Civil War witness trees
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- For three days in July, 1863, two great armies collided on the fields at Gettysburg. It remains the bloodiest battle in U.S. history. And improbably, 155 years later, there are still living witnesses to that moment in time: The trees. Across 6,000 acres of Gettysburg National Military Park, rangers have documented at least a dozen "witness trees" that were alive during the battle - some scarred by bullets and cannonballs - that uniquely bring America's bloody past into the present. Mark Strassmann reports.
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I'm so drawn to the history of this war. It's as if I was in it from a previous life. I just can't get enough of these historical photos and videos.
This is total discrimination against the witness rocks..
😂😂
For sure! 😆
You have to either be a nature lover or a Civil War buff to appreciate this video, and I'm both.
Mother nature is the oldest witness.
The tree with the cannonballs in it makes you realize how intense the battle was.
I've been to Gettysburg several times and I'm always in awe that the trees are still there because of the intensity of the battle.
I live in Hartville Mo, there are several trees with trees with cannonballs in them there. There were until a steel drive during ww2 a pile of sabotaged Confederate cannons pushed off a cliff.
Yep, that and the 53,000 casualties
Most arrow heads are found in trees. What is on a red wood half way up? Someone needs to analyze the outside bark the whole length.
During the Civil War, many witnesses and historians proclaim that the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House was the most fierce battle and that a tree about 18 inches in diameter ( or something like that ) was shot down by combat fire during May 1864. Supposedly a segment of that tree was later given to the Smithsonian Institute.
This is tremendously cool- especially when the trees were indicated on drawings from back then and can be identified today.
They had cameras Don
And, digital recorders.. Don't forget that, too.
Seeing this documentary makes me want to go back to Gettysburg just to find the witness trees and just touch them. It was a sad time for the young nation. And the men who lost their lives for a cause. Just hearing the name Gettysburg makes my eyes water. CSA
What about all the trees that gave their life that day?
yellow driver 602 Gettysburg is a fantastic place to visit as well as the town. Interesting and tragic at the same time.
@Debbie Smith The war wasn't over slavery🤦♂️ it all started over tariffs tariffs and ports 🤷♂️
I feel the same way about revisiting Gettysburg.
My great great grandfather was a Captain with the 15th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry. He survived Gettysburg and after the war became a state representative in Mississippi.
God blessed his soul.
I had two of my great ancestors fight on both sides. Reading their journals and holding there flags in my own hands is crazy.
My great great great grandfather fought there as a drummer-boy for the Wisconsin volunteers.
General James Longstreet and yet you call yourself Longstreet? Lol
Do you know which regimen. My great-great uncle (Friedrich Gluth) was killed at Antietam while fighting with the Wisconsin 6th.
My great grandfather William Cousins fought in the 54th Massachusetts during the siege on fort Wagner. He was one of just a handful to survive.
My great grandfather fought for Georgia's 62nd regiment, Confederate States of America, during the war of Northern Aggression.
Autry Welsh,it's wonderful to know he survived! Two of my Ancestors are buried in Shepherdstown West Virginia, they were 17 years old and 19 years old Brother's fighting the Civil War. They are buried together, and their stone shows two hands clasped together.
@@michaelgaynor6866 WOW! It's so much different with a story behind it. Did they fight in the same regiment?
scatman crothersghost great question. Let me try and get back to you with an exact answer! I know he ended up in Michigan.
Have ancestors that fought on both sides
My great grandfather fought in the southern Kentucky 7th confederate army .
MegaRiffraff Mine was in the 22nd or 23rd Georgia regiment.
Johnny Appleseed no my grandfather was born 1864 died 1925 his father the confederate solder was born 1842 killed in logging accident 1896 , my mother, his granddaughter was born 1912 myself 1955
My 3 × great grandfather was 26th Alabama Infantry, and actually survived Gettysburg.
MegaRiffraff my parents were older too. My grandparents were born in 1900, and I came along in 1971. It makes me feel closer to History.
Sucks 2 know they were with the greys
I have been to both Gettysburg and Antietam numerous times as my Mother in law and my wifes family live back there and each time I visit them there is something beyond magical about these places, the sense of loss and history. One of my favorite spots is the Burnside bridge and that old witness tree! I love the history back East as compared to out West where I live.
Don C I found a Gettysburg to be so haunting, in that I was walking where men and some women had died during the brutal battles. I want to get back there soon. There’s so much to learn about.
@@patriciabilinkas3911 Haunting is a good word for it too. I've had more than one person that lives next to those grounds tell me stories of hauntings and ghosts...
Thank you im so sick of news with the bs in politics it's nice to see some American history on national TV station news
True "living history". What a fabulous story so close to my heart! Old trees are fascinating to me.
Note to self...don't commit any crime in front of tree since they are now considered witnesses.
Nun Ya well if you do just cut em down.
Nun Ya. Your comment is freaking funny. Lol!!
Tom that's murdering the witness
You can easily get caught "barking up the wrong tree" now ..lmao
You're nothing but a dork! Is this your attempt at humor? It's typical of today's humor..............STUPID!!!!!!
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
But who were the patriots and tyrants?
That's the quote on the T-shirt Timothy McVeigh decided to put on the morning of the Oklahoma City bombing. He was wearing it when he got arrested
It’s coming
@@Bass2010 you mean the refreshing blood is coming, don't you?
@@mopar21 that's an easy one. But I'd hate to start another war of sorts in the comment section
I absolutely love this video, I am thankful it was made, I lived 25 years in Vicksburg, Ms and walked the trails of the national park there, and there are many witness trees throughout the battlefield, and as I walked by them everyday, I always say to myself only if these trees could tell use what they saw
Probably saw some crazy amputations
MISSISSIPPI DELTA-HWY 61 So cool to know that Vicksburg didn’t celebrate. The 4th of July till sometime in the 1940”s
@@budstephens7239...1942 to be exact. The US was at war with an implacable enemy.
My great great Grandfather Van Pray was one of the few survivors of little round top. He was my grandfathers grandfather. He knew him, and I knew my grandfather. After the civil war he and his brother built a inn in Camden Maine named the Sunny Side inn. In 1914 my grandfather was born in that inn. I’ve stayed there a few times my self. It has a different name now though.
Been to Gettysburg... Amazing part of history. And very haunted
4:26 The last sight many Union soldiers ever saw. I visited this bridge about 10 years ago and it felt haunted...
My roots are deeper than the bones, the others
My colors that change with the sun
My branches, we're higher
Than anything on the hillside
On the day that I watched them all come
Some wear the color of the sky in the winter
Some, we're as blue as the night
They came like a storm with the light of the morn
And they fell through the whole day and night
Colors flew high and they danced in the sky
As I watched them come over the hill
Then to my wonder, sticks that made thunder
Such a great number lay still
When the light came again
There was death on the wind
As the buzzards made way for the worms
And the little white trees that don't bend in the breeze
For the ones that will never return....
Amazing poem! Thank you for sharing!
Seeing them in TN soon, without Stapleton of course. Still a great band anyway.
@@kathyingalls55 lol i didnt write it, thank you though m.th-cam.com/video/WdUJPAG0ns8/w-d-xo.html
Such a great song!! That's why I'm here!!
Honored & proud to say that my G-G-grandfather is(was) a Civil War veteran, having fought at The Battle of Gettysburg, in addition to many other well-known (and lesser known, too) battles. Actually,...save for my grandfather (WWII era - head of household w/ 2 young children), humbly,...my family's [otherwise] "unbroken" military service dates back to PRE-Revolutionary War times! G-G-grandpa was one of only a handful of surviving Civil War vets in N.J. at the time of his passing in 1941. In fact, I'm in possession of his personal invitation from the United States government, to attend the ceremonies in remembrance of 75th Anniversary of The Battle of Gettysburg! I also have his original enlistment & discharge papers, among many other mementos, etc.
But anywho,...I love hearing/seeing/reading stories about our GREAT NATION! Especially,...when it comes to our military and our collective-fight for the furtherance of America's, GREATNESS!
new jersey. proud to be born there. but i live in ny
Only if the trees can talk
And you think they can't????
But they can and do talk. You only need to listen in order to hear what they say
It would tell us how democrats were confederates.
@GW....yeah, that cherry tree you murdered would be screaming...
George Washington they are talking but only the wise can understand. these trees are saying right now "we are still here and the fools who fought around us are long gone and useless".
My best friends grandma owned Brompton, growing up there was magical. The tree still exists today, she gave the hive property to the local college, it’s now the college presidents home.
Are these poor trees being treated for PTSD? All joking aside, this was very interesting.
Lol!!!
Rachelstorrersings your right about that. Lol What people see through out there life is enough to give everyone PTSD.
They filed for and received disability benefits for PTSD from the VA. Still, less fraudulent than many claims made today.
Im sure they also recieve ebt and ssi
Pine tree stress disorder ?
The Park Rangers at Gettysburg do a wonderful job at bringing the battlefield to life. Their knowledge and ability to interpret and convey history in a way that a wide range of people can understand and appreciate is remarkable. These individuals through their dedication and ability demonstrate why the National Park Service is a vital part of America's future.
Those trees are living tomb stones
Its awesome that these trees are still standing and can help tell the story of the USA
Incredibly well done segment. I only wish it was longer.
I’m always fascinated by Civil War history. Very interesting video. Gettysburg is pretty haunted too!!
its kind'a strange isn't it.. how the trees pay us no attention at all... we could laugh or cry and the wind just blows the same..
I cut down and old diseased tree once and found seven different nails in it of all sorts. I asked an archeologist at the local college and he said it had been a tree over a hundred years ago that local officials posted bills to, including wanted posters.
Witness Tree Protection Program?
Tom Bowers Very good! ☺️
Very happy that you shed light on these important living artifacts
Witness Tree Protection Program, there should be an SVU episode for that.😂
Spiral Breeze there probably will be!
Dee Walker I can see it now:
Benson: A rape occurred under this tree.
Tutuola: You mean the damn tree's the only witness?
Benson: Yes, and the city, with all their wisdom and logic want to cut it down.
So, I've contacted the Witness Tree Protection Program to try and stop them.
Tutuola: The what now?!
Waaa waaaaa
I’ve been there . Walking around just as Sunset comes you can feel the Sadness and Yet The Bravery of The Men On Both Sides Who Sacraficed for what they Believed in!!!
I like trees because they know not to say much.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Yeah ,but the history they could tell if they could talk.
Trees are mans best friend
But man is not a tree's best friend lmao
Prerequisite for comment- at least have read US Hist to 1877.
Come now, its youtube where 1 minute experts reside to give their opinion with a period at the end of each comment
Or spell check
How’s it hanging Brown?..little joke for the Rebs.
After the 150 anniversary of Pickett's Mill Battle, in Paulding County, Georgia many hard wood trees were cut down by a company that said they would only take down pines. So many witness trees were cut down. I brought a tree to plant and no one planted it. At anniversaries maybe a tree could be planted.
In terms of two or three human generations these trees seem old. On a recent visit to Roman ruins that were 3000 years old and then a trip to Sequoia national Park. Roman ruins are just a walk in the park compared to the giant trees that exceed 3000 years old. Still living. As significant as the trees are here at Gettysburg. They were not even a thought of an acorn when these mighty sequoias routed for the first time. If you want to see a witness tree take a trip to Sequoia national Park. Or if that is not old enough skip over to see the 5000 year old Methuselah tree in the white mountains of California.
Bristle Cone Pine trees - many thousands of years old.
These are called Witness Trees not because of their age but because of the battles that they "witnessed." That's the significance.
Some soldiers back then motivated other soldiers by telling them these trees are our witness to what we do today.
And they will tell our tales long after we are gone.
The second civil war is brewing however this one won't take very long since only one side is heavily armed.
Maui Caui Oh look a liberal, your kinds days are numbered.
Except if a civil war breaks out it's not going to be just "Liberals vs conservatives" It's going to be,
Liberals vs socialists vs communists vs fascists vs nationalists vs anarchists
There is no one centralized group,there's a communist who says something and another communist will disagree and say that is not real communism and they will fight...
Not to mention foreign intervention from China and Russia.A US under civil war would be great for them.They'll just supply everyone they can so the war drags on longer.
Lol
Except for there won’t be forein intervention. The military will most likely retain access to all the nukes to deter china/russia from moving in. All the communists put together won’t hild a candle compared to the gun loving conservatives on the other side, which will be backed by most of the military and militias (most ex military). So yes, a civil war will be really quick
"We may not be able to change the hearts of these people, but we can make them so sick of war that generations will pass away before they would again resort to it" William T. Sherman.
Thank you for sharing this video. It is interesting to know. That the trees which existed back then are still here today.
Yes TREES are .. ALIVE ( Living , Life )
YourTubeVideoss Not conscious though.
My husband is a relative to General Robert E. Lee, and his family has some discharge papers , musket, rifle with bayonet.
So, you're boasting about your husband being a relative to one of the most treasonous characters in U.S. History... one who is responsible for killing more Americans than anyone else -- including adolph hitler ?
Interesting. That tree was alive during an unconstitutional war which stopped the legal succession from the union of states.
Secession is essentially betrayal of the Nation, that is certainly illegal, be it conspiracy against the USA, treason, aiding the enemy, etc. The war wasn't Unconstitutional. It was a terrible war that really shouldn't be glorified on either side we ought to learn from it and ensure OUR nation never returns to such a time.
lol
This is interesting but what I find even more interesting is that there could of been whales that were in the ocean with wooden civil war ships that lived beyond the Vietnam war. Can you imagine the change in the oceans they saw? Turtles and other sea life have been known to live even longer!
Fascinating stuff. Would love to visit one day.
Love this story and All Trees..
Where is Shelby Foot!!!
He has been deceased for some time now. I've been putting off reading his books for too long. Maybe my next summer's reading.
Shelby Foote was the best. He had a great southern voice. He would had made a great Robert E. Lee in the movies, but died a few years ago.
He has joined Mary Chestnut.....Where the two of them can tell each other their stories of the Civil War. RIP to all involved in that historical but tragic war......
passed in 2005
Very well done. I had no idea we still have tress that old. God bless u all who take care of them. We need to never forget this war. Thanks 🙏
How about all that Witness Dirt?
Is this an attempt at humor? It has failed miserably!!!
The dirt is actually different. There are a lot of dirt cycles that move and transform dirt through plant and animal life.
Hey bro i found your remark to be funny as fμ©]
Dirt and dust move around.
Dirt is not alive so not witness.
I'd love to do a battlefield tour of this area. Fascinating. Very sad on all fronts as well.
With a Rebel yell!
She cried, I lost this battle and I'm going to oppress blacks and make my descendants cry until the end of time apparently.
Great Grandfather - 55th Illinois. Shiloh and Vicksburg.
Robert M An American hero 🇺🇸🗽
I'm in my late 60's and still have not been to the Shiloh National Park. Sometimes life gets in the way of doing what you want. I hope I make it before it's too late.
Wow.... thank you CBS. Please focus on more stories like this and less bs russian propaganda lies.
I second this comment. What a great segment.
nedaCFilms' #MustangTown Amen. Leave their leftist BS out of it..
this why I cringe when I have to listen to republicans. No matter what the subject it changes to politics
@@ogarnogin5160 Your comment made me cringe.
@Ogar Nogin It's because the media is so obviously biased. They don't even try to hide it any more. Walter Cronkite was a big lefty, but you'd never know it watching him as a CBS anchorman.
My 4x Great Grandfather Clinton Stacy Sr. 22nd Va. Cav. Co. (B),was at the burning of Chambersburg, Pa.
I like the fact that the ranger says we used to have veterans and the descendants of veterans, like we don't still have descendants of veterans. The farther we get from the civil war, the more descendants of veterans we have.
Ragnar Dragonsfury I'm aware, was just commenting on what was ACTUALLY said.
Shelby Seelbach My dad is a WWII vet and something like 1400 a day pass away. My dad is 92 and seriously ill. He will be one of those 1400 soon, but I am his descendant.
@@patriciabilinkas3911 you're lucky you should ask him if you could listen to his stories that he could tell you from World War II I never got that chance with my stepfather's grandfather because he died when I was still very very young so I never met him but from what my stepdad is told me he served in World War II and he actually got some Japanese rifles which he passed down to my stepfather
Railroad,Preserver,2000 Any stories my dad could tell me were before he got dementia. We shared military books and had some great talks, but he is dying now unfortunately.
Amen.! 🙏 🇺🇸
God bless all trees...
What about witness rocks ? .the Trees were like " 🌳"
Hey Ya! The boulders have always been there and they aren't going anywhere.
The drive from Gettysburg, to Antietam, to Harper's Ferry is one the most pleasant, interesting, and historically significant in the USA.
How can someone give a thumbs down? Fools! This is a magnificent tribute!
it is not closed captioned I am deaf because I did military service 1968-71, I can't hear, I don't read lips and don't know signing THUMBS DOWN
"Sticks that make Thunder" is great song by the Steeldrivers
And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. Mark 8:24
Pamela Corona the Ents are marching to war
Tree -“Yeah, I saw it. But I’m not talking”
So sad, my g4 fought for the union and I'm lucky he survived!
ANTIQUEFOTOS
Mine died in Andersonville.
The essential information about history in the many items used and found from the civil war are speaking volumes of yet more we may not know, and need to be reminded about how we got to the present day, A witness tree is one amazing way we can understand what happened in the vital points of a struggle of our nation. Many things we need to preserve our communication for national history and the education of a free democracy is essential for the generations to learn and truly understand about our society today. Thank you, Robert A. Pickett.
If they could talk wow the stories
Something that can't hear, think, see or feel..witnesses stuff somehow
Awesome, yet sad it takes something a tree to bring Americans together , yet some won't even get it 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💕🤗
USA THE GREAT YES show you intelligence, or lack there of ........
Gina Diefenbach
Surely not lack of....
Turn few more pages in the book...
USA THE GREAT What is wrong with you?
God Bless my ancestors for fighting on the Union regiment in Indiana. This is such a great video on the history living in trees!
my county in North Carolina lost a hundred and thirty-eight young boys in that war Manny as young as 14 years old. I don't know nothing about the Civil War the war I'm talkin about was always referred but to buy my ancestors as the war of Northern aggression
Ken Williamson Yankee here but I do believe you're right. I believe every state has the right to secede just as they were able to elect to join the union they could elect to leave it. Lincoln acted as a tyrant.
Eric Van Zee Eric if I'm not mistaken I believe that the constitution of New York and Rhode Island still maintain that they have the right to peacefully leave the in thanks bye bye
Ken Williamson weird then why did Lincoln so aggressively fight the south if northern states are allowed to do it?
And if you know so much you’d know it’s first official name was The War of the Rebellion.
In order to agree with that, you'd have to think that there WAS a rebellion. As a northerner myself, I see it as the south using their right of secession and the north pursuing war because of it
Nice video, about something so sad. I love the trees.
Ask any lawyer...trees are usually speechless on the witness stand. And their wooden personalities hardly ever win over a jury.
unless they turned over a new leaf
May trees never again have to be witness to a battle such as the Civil War. A tragic time in our History. 🇱🇷
Thank you Knights templars rothchilds
lmao
Witness 🌳 trees what about the witness dirt? Trees 🌳 don't 👀 see think or even fought any battle field. They survive the bloody battle but don't suffered any PTSD like men?
These trees saw nothing and watched nothing. They have no eyes. Personification of trees. It's cool they are still alive, but give me a break.
Chris R. Oh ya, why? Because i disagree with the title of the video? That is possibly the stupidest comment I've seen in a month or so on you tube.
Give YOU a break? Why???
You're taking the title to seriously. It's a figure of speech.
They felt something. Especially when the shrapnel and bullets were smashing into them. You can experience pain without actually seeing where it came from. So you're witnessing the event through other senses, not just sight and sound. You are personifying the tree more than the people in this video. You're assuming trees have the exact same senses as humans. Likely not. They are far more likely to be able to feel changes in the environment. Death, sorrow, pain of the surrounding soldiers not to mention the physical change in the environment through the vibrations of marching and moving soldiers, cannon fire reverberating through the ground and the air, smoke in the air from the musket and cannon fire. Some of these trees were hit by bullets, shrapnel and cannon fire. These trees witnessed humanity at it's worst. If they could talk are we even sure we would have the courage to listen to their words? Interesting that your first name is that of a major player in civil war history. Shelby Foote.
A more accurate personification would be that they felt the vibrations of the cannon-balls hitting nearby and the explosions of the cannons which is accurate because I think trees can feel vibrations as a registered stimuli but maybe not all species.
Thank you for reporting real stories!
Those men in those war photos.. bet you they didn't vote Hillary
Well the Democrats do like to register dead voters....
Erix7810 You can also bet that they didn’t vote for the orange baby!!! By the way, Clinton won the popular vote by almost three million votes!!! She lost the election by less than 100,000 votes that changed the Electoral College results!!! All that after the the Russian meddling in our Election process egged on by Trump!!! Spanky is the worst President in my lifetime and that includes Nixon and his disgrace of covering up Election meddling!!!
@@wallacebell4311 ORANGE MAN BAD!
I'm curious if they installed lightning rods in any of these trees like they do in New Orleans for their old live oaks.
DEMS keep hate alive !!
davetilguy You're kidding ,right?
@@barbarak2836 currently yes.
@Old Heathen so witty
People keep HATE alive ALL races of PEOPLE keep hate alive.
Back then....men on horses....no helmets, knee pads, etc. People today visiting on slow bikes with helmets, pads, sunglasses, etc. So sad.
Trivia Crush and probably 90% of visitors to this site are all walking amongst the trees staring at their phones
i remember visiting gettysburg battlefield in 2013 and laying down on the field.
Tree's dont judge, they give shade to all.
they are about to witness some more civil war
If those trees could talk they might say to find a better way to solve issues if possible
4:40 I disagree! I love trees but I have come across many people who hate them! I’ve met people that have cut down many trees, some as old as witness trees because they were an “inconvenience”. Very, very sad.
If only those trees could speak, imagine the stories that they would tell
There isn't one 200 year old or better tree at the valley forge state park in Pennsylvania. It would prove the weather at the time by analyzing the rings. All the old growth trees were chopped down long ago by the previous owner. And many trees were chopped down to build log cabins at the time. Some say the winter was not as harsh as the history book hype would have you believe. Many many rows of log cabins were built by Washington's men. You might be lucky to see a few scant replicas put in haphazard locations based on guesswork. A great place to visit, totally fascinating and beyond comprehension during deer hunting season. Tens of thousands of deer seek refuge within the park so they will not get shot. A learned behavior many decades old. Caution: do not feed the deer anything; they get along just fine.
I sat down a few years ago and interviewed one of these witness trees. His name was Mr. Owen Oak. He didn’t say very much, he was very stoic and wooden.
@Roy Jimenez....his bark is worse than his bite....sorry but I had to say it
Awesome story. Would love to go to Gettysburg
I wonder if they have post-treematic stress...
Just fantastic, many thanks.
Hey cbs this is probably one of the last times u actually reported news and something ppl liked!
history is real and alive in many ways, may it always be refreshed in our minds
Isn't it ironic that the only reason those trees haven't been cut down or the acres developed into suburban McMansions is that thousands of Americans lost their lives there - so it's sits there just the way it looked over 150 years ago. Sad!!!!
My great, great grandfather Francis Schinkel came over from Germany in 1849 at 19 and registered in 1861 with the 113th Volunteers, 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry. His last engagement was the day before day 1 of the first day of official fighting at Gettysburg as he was part of the largest cavalry battle in U.S. history when his regiment routed a confederate regiment and then was routed by a confederate regiment that might have been in support of the one they defeated. I am going to take a stab and say the two confederate regiments involved were regiments from Tennessee and Alabama, but I have no information to support my theory.
He was one of the only men in his regiment to survive the rout, he took one to two mini balls, but was pulled to safety. He was mustered out in 1863 and was not present for roll call on account he was injured. He wound up moving to New York and opening a very successful hardware store where the present site of the World Trade Center is.
Steel Drivers - The Sticks that make thunder