My grandparents were there to see this in person...And I have the photos they took there in 1938. I'm still astounded that they met men who fought in the Civil War. Four years later, my grandfather went off to fight in World War 2, and today the surviving WW2 veterans are about the same age as the Civil War veterans seen here. Extraordinary.
It is hard to believe, But this is how young the United Sates really is, During WW2 there are people shaking hands with a soldier from the civil war, I bet when those soldiers were young they probably were shaking hands with revolutionary war soldiers, Please shake a ww2 veterans hand and tell them Thank You as they are leaving us at a very fast rate these days.
Both my grandfathers were WWII veterans, my 3x great grandfather was a Confederate veteran, 2 other 3x greats were Union veterans, my dad is a Vietnam veteran and I’m and Iraq/Afghanistan veteran. All Army
I take care of my grandpa a WW11 vet. He’s 96 almost 97 and when we go grocery shopping we always have at least 1 person thank him for his service. It’s awesome he really appreciates it.
I am not an American, I'm Scottish. You are so lucky to have this film, to remind you of the cost you paid for your great Nation. Great, precious clip.
@@cebep67United States of AMERICA is what he meant. We citizens of the USA call ourself AMERICANS and our official documents identified us as AMERICANS. You are Peruvian and not an AMERICAN. Get it?
This terrifies me. It shows I'm already dead. Time is just an illusion. I was a young soldier in desert storm, I'm now nearly 50. Where did it go??? My 95 year old great aunt is in care home. She said to me (talking about losing mobility, family and your mind): "you dont think of being like this when you're young and fit. Make the most of it. Love your family, dont waste life, it is so short and so precious. dont fritter it all away..." I wish I could have one more kiss from my late mother, to have her stroke my hair one last time. I dread having to say goodbye to my own daughters.
@fishyc150 Oh man, that's deep. I'm sure you kissed your daughters, today, and told them that you loved them. Stay well, my friend. Thank you for your service.
if you think about how old this planet is, your time on it is like one grain of sand on a beach. Oh! and your not already "Dead" you could have another 50-60 years to go, But if you think you are "Dead" already, you are, look at those old vets in that film they came back to a place that more likely was the worst days of their lives, 75 years after the event.
fishyc150 everlasting life awaits you and your parents and daughters. There is no price to you. It’s already been paid. Humble yourself and ask forgiveness and heaven and eternal life will be yours . You already know what to do.....Do it
I was at the 74th Anniversary of D-Day in Normandy and it was treated the same way. A few British and American veterans gathered who were in their 90's. Almost all will be gone in the next decade.
God Bless those old guy boys, Gray and Blue. They paid a heavy price, the one that people not understanding a twig of history think is owed them. These guys paid that price and they all deserve restoration of their graves and monuments and respect. Never judge the past by modern standards. Understand the context.
shedd45 Because to look at an event that occurred 150 years ago through the prism of today's experiences, then you assume that the participants could foretell the future.. Think again about your position. You may want to reconsider it...as you cannot know what the world will be like in 150 years from today.
@@susanprice7202 youre a dope trying to defend brutality rape, and degradation which only allows it to persist...... those people knew what they were doing was wrong, and they employed cognitive counter measures to allow the behavior.....owning people was wrong then, and it will be wrong in a thousand years....but what wont change is people like you finally admitting it was wrong and take responsibility for those actions....
@@susanprice7202 and rape and brutality will be wrong then, as it is now, and during the beginning of this country it was wrong....but its ok to change youre feelings if it only black people......
Just to look at these men and wonder how a smile is still on their faces, after everything they've been through and have seen, shows you just how strong they were. God bless these men.
The last veteran died in 1957 or 59. He was a Confederate. The second to last was a Minnesotan who'd served through the entire war without a scratch! The two men became close friends over the years. I'm just old enough to have known them both. It does seem, however, that the Northerners were overrepresented in this newsreel. It's also true that the Southern dead were largely buried in mass, unmarked graves at Gettysburg and apart from the neatly arranged graves of the Federal soldiers.
Steven Pilling To be fair, the North had many more men overall, a proportion that increased among those who survived. Not to mention that Gettysburg itself is more geographically accessible to men in the North, both by location and infrastructure.
You have an amazing story yourself having met a couple of Civil War vets. You must audio or video record your recollections of the men for your family. Thanks for sharing.
The sound of "Battle hymn of the republic" combined with the pictures all those grand proud old veterans from the civil war sends chills down my spine... Epic....
My Doctor (who was quite elderly himself in the early 80's) Told me stories of this reunion. He was in the U.S. Army at the time and his unit was assigned to help out with the veterans in their encampments. When I told him that Summer (1982) I was going with my Boy Scout troop to hike the battlefields, he was overwhelmingly nostalgic, told me all the monuments to look for and little bits of information about the fields that weren't in the books or guides. I'll never forget it. If/When you go to Gettysburg, Hike the fields & walk to the unit & regimental monuments that are off the paths, you'll miss SO much if you just take the bus tours.
I can still remember the 1st time I saw this...it included the reenactment of the charge...and at the end...both sides of men gave each other hearty hugs and hand shakes.....I was tearing up like a kid.
To me, my generation (millennials) witnessing the remaining vets commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day (and WWII and Pearl Harbor 2 and a half yrs ago) is my generation's equivalent of the Greatest Generation witnessing the 75th anniversary of Gettysburg and the Civil War and the vets who made it that far.
The last vet was a Confederate who died on Dec. 19, 1959. He was 117 and was born on Nov 14, 1842. So, he would have lived through the Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII, and The Korean War. He would have seen the invention of the car, airplane, semi-automatic gun, the radio, and fourteen states join the United States
During a civil war battle a yank said to a rebel what's it like to own slaves? The rebel replied shucks we never owned no slave. We could barely keep shoes on our feet.
But it was their dream to do so. Look at how much fun those poor white southerners had enforcing black codes,vagrancy laws and Jim crow. Hell they lynched black people well into the 1960s.
As a Brit I find this so moving let alone being American. I might be 'talking' out of turn but the American Civil War was both terrible (over 600,000 dead) and yet at the same time there was something that demonstrated the best of the USA. Devotion to duty, courage, a strong belief in what you were fighting for. It was a fight for identity and to establish what being American and what the US was. Lincoln recognised both sides sacrifice in the Gettysburg Address (has there ever been a better speech)...a healing speech if ever one was uttered. It was also a war where for the first time you really heard the testimony of so many men, both officer and rank and file. Such beautiful things were written, such depth of feeling. And its endlessly quotable and, at times despite the horror, touchingly funny and true (Shermans comment on newspaper reporters- something like if he killed them all there would be news from hell by breakfast...something like that...has a lot changed?).
@@stikupartist3698 that is the attitude that the educational industrial complex has created. I feel sorry for you on a day to day basis, the smallest things must piss you off! God bless our Confederacy!
@@rebelsoul5980 its the attitude created by reading what those Confederate losers said. What kind of God blesses people fighting to preserve slavery and white supremacy?
@@stikupartist3698 the fact that you don't understand the reason's why the civil war was fought tells me everything I need to know. Ideologically the war was fought over the illegal implementation of a Federal Nationalized Democracy. The confederacy was fighting to preserve the constitutional confederate Republic the the union was established as in 1776. Geographically the war was fought over Western Expansion. The union conquered not only sovereign confederate territory, but also sovereign Native American territories! The last confederate general to surrender was a man by the name of Stand Waite, a Cherokee Native American. If you see the confederacy as racist, then you also must view the 🇺🇸 racist and for that matter all African nations who participated in the African Slave Trade. Your logic is so child like and full of hypocrisy I don't know where to start. You took your indoctrination straight from the educational industrial complex and puked it out onto the internet. I will defend your 1st Amendment, but I will also correct you when you are blatantly wrong. I have been a civil war enthusiast for 46 year's and done many decades of reenacting for many different battle field's. The indoctrination and hate that is coming from the younger generations is not only scary, but just plain vile. Do you truly believe that the poor souls fighting for the confederacy were fighting for a tiny percentage of southerners to own slaves? You realize less than 5% of the south owned slaves? The rich owned slaves, including the 🇺🇸founding fathers by the way. Which makes this flag 🇺🇸racist correct?
Babe Ruth well said, I find it disgusting that statues are being torn down because it offends percieved sensibilities of certain groups. Among other things what gives anyone the right to deny future generations!
Those soldiers as old as they were still managed to walk with their heads held high. I would have loved to have been there!! I would have loved to hear their stories!!
I wonder how many Southerner Grey vets saw the union burn and looted Atlanta to the ground literally by Gen. Sherman Union forces that were there so Joyously Shaking hands of the men of the union that did it! That would be like shaking hands with the devil even after 75 years! Something for you to think about!
Some of the finest People to ever walk on face of earth.....north, South, Black and White just an incredible history of achievement through perseverance!
I have 20 Confederate ancestors. Here are my ancestors who fought at Gettysburg. Private Samuel Williams Company I 12th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. Private Everett Lassiter 32nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment Sargent James Lassiter 32nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment (Brother of Everett both captured at Spotslavania Court House, Virginia 1864 and sent to Point Lookout and Elmira prisons) Private James Butler Company A 18th Georgia Infantry Regiment Private Edwin Williams Company F 7th North Carolina Infantry Regiment *Roll Of Honor Battle Of Chancellorsville* Wounded on the second day's fighting. RIP Private William Spinks Private Hiram Spinks Company B 35th Georgia Infantry Regiment.
What cemetery are they in? Cause a man named Robert, who does go pro on You Tube, visits and finds old cemeteries with Confederate soldiers grave markers. Sidestep is the name of his videos. He takes some of his time, and is upset when he finds the graves of so many from back in time (Revolutionary War through the Civil War) that are long forgotten and unkempt. It is interesting to see these men who fought each other for a belief now shaking hands instead of shooting at one another.
The only confederate ancestor of mine that I know for a fact fought at Gettysburg is Robert E. Lee. He is also the son of revolutionary war officer, Major-General Henry Lee III.
I really enjoyed this. Thank you for uploading it. Back then, the US was basically Christian and God-fearing. Where neighbors were friendly and helpful, and people had good manners. I love my country. But I don't love what's been happening to it.
Susie Arviso-its very interesting how people delude themselves.....yes they were christian and god fearing but were willing to do and to allow blacks and others to be mistreated .......and its still the same
I used to think like this. But the older I get and the more history I read, the more convinced I am that as Americans they were just as flawed if not in some ways even worse than we now are. While most supposedly worshipped God, that era is filled with tales of savagery and brutality, neighbor robbing and murdering neighbor, for different political or religious views or simply out of greed or cruelty. This happened on both sides and became commonplace in the boundary states, even before the war. Conversely, many now on all sides of our culturally divided nation, whether or not they grew up knowing about God and religion would cringe and reject far less depravity than was then tolerated. And while I don't rule out that we could get to that point from here, I truly believe hate was stronger in America in this era than on this day. Americans enthusiastically marched forth to slaughter Former Americans, and the latter enthusiastically received them for the same. Far beyond the tough talk and rhetoric, these men actually lifted their arms to slay those who shared their language, culture and at one time their national heritage. And yet here is proof of forgiveness and reconciliation. Perhaps there is yet hope for today's America.
My grandpa's father was a Confederate soldier out of Shreveport La and lived almost 100 years, I inherited all his war mementos, believe it or not I have what's left of his uniform and hat and belt buckle, the leather belt is in very bad condition, along with his straight razor, the uniform is very delicate and damaged from storage in a chest, if I can figure out a way to stop further damage I'll try it
In my small town there is a man in our cemetery named John Meakins, who was born in 1856 and who died in 1951. He came west in a Conestoga wagon and lived to fly a twin-engine airplane. He saw it all.
God bless each and every veteran of the Civil War!! North and South!! I am a proud southerner with Confederate Ancestors on both sides of my family with 200+ years of native Virginia blood flowing in my veins. Leave our monuments alone that are dedicated to these soldiers. They all are HEROS!!
@@johngleason1776 I understand that while they had fought for States Rights to perpetuate Slavery, they were young and impressionable boys of that era who fought in an awful War and then later extended a hand to the Union Veterans in a symbolic gesture that the Civil War was truly over. That, to me, makes them heroes. As I have German and Japanese friends, I see our treatment of their Soldiers after WWII as critical in making lasting peace. Otherwise All Wars would never be over.
@@johngleason1776because they fought for and were willing to sacrifice their life for their country. Something selfish self absorbed people are clueless about.
@@Redwhiteblue-gr5em what country were they fighting to defend? Because it wasn't the United States. That's who they were fighting against. Americans don't talk about Vietnamese or Iraqi soldiers this way
:43 Love hearing those brave "old men" giving a weaker, but recognizable, "rebel yell" after vigorously shaking hands with the Union vets. So that's what it sounded like...
This is why they put up those Civil War monuments...both north and south. They were memorials to those young men who died, or in honor of those generals they thought were heroes. People by then had gotten over the bitterness and division and were trying to heal. The Yankee parents understood the pain of the parents of Confederate soldiers killed in the war. Many times the family's were split and the parents had children in both armies. As you can see in this film, they each carried their own battle flags--and no hatred of either flag. And blacks were included in the ceremonies, as the soldiers they were at the time. By tearing down monuments and trying to spit on and erase the past, SJWs are dishonoring those who went thru the actual wars and families who lost loved ones. Leave them up!
kmeccat yep and yes. I also noticed in that infamous clip of a Confederate soldier statue being torn down it was a group of young white people, they were the ones who spat on it and flipped it the bird. One black man appears in the video and he doesn't help topple the statue or spit on it. He stands on it and plays the guitar after the deed is done. People need to stop getting offended for others and think a certain group needs something because of a trait they possess. That's racist and keeps people from being individuals.
Gary Daniel Who gives a goddamn rats ass when it comes to a fucked up Attorney General not knowing how to use common sense! 1. The Congress and Senate did not vote on the secession of the southern states; ergo that act in and of itself without a vote was an act of treason! And more importantly, no where in the Constitution of the United States does it allow for that sort of unilateral action as taken by the south to declare war against the United States. All those acts undeniably were and still is an act of treason! 2. Any old fool either knowingly or unknowingly who fought for the preservation of slavery are all immoral and grotesque bastards! FUCK THE CONFEDERACY!
I’m not sure if every single Southern solider was evil and grotesque. I don’t think every single one was fighting to keep the institution of slavery alive
Same with me ON the 75th anniversary of D-Day. The vibe from seeing the remaining D-Day vets at Normandy and my generation (millennials) witnessing it (and the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor and WWII in general) is my generation's equivalent of the Greatest Generation witnessing the 75th anniversary of Gettysburg and the Civil War and the vets who made it that far.
My great-great-great grandfather fought and got wounded at Gettysburg (shot in the back). He was in the 3rd Arkansas Infantry. He was a POW and was hospitalized for a few months before he was sent home via a prisoner exchange. The complications from the back wound limited him in what he could do in the years after.
My ggg grandfather lived with my grandma in nc after the war. She told my dad stories of him waking up screaming bloody murder in the middle of the night. He fought at fort Wagner, cold harbor, petersburg and many other battles. He said the worst thing he ever saw was cold harbor. He said he saw a Yankee soldiers head blown clean off. That's all he would talk about and then he would walk off or change the subject.
It's a common enough story among combat veterans of any era. I'm reminded of a story of the disastrous Union charge at Cold Harbor. Just before the signal was given, a doomed Yankee called out to a nearby Southron, "See you in Hell, Johnny". To which the other sorrowfully replied, "See you in Hell, Billy". The Northern troops had pinned paper to their jackets with their names and regiments so their bodies could be later identified, knowing that the charge was hopeless.
My great grandpa was one of them old folk. And his son (My grandpa) was just a kid in his late 30s helping them set up the event greeting every soldier he could. He talked to one of them soldiers who would talk to him about Lincoln and his speeches he would give. At some point he said very little about the revolutionary war since he (the Soldier) wasn't born yet but his father served in that war when he was in his 30s. What's even more crazy is that his grandpa could have been alive when George Washington became president. My great grandpa died at 103 years of age about 5 years later of the reunion. My grandpa died when I was on all of my fours he was 98 and my dad is in his 60s
What changes through history these men had seen, from muskets and baronets to the modem machine. Two opposing sides they did embrace, now standing together, with a human face. There guns lay silent and will shoot no more only the sound of film, to capture them all. Where once was carnage they stood to defend, these old solders, were truly men. One more time they gathered round, to face each other with one last round ,with meddles and colours they proudly wore as they walk together in old uniforms. Now silence has fell and shall age no more, lay together again as they had done before, no more fighting and no more chase now lay silent as brothers, in a holy place.
What a poignant event. The last meeting of the Blue and the Gray before the final role call. How glorious was this final meeting, in peace, brotherhood and comradeship one last time. They hold their heads up high and march to the music of their youth, these veterans now in their eighties and nineties. Be sure to watch as the old proud veteran does the manual of arms with his vintage Springfield musket as he did so long ago during marching and drilling before the big campaign. View our history with the brave men who made it and lived during the time of Abraham Lincoln. Oh, to able to have been there at this glorious event.
At 3:22, the officer is saluting with his left hand. Reason? If you're to look closely, his right arm is folded across his torso, as FDR grips it in order to stand upright.
all these civil war veterans would have been in there very late 80's and most in their 90's when this was filmed. They look real healthy for there age standing straight and not bowed over like a lot of old people today
Something my dad instilled in me and my siblings when we visited Gettysburg. The two sides came together and shook hands in the end. They fought and moved on. Monuments on multitple battlefields don't just talk about the battle fought on the ground they occupy. They symbolize the reunification of the country.
1:09 Wow black Americans proud of their Confederate southern heritage ( wouldn't be that common now days). Shows that the south wasn't only "racist" it was a way of life that blacks like whites were proud of.
I think we Americans of the modern age can learn a lot by seeing men,who 75 years prior would’ve killed each other, shake hands and smile and joke with each other.
That young boy had to face three wars (WWII, Korea & Vietnam ) if he survived that, imagine he had other “bigger” things to remember. Interesting to think about though having met veterans from 4 wars.
ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE THINGS ABOUT THE 75th ANNIVERSARY WAS THAT THERE WERE AROUND 1500 VETERANS THAT WERE 100 YEARS OLD. EACH ONE WAS ASSIGNED A BOYSCOUT.
About 20 years ago, I took my family to Gettysburg and we decided to get a tour from one of the licensed battlefield guides. The guy we got had been one of those boy scouts from the 1938 reunion. He told us stories about being a kid when all that was going on. When we got to the Eternal Light Peace Memorial, he told us about riding across the fields on his bicycle to see FDR talk. He talked about it like it had just happened a few days ago. It was an amazing two hours. It took Gettysburg, for me anyway, from being this abstract thing to being something very, very real. There are days that it still astounds me that I got to hear stories about Gettysburg from a guy who heard them directly from men who were actually there.
Does anyone knows when the last Civil war reunion was held? I dont know if any reunions where held during the ww2 years. But i know there also where a very few surviving Civil War veterans left, also after 1945. Where there any veteran meeting after this 1938 reunion..?
Soldiers on both sides came in peace. They shook each other’s hands and showed their love as true Americans. We are at peace now. The young people of today can not see. They want to bring down the Confederate statues because their blind and have no feelings towards our brave soldiers that fought hard for their beliefs back then. They know nothing of what they went through! I mean both sides of American history! Not one of these people have the guts and glory as these soldiers. Honor them don’t destroy them!
@Southern Man Oh, I think the young people of today do see, and do have feelings for, the fact that some of these men fought for, and died for, their desire to own other souls and profit from their labor.
Fuzza majumula Your talking about souls that the sold to the plantations by their own people from Africa. It might have been a hand full of soldiers that own them on both sides and black people owned them . It’s like today’s news reporting false stories and half stories. People of today have no idea what all these people went through and if you were in the South you may have been a Confederate Soldier . (Black or White)
Soon it will be the 159th year anniversary of the battle of gettysburg. All the soldiers north and south were brave honorable men doing what they thought was right. It was a tragedy that this battle of this war happened. Rest in peace to all the dead, wounded, and survivors of the american civil war that have since passed on.
Its interesting to note how agile so many of them seemed still. 20 in 1863 woulda been 95 in 1938. "They don't make em like they used to." comes to mind. They were pretty tough old buzzards.
I had ancestors that fought at Gettysburg. My 2d great uncle Travis Porter, 3rd NC was captured on the third day of fighting and sent to Point Lookout POW camp in Maryland. He would die from smallpox in Dec of that year. He’s buried in the mass grave there and his name is inscribed with all the others buried. Thousands and thousands.
Crazy to think that men who fought in lines with muzzle loading muskets would live till an age where wars were fought with aircraft, tanks, radar, and radio.
Amazing to think that when these men were young they lived in a word of horses and carts and steam power, and before even the end of their lifetimes they lived in a world of airplanes and electricity. It's amazing how fast the world has been changing since the Victorian era.
It is baffling to think that they experienced the American Civil War, with few technological advances and lived to see the invention of cars, phones, larger cities, the first World war, great depression, the rise of Adolf Hitler, creation of the Soviet Union, Japanese Expansion, etc. From their roots in a conflict between states mostly sequestered from the rest of the world, to witnessing major historical events in modern history that still affect us to this day.
"The years drift slowly by, Lorena. The snow is on the ground again. The sun's low down the sky, Lorena. The frost gleams where the flowers had been. My heart beats warmly now as when those summer days were nigh. The sun could never dip so low To down affection's cloudless skies." Thanks for your countless sacrifices, boys.
Someone who fought at Gettysburg had been alive when George Washington was president. And a handful would live to see America fight in World War 2. Gettysburg truly is hollowed ground.
And many of them kept the facial hair. At least, in the case of those who had facial hair during the war and not those who had facial hair after the war.
Lots of comments, someone else may have noticed, could be wrong but at about 1:10 that looks like Charles Lindbergh on the right side of film walking along beside the B&G vets for a few seconds. Dos anyone know if that could have been him?
Gettysburg soldier to other side 75 years before: You are my enemy Gettysburg soldier to other side 75 years later: You are my friend This is just incredible!
After the Civil War it took quite a while for the animosities between North and South to fade. At this reunion 75 years later, there were still a few incidents of conflict between Union and Confederate veterans. This was a thing of the past today where we have people from the North and others from the South who compete in the North-South Skirmish rifle matches. And now the Democrats, always ready to stir up hatred are changing the names of military bases named after Confederate soldiers and tearing down statues of veterans who were in the Confederate army. Just imagine how people in the South feel about having their ancestors ridiculed a hundred and fifty years later by the hateful Democrats. I am disgusted by our politicians!
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My grandparents were there to see this in person...And I have the photos they took there in 1938. I'm still astounded that they met men who fought in the Civil War. Four years later, my grandfather went off to fight in World War 2, and today the surviving WW2 veterans are about the same age as the Civil War veterans seen here. Extraordinary.
Not that much. Just a matter of time
Time never stand still.
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It is hard to believe, But this is how young the United Sates really is, During WW2 there are people shaking hands with a soldier from the civil war, I bet when those soldiers were young they probably were shaking hands with revolutionary war soldiers, Please shake a ww2 veterans hand and tell them Thank You as they are leaving us at a very fast rate these days.
Both my grandfathers were WWII veterans, my 3x great grandfather was a Confederate veteran, 2 other 3x greats were Union veterans, my dad is a Vietnam veteran and I’m and Iraq/Afghanistan veteran. All Army
Wars are caused by greedy politicians.and not by the folk who helped to build america.like other countries it's always the politicians.
I take care of my grandpa a WW11 vet. He’s 96 almost 97 and when we go grocery shopping we always have at least 1 person thank him for his service. It’s awesome he really appreciates it.
Nathan Woodley would u have any revolutionary war relatives that u know of?
@@nathanwoodley4299 love war much ? God fearing ?
I am not an American, I'm Scottish. You are so lucky to have this film, to remind you of the cost you paid for your great Nation. Great, precious clip.
I am American...I am from Peru...America is a continent, not a country
Thank you, sir. I have to fear for our nation now.
@@cebep67United States of AMERICA is what he meant. We citizens of the USA call ourself AMERICANS and our official documents identified us as AMERICANS. You are Peruvian and not an AMERICAN. Get it?
@@Redwhiteblue-gr5em U.S.-americans are the same nazis like Hitler-Germans. America first = Deutschland über alles :(
@@Redwhiteblue-gr5em America first = Deutschland über alles :(
This terrifies me. It shows I'm already dead. Time is just an illusion.
I was a young soldier in desert storm, I'm now nearly 50. Where did it go???
My 95 year old great aunt is in care home. She said to me (talking about losing mobility, family and your mind):
"you dont think of being like this when you're young and fit. Make the most of it. Love your family, dont waste life, it is so short and so precious. dont fritter it all away..."
I wish I could have one more kiss from my late mother, to have her stroke my hair one last time. I dread having to say goodbye to my own daughters.
@fishyc150 Oh man, that's deep. I'm sure you kissed your daughters, today, and told them that you loved them. Stay well, my friend. Thank you for your service.
You are a profound person with a loving heart. Your children know this about you already and I'm sure they take comfort in it. God bless you.
if you think about how old this planet is, your time on it is like one grain of sand on a beach.
Oh! and your not already "Dead" you could have another 50-60 years to go, But if you think you are "Dead" already, you are, look at those old vets in that film they came back to a place that more likely was the worst days of their lives, 75 years after the event.
So true, thank you.
fishyc150 everlasting life awaits you and your parents and daughters. There is no price to you. It’s already been paid. Humble yourself and ask forgiveness and heaven and eternal life will be yours . You already know what to do.....Do it
The old man at 2:43 always blows me away. He looks so grand and majestic like he was really something when he was a young man during the war.
Probably a cavalry officer.
He still has the aura of a young studly man, even in old age.
That is Jack Crawford. And, you are correct. He was really something: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wallace_Crawford
Jim Floyd This event was filmed 21 years after Captain Jack died.
really looks like him but he died on feb 1917 this is supposedly 1938?
I was at the 74th Anniversary of D-Day in Normandy and it was treated the same way. A few British and American veterans gathered who were in their 90's. Almost all will be gone in the next decade.
God Bless those old guy boys, Gray and Blue. They paid a heavy price, the one that people not understanding a twig of history think is owed them. These guys paid that price and they all deserve restoration of their graves and monuments and respect. Never judge the past by modern standards. Understand the context.
Why shouldn't you judge the past by modern day standards?
shedd45 Because to look at an event that occurred 150 years ago through the prism of today's experiences, then you assume that the participants could foretell the future.. Think again about your position. You may want to reconsider it...as you cannot know what the world will be like in 150 years from today.
Capt Termite, your username is so precious. I love it. ... :-)
@@susanprice7202 youre a dope trying to defend brutality rape, and degradation which only allows it to persist...... those people knew what they were doing was wrong, and they employed cognitive counter measures to allow the behavior.....owning people was wrong then, and it will be wrong in a thousand years....but what wont change is people like you finally admitting it was wrong and take responsibility for those actions....
@@susanprice7202 and rape and brutality will be wrong then, as it is now, and during the beginning of this country it was wrong....but its ok to change youre feelings if it only black people......
Just to look at these men and wonder how a smile is still on their faces, after everything they've been through and have seen, shows you just how strong they were. God bless these men.
The last veteran died in 1957 or 59. He was a Confederate. The second to last was a Minnesotan who'd served through the entire war without a scratch! The two men became close friends over the years. I'm just old enough to have known them both. It does seem, however, that the Northerners were overrepresented in this newsreel. It's also true that the Southern dead were largely buried in mass, unmarked graves at Gettysburg and apart from the neatly arranged graves of the Federal soldiers.
Steven Pilling To be fair, the North had many more men overall, a proportion that increased among those who survived. Not to mention that Gettysburg itself is more geographically accessible to men in the North, both by location and infrastructure.
You have an amazing story yourself having met a couple of Civil War vets. You must audio or video record your recollections of the men for your family. Thanks for sharing.
@@davewanamaker3690 Sadly this comment is 2 years old. He could of passed away since posting this.
The sound of "Battle hymn of the republic" combined with the pictures all those grand proud old veterans from the civil war sends chills down my spine... Epic....
My Doctor (who was quite elderly himself in the early 80's) Told me stories of this reunion. He was in the U.S. Army at the time and his unit was assigned to help out with the veterans in their encampments. When I told him that Summer (1982) I was going with my Boy Scout troop to hike the battlefields, he was overwhelmingly nostalgic, told me all the monuments to look for and little bits of information about the fields that weren't in the books or guides. I'll never forget it. If/When you go to Gettysburg, Hike the fields & walk to the unit & regimental monuments that are off the paths, you'll miss SO much if you just take the bus tours.
I can still remember the 1st time I saw this...it included the reenactment of the charge...and at the end...both sides of men gave each other hearty hugs and hand shakes.....I was tearing up like a kid.
To me, my generation (millennials) witnessing the remaining vets commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day (and WWII and Pearl Harbor 2 and a half yrs ago) is my generation's equivalent of the Greatest Generation witnessing the 75th anniversary of Gettysburg and the Civil War and the vets who made it that far.
The man on the far left at 0:20 is my Great Grandmothers uncle. Gen. John W Harris
Regiment and company?
Bill Thompson what year did he pass on
Awesome to have footage of him. Great family history my man
www.mckenziebanner.com/stories/the-harris-collier-family-part-ii,4261
if that's true, then that's very cool.
Wow; this is amazing. Especially when you think about the changes these men saw in the world from the time they fought until this movie was made.
I don't they every imagined that someday a new thing called film would be invented and they'd be on it!
Cameras were invented when some of them were toddlers.
They lived long enough to see sound films
The last vet was a Confederate who died on Dec. 19, 1959. He was 117 and was born on Nov 14, 1842. So, he would have lived through the Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII, and The Korean War. He would have seen the invention of the car, airplane, semi-automatic gun, the radio, and fourteen states join the United States
During a civil war battle a yank said to a rebel what's it like to own slaves? The rebel replied shucks we never owned no slave. We could barely keep shoes on our feet.
But it was their dream to do so. Look at how much fun those poor white southerners had enforcing black codes,vagrancy laws and Jim crow. Hell they lynched black people well into the 1960s.
stikupartist 3 Your an idiot. Northerners owned slaves as well
As a Brit I find this so moving let alone being American. I might be 'talking' out of turn but the American Civil War was both terrible (over 600,000 dead) and yet at the same time there was something that demonstrated the best of the USA. Devotion to duty, courage, a strong belief in what you were fighting for. It was a fight for identity and to establish what being American and what the US was. Lincoln recognised both sides sacrifice in the Gettysburg Address (has there ever been a better speech)...a healing speech if ever one was uttered. It was also a war where for the first time you really heard the testimony of so many men, both officer and rank and file. Such beautiful things were written, such depth of feeling. And its endlessly quotable and, at times despite the horror, touchingly funny and true (Shermans comment on newspaper reporters- something like if he killed them all there would be news from hell by breakfast...something like that...has a lot changed?).
I know Mike. I've thought the same.
Sherman should have killed them all.
@@stikupartist3698 that is the attitude that the educational industrial complex has created. I feel sorry for you on a day to day basis, the smallest things must piss you off! God bless our Confederacy!
@@rebelsoul5980 its the attitude created by reading what those Confederate losers said. What kind of God blesses people fighting to preserve slavery and white supremacy?
@@stikupartist3698 the fact that you don't understand the reason's why the civil war was fought tells me everything I need to know.
Ideologically the war was fought over the illegal implementation of a Federal Nationalized Democracy. The confederacy was fighting to preserve the constitutional confederate Republic the the union was established as in 1776.
Geographically the war was fought over Western Expansion. The union conquered not only sovereign confederate territory, but also sovereign Native American territories! The last confederate general to surrender was a man by the name of Stand Waite, a Cherokee Native American. If you see the confederacy as racist, then you also must view the 🇺🇸 racist and for that matter all African nations who participated in the African Slave Trade. Your logic is so child like and full of hypocrisy I don't know where to start. You took your indoctrination straight from the educational industrial complex and puked it out onto the internet. I will defend your 1st Amendment, but I will also correct you when you are blatantly wrong. I have been a civil war enthusiast for 46 year's and done many decades of reenacting for many different battle field's. The indoctrination and hate that is coming from the younger generations is not only scary, but just plain vile. Do you truly believe that the poor souls fighting for the confederacy were fighting for a tiny percentage of southerners to own slaves? You realize less than 5% of the south owned slaves? The rich owned slaves, including the 🇺🇸founding fathers by the way. Which makes this flag 🇺🇸racist correct?
All those men. North and South are heroes in my book! From U.S Grant to Robert E. Lee. So stop taking their statues down.
Babe Ruth well said, I find it disgusting that statues are being torn down because it offends percieved sensibilities of certain groups. Among other things what gives anyone the right to deny future generations!
Mike Greives Im with you.
Taking down statues is to try and rewrite history. Stop it! Greetings from UK.
marty I'm British too and quite recently some lefties were demanding Nelson on Nelson's column be taken down... Ffs
marty I hear you brother
Those soldiers as old as they were still managed to walk with their heads held high. I would have loved to have been there!! I would have loved to hear their stories!!
they was eating different foods back then, today they are killing us slowly with food, the healthy stuff cost 2 to 3 times more than the bad foods
I wonder how many Southerner Grey vets saw the union burn and looted Atlanta to the ground literally by Gen. Sherman Union forces that were there so Joyously Shaking hands of the men of the union that did it! That would be like shaking hands with the devil even after 75 years! Something for you to think about!
I was 1yr old when this event took place.
Wow.
Old fuck
Endlessly fascinating and extraordinary piece of film. Really brings home the fact that the Civil War truly happened and that these men were there.
The removal of Civil War statues around America is an absolute total disrespect to ALL those involved in that conflict.
Some of the finest People to ever walk on face of earth.....north, South, Black and White just an incredible history of achievement through perseverance!
Wow .... I’m a billy yank and to me they are all heroes to me both north and south .....
I have 20 Confederate ancestors.
Here are my ancestors who fought at Gettysburg.
Private Samuel Williams Company I 12th North Carolina Infantry Regiment.
Private Everett Lassiter 32nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment
Sargent James Lassiter 32nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment
(Brother of Everett both captured at Spotslavania Court House, Virginia 1864 and sent to Point Lookout and Elmira prisons)
Private James Butler Company A 18th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Private Edwin Williams Company F 7th North Carolina Infantry Regiment *Roll Of Honor Battle Of Chancellorsville*
Wounded on the second day's fighting.
RIP
Private William Spinks
Private Hiram Spinks
Company B 35th Georgia Infantry Regiment.
What cemetery are they in? Cause a man named Robert, who does go pro on You Tube, visits and finds old cemeteries with Confederate soldiers grave markers. Sidestep is the name of his videos. He takes some of his time, and is upset when he finds the graves of so many from back in time (Revolutionary War through the Civil War) that are long forgotten and unkempt. It is interesting to see these men who fought each other for a belief now shaking hands instead of shooting at one another.
The only confederate ancestor of mine that I know for a fact fought at Gettysburg is Robert E. Lee. He is also the son of revolutionary war officer, Major-General Henry Lee III.
I really enjoyed this. Thank you for uploading it. Back then, the US was basically Christian and God-fearing. Where neighbors were friendly and helpful, and people had good manners. I love my country. But I don't love what's been happening to it.
Susie Arviso-its very interesting how people delude themselves.....yes they were christian and god fearing but were willing to do and to allow blacks and others to be mistreated .......and its still the same
@@georgemckenzie1824 oh, piss off you goddamned racist twit.
John Swaim How is he being racist?
Remember when gay meant happy
I used to think like this. But the older I get and the more history I read, the more convinced I am that as Americans they were just as flawed if not in some ways even worse than we now are.
While most supposedly worshipped God, that era is filled with tales of savagery and brutality, neighbor robbing and murdering neighbor, for different political or religious views or simply out of greed or cruelty. This happened on both sides and became commonplace in the boundary states, even before the war. Conversely, many now on all sides of our culturally divided nation, whether or not they grew up knowing about God and religion would cringe and reject far less depravity than was then tolerated.
And while I don't rule out that we could get to that point from here, I truly believe hate was stronger in America in this era than on this day. Americans enthusiastically marched forth to slaughter Former Americans, and the latter enthusiastically received them for the same. Far beyond the tough talk and rhetoric, these men actually lifted their arms to slay those who shared their language, culture and at one time their national heritage.
And yet here is proof of forgiveness and reconciliation. Perhaps there is yet hope for today's America.
My grandpa's father was a Confederate soldier out of Shreveport La and lived almost 100 years, I inherited all his war mementos, believe it or not I have what's left of his uniform and hat and belt buckle, the leather belt is in very bad condition, along with his straight razor, the uniform is very delicate and damaged from storage in a chest, if I can figure out a way to stop further damage I'll try it
Get some sort of glass case for it so it can be on display as well as safe from the elements
Ask a museum for help in preservation.
Airtight glass container, we have civil war uniform and it preserves it well
Can you imagine living from 1850 to 1950 and seeing the Civil War, WW1, WW2, and seeing cars, planes, and radio 📻.
I saw this comment. Think of Winston Churchill who saw the 1880’s and all the way to the 60’s with the Beatles band.
Albert Woolson
Born 1850, died 1956
Last confirmed member of the Grand Army of the Republic, serving as a drummer during the Civil War.
He saw it all.
In my small town there is a man in our cemetery named John Meakins, who was born in 1856 and who died in 1951. He came west in a Conestoga wagon and lived to fly a twin-engine airplane. He saw it all.
God bless each and every veteran of the Civil War!! North and South!! I am a proud southerner with Confederate Ancestors on both sides of my family with 200+ years of native Virginia blood flowing in my veins. Leave our monuments alone that are dedicated to these soldiers. They all are HEROS!!
why are they heroes? This is not meant to be a rhetorical question, I'd genuinely like to know
@@johngleason1776 I understand that while they had fought for States Rights to perpetuate Slavery, they were young and impressionable boys of that era who fought in an awful War and then later extended a hand to the Union Veterans in a symbolic gesture that the Civil War was truly over. That, to me, makes them heroes. As I have German and Japanese friends, I see our treatment of their Soldiers after WWII as critical in making lasting peace. Otherwise All Wars would never be over.
@@johngleason1776because they fought for and were willing to sacrifice their life for their country. Something selfish self absorbed people are clueless about.
@@Redwhiteblue-gr5em what country were they fighting to defend? Because it wasn't the United States. That's who they were fighting against. Americans don't talk about Vietnamese or Iraqi soldiers this way
@@johngleason1776 the Union soldiers were fighting for the USA, same country, same flag, same type of government as today.
:43 Love hearing those brave "old men" giving a weaker, but recognizable, "rebel yell" after vigorously shaking hands with the Union vets. So that's what it sounded like...
Now imagine those men 75 years earlier in the prime of their life with full lungs, that yell during a charge would send a terror down anyone's spines
This is why they put up those Civil War monuments...both north and south.
They were memorials to those young men who died, or in honor of those generals they thought were heroes.
People by then had gotten over the bitterness and division and were trying to heal. The Yankee parents understood the pain of the parents of Confederate soldiers killed in the war.
Many times the family's were split and the parents had children in both armies.
As you can see in this film, they each carried their own battle flags--and no hatred of either flag.
And blacks were included in the ceremonies, as the soldiers they were at the time.
By tearing down monuments and trying to spit on and erase the past, SJWs are dishonoring those who went thru the actual wars and families who lost loved ones. Leave them up!
kmeccat yep and yes. I also noticed in that infamous clip of a Confederate soldier statue being torn down it was a group of young white people, they were the ones who spat on it and flipped it the bird. One black man appears in the video and he doesn't help topple the statue or spit on it. He stands on it and plays the guitar after the deed is done.
People need to stop getting offended for others and think a certain group needs something because of a trait they possess. That's racist and keeps people from being individuals.
beautiful scenes - it seems we're more divided now than ever.....
ya maybe the whites lol
Because of ignorant people who know nothing of history except their own fanciful notions based on Hollywood movies and their own paranoia
The racist loving mother fuckers keep shit alive .... the confederates were treasonous bastards
Gary Daniel Who gives a goddamn rats ass when it comes to a fucked up Attorney General not knowing how to use common sense!
1. The Congress and Senate did not vote on the secession of the southern states; ergo that act in and of itself without a vote was an act of treason! And more importantly, no where in the Constitution of the United States does it allow for that sort of unilateral action as taken by the south to declare war against the United States. All those acts undeniably were and still is an act of treason!
2. Any old fool either knowingly or unknowingly who fought for the preservation of slavery are all immoral and grotesque bastards!
FUCK THE CONFEDERACY!
I’m not sure if every single Southern solider was evil and grotesque. I don’t think every single one was fighting to keep the institution of slavery alive
At the time I'm posting this, the 75th anniversary of D-Day is just about a month off. Thinking of that made me come here.
Same with me ON the 75th anniversary of D-Day. The vibe from seeing the remaining D-Day vets at Normandy and my generation (millennials) witnessing it (and the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor and WWII in general) is my generation's equivalent of the Greatest Generation witnessing the 75th anniversary of Gettysburg and the Civil War and the vets who made it that far.
My great-great-great grandfather fought and got wounded at Gettysburg (shot in the back). He was in the 3rd Arkansas Infantry. He was a POW and was hospitalized for a few months before he was sent home via a prisoner exchange. The complications from the back wound limited him in what he could do in the years after.
My g- grandfather was also wounded at Gettysburg and captured. What prisons would they be sent to? Any help where and how to find out.
@@williammurray8060 My ancestor was sent to De Camp General Hospital at David's Island, New York.
My ggg grandfather lived with my grandma in nc after the war. She told my dad stories of him waking up screaming bloody murder in the middle of the night. He fought at fort Wagner, cold harbor, petersburg and many other battles. He said the worst thing he ever saw was cold harbor. He said he saw a Yankee soldiers head blown clean off. That's all he would talk about and then he would walk off or change the subject.
It's a common enough story among combat veterans of any era. I'm reminded of a story of the disastrous Union charge at Cold Harbor. Just before the signal was given, a doomed Yankee called out to a nearby Southron, "See you in Hell, Johnny". To which the other sorrowfully replied, "See you in Hell, Billy". The Northern troops had pinned paper to their jackets with their names and regiments so their bodies could be later identified, knowing that the charge was hopeless.
Imachowderhead yes. I had the same nocturnal experiences for eleven years after my return from VietNam
As a BRIT this is SO bloody Fascinating.
Andy why?
Andy Jurkiewicz - Come and visit Gettysburg!
My great grandpa was one of them old folk. And his son (My grandpa) was just a kid in his late 30s helping them set up the event greeting every soldier he could. He talked to one of them soldiers who would talk to him about Lincoln and his speeches he would give. At some point he said very little about the revolutionary war since he (the Soldier) wasn't born yet but his father served in that war when he was in his 30s. What's even more crazy is that his grandpa could have been alive when George Washington became president. My great grandpa died at 103 years of age about 5 years later of the reunion. My grandpa died when I was on all of my fours he was 98 and my dad is in his 60s
What changes through history these men had seen, from muskets and baronets to the modem machine. Two opposing sides they did embrace, now standing together, with a human face. There guns lay silent and will shoot no more only the sound of film, to capture them all. Where once was carnage they stood to defend, these old solders, were truly men.
One more time they gathered round, to face each other with one last round ,with meddles and colours they proudly wore as they walk together in old uniforms.
Now silence has fell and shall age no more, lay together again as they had done before, no more fighting and no more chase now lay silent as brothers, in a holy place.
What a poignant event. The last meeting of the Blue and the Gray before the final role call. How glorious was this final meeting, in peace, brotherhood and comradeship one last time. They hold their heads up high and march to the music of their youth, these veterans now in their eighties and nineties. Be sure to watch as the old proud veteran does the manual of arms with his vintage Springfield musket as he did so long ago during marching and drilling before the big campaign. View our history with the brave men who made it and lived during the time of Abraham Lincoln. Oh, to able to have been there at this glorious event.
At 3:22, the officer is saluting with his left hand. Reason? If you're to look closely, his right arm is folded across his torso, as FDR grips it in order to stand upright.
God Rest their precious Souls.
all these civil war veterans would have been in there very late 80's and most in their 90's when this was filmed. They look
real healthy for there age standing straight and not bowed over like a lot of old people today
Wonderful proud strong gentleman
Amazing piece of footage. Ty
Wish I could have been there to shake their hands and listen to their stories.
When i was a young kid in grade school we went to gettysburg i will never forget the trip!
How old are you now?
What a high caliber of men! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Real men. Honorable men.🇬🇧🇬🇧
Hard to believe they're all gone now...
It's 20 20 and I'm sorry for all the lives lost in the Civil War but I'm glad America stayed together.
Amazing footage of old warriors gathering to be brothers of 1 nation
My best assignment while working at the airport was escorting WWll veterans attending a convention through checkout.
Something my dad instilled in me and my siblings when we visited Gettysburg. The two sides came together and shook hands in the end. They fought and moved on. Monuments on multitple battlefields don't just talk about the battle fought on the ground they occupy. They symbolize the reunification of the country.
1:09 Wow black Americans proud of their Confederate southern heritage ( wouldn't be that common now days). Shows that the south wasn't only "racist" it was a way of life that blacks like whites were proud of.
These men fought at Gettysburg and lived to see powered flight and some of them long enough to see Pearl Harbor. Un flipping believable
I think we Americans of the modern age can learn a lot by seeing men,who 75 years prior would’ve killed each other, shake hands and smile and joke with each other.
2:42 Was it real?
I've always wondered if the Boy Scout at 2:17 has ever been identified, and is possibly still alive....is so he'd be at least 90 years old.
+Mike Farrell Mike, I was wondering the same thing. The scout would be about the same age my mother. If anyone knows his name please post it here.
That young boy had to face three wars (WWII, Korea & Vietnam ) if he survived that, imagine he had other “bigger” things to remember. Interesting to think about though having met veterans from 4 wars.
ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE THINGS ABOUT THE 75th ANNIVERSARY WAS THAT THERE WERE AROUND 1500 VETERANS THAT WERE 100 YEARS OLD. EACH ONE WAS ASSIGNED A BOYSCOUT.
About 20 years ago, I took my family to Gettysburg and we decided to get a tour from one of the licensed battlefield guides. The guy we got had been one of those boy scouts from the 1938 reunion. He told us stories about being a kid when all that was going on. When we got to the Eternal Light Peace Memorial, he told us about riding across the fields on his bicycle to see FDR talk. He talked about it like it had just happened a few days ago. It was an amazing two hours. It took Gettysburg, for me anyway, from being this abstract thing to being something very, very real. There are days that it still astounds me that I got to hear stories about Gettysburg from a guy who heard them directly from men who were actually there.
@@anthonyfiorito6260 Wow! You were very fortunate, indeed.
Thank you Saagar Enjeti for bringing me to the clip from lex’s podcast
Does anyone knows when the last Civil war reunion was held? I dont know if any reunions where held during the ww2 years. But i know there also where a very few surviving Civil War veterans left, also after 1945. Where there any veteran meeting after this 1938 reunion..?
Soldiers on both sides came in peace. They shook each other’s hands and showed their love as true Americans. We are at peace now.
The young people of today can not see. They want to bring down the Confederate statues because their blind and have no feelings towards our brave soldiers that fought hard for their beliefs back then. They know nothing of what they went through! I mean both sides of American history! Not one of these people have the guts and glory as these soldiers. Honor them don’t destroy them!
@Southern Man Oh, I think the young people of today do see, and do have feelings for, the fact that some of these men fought for, and died for, their desire to own other souls and profit from their labor.
Fuzza majumula Your talking about souls that the sold to the plantations by their own people from Africa. It might have been a hand full of soldiers that own them on both sides and black people owned them . It’s like today’s news reporting false stories and half stories. People of today have no idea what all these people went through and if you were in the South you may have been a Confederate Soldier . (Black or White)
Soon it will be the 159th year anniversary of the battle of gettysburg. All the soldiers north and south were brave honorable men doing what they thought was right. It was a tragedy that this battle of this war happened. Rest in peace to all the dead, wounded, and survivors of the american civil war that have since passed on.
Its interesting to note how agile so many of them seemed still. 20 in 1863 woulda been 95 in 1938. "They don't make em like they used to." comes to mind. They were pretty tough old buzzards.
Like to have heard other songs besides the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Bonnie Blue Flag springs to mind.
The first true greatest generation. Can you imagine being a Civil War veteran?
I had ancestors that fought at Gettysburg. My 2d great uncle Travis Porter, 3rd NC was captured on the third day of fighting and sent to Point Lookout POW camp in Maryland. He would die from smallpox in Dec of that year. He’s buried in the mass grave there and his name is inscribed with all the others buried. Thousands and thousands.
They were friends and brothers that fought each other in the war and were again after.
Crazy to think that men who fought in lines with muzzle loading muskets would live till an age where wars were fought with aircraft, tanks, radar, and radio.
3:46 Good ol' rebel
Amazing to think that when these men were young they lived in a word of horses and carts and steam power, and before even the end of their lifetimes they lived in a world of airplanes and electricity.
It's amazing how fast the world has been changing since the Victorian era.
Very intriguing! Thanks so much for all yall have done for this country! 🙏🏾 ❤😇
It is baffling to think that they experienced the American Civil War, with few technological advances and lived to see the invention of cars, phones, larger cities, the first World war, great depression, the rise of Adolf Hitler, creation of the Soviet Union, Japanese Expansion, etc.
From their roots in a conflict between states mostly sequestered from the rest of the world, to witnessing major historical events in modern history that still affect us to this day.
"The years drift slowly by, Lorena.
The snow is on the ground again.
The sun's low down the sky, Lorena.
The frost gleams where the flowers had been.
My heart beats warmly now as when those summer days were nigh.
The sun could never dip so low
To down affection's cloudless skies."
Thanks for your countless sacrifices, boys.
Someone who fought at Gettysburg had been alive when George Washington was president. And a handful would live to see America fight in World War 2. Gettysburg truly is hollowed ground.
Man if these old souls could see what is going on today........
The audio cuts out just as they show two soldiers cupping their ears to try to hear at 2:59.
Forever young. Old soldiers never die. They only fade away.
2:41 wow this veteran still preserve the haircut style from civil war era.
And many of them kept the facial hair. At least, in the case of those who had facial hair during the war and not those who had facial hair after the war.
Lots of comments, someone else may have noticed, could be wrong but at about 1:10 that looks like Charles Lindbergh on the right side of film walking along beside the B&G vets for a few seconds. Dos anyone know if that could have been him?
These old men who fought each other in a bloody brutal war had more respect and get along better than most Americans do now days...
God Bless America
Gettysburg soldier to other side 75 years before: You are my enemy
Gettysburg soldier to other side 75 years later: You are my friend
This is just incredible!
The guy in his original uniform at 0:50 is chilling
Probably not his, considering he was still alive. It would be interesting to know what has become of that tunic today.
You mean at 0:42? , 0:50 is a line of guys in coats with GAR buttons.
how old were the veterans in 1983 on the 75th anniversary? At least 90?
Reconstruction has never ceased.
Awesome Video !
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After the Civil War it took quite a while for the animosities between North and South to fade. At this reunion 75 years later, there were still a few incidents of conflict between Union and Confederate veterans. This was a thing of the past today where we have people from the North and others from the South who compete in the North-South Skirmish rifle matches. And now the Democrats, always ready to stir up hatred are changing the names of military bases named after Confederate soldiers and tearing down statues of veterans who were in the Confederate army. Just imagine how people in the South feel about having their ancestors ridiculed a hundred and fifty years later by the hateful Democrats. I am disgusted by our politicians!
I am delighted many of the confederate statutes have gone. They were traitors.
@@johnmartin7158 and yet no confederate was ever tried with treason.
They gave the old man version of the rebel yell but it's enough for me to imagine young men yelling this. So cool to see this old footage.
ANYBODY knows the song that was played at the start of this video?
from other videos covering this that ive seen, the group at 1:09, are some black Confederat vets.
@Jake Mackie They were slaves. They did not carry weapons.
This is america… this is Americas past .. brothers and sisters.. my generation doesn’t even understand that
Both sides are proud of their cause. You always fight for what you believe in. They should never be ashamed !!!!!
Well I pray we never forget that war!
If a soldier was 15 years old during the battle, he would have been 90 years old at this event!
Hard not to get choked up watching these men. For today's standard they are all forgotten when they shouldn't be
These old men look surprisingly fit and alert for their grand age!
Interesting to see so many of them still sporting facial hair of the Civil War era. Not that that's the most important thing to take away from this.
Thank Our Lord we got together!!The world needed us in1941,my folks lived & went through it,wish I with them!!⚘️👍💯
impressive and amazing piece of history , thank you
What is the song at the beginning?
Tenting Tonight American Civil war song for the Union Army fighting against the Confederacy
So they were all in their 90s?