Teenager Jimmy Bateman Begs U.S. Grant to Let Him Into the Union Army

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  • @michaeldouglas1243
    @michaeldouglas1243 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Outstanding Ron

  • @waynestogbauer7083
    @waynestogbauer7083 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Thank you so much Ron. Everyone should listen to history you portray. Thanks again.

  • @joeparvana9549
    @joeparvana9549 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    The drive and determination of that young man and others like him in those times. Thanks for giving him life once again.

  • @markmcintosh7095
    @markmcintosh7095 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    I joined the Marines in 1969 and even then there were young men 15 and 16 that had gotten in. Most were discovered. My platoon had a 16 year old that they caught one week before graduation. He didn't look any older than 16 to be sure. Your channel is outstanding. Thank you

  • @steveschlackman4503
    @steveschlackman4503 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Ron, another great story that nobody else would ever present.

  • @donhooper6439
    @donhooper6439 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Can there be any young Americans today who have Jimmy's patriotic spirit? I hope so. Wonderful story Ron. Keep up your great work!

  • @waltschoenly3326
    @waltschoenly3326 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Thanks Ron! You're doing all of us a great service. 😊

  • @toolsteel8482
    @toolsteel8482 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Thanks for sharing Jimmies story. I like the props and backdrops in nineteenth century photos.

  • @user-yu1zp2vu9x
    @user-yu1zp2vu9x 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Thanks for sharing. I really appreciate the episodes on specific unknown individuals. It is these individuals that are the most accurate face of war.

  • @darthcheney7447
    @darthcheney7447 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Dude needs his own movie.

  • @oldgeezerproductions
    @oldgeezerproductions 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I really appreciate the stories of the lives of the more ordinary people of the lower ranks (of which I am certainly one), so thanks once again Ron.
    It seems that for most of human history, war has been man's favorite sport as can be attested to by James Bateman's undaunted eagerness to be a participant in his era's war. Only until each of us learns otherwise, through our own personal experience, war is assumed to be all glory and there is nothing in our dreary lives that can compare with the ultimate emotions that are conjured up during combat, whereby a living being, born with the otherwise omnipotent instinct to live, will risk and even throw away their one and precious life "for the cause." It seems that even those who, through grief at losing the best and closest comrades they have ever known and/or through severe wounding that otherwise ruins a promising life, those who have indeed learned that 'war is all hell,' even for them they recall the hell of war as their "finest moments" and a "highlight of their lives" and afterwards help erect Regimental Monuments and Veteran's Memorials in every town square.

  • @conradnelson5283
    @conradnelson5283 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    I wonder, did he stay a drummer or take up a musket later?

    • @lifeonthecivilwarresearchtrail
      @lifeonthecivilwarresearchtrail  28 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      I have yet to learn if he joined the ranks. His military service index card indicates he mustered in as a musician and mustered out as a private, which suggests he may have. However, the drum patch and veteran's strip on his uniform coat, and that the portrait was taken in Springfield, suggests that he was a drummer on furlough with his comrades in March-April 1864. So, if he was a private, it was towards the closing months of the war.

  • @LitaPicciolo
    @LitaPicciolo 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

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