Faces of the Confederacy: Rare Identified images of Confederate Soldiers.

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BirdDogg

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@amywaltermyer4242 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service, gentlemen

@yvonneplant9434 2 ай бұрын

Not sure they saw " service" like we do.

@karenbartlett1307 2 ай бұрын

I see you included photos of men from Arkansas and Texas, as well as one of Gen. Lee's son Fitz. Thanks, BD!

@kurtlweyden 2 ай бұрын

it's so great to see them great men

@unbreakable7633 Ай бұрын

A lot of Tennesseans. Honor to them all. They fought to defend their homes and families. Excellent video, thanks.

@mrkitty1367 2 ай бұрын

good ole rebels ever one of um !!

@frankgordon8829 2 ай бұрын

Heros, all!

@yvonneplant9434 2 ай бұрын

Confederates were traitors to the United States.

@kurtlweyden 2 ай бұрын

great stuff

@SMigacz100 2 ай бұрын

Fantastic, as always.

@jamescoffey8679 2 ай бұрын

Bird Dogg, As always thank you for sharing!

@rt3box6tx74 2 ай бұрын

Best name, Festus Cowherd! Thanks Bird Dog

@andygossard4293 2 ай бұрын

He named his kid Festus Cowherd also, cause he liked the name so much

@kellycrouch9576 2 ай бұрын

Would love to see some Florida boys from time to time. I love what y’all are bringing though. The music/photos plus what I read puts me back in time to defending our lands. Thanks all a y’all

@Stormbringer505 2 ай бұрын

T for Texas T for Tennessee. And I had the honor to live in Arkansas for 3 years. I liked the area of Arkansas I was in Ft Smith traveled down 71 south thru Mena . Keep the history and southern culture alive . Never quit.

@sorenschmidt1976 2 ай бұрын

Heros for your Contry❤

@glennt8687 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to do this interesting video of Confederate soldiers.

@BirdDogg 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for all of the support Glenn, I appreciate it so very much! Looking forward to finishing up my new house build this fall so I can get back to putting more time and energy into the channel. Your support helps get me a little bit closer to that. Thank you!!

@timisfree1768 Ай бұрын

The Dawg delivers another great piece of work! Thank you!

@AAB371 2 ай бұрын

Rest easy Soldiers of the South. You have done your duty

@anthonypetrozzelli5429 2 ай бұрын

Prouds sons of the Confederacy!

@akpatriot6398 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for another great video.

@Enfield-1853 2 ай бұрын

Had three Harrells in 43rd N.C. infantry. Grandfather and two uncles. Great to see a Harrell in the video. Thanks for putting these out.

@BirdDogg 2 ай бұрын

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@smhmay1973 2 ай бұрын

I had an uncle who served in North Carolina Regt. He was named ,James Matthew Harrell. My last name is Harrell. My Dad was from North Carolina, but didn't know much about family history. Was Jim Harrell related to you? Any information will be greatly appreciated. I live in Texas. Thank You,

@carausiuscaesar5672 2 ай бұрын

I wear my grey Rebel kepi in honour of these men of the Confederacy.🇨🇦

@lisacooper3991 2 ай бұрын

Great theme song for the photos.. it's nice to see faces to go along with reading names and what each one did in the war.. I know they fought to have freedom from the Union, but it's kinda hard to look at them knowing they had families and just didn't wanna live peacefully in life till ole age, only to give it all up for war battles and death.. another awesome episode.. thank u for sharing.. from South Carolina..

@alanmoberly64 2 ай бұрын

Thank you. You always leave me wanting more.

@ArmenianBishop 2 ай бұрын

So, Major Van [Horn] Weems was mortally wounded at the Battle of Atlanta (July 22, 1864).

@kennethmoles4643 Ай бұрын

Thank you for this one especially. One of my distant relatives was in one of those photos.

@BirdDogg Ай бұрын

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@ThirtyPack. Ай бұрын

Found your channel today and instantly liked and subscribed 👊

@BirdDogg Ай бұрын

Thanks for coming along!

@Percept2024 2 ай бұрын

I`m surprised that rotten , "woke" YOU TUBE even allows you to recognize these great C.S.A. soldiers !! They are long deceased , but NEVER forgotten !!

@trainwreckteeth Ай бұрын

Put your big boy pants on, boy, you're embarrassing yourself

@robertwhitehead3022 2 ай бұрын

Wow the coopers were my family buried in Cades cove Tennessee and Whitehead God bless these men

@BirdDogg 2 ай бұрын

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@Tony-c9b 2 ай бұрын

I’ve been fascinated with the war between the states since I was 14 years old (I’m now 66!). At that time I was a teen age high school student living in the UK doing a project on the battle between the CSS Merrimack and USS Monitor. Your photos are fascinating. I particularly like the way they detail the uniform, side arms, percussion cap pouches, canteens etc. Awesome! I am a little curious though about the picture orientation. They seem to be mirror images. Why is that? Also, at 4.14 there is a picture of Lt Robert Pryor James, Co E, 20th North Carolina Infantry. His belt buckle clearly has US stamped on it, not CSA. There also appears to be a bullet hole in his tunic at waist level off to the right. Very intriguing!

@BirdDogg 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words and coming along on these trips to the past. To answer your questions (the best I can) many of the images are reversed due to the photographic processes of the time. In some instances (if I am trying to make out an insignia etc.) I will flip them in my software, but I prefer to leave them as original as much as possible. As to the US buckle, Confederate soldiers were just Americans who suddenly found themselves living in a new country (the Confederacy,) as such, many of them were or had already been US soldiers(many were in fact already US veterans of previous wars.) When the war first erupted there really were no Confederate uniforms per se and so many soldiers simply marched off to war in what they had. In the case of previous US veterans it was convenient to wear their existing uniforms. As to the bullet hole, I’m not sure if he was shot previously but many of these fellers returned to combat after horrific wounds. Men of a different ilk I suppose.

@Tony-c9b 2 ай бұрын

@@BirdDogg Thank you. Now I understand and it makes perfect sense. Very kindest regards and I look forward to your next video😉

@jenniferjohnson7279 Ай бұрын

What id you notice in all of the pictures, there are no smiles.. these were true men ready to fight to the death for a cause they bekieved in, they didn't run,they didn't hide nor did they shirk their duty. So young, so brave, and so missed by their young wives waiting at home who didn't see them til heaven called ....god bless and they weren't called rebels for nothing....they fought til the death for a cause they believed in against all odds.

@RBG-tr9ce Ай бұрын

People want to paint confederate soldiers in a bad light, saying it was about slavery. It was really about States Rights, sort of what we face today on the abortion issue. There were over one million Confederate Soldiers, many had no slaves. They can’t all be slave owners. My second great grand father was one of them. He fought with the 33d Alabama Infantry.

@SouthernStorm_61 2 ай бұрын

Another parade of southern heroes. Thank you. G-G-Grandson of a Georgia Civil ar veteran.

@2anthro 2 ай бұрын

My g-g-grandmother Bibb had 3 sons in the 56th Regiment Alabama Partisan Rangers, Alabama Cavalry, CSA. All returned to her.

@BirdDogg 2 ай бұрын

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@houstonsam6163 Ай бұрын

0:24 Glad to see William Ward of the 9th Tennessee Cavalry. My GG GF Sam Stafford enlisted with Ward near Hartsville, Tennessee when the 9th Tennessee was organized. They rode with Morgan; Sam was captured near Bardstown, KY during Morgan's Great Raid and imprisoned at Camp Douglas in Chicago. He survived and married in 1865. My G GM Cora Stafford was born to Sam and his wife Permelia Watson in 1874.

@BirdDogg Ай бұрын

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@raymondgarcia7351 2 ай бұрын

I love that song it really says it all about the confederacy and the times of course. I need to find a recording of it.

@BirdDogg 2 ай бұрын

There’s a link to it in the video description

@gclauter Ай бұрын

Sou do brazil.adoro essas músicas com rabecas rústicas (violinos). Essa é muito linda combinou com as fotos . parabéns

@stevemahoney6493 2 ай бұрын

Thank you. I love the montages you put together on the various units. I am curious where you find the pictures? I have been looking for pictures of the 9th Virginia Cavalry, Co C. 3 Wheelwrights, kin of my wife, served in that company; a father and his two sons. All survived the war, though both sons were wounded. A younger son, Joseph, did not. He was one of the ten VMI students that died at New Market, so his name is called out every May 15th. I do have a photo of the father, Frederick Dodge Wheelwright, but none of the sons.

@BirdDogg 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for coming along! I search the national archives, library of Congress and state archives for them. Good luck and I’ll keep my eyes peeled

@stevemahoney6493 2 ай бұрын

@@BirdDogg Thanks, Fred Sr was a surgeon with them and his father held a brief command with the CSA. Fascinating family history though. His first wife died and he married a Hungerford. 2 of her brothers died in the 9th. He came from a family that arrived in 1630 and had an amazing colonial history going back to Rev John Wheelwright, founder of Exeter, NH.

@tomyoung8563 2 ай бұрын

Very cool

@billymule961 Ай бұрын

Notice that some of these images are backwards, like mirror reverse. You can tell by the hammers on the muskets as they are on the wrong side. The famous image of Billy the Kid was backwards which led people to believe he was a left handed gun. Someone finally figured out the receiver on his rifle was on the wrong side, so that indicated the print was reversed.

@trumanbentley9491 2 ай бұрын

Holy Men All

@runderwo Ай бұрын

Sadly, many of these men were evidently so young that their chance to create any descendants was taken from them by the course of events.

@bobbelles8440 17 күн бұрын

Birddog, have you ever come across any Georgia Kilgores? 35th Ga. 40thGa.? Would be very interested also Do that's Battery Va.Light Arty.?

@BirdDogg 17 күн бұрын

I’ll keep my eyes peeled, Georgia and Virginia are Coming up soon

@ChristinaGiagni 2 ай бұрын

the music was great. what and who is it ? very good presentation.

@BirdDogg 2 ай бұрын

Thanks, the music is linked in the video description, it’s entitled, “dude, where’s my horse”

@jameslongstreet9259 Ай бұрын

Deo Vindice ⭐

@gclauter Ай бұрын

Parabéns adoro tudo sobre guerra civil dos EUA. Do rio de janeiro Brazil.

@BirdDogg Ай бұрын

Obrigado!

@andygossard4293 2 ай бұрын

I always look to see if at some point we'll find one of Sam Watkins' company H

@BirdDogg 2 ай бұрын

Keeping my eyes peeled

@andygossard4293 2 ай бұрын

@@BirdDogg There are about 8 guys that have been Imaged in books and on the internet. But too many good stories on these other guys from whom we have no face to match up with