Civil War Veterans in Portland, Maine 1929: Enhanced Video & Audio [4k, 60 fps]
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- Опубликовано: 2 мар 2022
- Filmed between September 8-13, 1929, in Portland, Maine. This was the 63rd National GAR Encampment for Union soldiers of the Civil War.
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On September 8, 1929, Elise Fellows White, a native of Skowhegan who was living in Portland, Maine at the time, wrote this in her journal:
"Portland is full of old soldiers. The Grand Army of the Republic is holding one of their encampments here. A trainload of five hundred came in today from Portland, Oregon. As we drove down Congress Street we saw the blue coats with medals and the broad brimmed hats and gray heads. They all carry themselves with great dignity. My mother remarked how we miss poor Uncle Charlie. He would have been here.
These soldiers have a characteristic expression. Sargent’s portrait of General Chamberlain shows it. The picture of the veteran with the empty sleeve shows it: eyes large, rather hollow-set, with drooping lids and a look of deep sadness. Well, we shall hear the "doings," speeches, etc. over the radio, and they will be good."
For this video, I colorized it using AI optimization software, interpolated it to 60 frames/second, up-scaled to 4k, speed-adjusted it and refined it with De Blur, Sharpness and Stabilization. For the audio, I remastered it using noise gate, compression, loudness normalization, EQ and a Limiter.
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My grandma always told me about her 'Uncle Billy' an old Civil War veteran that would stay with her family during summers. Somehow he was wounded during the war and with his pension helped pay for grandma's college. She said he chewed tobacco and drove her mother mad because he'd spit on the floor. He loved sitting on the porch in the evening watching cars go by and if he saw an out of state tag on a car he'd always say "There goes another foreigner." When he died he was buried in Nebraska and grandma said that they buried him in his old blue Union uniform.
Civil War veterans in 1929 is the same as WWI veterans in 1982 and WWII veterans in 2009.
Puts it into perspective how privileged we are to still be in the presence of WW2 veterans
@@larry8910 they were America's finest generation by far
The Gilded Age Generation, the Lost Generation and the Greatest/GI Generation.
@Mark L "Last" of the WW1 vets died over two decades later..
@Mark L The ones that visited your school, that is? Because the last ones died in 2007, 2011 and 2012.
My mother's great grandfather was a civil war veteran. He died in 1932. We have a photo of my mother sitting in his lap when she was 3 or 4 years old. My mother passed away in 2016 at the age of 88.
The amount of contrast these men had to endure in life is something I can't imagine. Upmost respect to our veterans of every era.
I don't understand why people give unconditional respect to veterans? Do you give the same respect to the Confederate Veterans, even though they were fighting for slavery? How about the Vietnam vets after 1-5 million Vietnamese casualties?
For the most part soldiers are the tools of government, unless you live in an invaded country, such as Ukraine, where nearly every fighter there signed up AFTER foreign aggression in the face of utmost danger. That deserves respect.
@@Fonzleberry stop crying lol 💀🥱
Every native of the Ukraine has one thing in common, their parents or grandparents were Russian. To weaken our nation for a cause that was lost before it began is the height of absurdity.
@@Fonzleberry how did billy woke get past security 😒
@@Fonzleberry The comment didn't remotely suggest only respecting any particular side, ironically. The guy's comment indicated full respect to the Confederate veterans, as should be, too.
My third great grandfather came from England into New York to join the Union Army. He fought for the Army of the Potomac. He was still alive by the 1930s and was noted as one of the last Civil War veterans of his area. These men were likely his age when he joined early in the war, about 19 or 20. They saw battles and horrific carnage that resulted in their lives changing forever.
The terrors these guys must have seen and experienced. Brave men.
This is why you should archive every recording you make, because people in 100 years may want to know life was like before...
Yeah, I'll bet they can't wait to watch people do stupid tiktok dances lol
Started writing a journal and adding tidbits of what I got up to on that day, and the current headlines on the news for that reason.
@@capo4ever334 Im sure there something like that in 1800s too
@@jimisland7664 I also want to do that but I kind of feel embaresed thinking if anyone else reads up my stuff, my family member now, they will laugh, especially if I write about stuff pertaining to sexual dynamics etc..
@Jared Jams oh that was an extraordinary situation at an extraordinary time. Its an exception..
At that time the Civil War ended 64 years ago! I’m sure it didn’t feel that way to those gentleman.
Civil War to 1929 was literally closer than Korea is to us now
It is like Vietnam to now, more or less
I wish I could be transported back to then, just to see all the wonders that are now lost to time. I'd like to see it as it was then, the colors, textures, the smells. I'd like to hear these gentlemen's voices and hear how they spoke, if elegant or not. I'd love to hear them tell of their service, war stories firsthand as if I were there too.
Ik I’m 7 months late but you really wanna be teleported near the Great Depression
It’s hilarious to see how people acted in front of cameras back in the day. They were almost totally fixated on it as if it were something they haven’t seen before. They treat it like a photo, being as still as possible for their image to be taken. So fascinating.
1:44 reminds me of Talladega Nights not knowing what to do with his hands.
They hadn't seen cameras before!!
@@rucianapollard7098 Ah yes, a bunch of men born after the camera was invented, who fought in a war 65 years earlier which was the most photographed war of the century, a quarter of a century into the era of film cameras totally never saw cameras before!
Not sure on that take -I work with tintype photography. By the Civil War, instantaneous photography for the most part was available, I won't go in-depth on it but just look at Gustave Le Gray's & Valentine Blanchard's work in the 1850s. The process's need for quick development and the size of the equipment was the main drawback to getting real civil war combat photographs close-up.
Point being, they're not really acting as though the camera is a Victorian camera that takes a huge amount of time for exposure, because not only is that a misconception, but by this time there had been about 75 years of cameras that had exposures of a split second.
My 4x great grandfather was from Portland, and likely served with these men. He died before the war ended from a war-related injury. God rest his soul.
Wow... no words left to say to this. It is beautiful, and it is incredible to see them in color and step into black and white and vice versa in different parts of the video if you pay close attention. It goes to show how blessed we are to see this in such a rare light. Thank you so much for this!!
Had two great great grandfathers in the civil war and several uncles, many cousins. Some fought for the confederacy while sons & brothers fought for the Union. Civil wars are hard on families & countries.
And people are still suffering from it if they live anywhere near the people that this war freed.
Would have been amazing to speak with one of these vets in real life. Amazing.
This is honestly so freaking cool.
More time has elapsed since this was filmed until today, then had elapsed between the end of the civil war and the day(s) this was shot, in 1929. 93 years against 64 years; a *29* year difference!
So fascinating to see civil war veterans. Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦
If they only knew how admired they would be to so many generations to follow❤🇺🇲
Only admired by people who don't live next to blax.
I don't admire Yankees
@@user-db6pt7vr3l yea, no mandatory direction or insinuation mentioned
How come u don't tho? J.c.🤔 lmao
U weren't even conceived yet!! What's ur ax to grind about?? Any foundation??
These guys are amazing! Still walking around 69 years after the end of the war. They had spanned a lot of history.
These videos are amazing too. Keep up the good work.
Dignified and gracious.
Old people from that time seem healthier than now a days!
Bear in mind that those are the healthy ones.
@@kimfleury I would wager there isn't very many men from today who could have endured the lifestyle back then. You could probably count on one hand the number of today's men who could have survived the hardships of traveling with their armies much less fighting in the battles.
My grandfather was born in 1880, and help haul 80lb burlap sacks of peanuts when he was in his 80's. He passed away in 1976 from pneumonia he caught in the hospital after being admitted for a minor illness.
We have better health care but worst food (additives).
They did not consume the chemical gut garbage ( fake, super processed additives) like we eat today.
Joshua L Chamberlain lived in Maine and became the President of Bowdoin College. Jeff played him in Gettysburg.
No words. Simply amazing! 😍
My Grandfather Crosby, a relative or his dad was here at this event. In my family home, where we live in Pa., in an old burnpile where stuff went to die, (no trash pick-up in the 50s) I found a medallion or medal. The ribbon is gone, I'm going to clean it up. Just found today and researched what it was and now I know. It's oval shaped, 1929 is at the top and around the center emblem it states; GAR National Convention. Thanks Life in the 1800s.
This is just awesome!
Unreal footage thx
I love the work you do in this channel.
It is so cool and awesome to see the Civil War Veterans that fought in the war way back in the 1860's
This is amazing
This is amazing.
Wow! Love this!
Life in America would suck for the next 10 years after this film was recorded.
I'm addicted to this channel!
That must be something for their descendants to see their 2nd and 3rd great grandfather's filmed here. My great great grandfather was a civil war vet and it would be nice to see a motion picture of him now!
Amazing
The Union soldiers depicted in the movie Gettysburg with Jeff Daniels playing the hero of the battle Colonel Joshua Chamberlin were also from Maine like these veterans. They were likely involved in that battle. Chamberlin later became the Governor of Maine and attended reunions with his ex soldiers frequently.
My pawpaw was born 1935. He built the house him and his wife live in today. We visit them every Sunday
Watching the looks in their faces as the camera pans, it makes me wonder how often they’d even seen a video recorder before and not just still pictures bc it’s as if they are posing for a pic not knowing it’s a movie.
Ok boys line up this ones for RUclips!
Imagine showing one of these guys 90+ years later that they're on RUclips
Can you imagine what it was to live through all that change during those 64 years?
Amazing footage and really not such a long time sho in the grand scheme of things.
Thankyou for serving men. Thankyou for serving any veteran who sees this
If only they had film back when the forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence
Wow!
3-10 year olds in that same time fought in WW2 are now in their 90's. Mind Blown!
Wow!!
Something so simple hit me but in this video and in many very old videos you often see they didn’t even know where to look, to look straight at the camera , imagine a world like that, now a days I would be shocked if we weren’t looking at or being looked at through some sort of camera all the time
The Cavalryman waving is my favorite moment 😊
Some of these men looked quite young in the 64 years since the Civil War ended. This leads me to believe that some fought as young as 12 or 13.
Fun fact
The youngest to die in the Civil War was a boy named Charley. He was a drummer boy for the union
He was 13 years old when he died at the battle of Antitetam by the bloody lane
It's '29, so I can wager a lot of them being born in the '40s.
So cool. In color too
May I ask why you do not post the full videos? Im not sure if there was more to this one but it seems like it. I noticed the one of the one from the 1800s you posted only part of it a mth ago and said you'd later post part 2 but it's been a month ago. Was there more to this video?
Thank you
10 years later, Gone with the Wind was released.
No joke these are some of the faces they see still walking around in Gettysburg.
It’s like time traveling
There are civil war veterans buried here in Edinburgh Scotland in the dean cemetery
I wonder if any of these guys were with Chamberlain at "Little Round Top"?
I know they're from Maine, but there were more outfits from Maine than just The 29th.
You mean the 20th?
Why 4k? Anyway good vids
Amazing footage 🚜🚜🚜🔵⚪️⚫️
It's hard to believe every single person in this video is still alive
wtf are you on?
@@trajanfidelis1532 I believe he was being sarcastic.
@@trajanfidelis1532 woooosh
My father was in the Civil War and he had some stories
Real men.
Time is a bullet that eventually catches us all.
Real men
Interesting video, but what's the point of enhancing a blurry video to 4K if it's still blurry?
The last civil war veteran was still alive when the B-52 first took flight.
Florida's last veteran got to ride in a fighter jet!
What a strange crazy life it must have been to be born in the latter half of the 1800s. Especially if you lived to be vary old.
@@dukeofbanfe Indeed? It would be weird to be old in any decade of the past 500 years, given how different every half-century of it has been, given how much change has been seen.
@@dukeofbanfe When this website, YT, was created, the oldest people from the US were born in the late 1880s, less than 25 years after the Civil War.
1:24 i thought the guy in the middle was holding a selfie stick. It's a flagpole
That would be very anachronistic.
Amazing footage. Its being colorized neither detracts nor enhances it, just glad it exists! Interesting how men of their age all sort of resemble each other. Guess that's true of today''s geriatric population, also These men, as viewed in other similar footage of CW vets, often look both sad & happy, the latter, though, in a low-key way. Being filmed probably involved a condition carried-over from still-photography days, that is, staying fairly somber or, as mentioned, low-key. Back then, the concept of displaying big smiles, clowning around, or making silly faces just wasn't done during any photography process. It was a far more formal age, at least when it came to posing for new-fangled contraptions & processes like daguerreotypes & motion-picture filming. The now long-established & irreversible modern-day environment & culture that stresses & demands total, constant casualness & informality, if not just plain sloppiness in the triumvirate of dress, speech, & behavior, just didn't exist in the 19th-century. Perhaps the greatest tragedy, however, aside from there being no air-conditioning, is that these guys never got to see themselves in the film in which they appeared, at least probably not; then again, maybe some of them did. Priceless footage, regardless!
I’m having trouble grasping this
I really wonder what the unedited version would look like ( rip headphone users if you find one)
One reason why this generation were more straightforward than them that came after, is that they didn't have to grow up thinking about being recorded. Actions and words were genuine, not calculated. While we're blessed to now have "accountability" and global reach, we are also cursed in having to calculate our behaviour for the viewing of future generations, the problem being that the human mind - that of a social animal - never evolved to deal with such things as engaging socially with thousands/millions of wildly varying people - rather than a few dozen people in one's own cultural/geographical sphere - within a lifetime. Technologies like CCTV monitoring may have profoundly stunted us as social animals. The knowledge of there being a perpetual virtual safety and/or threat from an unseen force no doubt smothers the human spirit.
*I'm not saying we shouldn't have CCTV or TikTok. Just maybe not everywhere and at every moment!
Those men literally saved this country by their victory over the rebels.They are truly immortal.
No pajamas in public. No blue hair. Streets were clean and you had manners.
That’s some men! They look like they’re still on go and I bet they would in a blink of an eye.
When men were Men. Look how much honour , how much dignity they had.
The war of Northern Aggression
Funny ….. a hundred years from now we’ll all be forgotten just like these guys
Dumb comment? Clearly these people aren't forgotten.
Are these people still alive?
No because this was filmed in 1929 and the Civil War was in the 1860s.
Last civil war vet died in 1956 - 37 year after this was recorded - so no.
I wonder how much stolen valor was happening in those days if at all.
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I was born in the damn wrong century that’s for sure
These guys had bigger balls than yours…
Did any confederate veterans live long enough to fight in WWI?! What did they think of the war?
I'm waiting for the person who shook hands with Napoleon and Hitler 😅
Those men would be rolling in their graves if they saw how people are treating one another in todays racial climate.
😂😂😂😂they were only in their 50 ties or 60 ties
Too bad the couldn’t say who they were!
lol all of tem look so old and hungry
I think i saw biden in one of the videos there. I think he was the guy behind the drums ...😁
Everyone knows private bone spurs would be hiding behind daddy.
@@nagaslrac lol that is why i put him as a drummer
I think the drummer had a few too many.
Those men and women in those days were strong and lived very long lives.... With all this frequency shit in the air all around us, and all the WiFi and all the tech out there, and all the chems that they put into food today has dropped the life span of humans
Wow the Union soldiers who fought against Rebels wasn’t cursing the Confederate Veterns calling them racist and banning the rebel flag but instead they paroled them and let them keep their sidearms???? Hmmmmm
As opposed to having them all shot and hung?
Maybe not, but they would later object strongly to Confederate monuments being erected at Gettysburg.
And for the record, no one has banned the "rebel flag" from being flown on private property, but it has no business being flown on public property.
To think, if they saw the state of this country today... They'd say put me back in the grave!
Especially with the people that we would end up giving rights to.
@@h.t.awesome3822 Such as?
@@SStupendous The Skittles community.
@@h.t.awesome3822 ohhhh...
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What if they're all gay and the photographer wanted to test us
Yankee soldiers were not fighting to free the slaves but to restore the union.
They fought for both, the latter in 1861 and BOTH from 1863. I have no doubt colored troops in 1863 definitely were fighting for restoring the Union and not freeing their brethren in bondage. Ignorant.
just stop man
@@raptorfromthe6ix833 Why? You cannot handle the truth? And who started the war of Northern Aggression? Lincoln did by sending federal troops to South Carolina in preparation for an attack on Charleston.
@@ThomasCranmer1959 confederates attacked first most americans didnt care in the confederacy split up from the rest of u.s
Maybe not, but Confederate states' motivations for seceding were quite clear. They said as much in their public declarations, all of which repeatedly referenced slavery.
Climate change was awful then too huh😂
Steely-eyed killers who probably didn't suffer fools lightly...