Yes, it's very interesting to see and hear actual veterans of that American war. I'm in West Ireland. Thanks for the opportunity to see these old soldiers.
No one dislikes history. It's just finding history that's not boring to the observer. And a lot of what's taught in grade school is boring... Like trying to teach middle schoolers about tort reform in 1830s British politics... If people want to read about that, great! But if your're not interested in that, it'll be super boring.
I've been looking up these "veterans original questionnaires " and I'm wondering if anyone has seen any writings of the soldiers understanding of the war about black people or by black people? I can't find anything referencing black people by civil war veterans
@@Boog3rmanthat's because the civil war was fought over politics with slavery being the excuse duh! I mean it's a America we're talking about and life ain't no efin movie.
As a civil war reenactor One of the major points AGAINST civil war reenactments is that it's just fun, same as a nerf battle, and never really an accurate portrayal of the fighting portrayed... and that is true. It's fun, reenactors all alike should admit that. It's hardly respect or tribute in any way. On top of that they're never accurate.
Back when Saving Private Ryan was first released many WWII veterans who stormed Normandy suffered from PTSD and had flashbacks of the opening scene so you can imagine being at an actual reenactment with real weapons of the time and seeing it live after having been there when it happened.
Did you notice how they all marked No on viewing a reenactment of Pickett’s charge. Can you imagine the PTSD … yikes for even asking them. We are blessed to have this footage ❤ 🤍 💙
Research "Soldier's Heart" and "Nostalgia", some of the effects on the mind and body the Civil War had. Felt to need to spread knowledge or at least awareness about them, they're not as nice as they sound... I've heard people claim there was nothing about civil war combat that could cause PTSD. People say a lot of ignorant things, all I can say about that. The Civil War generation had a noticeably dark sense of humor, from the 1929, '30 and '38 footage I've seen of them speaking... I'm sure it's related to their experiences.
There's still people around today that may have had an interaction with these soldiers when they were children proving it really wasn't all that long ago when you think about it
My fathers father was born at the end of the civil war, he was in his fifties when my father was born in 1917. Then dad was 38 when I was born in 1955. So in 2023 at age 68 my own grandfather was born during the civil war. Crazy when you think of it. My grandmother was born in 1883 and died at 97 in 1980. My grandfather was nearly 20 years older than she was when they married. There was two older girls before dad and one after he was born. He fought in WW2 as a Marine corporal.
@@lorettablakeman3335 My dad was too.. . South Pacific.on a battleship. He got Malaria real bad they put him on a hospital shiip home But he recovered and sired four boys and four girls in sixteen years. lol.. We are all still living and very very close still today. but we lost him December 1974. He was fifty six youngest brother was 9 yrs old
You know what's crazy? It's been more time since WWII ended and today (2024) than it was between the end of the American Civil War and the beginning of WWII.
This is sooooo cool! I just sent it to my father who is a huge history buff and is on the board of the American Battlefield Trust, which preserves historic battlefields in the U.S. He's going to love this and thank you for sharing. 👍💯😎
Thank you for helping to preserve this history. There is a story I once read or perhaps a Civil War documentary. It began with a Gettysburg Ranger in the late 1950's telling visitors about the 1938 reunion and how some veterans had a boy scout assigned to him as a helper. Where upon one of the visitors spoke up and said he had been one of those boy scouts. He told of how he was assigned to a Confederate who had actually participated in Picket's Charge. The Confederate veteran had the boy accompany him out across the field toward the wall once held by the Union. After a certain distance the Confederate veteran stopped. He looked around. Then informed the boy he did not need to walk any farther. He said that this was "About as far as I got." Then he took off his hat and the boy could see the side of the man's head had a indented "crease" along the side were a cannon ball had grazed his skull! So, he had just wanted to re-walk the distance one last time of an important event in his life
My wife and I are both 68 years old and my wife's grandfather was a Luitentent in the Calvary in Tennessee during the Civil War. Her father was born when his father the Civil War soldier was 76 years old and his wife was in her late 30s. They lived in the mountains in Tennessee and he left his wife soon after my father in law was born with three young children to raise and no means to take care of them. My wife and I have made several trips back to the small town in Tennessee where her father as well as her and her siblings were born and lived until she was one and they moved to Oklahoma. Her father was a WWll vet who passed away in 2001 in his late 80s. I have taken photos of the grave stone of her grandfather who has his Civil War service inscripted on his headstone. I also had family who fought for the confederacy that lived in Georgia but were much farther back than just my grandfather. My wife is the only person who I personally know alive today who has family that close who served in the Civil War.
I believe at 1:57 he said he crumbled his hard tack down not hard pack. Hard tack was a sort of survivalist food of the time. The military, sailors and pioneers would carry this food with them because it lasted a long time without spoiling. Even Laura Ingels Wilder talked about her family taking hardtack with them on their journey in her Little House book series.
There is a story from the 1913 commemoration. They staged a re-enaction, to some extent, of PIckett's charge. When the Confederate veterans got to the stone wall, one of them proceeded to jump over and a US veteran called out 'you didn't make it over then and you aren't going to now!" a fist fight broke out.
@@sxmxxx I think that by the time the 74th anniversary came around, the feistiness had pretty much worn out at last. But even in the re-enactments today fights happen. I have a friend who was on a Union picket line in a re-enactment and a Confederate re-enactor came marching up my friend and his older brother with bayonet fixed. My friend called the advancing fellow out as dead since both he and his brother were in a position to easily have shot him from cover, but the fellow just kept coming up leveling his bayonet at my friend. That was a big mistake because when he got close enough to try and scare my friend, who grew up in a tough neighborhood in Brooklyn,, my friend just adeptly used his rifle butt to break the guys jaw. My fiend got out of it because his brother, who was a Brooklyn cop, was with him as a witness to what happened, whereas the Confederate kid had no witnesses and was clearly didn't really belong where he was. Older brother pointed out that my friend didn't really need to do that, but my friend learned in his teen years to never pass up an opportunity to break someone's jaw in a fight and was and still is a master at the art.
@@T_81535 Look at all the maggats today. They are just as ignorant today as their ancestors were then even though they have pretty much given up on lynchings. Except maybe for Pence, of course.
My father was born in 1938 and he remembers being at a Memorial Day Parade where they had an old civil war vet in the back of a car waiting to everybody. That's how recent the Civil War was. Absolutely insane
It's amazing to hear words spoken by men who lived during the civil war and beyond. They witnessed the automobile and airplane created. Unfortunately, they always saw World War One and probably the start of World War Two, if they lived beyond 1938. Amazing!
These elderly men who fought in the Civil War at the 1938 reunion, also saw the last flocks of the now-extinct Passenger Pigeon and the now-extinct Carolina Parakeet.
Fascinating to hear the evolution of the American accent from one closer to old English. Also the vets who had no desire to see Pickett’s Charge re-enacted
If I'm not mistaken, the modern English accent evolved to what it is since the 1800s. In other words, the American accent during the Revolution sounded virtually the same as the British accent at the time. And then they evolved separately from there.
Fascinating to hear the influence from 17th and 18th century English accents in the second man’s accent- helps me see the point where the typical “American” accent evolved.
There is no typical "American" accent. Not even one Southern accent, and not one northern accent. We probably had close to a dozen at one point in this country.
@@jamesbernsen3516 “General American English, known in linguistics simply as General American, is the umbrella accent of American English spoken by a majority of Americans, encompassing a continuum rather than a single unified accent.” Accordingly, it appears both are correct. There is a specific “American”, accent, it just falls under the broad stroke of a “Mid-western” accent. Not sure why you feel qualified to pontificate on the subject but there you go.
My Mom passed in 2012 age 87. She remembered as a little girl her mom taking her on Sundays to the Confederate Soldiers Home in Atlanta to visit Relatives.
So odd hearing someone say the 60s, 70s and 80s but instead talking about the 1860s 70s and 80s.. RUclips is literally a Time Machine.. We’ll never kno what the future hold but can always visit the past within a click
You know what's crazy? It's been more time since WWII ended and today (2024) than it was between the end of the American Civil War and the beginning of WWII.
There's a particular, dark sense of humor you notice with most civil war veterans in interviews and footage in general including audio from about 1929-49
I’m 76 now. My dad and our scout leaders (1960s) were all WWII combat vets: every one of them. They all killed and all saw death and fear and bravery. We were kids, 14, 15, 16 and 17. We wanted to hear their war stories for we grew up playing army in the allys and fields and watching WWII movies. (Some of those were produced in the ‘40s during the war.) They NEVER spoke about combat; just like these veterans from the Rebellion, they only told funny stories. My dad would have friends visit who were ship mates. I would occasionally hear parts of their conversation about the war when I was upstairs in bed. Sometimes I’d hear mom tell them to tone it down so I could sleep. (Darn!) Dad died with alzheimers. Mom (they’re both deceased) told me how dad would wake up at night screaming sometimes dreaming about combat. He would have ‘good days’ about once or twice a week (PTL) and if we’d talk about WWIi, he would still only talk about the funny things. I was an adult with children of my own then, but when we were alone I heard the funniest stories that he would not tell me when I was a kid. What a great generation!
Our family had 7 members serve. 5 in the North and 2 in the South. 2 Died in prison, and one escaped. Our great, great grandfather's name is on the Pennsylvania monument at Gettysburg, where he was captured.
Fact went to visit some of my wife's relatives in 2002 in Mississippi near the big tombee River near Alabama so we walk into this 100 year old farm house we sit down in the little parlor living room and after 5 minutes i was a little surprised when i suddenly noticed a very very old lady sitting in the far corner of the room , come to find out later she was 101 and the last surviving child of a civil war soldier still receiving a monthly government check on his behalf honestly
Notice how no one reacts until the story is over. Today we would have a bunch of people smiling and laughing during the story. Everyone back then was so much more respectful and attentive
After these men fought with their fellow countrymen, they had the strength to be lighthearted about it. Goes to show how mentally weak we have become. "May God strengthen us, and restore this nation to it's once greatness..."
I agree completely. The generation that fought the Second World War was able to put political differences aside and unite to build the most powerful financial and military power in the world. I fear that if people of this generation were faced with the same threat that the political divisions and hatred towards their fellow American citizens would prevent such a sacrifice and this country and its freedom would greatly suffer for it.
@@jamesferris4573blame the Republicans for our weakness, and never forget that it was socialism that made us so great, wealthy, and powerful enough to crush the right wing axis powers!!!
My great grandfathers story from the civil and revolutionary war can be found along with civ near gold on Timcast tales from the inverted world ! What a time !
Couldnt tell you about any of my training or missions in great detail but i can tell you EVERYTHING about the other members of my squad. Glad to see that thats a soldiers quality.
The inaudible word in relation to the Mike anecdote is the Hiberno-English “bejapers” (bejesus & bejaysus are other variants). It’s a uniquely Irish exclamatory intensifier, the veteran recounting the tale emulates an Irish brogue when saying the word. We can assume Mike was of Irish origin.
My third great grandfather David D Davis 1846-1935 fought on the union side as part of a group called the jackass company and I don’t know why that is but I hope I can hear or see him in a video like this.
It’s also interesting to see how they address the camera. It was new technology then. They speak to it almost as if they’re giving a speech to a live audience where now interviews with war veterans are conducted in a much more intimate fashion.
it wasn't that new! They had movie cameras in the 1890s, and by the time this was filmed the silent movie era had been and gone and films were in color! ("The wizard of Oz" and "Gone with the Wind" were released only a year later).
I imagine many of these men were less than 16 at that time...just like ww1 and 2. ( european soldiers). My father joined the RAF in 1934 at the age of 15, his father joined the British Army at 15 in 1880, I joined the Canadian Army at 15 in 1958.( yes, active service, Airborne Signals )
We are now at the point where WW!! veterans are the same age as these gentleman were then. My contemporaries, the Vietnam veterans, are mostly in their 70's and 80's. How time flies. Much respect to all of the brave warriors who have fought in all wars in order to preserve their ways of life.
As you read some of the Questionnaires you see that the Union soldiers were still very much against using the Confederate flag. They were not trying to forget history.
I walked it too in the late 90’s when I was 26. One of the most affecting things I’ve ever done. I felt like they were all around me, just as a hazy presence. I can’t imagine what it must’ve been like knowing exactly what was going to happen, what was waiting for them up on the ridge, but they went anyway. Reminds me so much of Culloden.
This is, indeed, history on film, a generation lost to the years, a generation that saw the re-birth of a nation, hoping it'd be better; the country's come a long, long way since, even with many sad stops along the way; the Finish Line can be seen; in fact, it's almost within reach; not quite there yet, but one day we'll cross it🇺🇸
It is great to know that even in those days the soldiers still told each other lies. Nothing like a bunch of men getting together reliving their military days.
i would like to add this is 20 years before congress deemed confederates officialy us war veterans and till this day they are not traitors but us war veterans.
The actual big deal is these men are all over 94 and look in 60s, many have plenty of muscle showing through suits, and their minds are sharp. They are more man than most 50 year Olds now.
When my dad was sent to Camp Claiborne before WWII, there were still people at the train station that didn't want "Yankee" soldiers coming to their state. He well remembered the Civil War vets at various events they had when he was a youth. I myself was born when there were still a few Americans alive that had been born into slavery. No, none of this stuff was really all that long ago.
I was born in 1955, and one childhood memory I have is of black people in a work "gang" dragging picking baskets between rows of cotton that they were picking in Tulare County, California. They would sing to each other to make the work go quicker. I was probably six or seven. By then, cotton picking machines had become common in California, but here they were. I imagine it was not that many years before that way of picking cotton died out.
I drove through parts of VA just 2 years ago where the only flag you saw was the Confederate flags. My brother in laws family lived on and around a small mountain for centuries. At the top where the cemetery was there is still a confederate flag flying (several in the family died in the civil war). Several headstones marked with CSA. Then later years all the ones marked with US Army and Marines. Kind of surreal.
This is all really neat stuff. I dug through my ancestry and found my family has revolutionary War ties and we've also got direct ties with Daniel Boone !
A grayback is slang for lice. Lice were a huge problem for soldiers on both sides. The general hygiene was poor by our standards. There were all kinds of ways to rid yourself of lice...picking them out of your clothes and hair, holding a hot ember or match to make them pop or crawl away, lye soap. The soldiers sometimes used lice for putting on little races, placing bets on whose louse would be the fastest. But graybacks were lice.
What’s mind blowing is I’m sitting here with a hand-held cell phone watching people who fought in the civil war and probably saw Abraham Lincoln himself. None of these people in this video would’ve ever thought that in 2024 there would be a black man in an interracial marriage with voting rights watching them speaking in the past.
Your last statement is completely incorrect, and doesn't follow reality. We can obviously see mixed cultures before the Civil War, Louisiana Creoles for example, Melungeons, Black Dutch. You're just inventing nonsense from a position of ignorance.
@@LouisianaCreole far from ignorance. These men fought during slavery! Men were getting lynched for whistling at white women all the way up until the 1950’s. Integration was far and few in between.
For all the questionnaires shown, the soldiers answered “no” to the reenactment. Like why would they want to see that 🤦🏾♀️?! Why are Civil War re-enactments such a big thing, even today? Do other countries reenact their wars????
Amazing to hear the voices of people born in the 1840's
Yes, it's very interesting to see and hear actual veterans of that American war. I'm in West Ireland. Thanks for the opportunity to see these old soldiers.
Well civil war war 60s.. Soo some or most were probly born in early 1850s.. i garuntee you there 15 year olds there
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 The very first card it showed had a birthday of 1845, pretty crazy.
@@fingolfin9086 yea but one was 1850. Like i thought.. some were young teens in the war
teens have been serving in the military since the beginning of sophisticated military structure lol @@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305
Whoever invented the camera and recorder, we thank you a million in the future
Daguerre, Calbot, Archer, Blanquart-Evrard, Maddox and the Lumiere brothers. Thanks to them
@@SStupendousYou kindly answered the question.
Fascinating, I pity those that dislike history class, they're really missing out.
No one dislikes history. It's just finding history that's not boring to the observer. And a lot of what's taught in grade school is boring... Like trying to teach middle schoolers about tort reform in 1830s British politics... If people want to read about that, great! But if your're not interested in that, it'll be super boring.
Those people just don't know how to understand the information.
I've been looking up these "veterans original questionnaires " and I'm wondering if anyone has seen any writings of the soldiers understanding of the war about black people or by black people? I can't find anything referencing black people by civil war veterans
Always get multiple sources. history, like all reporting or scripture, can be framed for the bias of the writer or financier.
@@Boog3rmanthat's because the civil war was fought over politics with slavery being the excuse duh! I mean it's a America we're talking about and life ain't no efin movie.
None of those shown wanted to see a battle re-enacted. No surprise there.
"Would you like to watch us reenact what is probably the most horrible thing you've ever experienced in your life?"
"Tough choice, but no."
😂
As a civil war reenactor
One of the major points AGAINST civil war reenactments is that it's just fun, same as a nerf battle, and never really an accurate portrayal of the fighting portrayed... and that is true. It's fun, reenactors all alike should admit that. It's hardly respect or tribute in any way. On top of that they're never accurate.
@@SStupendousI think re-enacting can be respectful if the priority is on education of the public.
:p@@Centermass762
Back when Saving Private Ryan was first released many WWII veterans who stormed Normandy suffered from PTSD and had flashbacks of the opening scene so you can imagine being at an actual reenactment with real weapons of the time and seeing it live after having been there when it happened.
Did you notice how they all marked No on viewing a reenactment of Pickett’s charge. Can you imagine the PTSD … yikes for even asking them. We are blessed to have this footage ❤ 🤍 💙
„No. Forget it.“ - Selden Sturges
Research "Soldier's Heart" and "Nostalgia", some of the effects on the mind and body the Civil War had. Felt to need to spread knowledge or at least awareness about them, they're not as nice as they sound... I've heard people claim there was nothing about civil war combat that could cause PTSD. People say a lot of ignorant things, all I can say about that.
The Civil War generation had a noticeably dark sense of humor, from the 1929, '30 and '38 footage I've seen of them speaking... I'm sure it's related to their experiences.
@@SStupendous oooh sounds interesting.. I’ll check it out now! Thank you 💕
@@SewPrimitive1776 👍
A dark way to go, one I'd imagine neither side would have cared to relive
There's still people around today that may have had an interaction with these soldiers when they were children proving it really wasn't all that long ago when you think about it
It blows my mind honestly.
My fathers father was born at the end of the civil war, he was in his fifties when my father was born in 1917. Then dad was 38 when I was born in 1955. So in 2023 at age 68 my own grandfather was born during the civil war. Crazy when you think of it. My grandmother was born in 1883 and died at 97 in 1980. My grandfather was nearly 20 years older than she was when they married. There was two older girls before dad and one after he was born. He fought in WW2 as a Marine corporal.
@@55points My dad was also a Marine Corporal in WW2.He was part of the island hopping campaigns.I miss him so,he was one tough man!
@@lorettablakeman3335 My dad was too.. . South Pacific.on a battleship. He got Malaria real bad they put him on a hospital shiip home But he recovered and sired four boys and four girls in sixteen years. lol..
We are all still living and very very close still today. but we lost him December 1974. He was fifty six youngest brother was 9 yrs old
@@55points I'm glad they let your dad come home!My dad had 3 boys and 4 girls-we're all still living.I'm the "youngest"at 59 yrs old,lol
The last Civil war vet died in 1957. He was a drummer boy during war age approx. 12.
10% of the Union’s troops were less than 13 years old. And forced to fight. Sounds like slavery to me.
What? That makes him well over a 100 years old at the time of his death...
@@BillyTheBigKid82 The last WW1 veteran was 111 years old
@@obvious-troll Oh my...these guys live a long time, it seems...=D
@@BillyTheBigKid82 Facts is facts. 104
Part of history, now gone, but not forgotten.
Men of both causes fighting for what they believed in, many giving their all for it. Salute.
My wife’s grandfather was there and met some
of the veterans. He is 93 now.
Just shows that history of America wasn’t that far back
@@Mark_lash2024 Still such a young nation.
You know what's crazy? It's been more time since WWII ended and today (2024) than it was between the end of the American Civil War and the beginning of WWII.
What did he do?!
I’m speechless. These brave brave men fighting close combat like that. So much respect for these men.
This is sooooo cool! I just sent it to my father who is a huge history buff and is on the board of the American Battlefield Trust, which preserves historic battlefields in the U.S. He's going to love this and thank you for sharing. 👍💯😎
Which board?! I LOVE THE AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST!
Imagine kids today in June 2024 listening and the amount of knowledge they could gain
Thank you for helping to preserve this history.
There is a story I once read or perhaps a Civil War documentary. It began with a Gettysburg Ranger in the late 1950's telling visitors about the 1938 reunion and how some veterans had a boy scout assigned to him as a helper. Where upon one of the visitors spoke up and said he had been one of those boy scouts. He told of how he was assigned to a Confederate who had actually participated in Picket's Charge. The Confederate veteran had the boy accompany him out across the field toward the wall once held by the Union. After a certain distance the Confederate veteran stopped. He looked around. Then informed the boy he did not need to walk any farther. He said that this was "About as far as I got." Then he took off his hat and the boy could see the side of the man's head had a indented "crease" along the side were a cannon ball had grazed his skull! So, he had just wanted to re-walk the distance one last time of an important event in his life
What was the name of the documentary? That is extremely fascinating!
This seems very interesting! If you remember it, please let us know!
My wife and I are both 68 years old and my wife's grandfather was a Luitentent in the Calvary in Tennessee during the Civil War. Her father was born when his father the Civil War soldier was 76 years old and his wife was in her late 30s. They lived in the mountains in Tennessee and he left his wife soon after my father in law was born with three young children to raise and no means to take care of them. My wife and I have made several trips back to the small town in Tennessee where her father as well as her and her siblings were born and lived until she was one and they moved to Oklahoma. Her father was a WWll vet who passed away in 2001 in his late 80s. I have taken photos of the grave stone of her grandfather who has his Civil War service inscripted on his headstone. I also had family who fought for the confederacy that lived in Georgia but were much farther back than just my grandfather. My wife is the only person who I personally know alive today who has family that close who served in the Civil War.
Thank you for sharing sir, these are the comments I hope to read in these type of videos. History that I would of never known otherwise, thank you.
@sxmxxx You're welcome. I find it fascinating that her grandfather was in the Civil War, and I thought others might as well.
Both of my Great, Great Grandfather's were Civil War veterans. 31st Wisconsin infantry.
Incredible footage.
I believe at 1:57 he said he crumbled his hard tack down not hard pack. Hard tack was a sort of survivalist food of the time. The military, sailors and pioneers would carry this food with them because it lasted a long time without spoiling. Even Laura Ingels Wilder talked about her family taking hardtack with them on their journey in her Little House book series.
Yes, he said hard tack. His accent may make it slightly hard to tell, but he definitely said hard tack. That is what they used in those days.
Seabisquits to the sailors.
Whats the difference between that and unleavened rye crackers like Wäsa Brod that you can buy in most grocery stores here in western WA?
Fought in civil war lived through WW1 and possibly WW2 amazing
I think it was interesting that none of them wanted to see a reenactment of Pickett's Charge they all wrote no to that question.
There is a story from the 1913 commemoration. They staged a re-enaction, to some extent, of PIckett's charge. When the Confederate veterans got to the stone wall, one of them proceeded to jump over and a US veteran called out 'you didn't make it over then and you aren't going to now!" a fist fight broke out.
You've gotta admit that is pretty funny 😂
@@sxmxxx I think that by the time the 74th anniversary came around, the feistiness had pretty much worn out at last. But even in the re-enactments today fights happen. I have a friend who was on a Union picket line in a re-enactment and a Confederate re-enactor came marching up my friend and his older brother with bayonet fixed. My friend called the advancing fellow out as dead since both he and his brother were in a position to easily have shot him from cover, but the fellow just kept coming up leveling his bayonet at my friend. That was a big mistake because when he got close enough to try and scare my friend, who grew up in a tough neighborhood in Brooklyn,, my friend just adeptly used his rifle butt to break the guys jaw. My fiend got out of it because his brother, who was a Brooklyn cop, was with him as a witness to what happened, whereas the Confederate kid had no witnesses and was clearly didn't really belong where he was. Older brother pointed out that my friend didn't really need to do that, but my friend learned in his teen years to never pass up an opportunity to break someone's jaw in a fight and was and still is a master at the art.
@@thomasjamison2050okay. We all believe you.
@@T_81535 Look at all the maggats today. They are just as ignorant today as their ancestors were then even though they have pretty much given up on lynchings. Except maybe for Pence, of course.
That would have been a sight to see 😄
My father was born in 1938 and he remembers being at a Memorial Day Parade where they had an old civil war vet in the back of a car waiting to everybody. That's how recent the Civil War was. Absolutely insane
It's amazing to hear words spoken by men who lived during the civil war and beyond. They witnessed the automobile and airplane created. Unfortunately, they always saw World War One and probably the start of World War Two, if they lived beyond 1938. Amazing!
One of my favorite pictures is of a civil war veteran standing next to a fighter jet in the 50s
These elderly men who fought in the Civil War at the 1938 reunion, also saw the last flocks of the now-extinct Passenger Pigeon and the now-extinct Carolina Parakeet.
Yup and saw the last herds of buffalo roaming the United States before they were almost extinct themselves.
Fascinating to hear the evolution of the American accent from one closer to old English. Also the vets who had no desire to see Pickett’s Charge re-enacted
If I'm not mistaken, the modern English accent evolved to what it is since the 1800s. In other words, the American accent during the Revolution sounded virtually the same as the British accent at the time. And then they evolved separately from there.
Fascinating to hear the influence from 17th and 18th century English accents in the second man’s accent- helps me see the point where the typical “American” accent evolved.
Yeah. People from North and South Carolina sound closer to Shakespeare than most Shakespearean actors.
One of my great great great grandfathers on my mom's side was from Germany so he'd have had a German accent
There is no typical "American" accent. Not even one Southern accent, and not one northern accent. We probably had close to a dozen at one point in this country.
@@jamesbernsen3516 “General American English, known in linguistics simply as General American, is the umbrella accent of American English spoken by a majority of Americans, encompassing a continuum rather than a single unified accent.” Accordingly, it appears both are correct. There is a specific “American”, accent, it just falls under the broad stroke of a “Mid-western” accent. Not sure why you feel qualified to pontificate on the subject but there you go.
My grandma still has it a little bit. It's called planter class Appalachian.
Great post. Thank you for preserving our history.
My Mom passed in 2012 age 87. She remembered as a little girl her mom taking her on Sundays to the Confederate Soldiers Home in Atlanta to visit Relatives.
I'm sure they would all be ever so happy with how the country has turned out.
So so sad. God help us
I'm not so sure of that in 2024 :(
I noticed not a single one wanted to reenact Picket's Charge.
Can't blame em.
The ptsd would have kicked and hearing all that loud noise would have not good at all.
At around 3:19 when closed captions says "inaudible", he's saying "Oh bejeebers". It's still used often in rural maritimes.
No history book compares to a first hand account as you have here
Thank you for posting this. Love it. Great look into the real past.
I can’t imagine all the death and destruction these men on both sides had to witness at a young age.
Welcome to America!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
That is amazing to actually see and hear in video men who fought in the Civil War.
More clear than any Bigfoot footage I've seen.
none of those where real soldiers
So odd hearing someone say the 60s, 70s and 80s but instead talking about the 1860s 70s and 80s.. RUclips is literally a Time Machine.. We’ll never kno what the future hold but can always visit the past within a click
You know what's crazy? It's been more time since WWII ended and today (2024) than it was between the end of the American Civil War and the beginning of WWII.
Interesting that the old soldiers remembered such small details that they found funny and Not the horror of battles and death.
There's a particular, dark sense of humor you notice with most civil war veterans in interviews and footage in general including audio from about 1929-49
And that's by necessity not choice when you're in the darkest pits of hell and there's death all around you
My grandpa was in Vietnam and does the same thing
I’m 76 now. My dad and our scout leaders (1960s) were all WWII combat vets: every one of them. They all killed and all saw death and fear and bravery. We were kids, 14, 15, 16 and 17. We wanted to hear their war stories for we grew up playing army in the allys and fields and watching WWII movies. (Some of those were produced in the ‘40s during the war.) They NEVER spoke about combat; just like these veterans from the Rebellion, they only told funny stories. My dad would have friends visit who were ship mates. I would occasionally hear parts of their conversation about the war when I was upstairs in bed. Sometimes I’d hear mom tell them to tone it down so I could sleep. (Darn!) Dad died with alzheimers. Mom (they’re both deceased) told me how dad would wake up at night screaming sometimes dreaming about combat. He would have ‘good days’ about once or twice a week (PTL) and if we’d talk about WWIi, he would still only talk about the funny things. I was an adult with children of my own then, but when we were alone I heard the funniest stories that he would not tell me when I was a kid. What a great generation!
@@kenpeters9807”(PTL)”
Our family had 7 members serve. 5 in the North and 2 in the South. 2 Died in prison, and one escaped. Our great, great grandfather's name is on the Pennsylvania monument at Gettysburg, where he was captured.
Fact went to visit some of my wife's relatives in 2002 in Mississippi near the big tombee River near Alabama so we walk into this 100 year old farm house we sit down in the little parlor living room and after 5 minutes i was a little surprised when i suddenly noticed a very very old lady sitting in the far corner of the room , come to find out later she was 101 and the last surviving child of a civil war soldier still receiving a monthly government check on his behalf honestly
Notice how no one reacts until the story is over. Today we would have a bunch of people smiling and laughing during the story. Everyone back then was so much more respectful and attentive
true warriors and patriots there ty all for your service in the civil war, rip
After these men fought with their fellow countrymen, they had the strength to be lighthearted about it. Goes to show how mentally weak we have become. "May God strengthen us, and restore this nation to it's once greatness..."
I agree completely. The generation that fought the Second World War was able to put political differences aside and unite to build the most powerful financial and military power in the world. I fear that if people of this generation were faced with the same threat that the political divisions and hatred towards their fellow American citizens would prevent such a sacrifice and this country and its freedom would greatly suffer for it.
The generation that fought ww2 had homogeny on their side
Biden has done that.
@@jamesferris4573blame the Republicans for our weakness, and never forget that it was socialism that made us so great, wealthy, and powerful enough to crush the right wing axis powers!!!
@@kellyburket6955what the hell are you talking about
My great grandfathers story from the civil and revolutionary war can be found along with civ near gold on Timcast tales from the inverted world ! What a time !
Great x5
Couldnt tell you about any of my training or missions in great detail but i can tell you EVERYTHING about the other members of my squad. Glad to see that thats a soldiers quality.
Its surreal to look up the Soliders address in California and see a picture of the house where he lived!
The inaudible word in relation to the Mike anecdote is the Hiberno-English “bejapers” (bejesus & bejaysus are other variants). It’s a uniquely Irish exclamatory intensifier, the veteran recounting the tale emulates an Irish brogue when saying the word. We can assume Mike was of Irish origin.
There were Irish and Scottish on both sides. The US Civil War was truelly brother against brother.
I'm 66 and my family always used that word when I was growing up lol
Where can i find the full video of this reunion?
My third great grandfather David D Davis 1846-1935 fought on the union side as part of a group called the jackass company and I don’t know why that is but I hope I can hear or see him in a video like this.
Anyone that fought for the union was a jackass. We're slowly finding out the civil war had nothing to do with slavery
It’s also interesting to see how they address the camera. It was new technology then. They speak to it almost as if they’re giving a speech to a live audience where now interviews with war veterans are conducted in a much more intimate fashion.
Wasn't there a live audience?
it wasn't that new! They had movie cameras in the 1890s, and by the time this was filmed the silent movie era had been and gone and films were in color! ("The wizard of Oz" and "Gone with the Wind" were released only a year later).
Thanks for posting!
Where did you find the veteran travel cards? The ones at the end of the video?
A friend of mine sent those to me. I think the source was the Library of Congress, but not entirely sure.
@@Lifeinthe1800s Thanks. I have never seen those before and peaked my interest.
I love the wit and humor of the soldiers! “For God’s sake..let him out because he’s stealing my pigs now!”
Hilarious!
This is 73 years after the war's end. That would be like talking to a WWII veteran in 2018 or a Korean War vet in 2026.
Truely a "Can We All Get Along" moment in time.
I imagine many of these men were less than 16 at that time...just like ww1 and 2. ( european soldiers). My father joined the RAF in 1934 at the age of 15, his father joined the British Army at 15 in 1880, I joined the Canadian Army at 15 in 1958.( yes, active service, Airborne Signals )
My dad was 6 at this time.
Crazy
We are now at the point where WW!! veterans are the same age as these gentleman were then. My contemporaries, the Vietnam veterans, are mostly in their 70's and 80's. How time flies. Much respect to all of the brave warriors who have fought in all wars in order to preserve their ways of life.
This is a national treasure
Wonderful heroes 👏 ❤❤❤ love their candor, uniforms 😊😊😊
As you read some of the Questionnaires you see that the Union soldiers were still very much against using the Confederate flag. They were not trying to forget history.
Yep. None of the ‘woke’ generation existed at that time.
@@HogRebel Good point. They loved America..we have one flag and the war settled it.
The north invaded the South terrible tragedy
Yes, but as you can also see the Confederate ones were very much in favor of it.
@@tomgmaples Okay....I'll humor you. Why did the North invade the south?
They seem healthier than today’s 90 year olds.
I would love to have been there and just be quiet and listen to many great stories they would’ve told.
We look at our grandparents the same way our grandparents looked at them
Wow so cool. Wonder if I had ancestors attend.? I had family on both side fighting. 😢
Was just at gettyburg picketts charge was so fierce and little round top. South was so close to winning
And now they tear down the statue's commentary to these men...
Shameful
Only the traitorous confederates.
As an Australian i am fascinated by the war between the states.
I Googled Earth Mullins' Atlanta home address. The house is still there. Beautiful little brick house.
Cool damn vid!. I've walked Picketts Charge a few times. I can't imagine it with double canister fire.
I walked it too in the late 90’s when I was 26. One of the most affecting things I’ve ever done. I felt like they were all around me, just as a hazy presence. I can’t imagine what it must’ve been like knowing exactly what was going to happen, what was waiting for them up on the ridge, but they went anyway. Reminds me so much of Culloden.
I'll have to look that up, I don't know much about the battles in Europe that were pre WW1
This is, indeed, history on film, a generation lost to the years, a generation that saw the re-birth of a nation, hoping it'd be better; the country's come a long, long way since, even with many sad stops along the way; the Finish Line can be seen; in fact, it's almost within reach; not quite there yet, but one day we'll cross it🇺🇸
Well said sir🇺🇸
@@sxmxxx Thank you, thanks very much & all the best to u & urs! HNY from TN!🤓🇺🇸
It is great to know that even in those days the soldiers still told each other lies. Nothing like a bunch of men getting together reliving their military days.
Its crazy to think how much this country has changed in less than 100 years. The technology but more so the culture.
i would like to add this is 20 years before congress deemed confederates officialy us war veterans and till this day they are not traitors but us war veterans.
Awesome to see and hear these guys. It still boggles me that the flag is an issue. People are silly
They are talking about a different flag
The actual big deal is these men are all over 94 and look in 60s, many have plenty of muscle showing through suits, and their minds are sharp. They are more man than most 50 year Olds now.
So they are all between 90 and 100 years old or so... they really do not look like that
When my dad was sent to Camp Claiborne before WWII, there were still people at the train station that didn't want "Yankee" soldiers coming to their state. He well remembered the Civil War vets at various events they had when he was a youth. I myself was born when there were still a few Americans alive that had been born into slavery. No, none of this stuff was really all that long ago.
There are still people to don't hold much to yankees or their woke culture.
I was born in 1955, and one childhood memory I have is of black people in a work "gang" dragging picking baskets between rows of cotton that they were picking in Tulare County, California. They would sing to each other to make the work go quicker. I was probably six or seven. By then, cotton picking machines had become common in California, but here they were. I imagine it was not that many years before that way of picking cotton died out.
I drove through parts of VA just 2 years ago where the only flag you saw was the Confederate flags. My brother in laws family lived on and around a small mountain for centuries. At the top where the cemetery was there is still a confederate flag flying (several in the family died in the civil war). Several headstones marked with CSA. Then later years all the ones marked with US Army and Marines. Kind of surreal.
@@ozarksbrotherjerry4297what is woke culture
@@papagalooleo559it means Democrat
Sounds like they all had a jolly fun time...
The most incredible thing is that these people could've talked to people who fought in the 1700's at independence war, when they were just kids
I love our history.
"Would you like to see the re-enactment of Pickett's Charge?" Selden Sturges, 47th Illinois Infantry: "NO. Forget it"
That song/guitar solo is sick
The average age was 94 out of 1900?
All of these guys are like 100 years old? Damn...
Those men are looking fantastic for 90 year olds
This is all really neat stuff. I dug through my ancestry and found my family has revolutionary War ties and we've also got direct ties with Daniel Boone !
Crazy the type of war unleashed a year later compared to their war .
My husband and I went to Gettiesburg 12 years ago he is a veteran of Korea nucular wepons zgordt calv USA misdisdisdippi. He’s still a confederate
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Dang, look at all those Medals of Honor.
Great video. A Teenager’s Guide to the Civil War: A History Book for Teens is a good book for those who want to learn more.
What is a grayback? Wish there was more footage of this! Interesting to see the letters
A grayback is slang for lice. Lice were a huge problem for soldiers on both sides. The general hygiene was poor by our standards. There were all kinds of ways to rid yourself of lice...picking them out of your clothes and hair, holding a hot ember or match to make them pop or crawl away, lye soap. The soldiers sometimes used lice for putting on little races, placing bets on whose louse would be the fastest. But graybacks were lice.
@@brianmcmurdo2295 thanks!!
My father said he had an uncle that hired out as a soldier for Napoleon and later fought against Napoleon.
What’s mind blowing is I’m sitting here with a hand-held cell phone watching people who fought in the civil war and probably saw Abraham Lincoln himself. None of these people in this video would’ve ever thought that in 2024 there would be a black man in an interracial marriage with voting rights watching them speaking in the past.
Your last statement is completely incorrect, and doesn't follow reality. We can obviously see mixed cultures before the Civil War, Louisiana Creoles for example, Melungeons, Black Dutch. You're just inventing nonsense from a position of ignorance.
@@LouisianaCreole far from ignorance. These men fought during slavery! Men were getting lynched for whistling at white women all the way up until the 1950’s. Integration was far and few in between.
That cringe unnecessary last part ruined your comment 🤡
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Wonder how many went on to fight on the plains?
For all the questionnaires shown, the soldiers answered “no” to the reenactment. Like why would they want to see that 🤦🏾♀️?! Why are Civil War re-enactments such a big thing, even today? Do other countries reenact their wars????
yes
this is amazing!
Not a fan of the union but i cannot have nothing but respect for these men.
Is there any source for the questionnaires? Is there a transcript anywhere I can read?
God bless them.