Still Valley -- 4th of July Marathoning

 So this episode was especially special because of Vaughn Taylor as Teague, a decaying and dying man Paradine meets while mapping a town supposedly occupied by "them yanks". Reason I got a good kick out of Taylor is that I watch a lot of "Perry Mason" these days, and he's in like 8 episodes playing various characters. I think he either blackmailed someone Perry would later defend or get killed as a result of blackmail. As Teague, Taylor is barely recognizable. They fit him with lots of scattered white hair, scraggly clothes, and old age makeup. He has a crook back, a pained walk, and crazy eyes (to match all the hair poking out of his brows, head, behind his ears, and out his chin), with a particular glee as he made his claim that in order to defeat "them yanks" Paradine would need to rely on the Devil. It is quite a story, this idea that "the devil's work", in a witchcraft book, could win the Confederacy the war. Teague not doing it baffled me because why wouldn't he not conjure up the end of them "damn yanks" before his own death? What a way to go out if you hate them than call up the devil, renounce God, and watch as those you want to see die horribly do so before kicking the bucket? That was always a nagging issue with me...he was still yapping away to Paradine about his work, and yet with the time he had left, Teague failed to do anything about it. Instead he relied on Paradine, because of the way he looked, to finish the job for him. And he chose wrong because even if Paradine was fighting on the side of the Confederacy, seeing the end of the Yankees wasn't worth selling his soul. I can only imagine plenty others would have done so in a heartbeat.