLUDING IS HIS

06:15 - EARLY MILITARY CAREER

06:16 - GRADUATING FROM WEST POINT IN

06:18 - 18 4 RECEPTIONS.

06:21 - TRY TO LEARN AND STUDY ALL

06:23 - THOSE CAMPAIGNS PRIOR TO

06:25 - THE ONSET OF THE CIVIL WAR IN

06:27 - 1860 LAWN.

06:29 - MARK LEONARD IS A LIVING

06:31 - HISTORY PERFORMER WHO PORTRAYS

06:32 - BRIGADIER GENERAL JOHN BUFORD.

06:34 - >>WITH THE CONFEDERATION OF

06:35 - UNION GENERAL THANK YOU FOR

06:36 - SPEAKING WITH HIM.