Civil War Veterans Doing Rifle (Musket) Drills at 1929 Reunion - Enhanced Video [60 fps]

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Life in the 1800s

Life in the 1800s

3 жыл бұрын

For this video, I enhanced it using AI optimization software, interpolated it to 60 frames/second, speed-adjusted it and refined it with De Blur, Sharpness and Stabilization. For the audio, I remastered it using noise gate, compression, loudness normalization, EQ and a Limiter.
These are Civil War veterans performing rifle-musket drills at a 1929 reunion.
This video is made for educational purposes for fair use under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976.

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@TheNightWatcher1385
@TheNightWatcher1385 Жыл бұрын
There are people alive today who met civil war veterans and there were people alive during the civil war who had met revolutionary war veterans.
@anthonyr5869
@anthonyr5869 Жыл бұрын
Our ww2 vets may have met civil war vets
@TheNightWatcher1385
@TheNightWatcher1385 Жыл бұрын
@@anthonyr5869 Indeed. The last civil war vet died in the 50s, so there’s definitely people still alive who can say they met one.
@Janetsfear
@Janetsfear Жыл бұрын
@@TheNightWatcher1385 Yup Albert Henry Woolson in 56 the year I was born.
@KarlPHorse
@KarlPHorse Жыл бұрын
Sometimes I think we forget that human beings tend to live for the better part of a century. with the most long lived going up to triple digits.
@stubstoo6331
@stubstoo6331 Жыл бұрын
Up until last year two people's father's were civil war veterans one in Wisconsin and one in Florida. The lady in Florida passed away her father was a Florida farmer and went back to farming after the war. She was born when her father was in his seventies. The same with the man in Wisconsin.
@modoc852
@modoc852 2 жыл бұрын
I remember my dad telling me stories of when he was about ten years old , he would talk to his great grandpa about being in the civil war. Grandpa was reluctant to talk about some of the battles they fought and would say that they ( both sides) would try to avoid a skirmish but would remain in sight of each other . I remember dad told me that he asked grandpa what was the most feared weapon during his four years and he said the “daisy chain cannon ball”. His company would mostly guard railroads and bridges. My great great grandpa lived the longest in his company, he died at age 91 in 1933 when dad was 12. I have a copy of a diary from another fellow in a sister company to my grandpa’s in a neighboring town which authenticates the stories told by my great great grandpa .
@secondchance6603
@secondchance6603 2 жыл бұрын
Hi there, I was wondering if you knew what a "daisy chain cannon ball" was? I have tried looking for a description of it but to no avail.
@tharonmott209
@tharonmott209 2 жыл бұрын
@@secondchance6603 it is two cannon balls connected together by a chain.
@secondchance6603
@secondchance6603 2 жыл бұрын
@@tharonmott209 DOH! I should have known that lol, thanks for the info.
@robertdipaola3447
@robertdipaola3447 2 жыл бұрын
@@secondchance6603 l could and did cut men down like a lawn mower
@yeehaw3792
@yeehaw3792 2 жыл бұрын
You should definitely post those stories that are in that diary.
@danschneider9921
@danschneider9921 Жыл бұрын
My grandfather is 96 and a veteran of the 7th Armored Division during WW2. Last year we took him to the range with my 1945 Springfield M1. He hadn't handled one since the war, though had plenty of pheasant hunting until his 80s. He picked up the rifle and it was like watching a man go back in time. He loaded it like he was 19 again, and after his first shot went wide...the other seven all on target at 100 yards. So very proud of him yet so sad is the reality dispute his robust health for his age, we won't have him forever
@johnnyjohn-johnson7738
@johnnyjohn-johnson7738 Жыл бұрын
Look for a place that has machine guns so he can relive the glory of shooting a BAR and Grease Gun.
@infidel202
@infidel202 Жыл бұрын
Total respect for him giving up his youth so we can live free, please thank him for me 🇦🇺
@huntclanhunt9697
@huntclanhunt9697 Жыл бұрын
Take care of him and record as many stories as you can!
@mickey6275
@mickey6275 Жыл бұрын
Hell, 96 is a pretty good run
@Journeyman-Fixit
@Journeyman-Fixit Жыл бұрын
God bless your Grandfather, one of the sacred "Greatest Generation".
@cfc1001001cfc
@cfc1001001cfc 2 жыл бұрын
64 years after Appomattox and the old soldier could still Drill on his rifle...amazing.
@FreeBayArea
@FreeBayArea 3 жыл бұрын
The guy at the end 😂 he said what the hell was that sonny! gimme that thing and I'll show you how it's done😄
@nickcurran3105
@nickcurran3105 Жыл бұрын
It's so incredible that men who fought in the Civil War lived long enough to be filmed in the 20th century
@SStupendous
@SStupendous Жыл бұрын
It's incredible that men that fought in the Civil War lived 57 years of the 20th century! I mean it's not really, it's not half as far away as we like to think. Last veterans died over 30 years after sound film recording was invented, and nearly 80 years since the invention of film.
@tpw9099
@tpw9099 11 ай бұрын
That is a miracle and blessing for all of us!
@DAquingil
@DAquingil Жыл бұрын
My great great grandfather served in the Confederate infantry as a private in the Yellowjacket Battalion. He saw action in the Battle of Shiloh where his regiment was so decimated that it was consolidated as the 18th and 19th regiment. I still have a medal he received at a United Confederate Veterans reunion in Chicago in 1906, where he also met with former Confederate and Union soldiers, and they shook hands as they talked about the war. My grandmother knew him, and I knew her. It’s incredible to be able to reach back that far.
@connorburns8915
@connorburns8915 Жыл бұрын
Watching this video really has me thinking. When I was a young kid, about 4 or 5 (around 2006ish) I remember meeting a WW1 veteran in a church gathering. Isn’t it crazy how I, a 21 year old living in 2023, was able to interact with a man who fought a war nearly 110 years ago? The same could be said for my grandma. She’s still alive at 85 but she got to meet Civil War vets as a kid. Goes to show how short everything is!
@MrPPCLI
@MrPPCLI Жыл бұрын
My grandfather fought in the first world war in the Canadian Army, and he died when I was 16; I knew him and we talked about his experiences and that war was over hundred years ago- now double that to two hundred years and you're at the battle of Waterloo against Napoleon in 1815. It kinda puts history and the passage of time into a whole new perspective...
@Tark75ifty
@Tark75ifty Жыл бұрын
I am 60 years old today, and I remember as a child having met, in my old district of Paris (France), those who were called "the broken faces", they were veterans of the 1st World War who had suffered horrible wounds on their faces wich disfigured them and wich we took, my gang and I, for some kind of fairground monsters. We were ignorant and stupid, we had fun chasing them and making fun of them. The children are cruel sometimes, we didn't know how much they had suffered from the war. Now that I know who they were, I'm so sorry for being so hard on them and I apologize. Veterans deserve our respect and recognition for their sacrifices. May God keep them.
@Brace67
@Brace67 2 жыл бұрын
Imagine being able to watch these proud veterans of the Civil War going through the manual of arms with the vintage Springfield musket that the learned so long ago. I loved watching the proud veteran with his flowing mustache and in uniform perform the manual of arms so smartly. He still remembered the moves and snaps them off with military precision.
@cuchulain1647
@cuchulain1647 2 жыл бұрын
Deo Vindice
@Brace67
@Brace67 2 жыл бұрын
@@cuchulain1647 The Union Forever!!
@cuchulain1647
@cuchulain1647 2 жыл бұрын
A Union maintained by force of arms is not a representative republic. ….just saying. - I just want to get drunk, eat steak, pet my cat, watch movies and sleep with my wife. But….. Other things always show up.
@Brace67
@Brace67 2 жыл бұрын
@@cuchulain1647 The Confederates were traitors and seceded from the Union by force of arms. Just saying.
@cuchulain1647
@cuchulain1647 2 жыл бұрын
@@Brace67 Ok…… You can say the exact same thing about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson !!!!
@fuckyouyoutube7921
@fuckyouyoutube7921 2 жыл бұрын
I'm not American but I loved watching this. Obviously they're all dead now but as long as that recording survives they will be immortal, their names forgotten but their faces remain.
@kurtneumann140
@kurtneumann140 2 жыл бұрын
My great grandfather was in the 1-26 th Wisconsin . Barely off the boat from Silesia, he volunteered. 1862 thru 1865. Captured at Gettysburg day 2 he was lucky enough 2 be exchanged. He was wounded at the battle of kolb farm Georgia 1864 and hospitalized in Nashville. He attended mustering out in d.c. 1865. He attended 50th Gettysburg reunion. Recieved pensions which were late in coming for his ailments. Red tape if you believe that!
@chrisadams416
@chrisadams416 2 жыл бұрын
How old was he when he passed
@kurtneumann140
@kurtneumann140 2 жыл бұрын
@@chrisadams416 85. Wish I had a time machine. Hisself and me were the only ones who served in the army in our family. Unbelievable. Thanks
@eugeniaskelley5194
@eugeniaskelley5194 Жыл бұрын
Did you great grandfather even speak English when he served?
@europaprimum7050
@europaprimum7050 Жыл бұрын
​@@eugeniaskelley5194 The union army had entire German regiments that couldn't speak English.
@AW-zy1kw
@AW-zy1kw Жыл бұрын
He may have been on the other side from my GG Grandfather who was in the 4th AL. He fought from Bull Run to the end with only a few missed engagements. Born in 1843, left service a Sargent. Married, had three kids and died in 1873 to what we think must've been an appendicitis. Amazing to go through that for four years without serious wounds and die young like that. I have several very descriptive letters, a piece of uniform, haversack and a bible that according to his letter stopped a ball at the Wilderness. Cheers to both of us serving on the same side.
@donmcatee45
@donmcatee45 Жыл бұрын
A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he’s finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son’s diaper; his hands remember the rifle. Anthony Swofford
@johnmullholand2044
@johnmullholand2044 Жыл бұрын
Just saw that movie again, the other day. Excellent movie.
@Mason-io2ir
@Mason-io2ir Жыл бұрын
Amen
@dorianphilotheates3769
@dorianphilotheates3769 Жыл бұрын
My paternal and maternal grandfathers fought in opposite sides of the Civil War - the Greek Civil War, that is...Yes, we, too, had one of those (1945-49)...because, you know, WWII just wasn’t bloody enough for us. Thank you for posting this - I very much enjoyed watching it! 👍 Glory eternal to these fine old soldiers - Requiescant Omnes In Pace. 🌿
@padre2275
@padre2275 2 жыл бұрын
Not too many guys that age now days could still fit in their old uniforms.
@koolaidria4801
@koolaidria4801 2 жыл бұрын
No McDonald’s back then
@chevinbarghest8453
@chevinbarghest8453 2 жыл бұрын
@Green Aacres Can you say that nowadays ? Anyway I have a redhead and she is truly savage...
@lufsolitaire5351
@lufsolitaire5351 2 жыл бұрын
Still looks quite dashing and even 40-50 years after the fact he still still drills like clockwork.
@engineking777
@engineking777 Жыл бұрын
No far left Democrats back then. Sike
@nh5er237
@nh5er237 Жыл бұрын
My dad was born in 1920 in Lexington Ma. He once told me that he remembered seeing civil war vets marching in local parades. He is long passed now, but that memory stays with me.
@raybede
@raybede 2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful Men, with such an History and stories to tell. In 1987 in Atlanta I was invited to a dinner party and there was a gentleman there, whose uncle had lost his right ear lobe to musket fire in the Civil War. One generation away. That moved me unbelievably.
@Outlaw-Josey-Wales
@Outlaw-Josey-Wales 2 жыл бұрын
Rest in peace Soldier
@andrewbaran661
@andrewbaran661 Жыл бұрын
This was a tough looking bunch... Standing straight and true... A good way to go about life... And still at their ages looking stronger than most today... Stay the course and victory will forever be the standard... And remain a real possibility... Hats off, Gentlemen...
@genecasciari748
@genecasciari748 Жыл бұрын
I remember my dad who was born in 1934 remembers a Civil Warm veteran on his street when he was a boy who wore Union cap who had to be around 90 . I was born in 1961 which actually was 96 yrs after war ended, and WWI veterans marching in my town in late 60's only 50 yrs after war ended.
@gamebriz4163
@gamebriz4163 Жыл бұрын
This film in itself is pushing 100 years, it's really something to visually see men who were young men in the 1860's 🤯
@infantinofan
@infantinofan 2 жыл бұрын
I've seen parts of this before, still a great video. Amazed how they can still do the manual of arms with that very large and heavy rifle at their age. Wish a lip reader could tell us what the tall veteran is saying.
@dannyb.4034
@dannyb.4034 2 жыл бұрын
They look great for thier age !
@muffs55mercury61
@muffs55mercury61 2 жыл бұрын
Yes they do. By 1929 most would have been in their 80s. They seem very agile.
@daviddavies2072
@daviddavies2072 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for a very interesting video, great to watch these guys going through they drills x
@peacethroughstrength172
@peacethroughstrength172 Жыл бұрын
Amazing and fantastic video! Real men here, as solid mentally as they came and at a level that modern society cant even begin to imagine. Semper Fidelis
@tylertapp131
@tylertapp131 11 ай бұрын
It's so mind boggling to me that there were CIVIL WAR soldiers that could of saw the world wars kick off... so crazy how much changed in that amount of time.
@craighofer8895
@craighofer8895 2 жыл бұрын
This is Amazing! 👏 I never knew this kind of stuff was even available to see...
@harryteevee9569
@harryteevee9569 2 жыл бұрын
IKR, almost as if it's been recently produced for an agenda. so many lies to wade thru.
@jonosborn6558
@jonosborn6558 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing.
@1stminnsharpshooters341
@1stminnsharpshooters341 3 жыл бұрын
thanks for sharing this historical footage... amazing. *LIKED* and *SUBSCRIBED* --LT
@danhouy4626
@danhouy4626 Жыл бұрын
My mother would often tell me of her grandfather's both were civil war veteran's that made it home to settle in and resume they're lives.
@Lava1964
@Lava1964 Жыл бұрын
I recall seeing bits of this footage in Ken Burns' famous documentary on the Civil War. Great stuff it is!
@Hoosier_Boy
@Hoosier_Boy 2 жыл бұрын
loved it!
@terrielilley3456
@terrielilley3456 Жыл бұрын
So cool to see this. People just like us.
@earlmcpherson9820
@earlmcpherson9820 2 жыл бұрын
Real men!
@leosaura1993
@leosaura1993 Жыл бұрын
These man have suffered horrible war traumas and still managed to live so long in a time where there where no help to deal with war trauma.
@dagoobertron
@dagoobertron Жыл бұрын
Perhaps it was the incentives structure we give to men in the modern age. We offer money, grants, and even invincibility at arms. I'll also add that modern man is alienated from death throughout most of his life, put him in combat and it's a shock overall. Men in the past were more acclimated to warfare, exposed to death and didn't need incentives to engage in the most base instinct of combat.
@peacethroughstrength172
@peacethroughstrength172 Жыл бұрын
What does that tell you about grit, mental toughness and strength? People today especially after the turn of the century, the internet and tech reared ones, are weak minded and babied way too much! Thats why they fall apart like wet bread with every and anything. Semper Fidelis
@leosaura1993
@leosaura1993 Жыл бұрын
@@dagoobertron Men where more exposed to death yes medicin was primitive and simple fever could kill plus hard physical work was normal and men had to be handy as well as mentally strong.
@leosaura1993
@leosaura1993 Жыл бұрын
@@peacethroughstrength172 Well with all this trans talk today tells something is wrong in society.
@user-xk1sy9pl6z
@user-xk1sy9pl6z Жыл бұрын
@@leosaura1993 If all the soldiers, especially the union soldiers could come here today and see what this nation has become, would they regret their struggle and sacrifice?
@roberthaworth8991
@roberthaworth8991 2 жыл бұрын
Native Black soldiers were mustered into scratch British Army regiments in South Africa during the fighting against the Zulus in Natal in the 1870s, and were supposed to be eligible for a one-time mustering-out benefit when the conflict ended. The payments were delayed for years; when the surviving men could finally apply, most found that they had lost their paper enlistment records, did not remember (or never knew) their (White) C.O.'s name, their date of muster, or even their own birthdays/age -- their society being totally illiterate and largely innumerate. The pension examiner sent to the field, a retired British officer himself, felt bad for these men b/c they were obviously sincere. A number of them had old bullet wounds, and a few had even lost limbs to amputation by a surgeon. So he each candidate execute the Manual of Arms, plus some basic march evolutions on command, to prove his status as a former soldier. To a man they performed these actions crisply after all those years, and thus earned their cash from the Queen.
@garge7676
@garge7676 2 жыл бұрын
A similar story is told of German Askari after WWI, who spoke little to no German natively, were mostly illiterate, and sometimes did not even have enlistment papers to begin with. Some presented wounds or old scraps of their uniform. To prove their service, it was eventually decided to give the command of arms in German. Likewise, all went through the orders.
@WestTNConfed
@WestTNConfed Жыл бұрын
An interesting side note is how in the films all these elderly men are so energetic/joyful compared to today's even middle-aged men. Makes you wonder how important it is to keep an active lifestyle and never give up by sitting in a chair all day. I hope I'm like these men when I'm 80.
@TheBatugan77
@TheBatugan77 9 ай бұрын
I hope I'm 80...
@tomservo5347
@tomservo5347 11 ай бұрын
It's funny to realize that I followed in their footsteps learning basic drill in the Army 20 years ago.
@bonanzatime
@bonanzatime Жыл бұрын
Wish I could have met a Civil War veteran.
@huntclanhunt9697
@huntclanhunt9697 Жыл бұрын
You can still meet people who met them if you hurry. The last Civil War vet died in the 1950s.
@seanmorrissey1528
@seanmorrissey1528 Жыл бұрын
My third great grandpa was born in 1825 in Mississippi, but raised in New York and Missouri. He moved back to NY before 1850. He was part Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, and French and English. He joined the Union Army in NY.
@hunnybunny5474
@hunnybunny5474 2 жыл бұрын
Cool video, but that song at the very beginning was fantastic
@Gitsmasher
@Gitsmasher Жыл бұрын
Awesome mustache❤
@joeguzman3558
@joeguzman3558 Жыл бұрын
Wow that was amazing, and the uniforms probably got lost over time by the relatives, today anything from the civil war is very valuable.
@nimitz1739
@nimitz1739 Жыл бұрын
This is awesome! Really great footage! And I’m the 100th comment!
@lukeskywalker7461
@lukeskywalker7461 2 жыл бұрын
Vets able to fit in their uniforms 60 years later. Unheard of now.
@victorblock3421
@victorblock3421 Жыл бұрын
KFC, BK, MICKEY D 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Kevin-tz2lv
@Kevin-tz2lv Жыл бұрын
You'd think former military people would stay in shape
@johnmullholand2044
@johnmullholand2044 Жыл бұрын
​@@Kevin-tz2lv Different times, different lifestyle. They weren't as sedentary as we are today. You worked, doing hard physical labor, from dawn to dusk, went to bed early, and got up the next day to repeat. Day after day, for their entire lifetime. I guarantee those men were tough as boot leather, even at their age!
@Kevin-tz2lv
@Kevin-tz2lv Жыл бұрын
@@johnmullholand2044 no doubt
@johnmullholand2044
@johnmullholand2044 Жыл бұрын
@@Kevin-tz2lv As a reenactor, I've had a VERY small taste of how they lived and fought in the Army. We couldn't do today what they could if we tried! I doubt even a modern soldier could march twenty or more miles, with their full pack, gear, and etc, and go straight into a battle. They did that as a matter of course. Twenty miles a day on beans, hardtack and coffee!
@richardkluesek4301
@richardkluesek4301 Жыл бұрын
Great Americans to whom we owe what we have and who we are.
@bantumwt
@bantumwt 2 жыл бұрын
Precious.
@Briselance
@Briselance Жыл бұрын
01:19 Muscle memory is still strong in old soldiers.
@johnmullholand2044
@johnmullholand2044 Жыл бұрын
Thsts because they drilled, drilled, and drilled some more. When they weren't marching, eating or sleeping, they were drilling, until the actions were so ingrained that it was second nature. I'd bet good money that they could have still loaded, fired, and hit what they aimed at!
@JILOA
@JILOA 2 жыл бұрын
It might seem like we're pretty far removed from those days but I'm almost 70 years old and there were vets from the civil war still alive then. But, very few. I think the last one died in 1956, a confederate.
@davidbowman4259
@davidbowman4259 Жыл бұрын
I think the last Union solder died in 1956, the last Confederate in 1959.
@atune2682
@atune2682 Жыл бұрын
crazy stuff
@354sd
@354sd Жыл бұрын
That's not something I expected to see today Really interesting
@brennanfosberg1273
@brennanfosberg1273 2 жыл бұрын
i know none of my family history im just a kid who loves history and watching these types of things
@juancarlosbarrazayanez5279
@juancarlosbarrazayanez5279 Жыл бұрын
Hace 100 años de esto increible
@billm4330
@billm4330 Жыл бұрын
Close order drill was not their stong suite. Face to face hand combat was. What a piece of history.
@jamesburton1050
@jamesburton1050 Жыл бұрын
Wow!!
@robertcurry389
@robertcurry389 Жыл бұрын
It’s crazy to me how he saw warfare go from cannons and cavalry with men in lines and charging forward with bayonets to seeing men in tanks and planes with machineguns and heavy artillery. I can imagine some WWII veterans, those that are alive, are amazed to see the advancement from bolt action rifles to modern rifles along with all the other crazy advancements made.
@richardjames1812
@richardjames1812 Жыл бұрын
While there may be some actual War for Southern Independence uniforms here, mainly in this era you will see the veterans wearing either GAR (Grand Army of the Republic, the US veterans group) or UCV (United Confedered Veterans, the CSA veterans group) uniforms. Both organizations were organized in a military style with "camps" and with ranks, uniforms, etc. The successor organizations are, respectively, the Sons of Union Veterans and the Sons of Confederate Veterans, both still in existence today except it's mostly great and great great and great great great grandsons now.
@69zenos1
@69zenos1 2 жыл бұрын
The audio must have been hilarious.
@BrianBurkett-xj7xd
@BrianBurkett-xj7xd 10 ай бұрын
Note the soldier with the frock coat is carrying a US M1861 but has a frog for an P53 Enfield
@whicker59
@whicker59 Жыл бұрын
As a lifelong Confederate, I can very much appreciate these old yankees. Even the little one who was telling the others how to do the drill. Lewis's Grizzard use to say.... they come down here and tell us how they did things back n Cleveland.
@whicker59
@whicker59 Жыл бұрын
@killacommieformommy U must b from 1 of those traitor regions like East TN, northern KY, r suburban DC VA. As a historian for 58 years, I'll b delighted to teach u what Confederate means. Uv obviously used it as an historical noun as n soldier.....that would b correct if it was the ONLY meaning. However, it ALSO represents a CAUSE n the historical sense too. Ever heard the expression "confederate n arms?" It associates itself with a camaraderie, an ally. My maternal English ancestors have been documented n detail from 1699 n Tidewater VA; my paternal French ancestors from 1724 n same area. Heck, my dog is even named after Jeb Stuart....lol. Now, unless ur a present day Democrat who doesn't know what a "woman" is, u'll now b acquainted with confederate.
@owasso8775
@owasso8775 2 жыл бұрын
Men of Valor of times gone past.
@stoggafllik
@stoggafllik Жыл бұрын
Now we have weak men
@elchicano187
@elchicano187 2 жыл бұрын
Wow those guns were huge ey.
@oreally8605
@oreally8605 2 жыл бұрын
He's like: "Get outta the way lemme show you how to do it!"
@ThePatriots010304
@ThePatriots010304 Жыл бұрын
Most of the vets alive in 1929 were just teenagers when they fought. Many of them 16 and under.
@randeetereshko6116
@randeetereshko6116 Жыл бұрын
Just think these vets fought a war with muzzle loaders, and got to see the evolution of weapons until the day they passed. Not to mention electricity, Titanic sinking, man flying in planes,WW1,ect.
@ScoutSniper3124
@ScoutSniper3124 Жыл бұрын
This was during Prohibition, and you can't tell me they weren't three sheets to the wind playing with that rifle.
@carsoncitydigs
@carsoncitydigs Жыл бұрын
they hold it every way except the sling
@wyattguilliams5325
@wyattguilliams5325 6 ай бұрын
I like to think that third guy came up and said ""He says you're doing it wrong!! Here give it to me I'll show you how to do it properly... what? No no get away im going to show you how its done""
@bruceradford8284
@bruceradford8284 Жыл бұрын
Some of my family in the north but most in the south and never once did talking about the civil war come up!!!!
@matrox
@matrox Жыл бұрын
I wish someone would have captured video of the actual Civil War.
@mauriciofragapoltronieri6315
@mauriciofragapoltronieri6315 Жыл бұрын
Eles eram jovens de vinte e poucos anos ou até menos naqueles idos de 1865 quando terminou a guerra. Esse vídeo foi 64 anos depois da guerra terminar.
@Imachowderhead
@Imachowderhead 2 жыл бұрын
Hardee's manual of arms.
@zzubuzz
@zzubuzz 2 жыл бұрын
I get tense with these reunions thinking one or more might snap and start shooting “forget hell!”
@MrTruckerf
@MrTruckerf 2 жыл бұрын
Haha! They were civilized folks back then, not like the asinine idiots of today.
@buckberthod5007
@buckberthod5007 2 жыл бұрын
Only if they had been real bad in the war. Like a North Georgia boy running into one of Sherman's boys.
@williamgary7891
@williamgary7891 Жыл бұрын
The civil war never ended 😢
@timboslice1979
@timboslice1979 Жыл бұрын
My father told me my grandmother met a civil war vet when she was only 5 years old.
@talleman1
@talleman1 4 ай бұрын
Classic.
@loidforger8854
@loidforger8854 Жыл бұрын
Heros
@LeonDegrelleHero
@LeonDegrelleHero Жыл бұрын
epic mustache
@lewstone5430
@lewstone5430 Жыл бұрын
Where Johnny Reb bit it hard!
@amoruzz
@amoruzz Жыл бұрын
👍
@sdrob6374
@sdrob6374 Жыл бұрын
The reunion was almost a 100 years ago now.
@choreboy3906
@choreboy3906 Жыл бұрын
God Bless Southern Soldiers.
@missmiss975
@missmiss975 2 жыл бұрын
Time is crazy Wonder how we will be seen in a hundred years. I'm alone and widowed. Time will erase my pain and myself. But not these men
@MichaelHutchings607885
@MichaelHutchings607885 2 жыл бұрын
Wondering how tall that dude must have been, he stood head and shoulders above everyone else..??
@infantinofan
@infantinofan Жыл бұрын
It looks like he is wearing his Union Army uniform instead of the GAR hat and coat.
@Growmetheus
@Growmetheus Жыл бұрын
My gramps fought and two years later had kids and died. His boy never got to know him. Blew up from a train oddly.
@johnmullholand2044
@johnmullholand2044 Жыл бұрын
That would be terrible, to survive the most horrendous war in our history at that point, only to be killed in a train accident, a couple of years later.
@facuuu2809
@facuuu2809 Жыл бұрын
To think all these "old men" fought against AND defeated slavery adds a whole new meaning to all of this, imagine standing right next to someone so close yet so far away from your time, who pretty much shaped your nation in one of the few just wars it participated in (and one of the few inside the country's territory, they could visit the places they fought in and still remember....that's just mindblowing)
@danielboone8256
@danielboone8256 Жыл бұрын
I wish that perspective on the war was accurate, but unfortunately it’s not. It’s up for question whether the USA has fought any just war.
@facuuu2809
@facuuu2809 Жыл бұрын
@@danielboone8256 I'd consider the civil war one of the few just wars since it served to end slavery and even if it didn't make all exploitation dissappear slavery needed to stop, "it's time was up" so to speak
@danielboone8256
@danielboone8256 Жыл бұрын
@@facuuu2809 Well, that was certainly a byproduct of the war, but I've never found the arguments for the Civil War being about slavery convincing. That's because regardless of why the South seceded, that secession of the South does not equal war, and this, unfortunately, is a point I've never heard touched on. If that was the case, the war would've began immediately instead of 4 months after South Carolina seceded, nor would that make sense of the secession of Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina after Lincoln called for 75,000 to quash the "rebellion" in order to "preserve the union." Furthermore, it wasn't until 1863, that the Emancipation Proclamation was even signed while in New York in the same year, race and draft riots occurred over whites being forced to work with blacks. Of course, there's more I could talk about on this, but it seems to me that much of the ink that has been spilled over the Civil War is just an attempt by court intellectuals to reconcile America's supposed support of self-determination (think of the American Revolution) with the USA's war against the CSA.
@TheBatugan77
@TheBatugan77 9 ай бұрын
​@@danielboone8256 No. It isn't.
@Jonathanbegg
@Jonathanbegg 2 жыл бұрын
Can you not tell which side these men had fought on, and which unit, or at least which army, was holding a reunion.
@Jonathanbegg
@Jonathanbegg 2 жыл бұрын
@@theswordofthespirit8373 We do not immediately see any Stars and Stripes, and not everyone knows their badges. A good script would have made it clear to the non-expert. Maybe the title should say 'GAR'.
@bills.1390
@bills.1390 2 жыл бұрын
All appear to be Union Soldiers, don't see any CSA uniforms. If you look carefully, you will see the tip of the Stars and Stripes flags in the background.
@JediHobbit007
@JediHobbit007 2 жыл бұрын
How fucking cool is this? Makes you wish there was some old grainy reel of tape with George Washington giving a speech
@JohnnyReb
@JohnnyReb 2 жыл бұрын
Where'd you find this footage?
@moparmadman1134
@moparmadman1134 Жыл бұрын
I wonder what they would think of the world now ...like the last 2 yrs
@blackoutsquad222nddivision2
@blackoutsquad222nddivision2 Жыл бұрын
What song is that at the beginning?
@anthonyr5869
@anthonyr5869 Жыл бұрын
This guys for 1920s are like todays Vietnam veterans
@zsedcftglkjh
@zsedcftglkjh Жыл бұрын
Just for reference, those Springfield rifles are over 8 pounds. These chads are pushing 80 years old and swinging that thing around like nothing.
@Unmutuall
@Unmutuall 3 күн бұрын
I would bet those old timer Civil War vets could take in a bare knuckle fight, any modern day old timer. We have really gone down hill physically in the last 100 years.
@legomaker9613
@legomaker9613 2 жыл бұрын
What is the name of the vet, wearing his old uniform, drilling?
@johnmullholand2044
@johnmullholand2044 Жыл бұрын
The name of the man? Who knows now? But the drill they were using was Hardee's Infantry Drill.
@CaseyPrice-lc5di
@CaseyPrice-lc5di 9 ай бұрын
So nasa didn’t give the option to train them on how.
@luxbeci2
@luxbeci2 Жыл бұрын
When made this very old videó? Who are They?
@clovismcpony
@clovismcpony 2 жыл бұрын
Who was the last guy! 😁
@modoc852
@modoc852 2 жыл бұрын
From the way he was doing the manual of arms I’d say it was Curly Howard’s grandpa .
@m.asquino7403
@m.asquino7403 Жыл бұрын
Great men, unfortunately their not with us anymore!
@therealorkdung
@therealorkdung Жыл бұрын
They're all 87-90 years old?!?
@harper1able
@harper1able Жыл бұрын
where is the ancestor of Frank Underwood? he must be there :)
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