Man Describes Surviving an Indian Battle in 1868 - Wild West - Enhanced Audio
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- This is an interview with Corporal Leander Herron, who tells the story of surviving an Indian battle in September, 1868, about 11 miles outside of Fort Dodge, Kansas. He received a medal of honor for his actions that night.
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During that time, there were heightened tensions and frequent raids by Plains warriors on wagon trains and settlers in the area. On the night of September 2-3, Herron and fellow Corporal Patrick “Paddy” Boyle set out from Fort Dodge to deliver dispatches 75 miles northeast to Fort Larned. About 11 miles from the post, they came across an Army firewood wagon and its four-soldier escort under attack by nearly 50 Kiowas. Herron and Boyle galloped into the fray to assist the besieged soldiers. While Boyle rode for reinforcements, Herron organized a desperate defense. He and his companions were down to just a dozen rounds among them the next morning when they were saved by a charge of cavalrymen who had galloped the 11 miles from Fort Dodge to their rescue.
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My great grandmother was born in 1858 and her father-my great great grandfather fought in the Civil War. I still have his enlistment papers for the Kentucky Volunteers. When I was 5 years old in 1951 I sat with my mother beside my great grandmother's death bed. It was a tradition then that the women of the family would stay by the bedside in shifts so that the person would never die alone. So here I am in 2022 at age 75 and knew a person who was alive during the Civil War.
Wow. I'm 64 and feel like the kid here. Wow!
Wow! That’s amazing!
Direct connection with history!
I've met several quite aged men and women who had fathers, uncles and older brothers who participated in the Civil War, as a kid in the early sixties in rural Missouri. "Granny Alt" turned 90 in 1960, I remember listening how in about 1875, she was given a fox pelt cut to fit a coat collar to bribe her into not telling the sheriff's deputies that she saw who shot the owner of a pair of plowing mules in the back for having been an outspoken Unionist a decade earlier.
That's great! I remember my! Great Grandmother. She was 93 and I'll never forget that ever loving look of joy on her face when she saw me. Think I was 8 in '65. She went to Mass everyday of her life. A true Saint.
So a guy who’s fighting weapon was an airplane with mounted machine guns is interviewing a guy who defended cover wagons against Kiowa warriors….what an interesting time in our country. So cool.
And all this fighting on us soil against US citizens and native Americans, the first citizens of the soil.
Changes in the country and level of technology had to be dizzying for Lee Herron to think about.
I missed something, where in that did it say the captain conducting the interview had been a pilot? They said he fought in WWI, but I just assumed he was in the infantry.
@@odysseusrex5908 Eddie Rickenbacker was a WWI ace.
@@JBJ29567 Yes, somebody further down said it was Rickenbacker, and I certainly know who he was but, again, where was that stated in the video?
It's worth noting that he is being interviewed by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, America's highest scoring ace in ww1, who himself won the medal of honor.
We need to stop holding unconscious people who were duped into murder in high regard.
Well also, we should consider. That they handed out The Medal of Honor. Like candy back then. Not saying anything against the fella. But. It was no hard task getting that Medal way back when. The tough task was just surviving.
@@edhenn9934 Not true. There were two incidents where it was openly used as a cover-up. It wasn't the norm.
@@greyscout01 took me a second. But I think I figured what ya mean. Ops they knew would get lots deceased. But they did it. And thus awarded them medals of honor, as well as the surviving folks. Is that what you’re referring to?
Warren... how bout you be more original and not copy others comments?
I can also say I remember 62 years ago. Even 65 years. Even 70. I remember one of my earliest experiences being out in front of our house in Pennsylvania riding my tricycle, hearing a plane flying overhead and looking up into the clear blue sky trying see the plane.
I remember we had a small Black & White TV and it was a cabinet floor model.
I remember it had only one (yes, just one) station at the time, and after the evening news at 11:30pm, the station would shut down. It would then play the U.S. national anthem while showing the U.S. flag waving, and at the end of the anthem the channel would just stop. No movies, no Cable, nothing, accept the X-ray radiation logo and a dial tone until 6:30 am the next morning, at which time the morning news would begin.
I remember on Friday and Saturday evenings there would be a late movie, The Late Show after the news, but then, too, the TV would be shut off the way I described above.
I remember having two mail deliveries each day - one in the morning, and one in mid afternoon.
I remember saying the pledge-of-allegiance to the American flag every morning at our public school. We would place our right hand across our heart while saying it. It was a requirement, and we were proud to do it.
I remember paying only 25 cents to go see a movie on Saturdays. Sometimes it was 35 cents but then it was a double feature. Imagine spending all day at the movie theater, sitting in the ground floor seats, then maybe going up to the balcony, then down again. You could stay all day if you wanted to. You didn't have to leave when the movie ended. You could stay and watch the movie again, if you wished.
And, I remember a movie theater back then was palatial in design.
I remember being out with my friends all day on a Saturday, wandering, sometimes hiking as much as 3 miles in one direction, sometimes up in the woods; sometimes just following RR tracks, and then walking the 3 miles back, AND making it back home in time for dinner - and the amazing thing about it was that none of us had a watch. We just knew when to start back by the sun in the sky, or by the light in the air. We just knew.
I remember so many things, so many... and I do miss it so.
You just described my childhood to a tee. I seldom think about these memories anymore. Seems like a hundred years ago. Thanks for sharing.
Good stuff.👍
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Sadly, those days are gone forever and no American Youth will live them again. America today is totally different and not for the better.
All true, except I never saw 2 mail deliveries in my area.
This is literally a 100 year old podcast between two war heros....
And it's amazing!
War criminals
Thank God for these recorded historical interviews. What a gift from days gone by.
All my democrat friends says he is a racist
Amen! Definitely a gift!
See, not all taxes are a waste :) This is actually from the US National Archives... they do this with ALL generations in 200 years someone will be listening to someone talk about fighting in Iraq
Listening to this reminds me that our country really isn't that old.
It's not your country!
@@sbad8612 Oh trust me it is and always will be. Molon labe.
@@MorteWulfe are you of Native Indian descent?
@@68majortom right of conquest
@@68majortom No, not by the required percentage of blood legally. I don't care what you may have to say about "oh this people and oh that people." This is my land now and anyone that tries to take it from me will pay the butcher's bill.
This man is buried in a local cemetery near me. Amazing to hear his voice! I wonder if town historians know this video exists!
Did you point it out to them? They'd be thrilled to hear about it if they did not know.
with technology these days I bet they could even add part of this recording in some digital form to his marker
Wow!
Cool! When was he born?
You should tell them!
My great grandfather was building a house in north central Minnesota in 1868 which they had a Indian up rising then. The Indians only stoled their horses but did not attacked them. It was in the history that there was a Indian up rising until the union soldiers showed up. My Great Grand Father also father also fought in the Civil War and my dad got to see him before my Great Grandfather died in 1904. My dad was born in 1895 died in 1996. He was 52 when I was born.
Seems strange that no one from the 1800's is alive today. I knew lots of them, as I'm sure you did.
@@brendanjobe6895 Time waits for no one and so such we pass in our turn.
@@SiggyMe You got that right. My great grandmother knew a few people from the 1700's.
"stoled" ? My grandad was born in 1862...He died of excitement on my parents wedding day... The Germans shot my other granddad in May 1917
@@chevinbarghest8453 it's American.
So glad someone thought to interview these people and record it!
lot of accounts in allen ekerts books came from someone interviewing old people around 1850 or so. ''dark and bloody river'' has a lot of stories about not so famous people in the 1760's
Audio or written? The point is that this is actually audible@@victorhopper6774
I’m from the UK but I’m fascinated by US history and in particular the Indian Wars. I’ve read widely on the subject but this interview is incredible! Thank you so much for sharing.
The oppression & sad times caused by the brits which was very hard times for my forefathers.
@@harshrajsinhjhala6281 Yes, I agree. The British Empire had a very real dark side to it. Half of my family are American and we often discuss UK/ US history.
@@RogerWilcoSnr I despise the english for what they did to my people. Don't ever apologize for your people's past. They did what they had to do and did it better than anybody else.
@@harshrajsinhjhala6281 I’m sure that must be really painful for you. I still haven’t forgiven the Romans for making my forefathers slaves 2000 years ago 🤡
That's awesome
The two men speaking are national treasures
They all had that rehearsed speaking voice then it’s funny
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I flying ace, was the one asking the questions. The whole interview was just amazing to me. Listening to people that lived 100 years ago and talking about 150 years ago.
The grandfather of that soldier was a grown man when Washington was President.
And the shame we collectively will bear from our graves as our future selves will watch the TicTok videos of the youth today.
Isn't it, tho? So very surreal; "living" history, as it is, just, well...indiscribable..to hear this first hand account...then the interviewer telling him, how, in just the span of his lifetime, DOUBLED the size of this country! Just..WOW!!! 🗽🇺🇲🪖✝️🙏🕊
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Hopefully, future generations will have actually LEARNED from those stupid tic toc videos of just how NOT BE/ACT, especially in public. 🤨
Flying ace..lol..
Today's date, March 26, 2023. I am 71 years and 6 months old. This is such an amazing interview! Most fellas my age are so familiar with Capt. Rickenbacher's exploits, and Civil War history! My wife thinks it is humorous to poke fun at these historical facts so many of us grew up with. But then, she's 18 years my junior! Thank you very much for making this available to us! 🇺🇲❤️👍
You're a dawg!😅
You must have plenty of stamina.
I thought you were going to say she's 18..... ha ha! You old Coot!!!
65 year’s he prepared that moment, countless telling’s, countless dramatic pauses. Nailed it!
What a wonderful surprise to run across this amazing interview.
Wow! This guy is very sharp! Has perfect recollection of the battle and the other details. I’ll say it again we are blessed to have gotten this on record before he passed away! This should be required listening for all high school history classes!
Life harrowing events burn more deeply in our memories.
I watch mostly movies before the 1960s. I've watched over 150 silent films, all of them on youtube. Really helps to see people more in a level-headed way because the values I think had been very similar for thousands of years up until recently.
This was recorded in 1930 and both men talk about WWI. Little do they know that a few short years later there would be WWII. :(
There were people who knew another war was on the horizon. Ulysses S. Grant "knew" there would almost certainly be a war between the US and Japan and he died in the 1880s.
My grandfather was born in 1885 and told me about going to see Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show when it visited the UK. It alway makes me pause when I think my GF who died in 1983 lived through the Wright brothers era, lived through two world wars, fought in one of them, read about the first human to human heart transplant and saw man walk on the moon. What witness to man’s modern history.
@@spudgunson One of the Lakota, upon meeting Queen Victoria and who had been with Sitting Bull in Canada, said that Victoria told them if they were among the people she ruled, she would not allow them to be taken around and displayed like a carnival act. In thinking upon that the Lakota man said that maybe if the "Grandmother" had been their ruler things would have turned out better for his people. He also said he thought she was a jolly fat old lady!
IIRC, one of the Lakota members of the Wild West Show died while in England and was buried there. They exhumed him in the recent past and returned his body to his band's reservation in either North or South Dakota.
Little do we know what is coming in a few short years given what we have just seen.
@@billp4 Yes, it is hard to know if this was before or after Wounded Knee ...
Metal detecting the Santa Fe trail here in Kansas is my life's obsession. Thank you so much for your videos! 🤘
What are you finding sir? I am a relic hunter as well. Fascinated by your comment.
I love metal detecting!
I metal detect so much my left forearm looks bigger than right. I'm left handed
I've detected the Santa fe and Fort wise along the Santa fe a few times (Colorado section). Been heavily digging the overland trail for over 20 years now.
@@jeffsnider7842 old coins, tokens, jewelry. Whatever I can find. Usually hunt old houses and one room schools
Amazing! Two incredibly famous heroes in American history from over 100+ years ago. So cool!
That's him in the photo from 1:20 to 2:00? That is a very famous photo. That shot was taken in May of 64. It's US Grant meeting with his Corps and Division commanders. They were planning the overland campaign, I believe it was after the battle of the Wilderness but they were on the march to the next battle against Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Spotsylvania Courthouse. Grant is the guy sitting on the bench facing the camera with his legs crossed. This gentleman was right in the middle of a real slice of American history there. Pretty awesome when you think about it.
What a treat! To hear actual living history. I am grateful.
I find it so very interesting that this man was at Ft Dodge just a handful of years before my great grandpa was. His name was Peter Walter Beamer. He had been a First Sgt. in Sherman's army during the Civil War. He was in Dodge City in the '70's and early '80's as a black smith. He was also sheriff for a very short period of time. He met Wyatt Earp while there too. I am a trucker by trade. A few years ago, I worked on a wind farm project south of town for several months and during a big ice storm, found the local historical society and found out so much about my great grandpa. I figure this man speaking was born about 1844. Peter Walter in 1842. He died about 1923, right about when my dad was born. Such a big wide world and yet so small at times. Very nice to hear this. Thanks!
Not trying to start an argument
But The Yankees never created a bigger coward then Sherman.
Fascinating story nonetheless
@@LaGrandeBayou he burned down slavery lovers' cities so he's alright in my book
"Slavery lovers" ?
Tell me your a 15 year old
Without telling me your a 15 yr old
@@rbee22 Did he burn down Black Slave owners home too? Check the history books, there were quite a few Black Slave Owners. The first slave owner in the US was Black.
@@rbee22 You’re ignorant. You’re going to judge men at a time when land was survival and life was conquer or be conquered. Let me guess you would have asked where the gender neutral bathroom was located in the mid 1800.
When a society loses its respect for history there's chance it becomes too relaxed and weak. At this point lethargy takes place and evil reigns.
Society has lost respect for itself...history and knowledge was there for us to attain.. instead they attained tik tok...as a historian I agree with you
Like now!!!
Like the history that white man has always white washed and claimed to respect the original natives and their history. This is a tainted history that bolsters the collective ego of an always corrupt society.
The horrific leftist in this country is proactively subverting the history of our country. They are the worst enemy this country has ever faced.
Hollywood Egos. .Easy Self Grandiosity ..
I’m surprised by how polite and kind they were. I guess from movies or even imagination I had thought a frontier soldier would be a rougher person. That’s really cool.
This is an official broadcast. Lots of pride in achievements.
Mr Herron is wearing the 1904 Gillespie model MOH in his portrait. He may have been awarded his MOH around that time (which was not uncommon back then). All past MOH winners were always allowed to update their medals when a new style was issued....Thanks for posting this audio!
They're awards, not rewards. So they're recipients, not winners.
As I have commented elsewhere, the most interesting 100 years in the history of life on earth just may be from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. For instance, if you were born in 1870 and lived until 1970, you were born in a time when people traveled by train to man traveling to the moon. From horse and buggy to personally owned cars & world travel by airplanes. A world with no computers to a world with computers. A world with no radio or TV or movies to a world with all of those things. The world you were born into literally changed like no other time in history that I can think of.
I’m amazed at just how crazy life is in general for some. 85 years old at time of interview. Lived through Indians battles and civil war to retire in Nebraska.
Absolutely marvellous . He even mentoned Custer 's wife was still living in New York as late as 1930 .
Libby Custer, and amazing person in American history. Very few know her story.
Great clip! I have to remark on how funny it is to hear an interviewee saying a line like “back in the 60s” and he actually means the 1860s!!!
Folks, you don't win the Medal of honor; you earn it. It's not a competition. As an aside, my Dad once met Eddie Rickenbacker and when he asked him how old he was, he replied, "I am 74 years young."
Yes, and--it should be understood that the MOH was the only bravery medal available at the time. It doesnt compare to modern rewuirements
I found a bunch of WWI pictures in the trash one day and one of them was Eddie Rickenbacker. Pretty sure they’re old, they are all stamped Western Union Telegraph Co or something like that
@@jamesc8259 I hope you kept them.
So true
An absolute hero this man is. Brave men like him are rare in America today.
Yes we are doomed as a country.
That's coz there is nobody's land to steal now,
@@chevinbarghest8453 The weak people unable to create a meaningful society have almost all been removed. Survival of the fittest and the superior race will always win.
Back then playing the victim card was not a winning strategy for being weak was always looked down upon.
@@chevinbarghest8453 Uhhh there's plenty of land to steal. We're just at a place in society where there would be a ton of backlash if it was made obvious. Even back then they had to false flag their way into taking California and other expansion campaigns were propagandized. Many natives got the shaft for sure but many also weren't the peace loving hippies people like to make them out to be now days. They initiated plenty of their own territorial disputes between settlers and other natives. The Europeans just weren't split into a ton of tribes and being united gave them the numbers to come out on top.
@@ElusiveMasquerade Well that's a fine Nazi Aryan übermench philosophy but it isn't so...The Nazis lost and were either hung or killed themselves.. The elites have stopped breeding and the underclass are breeding like rabbits... Evolution is in reverse.
My sincere Thank You to the producers of this outstanding video.
Both the interviewer, and the guest are remarkable men that helped form and shape America to be the great Nation it has become. It was my distinct pleasure to meet the great WW1 American Ace Pilot, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker. Capt. Rickenbacker was the #1 American Ace Pilot of WW1. Later in his life, Capt. Rickenbacker founded the International Airline Company, "EASTERN AIRLINES". I found Capt
Rickenbacker to be a kind and gracious gentleman. I was a young US Army 82nd Airborne Division Staff Sergeant (E-6). I had read Capt. Rickenbacker's amazing Autobiography. This volume left a deep impression on me. In the last chapter Capt. Rickenbacker describes how at the very last moments of the "Great War", he actually flew over a large section of the Front Line trenches. He wanted to see what would take place at the, 11th Day, of the 11th Month, at the 11th Hour. This was the agreed upon time ALL sides would cease fire, and this Horrendous War would finally come to its END. As his military watch struck 11AM, Capt. Rickenbacker observed literally thousands of Troops slowly come out of their Trenches, stand up, and slowly approach each other. The British in their Brown combat uniforms. The Germans wearing their dark Green uniforms, the French wearing their Blue uniforms, the Americans were not within Capt. Rickenbackers view, but for sure they were wearing their Brown combat uniforms. As Capt. Rickenbacker viewed this Huge mass of Military Men and Women (There were Military medical units on All sides up at the front ready to transport wounded troops to Field Hospitals in the rear. Hundreds of brave female Nurses were among them.). Capt. Rickenbacker's tears streamed down his war weathered face as he watched these courageous Soldiers from All sides shake hands, embrace one another, share cigarettes, show each other family photos, and those that had a bottle of Gin, or Wine, or any kind of spirits used it to toast to each other.
Capt. Rickenbacker was deeply moved be this display of Military courtesy, but even more moved by the knowledge that just several minutes before 11AM, these disciplined, courageous, and galant Troops would very likely kill each other. How profoundly Sad. These moving moments had stayed in Capt. Rickenbackers mind for the rest of his life. He was haunted by these few minutes of Human Beings being caught up in an event that is like non other in the Human experience, WAR. WAR changes everybody's Life it touches, whether they are a combatant or not. Being a Vietnam (1968) combat Veteran, I can vouch for Capt. Rickenbackers words. Though I am proud to have served, at the same time I pray that someday there will be an end to War of any kind. Some will call me naive or uninformed, but I believe that some blessed Day, we will find another Way.
A true American hero in spite of the modern day disbelief.
So would you consider any of the the tribal chiefs American heroes during his time?
@@deatralocklear17 I would. Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse as the two most famous examples.
Just a blink of the eye in time measurement. Not long ago in the great scheme of things. Great stuff. Rickenbacker! Another great American! This is a treasure.
I have seen Lee's grave countless times, and growing up I had heard about this man. He was certainly a brave man.
Our history isn't that far behind us. When my grandmother was a girl they moved to Nebraska in a covered wagon. She said the grass was as tall as wheat and would juat about make you sea sick when the wind blew. Now, the grass is short and the buffalo no longer roam free.I don't know what year that was. But in my mind's eye I can still see the sturdy stock of people my grandparents and great aunts and uncles were. Not like us today. Great presentation, thank you.
This man fought in the Civil War AND Indian Wars and we got audio of him. When you think of it, it's not just the interviews with Julius Franklin Howell and obvious Civil War vets, but even the earliest presidents recorded that are the voices of Civil War veterans. It's amazing to have it.
I remember as a kid watching the TV show "What's My Line" when the guest was an old man who had witnessed, as a young boy, President Lincoln getting assassinated at Ford's Theater. Talk about living history.
This is on u-tube, I watched it a few months ago.
Just an amazing and awesome interview by a WW1 legend of a Indian War legend.
Incredible that he was recorded for future generations
An invaluable time-capsule that brings the past to life.
When is the last time u have hrd someone talking about back in the 60’s?? As in the 1860’s!?!? Haha.
Wow, this is awesome! Thank u so much for sharing!!
Listening to a man born in 1845 is surreal.
What a priceless piece of audio, thanks for sharing it.
Wow! That was fantastic. That story should have been made into a movie. For that matter, it still should. This sounds like an episode of an old radio show. Man, I'd like to hear more.
I think it was.
I’m speechless, this is beyond fascinating
Outstanding! You can not place a price on retrained history such as this.
I saw an old episode of "I've Got A Secret" where this old man was on & said he actually saw Lincoln get killed. He was about 5 yrs. old. When he "told his secret," it was put on the screen & everyone in the audience gasped.
That was fantastic and it brought you right there when he was waiting to get annihilated by the Indians. If not for people like him this country would be very much less fortunate to what we have.
Yes so true
Thank God recordings like this were made. So interesting to hear them. Even this recoeding was old. Around the 1920's.
Back in the ‘60s
That’s the 1860’s. Crazy
This is really neat! A connection, audio, to the Civil War, completion of Manifest Destiny, thru building of Transcon RR., at Promontory Summit, UT. Thank you.
Your first photo with 2 people circled in red are of General U.S. Grant seated with his officers near the end of the Civil War.
Good call. That is Herron circled in red. Photo taken May 21, 1864 at Massaponax Church in Hanover County, Virginia.
@@Lifeinthe1800s That is fascinating! How did you find out it was Mr. Herron in the civil war picture?
excellent insight, history and perspective by first hand soldier. Note the tone was of those who wanted their future Americans to remember this part of our history to learn from.
Darn! I was ready to hear of Capt Eddie Rickenbacker's Tale of the War to End All Wars.
Oh Well, Some other time maybe.
Being Full Blooded Indian and a member of Federally recognized Tribes, Both were Peace seeking Tribes and Held some Honor among the Army/Cavalry for doing so, but I can understand the animosity of the Tribes that did fight, and wished they might have faired better. But My Father tells me that
"ALL RACES, IN HISTORY, HAVE EXPERIENCED, BEING CONQUERED, AND HELD IN SLAVERY!" So We are not so special in that regard!
Y’all weren’t conquered though, y’all were blatantly eliminated, then those who eliminated y’all have the balls to say that the borders should be closed. Natives were never slaves, y’all were brutally hunted and exterminated
not every race or culture has faced extinction and assimilation though
I remember talking to my dad about our native ancestors being overrun by the Europeans. His response "It was our fault", i.e. the tribes and nations were busy fighting one another, not recognizing outside threats. May we learn. We are our greatest threat if we cannot overcome our divisions.
like reaching back in time to get to know this man, amazing
If this were Australia, this man would be regarded as evil incarnate. Incredible the different attitudes between these two countries regarding indigenous. (P.S. I prefer yours, I’m Australian)
Nah..I'm Amercian born and raised..White guy too btw..I've always the fact that we massacred the NATIVE Americans for this land..There are many more instances in our history that hard for any rational human to swallow but it is what it is and we can't erase history. I'm grateful to be from here but I'm a realist and I don't sugar coat or turn a blind eye to the things that have happened. So just fyi not all of us agree with or ok with the horrible shit in our history
This was amazing to hear a piece of history first hand!
I have read the wonderful autobiography of Eddie Richenbacker but this is the first time hearing his voice. Salute to these hero's.
My great grandfather was in the Mexican American war about fifteen years before the Civil War that my other great grandfather and two great uncles were in. My father was in WWII. My two great uncles died fighting for the North to free the slaves. I guess my grandchildren will be in the second Civil War, the second Mexican American war and WWIII to free the slaves.
Anyone still living in the US is an economic slave that needs to be freed from the tyranny of a corrupt system.
Prophetic
Correct
Your great uncles fought to end state's rights and giving us the situation we have today.
Good point you have to keep your proud legacy going
Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure! Thank you.
It is just possible this man knew my great great granduncle, a Second Lieutenant with the (Michigan) 7th Cavalry, who served until Gettysburg, where he contracted pneumonia and returned home to die.
THIS IS AWESOME!!!!
I recall as a kid in the mid 60s meeting an old fellow who called himself an old rail roader. Rail roads were the aviation and space race of the 1800s, high tech for its time
As someone interested in linguistics, I find it fascinating that Americans born in the first half of the 19th century sound very similar to American speakers today. Because the British English accent changed during the 1800s, I think that American English must sound like what British English used to sound like in the 1700s.
There were numerous dialects spoken in Britain during the American colonial period. American English, the way it's spoken in the Northeast, was fairly similar to the way most English speakers from the MIdlands talked. Most of the English immigrants to the colonies were from that part of England. What we think of today as a modern English accent existed at the time, it was an upper class accent. Eventually that manner of speaking was adopted by most people in Britain because they wanted to sound 'posh', just like the rich people. BTW, if you want to hear what English sounded like during Shakespeare's time, listen to a performance done in original pronunciation. You'll be shocked, It sounds like a blend of American English and Irish English.
I am English and to me the speech of both of those Americans sounds very different from modern Americans. They speak with some modern American vowel sounds and both are rhotic accents - in other words they fully pronounce all their ‘R’ sounds, like modern Americans, but the rhythm, cadence and tonal quality of their voices are markedly different. You can also hear this in other old recordings of Americans.
There has never been a ‘British’ accent. Britain is England, Scotland and Wales with Northern Ireland included in the United Kingdom. All these nations have accents that can be put into separate categories. The accent most people are familiar with is called Received Pronunciation and is mainly spoken in the south of England. Across England there is a vast range of different accents. All English and American accents evolved from earlier accents. Accents in Britain did not change more quickly, there was no reason for them to do so. American accents evolved from a mixing and levelling of various English, Scottish, Irish and other non English speaking accents. Accents in Britain and America are constantly evolving as they are elsewhere.
@@MrSloikaThe English of Shakespeare's time always reminds me of the stereotypical pirate accent, or "Jack Sparrow talk" as I put it when I was younger.
Fabulous interview, even though scripted. Corporal Herron, interviewed by Eddie Rickenbaker, who also had both WWI and WWII stories of perseverance, is a gem of that rare breed, the 19th century U.S. Cavalry soldier. It wasn't a pleasant time for American soldiers. In the 19th century, post-Civil War soldiers were looked down upon, denigrated, and perceived as too lazy to work. They pretty much rec'd the same treatment as Viet Nam soldiers a century later.
Sad but true
Fascinating and a privilege to hear. Puts today's hardships into perspective and the woke complaints of the new generations.
Wow,
real old WildWest history.
Thank you
Fun fact, the photo at 1:38 is of Grant discussing strategy at Massaponax church Fredricksburg. It's amazing this man was captured in a historic photograph
Grant was not at Gettysburg
@@joelpardue4110 I stand corrected ;)
I thought it was a civil war photo
Amazing. Thank you for these.
Just hearing him talk about the history in real detail about the past is absolutely incredible
My grandfather was born in 1889. He has 18 brothers and sisters.. he was in the middle of the pac. His grandfather fought in the civil war and his great grandfather in the revolution. When I was in my teens, this man had only been dead 30 years, and yet today it seems like a million years ago. I had several ancestors killed by Indians in New Mexico and Arizona. My grandparents remembered Indians killing some of their livestock when they needed food and leather while fighting in Mexico for independence. The raids occurred along the U.S. Mexican boarder until around 1918.
That's interesting - his GRANDfather fought in a war only 24 years earlier, but his grandfather's father in a war 90 years before that? Strange?
"Back in the 60's"....1860's!!!!
The guys grandma was born in the 1700's thats absolutely crazy but whoever recorded this.. Thank you 👍
I love your channel ! Who ever you are thank you for blessing us with such beautiful memories and knowledge of the past
Wow 2 brave men talking story. It's amazing listening to someone who lived during that time. To hear his voice instead of reading it in an article. Great stuff
It's great to be able to hear this OG COLONIZER.
The "OG" colonizers date to 250 years earlier with the pilgrims, or technically over 300 years earlier with those who followed after Columbus. So no.
Wish i would have come up at that time....When America was America men were men and woman were woman..What in the world happened to this Republic.
Only one woman then? She must have been one busy soul!
It's so crazy to hear the recording of music from 1868
Fascinating. General Custer's wife Elizabeth Bacon Custer was a very pretty woman, and an interresting part of history herself. She died three years after this interview. R,I.P.
I love how the corporal narrates, somebody should make an AI of his voice to tell storiess
Absolutely fascinating
Crazy hearing the accents in these old 1800s speakers. The similarities in my grandfather born in Iowa.
I have one living uncle who was alive when this was recorded. He's the oldest son of 16 children. All but the youngest son have died, and they were all born after 1930. The oldest daughter just died of covid in January this year, aged 92. There are only 2 daughters alive, the 85 year old and the youngest daughter of the family. They all grew up in the shadow of this history. My Dad and his brothers used to trap foxes for their tails during the coonskin cap craze of the 1950s. The fox tails would be dyed to look like raccoon tails. I don't know why the merchants didn't want actual raccoons, maybe the fur is too coarse.
They were probably willing to use both.
Unbelievable! Thx
I'd love to hear a natives experience of what it was like to survive a calvary attack- they killed woman, children, and seniors
Yes, the natives did kill women, children, and defenseless old-people. That’s why we were at war with them.
The america this guy came from ..and the one he was in when he recalled his service are both long gone. Really amazing to hear this man who likely imagined the world would continue in its course.
I believe this man has a congressional medal of honor around his neck.
"it is very much worthwhile for americans of this generation to pause and consider the hardships of the soldiers and the pioneers"......
This is a story from 62 years before that was recorded and it was recorded 52 years before I was born....and now its 41 years later and its just as worthwhile for Americans to hear this, and from such legends. Its incredible to be able to hear a first hand account from 155 years ago!
Great historical interview. It would have been really interesting to hear of his re encounter with Mrs. Gen. Custer!
He is so well spoken and measured. He doesn't seem to have resentment for his enemies. Instead of attacking, they traded for the girls.
Great interview from the past. Sometimes I turn on "closed captions" if the audio is a little muffled. It's always funny to turn them on to see how close those captions are. Every so often, it's so far off that I break out laughing.
would be interesting to hear a Native American’s experience of those times
My great great grandfather was a Indian scout and fighter
Leave his name, birth & death date.
It was the Germans who had invented the tape recorder as we knew it. Prior audio recordings in and of the US & Americas it was accomplished using wire. For movies It was the optical recording put to the edge of the film and read by the exciter light 24 frames after the projection light. I think it was 24 frames. A magnetic strip was put to TV news film.
Whoever posted this gem can you please confirm the original date when this interview was recorded? And how old this man would have been at the time? Amazing story! Thank you!
At the start of the interview he says it was 62 years ago so I’m guessing 1930
1868+62=1930
He died in 1937 at 90 years old.
@@Deerlover75 thank you! I suck at maths 😊
@@LijaMoore 😁
the interview is 90 years old...time travel
When he said the 60’s he meant the 1860’s. How cool is this