The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek
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It was the most pivotal battle of the American Civil War... and youve never even heard of it. A battle in which a misfit Union regiment of only 600 souls miraculously prevented a mercenary army fifty times its size from conquering Washington. A battle that, due to an ensuing scandal that was severely embarrassing to both the Union and the Confederacy, was subject to a deliberate cover-up. A battle whose main protagonists - an opium-addicted gay colonel, an elderly Chinese general/launderer, a nerdy escaped slave/engineering genius, and a one-armed sociopathic teenaged prostitute - were denied their rightful place in the nations pantheon of heroes. Presented in the authoritative style of an historical documentary à la Ken Burns, The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek is a hilarious mockumentary and an outrageous social/political satire. Through a combination of "archival" materials, absurdly overwrought "period" music, interviews with a rather unhinged set of "historians", and commentary b