South Carolina disaffiliated from the Union 160 years ago today.

The Palmetto State was followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. A four-year boogaloo that divided the nation in every way commenced soon thereafter.

Richard Jordan played Confederate Brig. General Lewis Armistead in the movie Gettysburg for his final role before he succumbed to cancer in 1993.

This three-minute exchange with British Army Lt. Colonel (and later General) Arthur Lyon Fremantle offers a look into the Southern mindset — just before Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg — that is now omitted from sources which were reliable once upon a time.

Armistead led his brigade to the farthest point reached by Southern forces during the war, typically referred to as the “High-water Mark of the Confederacy.” However Armistead was wounded in the charge and he died in a field hospital two days later.