What Was It Like To Be A Civil War Soldier?
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- The Civil War was the bloodiest in US history: more Americans perished in five years than in all other conflicts combined. What was it like to fight? Soldiers faced new technology on the field, like rifle-muskets that could cut down dozens of men in a single volley. Military tactics didn't catch up with technology, men were ordered to line up and march toward gunfire, and even those who survived the field often succumbed to infected amputations or diseases.
#civilwar #UScivilwar #weirdhistory
Scary how some of the boys in the beginning barely looked over 10...
BC Bob Not the sharpest tool in the shed huh?
BC Bob It’s scary that I have to explain this. These 10 year olds that should have been finishing primary school, playing baseball, worrying about there crushes and doing whatever else a 1800s kid would do but instead they were firing a gun on the front lines and suffering a brutal death.
Back then kids actually looked their age now they are stuck mg their faces with McDonald’s and all the air pollution causing them to mature faster
Battle of schrute farms will always be the bloodiest.
Dwight Schrute correct
@@breannasanchez8688, that wasn't blood. That was beet juice.
Rockabout oop I forgot
And the largest
Dwight Schrute I love Dwight schrute 💜☮️
Its crazy to think less than 50 years later WW1 started
It's even crazier to think just 5 years after WW2 ended, the Korean war started. 1950-53.
Its crazy to think that ww2 affected Europe until only about 30 years ago
@@johnbockelie3899 What’s weird crazy is how the Cold War started 4 years earlier, and how it ended happened 30 years ago to where we are now.
WW1 started in 1914 dude...
It’s crazy to think the Irish been fighting the British for 800 years
Civilian: So why did you join the war?
Teenage Soldier: Bored.
Can't blame them they didn't have TH-cam back then.
A lot more reasons why they fought than boredom as the video tries to put it.
@@rc59191 They didn't have RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS!!
@@averagewikipediaenthusiast3088 god no
Idiots!
Recruitment seemed very similar to WW1.
Recruiter: “How old are you?”
Recruit: “fourteen, sir.”
Recruiter: “I’ll ask again; how old are you?” >points at recruiting poster<
Recruit: “seventeen, sir.”
Recruiter: “good lad, off you go!”
Sickening, isn’t it?
My step-grandads father actually enrolled for the British Navy in WW1 but was actually discharged after officers found out he was only 15.
19 actually
@@Al-ou3so I bet he tried to enrol again a soon as he could
That sounds about right
"Would you like to be a soldier in th-"
"No"
.... it is better now , to be a soldier;
than a civilian [ in most theatres ]
@@diamonddog257 To be a soldier is one of the things NO ONE should be aspiring to be. To put on a costume, fill yourself with a false sense of superiority, then load a gun and start killing other people because somebody else with "authority" told you to do it. Tells more of a huge lack of willpower of the common people, like cattle being led by a mad cow to kill other cows. Wars and soldiers still existing today, are the reminder of that we have a very long road ahead of us to upgrade ourselves.
@@valnoir9640 if you think you evolved beyond where you have come from;
give it a few years, things are going to change in the USA.
I doubt that your ancestors could have the luxury,
be it from Euro, Native Americans..... where-ever.
But do Not worry.
They are all idiots, and will leave you alone.
@@diamonddog257 let's hope it changes for good!
@@valnoir9640 .. The First World is ... in for a learning curve, again;
i've retired to a more civilized country., waay south.
Canada is in for major shit.
unbelievable
No, I would NOT like to be a soldier in the Civil War. I’m comfy on my couch on my iPad thank you. But I thank these soldiers for giving their life for what I have today.
>iPad
bruh
Tyrone Manu BOOMER
Lee PUSSY!!!
You have no honor.
@amanda miller That's some weird misplaced aggression you got there. Pretty sure people just find it fun.
Can you do a video about testing of LSD on soldiers in the 50s and 60s?
@@stockstreamtwitch uh how
I'm sorry THEY DID WHAT
🔥
Kenny Williams cia mind control experiments on American citizens and soldiers MKultra
The Germans, and even the taliban and isis today use drugs for their fighters today like liquid adrenaline and opiates to name some
My grandfather (yes grandfather, my Dad’s Dad) was a Civil War soldier.
He lived in Illinois, one county over from the Lincoln’s and knew them as neighbors,
Lincoln, as neighbors did, cane over to my great grandfather’s farm (John Close) to help split rails with him. My 6 year old grandfather (Willian Davis Close) was sent out with lunch for them by his mother. My grandfather sat on a log and had lunch with Lincoln.
When Lincoln was elected Pres., my grandfather lied about his age (17) and enlisted in the Union Army (85th Illinois Volunteers. We have the record book and the ti types of grandpa in his uniform).
He was wounded at the Battle of Jonesboro in Atlanta.
Man years later he married my 25 year old grandmother (Lillie Gorton) when he was 50.
My Dad was born when Grandpa was 60 in 1908.
Grandpa died in 1914, when Dad was only 6.
He told my grandmother if his experiences as a Civil War soldier and she related some to us.
Grandma lived to be 96 and passed away in 1966. I was 21 and remember her stories well,
These should be preserved.
It was easy out west to lie about your age because babies were born sometimes only with the help of midwives and there were no birth records.
You are two years older than I am, I believe your story.
I’d love to read the recorded stories if you ever do them
my 3rd great grandfather was in the 56th va
How old are you
My great grandfather enlisted in the union army during the civil war ( Fighting Irish 69 th New York Regiment) right off the boat from Ireland in late February 1865. He marched to Virginia and got wounded on April 2 , 1865 at Hatches Run near the railroad . He was transported to Washington DC and treated at a hospital and was mustered out at War’s end in June 1865. He went back to his civilian life had 8 kids, got sick of TB and died in April 1896. He is our personal family hero. As far as I know he never wrote of his experiences nor spoke of them but it’s important to know of his sacrifice. RIP PVT FIRST CLASS JEREMIAH O’SULLIVAN
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They were some tough old birds back in the day, 2nd Great Grand father, 8th Vermont Vol. Regt. and his 15 year old son, in the 3rd Vt. light Artillery.
I bet these poor kids were wishing for that "boring farm life" the moment they hit the battlefield. Such a senseless war...
Senseless? 🤔
I guess he meant it was senseless for those kids, not senseless in a historical interpretation way.
To think that the beaches of Miami were just as beautiful as today. To bad they didn’t think to leave the farm for south Florida.
Sweet Insanity your 18 you join the army finish boot camp and you walk straight up to the enemy line where they shoot you in the stomach. Now you get to lay on the ground staring at the beautiful blue sky feeling how good the sun feels on your face as you cry and think about how your life will be over in 20 mins, and how you never got to feel what pussy felt or tasted like, never got to teach your son the things your father taught you, never got to see the world. Your whole 18 years of life was from farm to battle field, only to have your commander walk you right up to the enemy to shoot you. Doesn’t get any dumber or sad or pathetic as that he thinks as the sun light fades to black.
For the kids it was senseless but do you call freeing millions of innocent people from slavery senseless?
what it was like in Hiroshima before, during and after the nukes
FroBeast Definitely
The asian delegation approves of this idea
Before: It was there
During: It got really hot and bright and there was a giant shockwave
After: it was not there.
There you go.
Watch grave of the fireflies if you want to cry
@@CHloE748 holy moly I don't watch anime or whatever it's considered saw this, started watching and it's extremely good I'm half way through it waiting for my ear speakers to charge but thank you for posting this.
Got coffee Billy Yank?
Only if you got tobacco, Johnny Reb.
You boys lookin' a might peaked ov'r thur. Got sommat bacon too. Have some.
Gods and Generals
Morior Invictus I remember reading that what book was it from?
@@crazyzombiebos7778 my apologies friend, I suffer from illiteracy. So I'm afraid that I am unable to help you with the title of said book.
Drank the coffee smoked the tobacco then blew each other’s heads off
When you are getting surgery in the 1860’s and hear “oops..”
Not only would you hear it ,you felt it
Ancestor of mine died of disease in the union army. His wife kept all his letters in a trunk after he died. The last one were he mentions he's not feeling well is heartbreaking.
Please upload them to the 8n t Ernest that’s very interesting that one of your family members fought in THE UNioN. ARMY?
One of the medical advances from the USCW was sterilization (a mistake discovery). Many times issued surgical thread (unsterilized) would run out so they use horsetail strands which needed to be boiled to become pliable enough to use. The doctors noticed that the thread stitches would many times get infected but the horsehair wouldn't.
Interesting. One would think the human immune system would reject the proteins in horse hair.
@@indy_go_blue6048 sterilised (horsehair) vs unsterilised (thread). Sterilised wins. Possible rejection due to foreign proteins minor problem compared to infection.
"I spit on your sterilization methods!"
- Gangrene
OK... but was it worth all of the lives lost?
Probably not....😢😭😢😭😢😭
When the Trans Continent Railroad was built they noticed the Chinese didn't get sick because they drank boiled tea where the Irish drank water and got sick.
Brutal. That's how it was. Poor man fights and dies and might go home after still poor. Rich man gets richer from a desk in comfort.
The Southern rich men lost an easy future thats why they fought so hard to try and keep it alive. After that they were more like middle class.
Nothing has changed
@@secretamericayoutubechanne2961 Yep, that's why I have to work for a living and don't get to sit on the veranda with my whiskey drink listening to Stephen Foster songs as the "servants" march in from the cotton fields.
Yet either of them could be legless or armless, all lives changed forever.
Sherman has the look of a man hardened by battle and haunted by death.
Speaking of the soldiers writing all the time, we found one of my great great great grandfathers journals he wrote in almost every day while a soldier. He wrote poems or just talked about what he did
What have you done with the poems
That would be a historic American antique you should dedicate it to a museum, or find a way to share it with all of us.
Hippoty Hoppity, *_your legs are my property_*
-Civil War Field Surgeon
Imagine being a doctor or a nurse for those battles 🤢 So much blood, guts, and suffering
Imagine you've been shot and know you're going to bleed out for several hours..
Better than being gut shot...
Shock is a friend in that case.
My ancestor enlisted in the Union Army with his best friend for 9 months at age 40! His first day of battle was the first day of Antietam. He returned home while his friend was listed as missing, and did not.
God bless my ancestors and let them Rest In Peace. No more brother wars!
At the rate we're going it's looking that way
Bloods and crips says otherwise
With the shit that goes on nowadays, I'm pretty sure that there will be another civil war
Truth us we could close our.borders and never go to war again. Our defenses are enough to keep our shores safe fuck the rest of the world
@Liberty is not free Tell that to the Taliban
Prior to the Springfield model 1861, muskets were smooth bore. The model 1861 had a rifled barrel, which made it much more accurate than its predecessors. Since it was the first war in American history in which the Springfield model 1861 was used, battlefield tactics used during the Civil War were intended for less accurate smooth bore muskets, which is why there was so much more carnage.
My Grandfather's Grandfather joined the Union army on his 18th birthday in 1862 for a three year enlistment. He fought in lots of big battles and campaigns, like Vicksburg, Missionary Ridge, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, the March to the Sea, Bentonville and many smaller ones as well. During the three years of fighting half his unit became casualties, many from disease. At one point his family was told he had been killed. But he survived or I wouldn't be here. Apparently he never spoke much about the war, he must have seen too much.
Read Ulysses S Grant’s autobiography. The interactions between forces during non-combat times was interesting. The speed at which these forces built bridges and laid railroad tracks was amazing. They even had telegraph lines so the generals could communicate in close to real time.
I went to a medical civil war museum and it was brutal. Let me tell you after going through all the exhibits I realize just how damn spoiled we are now a days. They used chloroform as anesthesia. If your leg had to be amputated at the hip you had an 80% chance of death. That’s only the tip of the iceberg. If you get the chance I’d highly recommend you go to a museum like this it’s truly eye opening.
May I ask which one?
I took part in an amateur level Civil War roundtable discussion and a question was raised "If you could talk to anyone from the Civil War who would it be?"...well all around all I heard was "Lee!"..."Grant!!"..."Pickett!!"...."Jackson!!"....'Meade!!".....and when it came to me I said "a common soldier, who else can you learn the most from except by hearing it from the men who actually fought in it?".....that brought a few stares of silence from those around me but then they admitted that I gave the best answer.
There are some good books out there which were written by common soldiers in the Civil War which will allow you to do just that. Sam Watkins' Company Aytch and John Billings' Hard Tack and Coffee are two good ones.
Cover the Airship sighting phenomenon of the late 1800s! Really interesting and should be more well known!
Hey dude - just wanted to say I love your channel! Very interesting and well researched!
Great Topic. Love the recommendation, and I agree.
Please do the Trail of Tears.
I’d like to see that too. My ancestors were apart of that.
@@marcihaught1840 Which part?
G.David Lawrence Southern Cherokee red fire people.
@@marcihaught1840 Not a good time for the people. That would be a good topic to cover. Any stories passed down?
No mention of Native soldiers in this video. Thomas legion out of Western NC was Cherokee soldiers.
"Would you like to be a soldier in the civil war?"
Yeah bud.... Sign me up......
Here's one you missed...as a requirement for enlisting, soldiers needed to posses a good set of front teeth in order to tear open the paper cartridges used to load their muzzle loading rifles.
Did either side have a rental plan ?
Am I tripping or did you repeat a line at 6:00 ?
I heard it to.
@@TheDevilockedzombie Me too
I think he was just giving an idea and comparing it to 7 Gettysburg battles.
JMS u tripping
Yeah, and one of the amputees has four legs.
Concerning southern food. The civil war is where you first really see boiled peanuts become popular. Because food was scarce for rebels, they needed a food that would preserve for awhile and could be carried by soldiers. Peanuts boiled in salt water is what they came up with. A pouch of boiled peanuts could last for many days due to the salt and peanuts were fairly commonplace in the south.
Goober peas,I think they called it
I live in Charleston, S.C. and people set up boiled peanut stands everywhere on the side of the road. I love them so much, especially cajun flavored. So interesting this is where they came from.
My great great great grandfather was 15yrs old when he enlisted in the 16th regiment of volunteers under General Wade Hampton, CSA. Took a Minnie ball in his left shoulder after 90 days furlough back in the field. Lost three brothers from dysentery. After the war lost his first family and had another late in life so I'm closer to him than most people of my generation
Deo Vindice Brother. My ancestor was with N.B. Forrest
What people don't realize is that 5% OR LESS southerners had slaves. Slaves were VERY expensive and southerners were mostly poor. 98% didn't have the means to buy white suits and sip mint juleps. Many southerners were against slavery of any kind. Lincoln was not a die hard abolitionist. He rolled with politics.
Yet that didnt stop poor southerners from loosing their lives to protect the rights and the wealth of the wealthy people around them. With all the talks of the statues reminding us of our history has done nothing to stop people to repeat it... Yes I know that some will come and say that they fought to protect their lands, heritage, blah, blah, blah. But that is not the reason the people in power sent those poor farmers to die in those fields. They told them to go kill and die for the country (patriotism). That them killing and dying was neccessary to protect the way of American life. They were told that the North was trying to destroy everything they love. That same message has been redrafted to fit the 21st century.. DO NOT let THEM force YOU to open fire on YOUR COUNTRYMEN so that THEY can maintain THEIR riches.
I thought it was 1% of southerners had slaves. I could be wrong though.
@Bigfriendly15 they still allowed it snd were generally racist as well so fuck the south and anybody who sympathized their causes
@@vontai4553 The fact that you hate an entire region, group of people even though you don't know us says all I need to know about you. I'm a Southerner and I hate racism and slavery, it ain't right in any way, shape, or form. Many of us now and back then treated people as people regardless of ethnicity or skin color. Surr you got racists here but racists are literally everywhere even in your precious so-called "tolerant" north. So you need to get rid of that hateful attitude because despite that I don't hate you or anybody; one would have to be extremely evil for me to hate them which is very rare.
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@@siervodedios5952 i was referring to the confederate south so please stop tryna make this about u
Thats golden thanks for telling me how to be over 18😂
Yeah I'm 18 sir !!! How do know kid ? Because it's rit down in my shoe sir !!!!
You could also be over 21.
When I was 12 my father bought me a single shot 20 gauge shotgun for my birthday. No recoil pad. If I shot it more than five or six times I was going to have a nasty bruise on my shoulder. I can only imagine what it must have been like for the soldiers in the civil war.
Actually the Civil War rifled muskets didn't kick much at all; the weapon was heavy and the Minie ball had a low muzzle velocity.
@@galoon - Thanks galoon! But now I wish my father had bought me a civil war musket instead. At least my shoulder does. :)
@@garybolenable I have a Euroarms reproduction of the Model 1861 Springfield that was used in the Civil War--you can probably find a used one for a good price, and they're easy to take care of! You just have to remove the barrel and clean it after each use--black powder is pretty corrosive. I used to have a .303 Enfield rifle--World War II vintage. Now that one was punishing to my shoulder!
No wonder the United states of America people r so fucked in the head young kids getting shotguns for there birthdays it is so wrong on so many levels
@@jenningsjoe6304 You are a moronic foreigner that doesn't understand American culture. You have shown this by first commenting before having any knowledge of what you're talking about, a fool's way.
When you said “I had to exchange my arm for that of another soldier” I was thinking an actual arm haha
The right to bear arms
Lmao☺️☺️☺️😑
lamo lambda I didn’t know it was meant so literally by the founding fathers haha
When I lived in Connecticut Rip Torn was in the bar pretty much all day everyday that winner
Sam Watkins, Company "Haich". He died age 61.
I was 17 when I enlisted in the Army. That was 1990. I retired from the service in 2012.
My great grandfather and his brother both joined in FarmVille Va, served under General Pickett and both survived.
The last major battle at Sailors Creek Va was a short walk home for them
It blows my mind to think that single-day battles had just as many or more soldiers on either side killed and wounded than entire campaigns in WW2
I had ancestors on both sides that fought in the civil war. One of my ancestors was 17 when he enlisted in the Confederate Army. He enlisted because his brother was murdered by Union Guerrilla fighters when he was traveling home in Georgia. His brother was also a Soldier in the Confederate Army as well.
your ancestor was a traitor who betrayed the american flag
@Tragedy 01 that made no sense.
@@andrewcogger7586 treason against the US is cool and good though
Lauren Made perfect sense to me.
Andrew Cogger What about the ancestors that betrayed the British flag and fought for independence? Are they traitors also
Just to mention, there were people of Irish origin that volunteered in the civil war. They mainly fought for the Union.
They equally fought for both sides. At Fredricksburg and Gettysburg Irish units on each side from the same county in Ireland would be killing each other.
Two of my great uncles died from measles as they served with the Army of Tennessee.
Civil wars are the saddest and most destructive of conflicts. The English Civil War, 225 years earlier also led to more casualties relative to population, than all other wars Britain was involved in, including WWI.
Reading everything they could get their hands on. Like when I take a dump and read the label of a shampoo bottle, but less deadly.
😂😂😂
before cell phones
Last time I was this early those people where alive.
Ha nice
Oop-
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Kameradan _mp4 lol
My great great grandfather served in the CSA. I know it’s a complicated history but he was a good man and may God always remember that poor boy having to leave and go fight this horrible conflict 😕
Mr. Wumpa join the sons of confederate veterans
It was the same with many of my ancestors, many of them were Cherokee also. Never allow anyone to make you feel ashamed of your history, nothing is black and white, it’s always shades of grey.
I don’t feel bad for him at all if he chose to go in
@@werewolflover8636 sorry to break it to you but sometimes there is a black and white in history sometimes you have to tell someone that their ancestor did something wrong
@@UnitedWars except you don’t know that he did do anything wrong. This is a modern view based on our current politics that has nothing to do with then, and also is exacerbated by the US involvement in WWII where we were the ones “spreading freedom” and “won the war.” It’s a myth that anyone in opposition to the US is inherently evil.
Can we also talk about how BIG the bullets used in muskets and early rifles were?? Absolute elephant guns
1861 Springfield rifle was .58 caliber as well as similar rifles
I am from Norway and one man from one of the neighbour farms he survived the war luckily. He wrote something on a piece of paper he said "they fell like trees beside me"
Honestly I just make mental notes in preparation for the next civil war.
@Star Lord lol
The next one isnt going to have clear lines drawn between sides, i believe
Most likely will happen in the next 30 years. There are literally communists running for office and they are trying to replace our population with the 3rd world to get votes and cheap labor. We won't be able to take it at some point.
You know that you dont have to make comments in every post there is in this vid. Dont you have enough attention at home????
@@DylanJo123 Very stupid thing to say
My great, great grandfather immigrated from Ireland. He tried to join the Union army in Brockton MA but was caught for being too young. Ran away to Bangor ME and joined Co. M of the 31st Maine Volunteers. Several battles and finally shot in the jaw on picket duty at the siege of Richmond. Evacuated to Washington he survived the war and lived a long life. My uncle "flew the hump" in Burma/China/india. I served in Vietnam, my son served in the Navy and my daughter is currently near retirement from the Coast Guard.
I rarely do this, but major respect and gratitude towards the union/volunteers… I can’t imagine how awful the United States would be if the confederates have won
They're winning now. ;)
In my opinion, nobody was a winner in this bloody war. Perhaps you can enlighten me as to what would've happened if the CSA theoretically won the war between the states? The thirteen states that seceded from the Union were not interested in fundamentally changing or taking over America as your comment suggests.
@@hillbillyslim anything that can set back slavery and discrimination is a win in my opinion!
Pretty good. Failed to mention that the uniforms were wool and most of the marching and fighting was done in hot weather.
In hot HUMID weather.
That guy at the end looked like a time traveller from a 21st century rock band.
My ancestor, Private Lyman V.B. Furber, was a Union soldier in life. Sometime in April of 1864, he was seriously wounded in battle and didn't make it. My Grandma has his personal journal in a lockbox because of its historical value, and she gave me a photo of Lyman Furber Senior, his father, taken and printed in 1840.
My ggg grandad was a confederate soldier who fought under Jubal Early, Lee’s “ old bad man “. He enlisted in 1861 was captured and sent to Illinois. He was released with the promise to go home and fight no more, he went straight back to his unit lol. He was discharged in what is now Beckley WV. He never owned a slave but ran a saw mill and owned a lot of land. He got sick and couldn’t run his mill. The land was sold for nearly nothing to coal companies .
Some my kin had to been with your grandad. Or very close with him, We was out Wyoming County lot in 22nd Va. Yes we with Old Bad Man in 64 who scared old Abe 1/2 to death, They could see the Washington DC dome. There in Lewisburg march back from droop mt. We took hard hit @ Droop & White Sulphur Springs was good local battle's, lot of other battles. them just local battles. We lost huge chunk of land could not pay taxes on right after war all our money was confederate worthless after war carpetbaggers grab it up or more fancy name Land Companies. But we had brother & cousins on both sides. Still hard feelings in family. 1 shot the other if not mistaken in bolt area of Raleigh County on his way home. Other 1 in Boone county same thing.
My Granddad was Gen. "Ol Jube" Early, on my Dad, Angus Early's side. Funny, growing up in N.Virginia, I was never taught to be ashamed of my lineage. It's hard to see how hateful people are today when you're actually proud to drive down a Road such as Jubal Early Hwy., right there in Winchester or one in Manassas. *I will **_NOT_** be ashamed as I, nor my Father owned anybody!*
@Sleepy Jones Oddly enough you'd mention this but the Early and Wootten families, came over and landed on Plymouth but that it is a hilarious comment!
What history books don’t like to teach people is that most confederates fought to protect their homeland from invaders who were looting, burning, raiding, and murdering just because they could. Most confederates didn’t fight over slaves. Many confederates joined when they saw their brothers and sisters being murdered and their homes being touched, I would fight for my home too if invaders were killing my family and burning down property.
@@camerona.2110 huh why do you people keep claiming they werent fighting for slaves, you clearly dont know your history and your just trying to justify it
"Would you want be a soldier in the Civil War?" Hell, would you want to be a soldier in any war?
Anyway, enjoyed the video. Thanks for posting.
Only if an enemy were coming to oppress my family and loved ones.
@@jamesrobiscoe1174 Like in Vietnam?
Most Southern soldiers did not own slaves. There weren't that many underage boys. Most Northern soldiers did not get to go home after 90 days. Sherman was a war criminal.
Mike Rexroad thank you
Check out the enlistments of CS archived at Savannah and you will see a of boys made themselves older to join the war.
Less than 4% of the entire south owned slaves.
@@ThemissouriTraveler A misleading statistic. This counts total population including children, wives and resident parents living in a house. The Slave Schedule of 1860 indicated about 32% of Households in the South owned at least one slave. Slavery was a very big part of Southern Society.
Um cigarettes were really a post war thing, they would get tobacco to use in their pipes.
One sad story that I remember was from a soldier named James Grant. the man had enlisted in a Wisconsin Cavalry Unit. While on patrol, his horse had been shot, and sadly, he was given another mount which proved to be rough and untrainable. Trooper Grant while on patrol, neither liked nor trusted his horse, and when ambushed, his horse fell over on him, severely injuring his spine and legs. Sent home, Trooper Grant began to drink heavily, from the severe pain of his injuries, and he could neither work nor support his large family. Finally, after being refused a pension, Trooper Grant while driving drunk on his wagon home, cut off another wagon, and accidentally killed a two-year-old child. In town, he was beaten so badly, that he had become a shadow of the once proud man he had once been. Suffering from severe alcoholism, and untreated PTSD, Trooper Grant died and was refused burial in a Catholic graveyard. Just one of the many stories, you will never know about
Hi! i really love your documentaries. Could you make one about life in Victorian England? Thanks! ♥
"you got shot so we're gonna cut off your arm k"
"Dude what"
"... Here's some whiskey"
"Okay"
I imagine it a lot like that
Pickets charge brings tears watching re-enackment
My Great Grandfather fought in the Civil war from Jan. 1865 to mustered out in Sept in 1865. A farmer in Minnesota fought for the north and went to Tennessee. He was born in 1836 in Germany and my dad actually saw him when he was a boy. My dad was born in 1895 and Great grand dad died in 1904 with a military honors and at his grave a iron plate with G.A.R (Grand Army of the Republic.)
"War...
War never changes..."
Fallout 4
Try original Fallout and every one after, you will hear the same thing...
"War has changed"
I want you guys to cover Rome during Commodus time
Fantastic documentary, very sad however seeing brother fight brother.
My 2nd Great Grandfather was a Civil War veteran. He survived Andersonville, lived until he was 64 he got blood poisoning after taking a bullet in the war. They surely were made of something back then.
I have been binge watching these videos for three days now
Great video.. Disease did so much of the killing..
My dad has a reoccuring dream of being a civil war soldier "army crawling" to his home but knowing he was way too far to see his wife and kid(s) again. I think he was reincarnated from him, but that's just an opinion.
Terrible opinion
@@lukeyacono3277 Its really rude to put down someone's spiritual beliefs...
@@lukeyacono3277 What do you believe in Luke?
Levi Cheezehpoofs Terrible opinion
could you make more videos about victorian england? that‘s my favourite era.
love your videos by the way!!
Look up the channel Absolute History. It's the majority of what they do with video times ranging from 10 minutes to an hour. Professionally done too.
My 4th great grandfather Ruel Wetmore of the Union died of disease. Marched from Toledo Ohio down to Nashville and died there. More than half his regiment died of disease. I was shocked.
Society never learns. Almost every war ever started thinking it’d only take a matter of months.
What was it like to be President during that war?
welllll in all honesty there were two presidents....they did not do the fighting, the sickness the killing the hunger the dying......its the common persons that do that...so the hell with the presidents
@Brown Turd yes that is true and Jefferson Davis was a good man. I've been his final home on the Mississippi gulf coast and the building in New Orleans where his body was held in state after he died.
But neither Davis or Lincoln fought in the civil war...the point is as in most ( America wars) it's the common people that do the suffering while the leaders get the credit ,fame and money.....
You tell us..
Lincoln was known to be extremely depressed by the war, but nonetheless made sure to observe funerals and see the carnage to see the horrors of war. He became the first American president to actively risk himself in battle overseeing a battle.
@@factbeaglesarebest no shit I was depressed. My son died too. I Was very stressed.
I'd like to cover the life of miyamoto mushashi I think that is worth it thanks and keep up the good work 👍👍
@@claudiaweidman1004 what you suggest is boring miyamoto mushashi's story is better
What amazed me about the Civil War there were guys my age 24 to young as 20 who were promoted to Generals on both sides. Such as George Armstrong Custer who graduated from West Point in June 1861 and by 1863 he went from the rank of Captain and then promoted all the way to Brigadier General at the age of 23 skipping pass the ranks of Major, Lt. Col. and Colonel to Brigadier General and in command of his own Cavalry Brigade that he led into Battle against Confederate cavalry General J.E.B Stuart on the third and last day of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863
I LOVE your videos. I show them to my secondary high school students.
Nowadays, if you blink wrong at a teenager you can give them PTSD. They have no idea how good they have it.
Russ Tanner that’s definitely wrong you are thinking about millennials
Or you have pussy soldiers having PTSD just because they had to kill a child to stole his oil.
My ancestor was 11 when he signed up for the Confederate army. I have copies of his enlistment papers. Don’t think he was in any battles, but pretty brave for an 11 year old to leave home.
G Mill wrong side
My father said that civil war is like childplay compare to eastern front ww2 .
The Red Badge of Courage was written by a war vet and wrote an amazing book they show what it was like as a perspective of a single person and not some grand view we look back on it with.
I'm confused: Why didn't they just Googled to check for age affirmation?
Gilbert Martinez N00b. They would have, but the enemy constantly cut the cat5 cables.
Routers kept getting misplaced.
wifi sucked and was slow
are you serious gilbert? this war happened in like the the 1940s. google and the internet wasn't even invented yet. you shoulda paid attention in history class.
Michael Spoto I cant tell if this is serious
Incredibly Brave Men/Boys on both sides.
A trained Union Soldier, was trained to fire 3 aimed rounds per minute. You see they used paper cartridges. Some Vets could load and fire four aimed rounds per minute. I should know I've been a civil war re-enactor . And I've live fired at a target 75 yards away and gotten off 4 aimed rounds per minutes. Wasnt able to keep that up, and since I only had 20 rounds in my cartridge box, went through them pretty fast.
What it was like to be a Spanish Conquistador in the Americas!
Would I want to serve as a soldier in the Civil War? Hell no!!
My dad served in Vietnam and became a hardcore Civil War reinactor and I joined him on occasion especially at the 150th Great 3 Grandfather fought there with the 22nd MS at the Hornet nest Albert Monroe Johnston who was only 300 yards from where General Albert Sydney Johnston fell and he came to Texas after the war and that slavery thing is a slap in the face as my Grandfather was a poor farmer fighting to expell a hostile force taking his land and there was no slaves just a poor farmer fighting to defend his home. Even if it was for a couple days I found out how rough it was back then and we shouldn't take what we have now for grandit
Should do one on the Diadochi. The crazy war over Alexander The Great's empire after his death.
Betrayals, assassinations, fighting over his corpse, female leaders battling each other, a Greek commoner becoming the most capable underdog battlefield commander. Etc, etc.
Surprised that hasn't been turned into a big tv series considering all the vicious political drama that went on.
NefariousKoel - Very accurate description; excellent suggestion!
I had relatives on both sides. Some of my family came from Virginia and when the state split parts of the family were on both sides. One guy fought for the Union, one for the Confederacy. Both survived and my Grandpa said his dad remembered seeing both at family reunions when he was a kid around the turn of the century.
did they get along?
It was a bit awkward to be sure, but kin was more important than the ideology back then. They were kin above everything. That’s how my Grandpa described it.
Fun Fact: the Big City boys were already immune to communicable diseases being around large populations. It was the farm boys that suffered, having lived a clean life in the country that weren’t used to large groups and crowded conditions. It also depended on whether or not the company Commander knew enough to have the troops piss DOWNSTREAM and not upstream from where you got your water.
To be a soldier in those times was a challenge to say the least. If a bullet didn't kill you disease/malnutrition did. Soldiers in the Confederacy had it much worse.
When you said “I had to exchange my arm for that of another soldier” I was thinking an actual arm of a dead guy to hold the musket haha
Dave O same wait what did he mean? That what I thought he was doing? I’m so stupid and confused lol
@@Rebel940 in the screen text it's written 'gun', so the narrator probably meant 'armament'
I'd rather be a soldier in the Civil War than a soldier in the revolutionary war.
“They read and wrote like it was going out of style.”
I understood that reference.
My 2-G grandfather was 16 when he signed up. He lasted the four years.
3 years
Um 4 years, easy on the misinformation...
This is honestly all we need to learn from civil war section in history class. Why does social studies had to talk about specific people and not everyone involves as a whole like this?