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GreatLakes Traveller
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2013
Hi - this is our celebration of the rich history of the Great Lakes region, and the places that you can still visit and see for yourself. Come explore with us!
Dillinger Was Here, Part 2
A further look at some places in Ohio and Indiana connected to the notorious bank robber John Dillinger
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Dillinger Was Here, Part 1
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A look at some places in Ohio and Indiana connected to the notorious bank robber John Dillinger. Please note: I am now told that Dillinger's sister never lived in Martinsville - it was always Maywood. My thanks to Brian, who is married to Audrey's great-granddaughter for sharing.
Something different - Dixie, our little rebel!
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Our first month with our rescued kitten - named "Dixie"
The Lincoln Assassination & the Michigan Executioners
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A look at the execution of the Lincoln Conspirators (with some details you may not have heard before) and especially two Michigan soldiers who played a significant role in the hangings. NOTE: Since this video was published, information has come to me that strongly suggests that the man wearing white on the scaffold at 12:16 may not be Christian Rath after all, and that Rath may actually be the ...
The Lincoln Assassination: A scandalous eyewitness
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A look at the life of the man who may have been the only one actually watching Abraham Lincoln at the moment he was shot
The Lincoln Assassination And Louis Wiechmann
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The controversial role that one man played in the Lincoln Conspirators' Trial, and his grave in Indiana. Please note: Wiechmann's last name was misspelled "Weichmann" so often after the trial that he himself started to spell it that way. This is the spelling most often used today, but its not what's on his tombstone.
Traces of George Armstrong Custer
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A look at the life of George Armstrong Custer, as well as related sites in Monroe Michigan. Note: the stories beginning at 4:40 (Origin of Custer going to West Point) and 24:14 (who wrote the actual note to Benteen) have been refuted by viewers.
Morgan's Raid Video Tour: Ohio, part 1
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Travel to the places involved with Morgan's Civil War Raid
Traces of the Civil War: Miami County, Ohio
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Sites from the Civil War-era in Miami County, Ohio
The Randolph Slaves
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The story of the Randolph slaves, and their journey to Freedom
Home Movies - Gettysburg 1938 Reunion
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Home movies of the Gettysburg 75th reunion taken by a member of the Jackson MI Zouaves
Clement Vallandigham - A Thorn in Lincoln's Side
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A look at the life (and especially the death) of the most famous Copperhead of the American Civil War
Video Tour of Buffington Island - Ohio's main Civil War battlefield
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Please join me for a video tour of sites around the Buffington Island battlefield area
And here I thought Custer's Last Stand was a custard pie stand.
Very nice video of a great Battlefield. Thank you😊
Thank you so much!
Excellent presentation!! You kept me rivited to the screen. You had some excellent insights and gave a wonderful show cockfull of fascinating historical views. I think this is one of my favorite videos on Custer. Thank you so much. You have a new fan . I will seek you out.😊😊
Thank you so much! Am hoping to have another video posting in the not-too-distant future
Now my understanding is that George dictated the ‘last message’ to Cooke who then scribbled it down, quickly, tore it from his pad, and gave it to trumpeter/courier Martini. Later Captain Benteen would add / clarify the additional translation. It was certainly not Custer. As to the ‘Toms tent fire’ first I’ve heard of it. Not saying it didn’t happen but what’s the source?… Final note it’s still doubtful that any of Custer’s remains made it off the battlefield. The party tasked with the exhumation found skeletal remains all over the terrain and the area identified as where the two brothers had been interred impossible to determine. They had to guess when collecting bones!!… Personally I like to think George remained on the bloody ground with the remains of his fallen men.. I think he would have liked that eternal sleep.. 🥰🇦🇺🇺🇸
Regarding "the last message" please check my notes just under the video. Please refresh my memory about "Tom's tent fire" - I don't recall that incident.
@@greatlakestraveller9703 No problem . You quote C Company as not attending assembly as Tom was sleeping in. Then you say George set fire to Toms tent to awaken him. Ive researched the battle for well over sixty plus years and have no information on this though it is common knowledge that George continually played practical, if not stupid, jokes on his siblings. But playing a game on an officer in front of his troops appears unusual as it undermines authority. Take care. 🤗
@@madlenellul3430 Are we talking about the same video?
@@greatlakestraveller9703 Well I’m not sure anymore. That’s why I’m puzzled regarding Tom and you did incorrectly have George penning the note to Benteen. A note written by Cooke and confirmed by Martini. What source did you rely on…I’m guessing Graham as he’s excellent . Don’t get me wrong I really enjoyed your presentation. Thank you. Take care.🤗🇦🇺🇺🇸
@@madlenellul3430 I don't recall saying anything about a tent being set on fire. Anyway, thanks Ron
We have a Custer in Canton, Ct. He is a gunsmith.
As far Mrs. Surrant is concerned I don't believe she had a role to kill anyone in the assassination, but she had to know of it since the conspirators held meetings in her boarding house, therefore she was involved in the assassination. But, she should've gotten a 20 year prison sentence instead of a death sentence. If only she could have notified the authorities before the event it would have went different for her in my opinion.
Thank you for the video but id like to mention a pronunciation error. His name is pronounce Witch-Man. Ive heard all kinds of ways to pronounce it over the years 😅.
Thanks for posting. Are you absolutely sure of the pronunciation, and what was your source of info?
@@greatlakestraveller9703 id hope I'm sure. I'm related to him and we've kept the name from Germany. The majority of the family is now in South dakota
@@ForestOutHouse Interesting! I'd have bet that the original pronunciation would have been more like "Vike-monn"
Memory George Armstrong Custer 🇺🇲⚔️ (great respect for this material and work) Best wishes from 🇵🇱 🕊️ 🤝
Thank you Diana!
Thanks Poland
@@user-ez5fc5lp6j 🕊️🇵🇱🤝
Dr Gillett presided over Powell’s girlfriend’s marriage a few years later.
I question the people who want to hide Custers statue, I’m disgusted with these idiots
Crook never sent a courier to advise Custer of Crooks abandoning the mission
What a sad account, the psychological trauma both men must have felt!! The honor too uphold the law accompanied with guilt must have been awful to bare! I'm proud to call these two men a great "Michigander"... Thank you for sharing their accounts.
You're very welcome - thanks for sharing!
Was Wiechmann not a known alcoholic? I kept waiting for you to talk about that, but didn’t.
What is your source of information?
Traces of Custer? A greasy spot or a skid mark?
Change the Playback speed setting to 1.25. You're welcome!
Ironic... many Scots and Irish who were forced abroad to America by English ethnic cleansing .. .ended up joining the u.s.army who ethically cleansed the native Americans...
Custer should never be praised ..he was a cog in the u.s.ethnic cleansing machinery of the native peoples ,at the bighorn he got a taste of his own mediciine ...unfortunately the u.s govornment still cointinues to support ethnic cleansing e.g. Palestinians.....!
A friend of mine swam in the river at Buffington Island in the mid 1980's. He talked about sliding down boat loading ramps into the river. Even said back then there were still cannon balls on the island.
Sure wish I had owned a camera drone at the time that I was there! Could have gotten some overhead shots of the island...
So crazy. I’m directly related to this guy, to the point I have his last name even after hundreds of years. I also live in Indiana about 2 hours away from his hometown- my family has barely left the area! I don’t tell people though bc he’s not the best person to consider family😅
Thanks for sharing. Any family artifacts or momentos related to the Custers?
Thank you for this video.
Very welcome - thank you!
@@greatlakestraveller9703 You're welcome 😊!
Great video thankyou
Thank you!
I loved this video, thank you for creating it.
Thanks Tony - I'm still hoping to do a follow-up!
He was no hero, just the opposite for his arrogance and self pride.
Great Video. Dennison was governor of Ohio. And it still isn't clear to what side that Dennison was on. And there was a Rail Road in Southern Indiana that was owned by Burnside. That ran to Bloomington, Indiana. That had a house of ill repute. A story is told in Bloomington that Burnside and Hooker and Lew Wallace spent more time at this house of ilrepute, than they did in the war. The house of ilrepute, in Bloomington was on the West side of town and the Burnside Train depot was across the street, in front of the house of ilrepute. The house of ilreput is said to have kept Monroe county in taxation, during the war. 27:14
Thanks Savanah - had not heard any of this before. If Hooker was involved I would not be surprised, but hadn't heard that about Burnside or Wallace....
Well done Sir and Thank You.
Very welcome - thank you!
In we2 he would have been removed from command because basically he wasn't a very good soldier
They are all equal NOW...
Extremely well done. I'm of 2 minds about the statue though. The notion that Custer was only following orders Smells all too Familiar.
People had such hard lives back then. You are a great narrator, you have a very soothing voice.
Many thanks - very much appreciated!
Why would you start out people are not happy about it that Audie was in Monroe . He is greatness .
I said SOME people in the town are not pleased by it, and that is certainly true. I didn't mean to imply that everyone feels that way.
They are not people of the USA . Communist really . The Man achieved greatness that started as you pointed out at 23 . Your time spent to put this here Greatly appreciated. Thankyou .
Very welcome - thank you! @@Gene-kl1br
Do have knowledge of his having 13 horses shot out from under him ? Two in one day at Gettysburg ?
No, I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing. @@Gene-kl1br
Helen Gilmore is my Aunt,,Thank-you Auntie for your research from the Wells/Kelly side
Thanks for sharing. That cemetary was the most peaceful place I believe I have ever been to.
Custer was not sterile. He had several children with his indian mistress.
Rubbish..Custer was treated for an STD while at west point. Let’s not elaborate on the mercury procedure in the 1860’s but he was certainly sterile. ( but still later sexually active as he would allude to in all his letters to Libbie).. The rake in the family was more likely Thomas. His younger brother. Plenty of ‘escapades’ there. ( Incidently ‘Yellow Bird’ ( apologises if the name is wrong) captured at Washita was several months already pregnant when taken into custody.. neither Custer could have fathered her child).. Jut gossip and speculation. As can read I prefer fact to fiction.. Stay safe 🥰🇦🇺🇺🇸
Wow.
This is a great presentation. Thank you.
Thank you Dustin - much appreciated!
With the"bill of rights "being suspended by Lincoln the condemed weren't allowed too speak in their own defense and no benefit of defense counsel.😜😜😜😜
The people who think Custer hated Indians must remember he didn’t he was a soldier who was ordered to bring in the hostile as they were called to the reservation so blame should go on the government and the politicians sitting in Washington
He was from new rumley Ohio
Clusters last words were can’t understand it they were sing and dancing last night
This day has brought much tears and emotions to me ….I say that because I am a descendant of Sampson Randolph, he was emancipated at the age of 65 years old along with the other Randolph slaves 🥹 to FINALLY find solid information on my ancestors has me very emotional for my family and I…..much much gratitude!!!!!
Thanks so much for sharing! I'm so glad this video helped :)
He got fucked. More soldier's with gattling gun's.
I believe Mary Surrate got fucked.
Before she was hung?
Okay you are missing the important history. Vallandingham gave speeches in Congress stating that the real reason Lincoln was prosecuting the war was to establish a central bank. In other words the real reason for the Civil War was to have a central bank. Lincoln passed the national bank acts of 1863, 1864, and 1865 which created a national banking system and a national currency.
I think you may have totally missed the point of this video. It was not to give a definitive biography of Vallandigham's life. At less than 9 minutes, that would hardly be possible. This was to show some of the local places that had a connection to him, and just enough info to hopefully give the viewer an interest in learning more. Also when it comes to his speeches, he was certainly allowed to his opinions, but he was hardly the last word on the subject...
I did a very extensive and thoroughly objective study of Louis Weichmann and found him to be a brave and truthful witness to the actions of Booth, both Surratts, Dr. Mudd, et al. People who continue to accuse him of perjury are usually not researchers of real history but more often apologists for Booth, the Surratts and Dr Mudd and usually cite their beliefs on hearsay and wild conjecture based on paranoid theories about the Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy and the Catholic Church, Stanton or other "theories" spread by fake historians. Weichmann is a ordinary man caught up in a time and place that he had no knowledge of, until it was too late, yet remained loyal to his country and the union.
Excellent and informative. I felt like I was on the trip!
Many thanks! There will eventually be a part 2, but probably not this summer...
Well done and very interesting too.
Many thanks - much appreciated!
Abraham Lincoln was a traitor and he deserved what happened. Long live the South. The South will rise again. 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱
I cannot understand the fascination about a loser that killed women, kids, and dogs?
Who cares about a women killer.
Excellent
Many thanks Joslyn!
I grew up in Adrian Michigan. Very interesting