Analyzing Civil War Photography: The Confederate Dead at Oakwood Cemetery
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- Many photographs taken during the American Civil War are iconic; if not instantly recognizable. However, the context behind these photographs is near totally lost in the public mind. In today's video, I seek to change this by analyzing the details of one iconic photograph: The Confederate Dead at Oakwood Cemetery.
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I don't know if I will make this into an official series or not. More likely than not, it will be a series. However, unlike some of my other series, this will be sporadic in new editions. So, for now, I hope all of you enjoy this video and God Bless!
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Find-A-Grave Links:
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Music: "Oh, I'm a Good Ol' Rebel" from Paradox Interactive's Victoria II
Soldier Boy, known but to God,
where are you now?
Does your Spirit still roam the fields
or have you gone home?
Little stones with little numbers,
more than the brittle wood that used to mark your resting place
and nothing of you to see.
Does you Mother know where you are?
Does she know why you lay here?
Are you among Friends, in that dark and lonely place?
Soldier Boy, lost to the world,
what could you have done, had you survived that day?
How would you have changed the world, had you lived?
But, would Honor have been served in your own heart?
Honor.
What things have we done in the name of Honor?
What pains suffered?
What grief?
Only you know that, you and your comrades beside you.
This is Honor!
This is Pride!
This is the cost of war.
Memories never made.
Tomorrow never seen.
Little stones with little numbers
replacing the broken wooden markers
marking the broken bodies of young men
pledged to Honor.
But you did change the world, by your sacrifice
and the loss of your living Soul in the World..
You did change history with your living Honor.
You did do your Duty, to God and Country
as you saw them,
and now the world has changed.
You would not recognize it.
Time and Tide and the measure of men's Souls
move and flow as we mourn our dead
and make a better world
where Peace and God and Love are all the same word.
Never again, we swear, never again the broken and the devastated
the cold and the empty to serve the ends of the few and the mighty.
But we still make Soldier Boys and we still make graveyards for them
and we still call upon Honor to fill them
and Mothers still weep,.
as the wind blows across the that dark and lonely place
Powerful! 😢
Excellent coverage! Much detail. Great forgotten history. Keep up the great work!
Don't know if I'm out of line here but.. I believe little boots in Latin is Caligula. He had a miniature legionaries costume, little saddles included. Ergo, the soldiers started calling him Little Boots, or maybe Sandles. Most likely the same word as boots as we know them were at least a thousand years in coming.
And God bless you! I enjoyed your presentation and love the then-and-now comparisons. The device for the 3-D photos is called a STEREOPTICON. I have one (cheap modern plastic version) and have 100s of cards, including Civil War scenes. You might enjoy "looking into" one.
Ha! My parents actually had one of these devices and a box of photos mounted on cardboard. We also called it a Stereopticon.
Where do you get one.
My great great Grandfather is buried there He died 4 July 1862, at Chimborazo hospital from wounds at Gaines Mill
Very much enjoyed the video!
Thank you
awesome video! 👍
I've not seen the oakwood cemetery pix before
The racist Mayor in Atl. Ga., Keisha Bottomfeeder, had the Confederate Lion removed fro Oakwood Cemetary.
This is Oakwood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.
Good.
@@KeithCooper-Albuquerque Then all civil rights monuments, should be taken down too. Would that be good?
Yes. Take all monuments and shove them deep up in there.
@@hpmacmurray Wow! what a mature response. Did you stay up all night, to think of it?
The unreadable Grave of Peter.... IHS means he was a Catholic
.I wonder if SGt. William Lambert is here. 31st GA. Wounded at the FT. Steadman attack near the end of the war. Died in Hospital 4 days later. This was part of the Petersburg Campaign? Unknown burial place. My wifes GG grandfather. He had survived all the big battles since the start of the war. Lees last gasp.
SGR William Lambert is buried in Blandford Cemetery. The reason why is because most of the men for the Petersburg campaign were buried in Blandford as that was the closest burial ground.
Most of the men in Oakwood are from Chimborazo Hospital. The 1864-1865 section contains the wounded of the fighting around Richmond itself, namely Proctor’s Creek, Cold Harbor, and the Battle of Chaffin’s Farm/Assault on Fort Harrison.
If you ever wanted to look up people that you have the names of, they’ll usually have a memorial on Find-a-grave.
@@littlebootsproductions . Family history had him just vanishing later in the war. then my wife found the info about the Ft. Steadman stuff. Evidently he was one of the sharpshooters who snuck up on the Fort. to capture it. Was wounded as the rebs retreated back to their lines. I saw your info and wondered if they had sent the wounded to Richmond. Yes Petersburg would be closer. My wife had ancestors on both sides of that war. Union Colonel and corporal. CSA SGt, LT. , and the home guard of Marianna FLA. She will be glad to get the info. Thanks.
Poor soldiers
Sad
The one about 3/4 of the way through appears to have a palmetto / palm tree in the center which makes me believe is a SC solider !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There’s a few South Carolinians buried there. I’ve covered at least one on my channel (Samuel Bacot DeWitt).
@@littlebootsproductions well there you then. Thanks for the reply!
"Alexander" Gardner was the boss.
Rip btothers
Your infamous photo shows decades of ground cover.
Those aren't freshly dug graves.. they been there for years.
What is really going on?
The photo was taken in April-June, 1865.
Most of the graves in the foreground are from the summer and fall of 1862.
Many bodies in some graves, it seems.
Did u just say “Andrew Gardner”?? It’s Alexander Gardner.
Yes. I slipped up.