Man Born in 1846 Talks About the 1860s and Fighting in the Civil War - Enhanced Audio

Julius Franklin Howell (January 17, 1846 - June 19, 1948) joined the Confederate Army when he was 16. After surviving a few battles, he eventually found himself in a Union prison camp at Point Lookout, Maryland. In 1947, at the age of 101, Howell made this recording at the Library of Congress.
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[@christianweatherbroadcasti3491]

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[@James-kv6kb]

First time the Australians fought alongside Americans and every war ever since

[@MatthewB-Kornafel-xv6oi]

What about the millions of orphans that arrived by trains ? After the reset ?

[@felixculpa4192]

Why not monetize? It's another source of funds for your work, right? If it's political and/or social disagreements with Google/KZbin I definitely understand that....

[@user-gx2yy1df6f]

Today a person could say in all truth, "my father met Thomas Jefferson ", the 3rd president of the U.S. Jefferson died in 1826, if a newborn was laid in his arms and introduced then in 1926 that newborn would be 100 years old, and if we can agree that it's possible for a 100 year old man to father a child then that child born around 1927 would be around 98 years old today and make the statement. just an illustration of how young our country really is.

[@seandelap8587]

Its incredible how he mentions the 50s and you realise he's talking about the 1850s and we are hearing him speaking on KZbin in 2022.

[@grantsmythe8625]

Yes, we're he living here today, he wouldn't even know how to turn on a light switch. It's amazing how things change but how humans remain the same.

[@digitalfootballer9032]

@@grantsmythe8625 That was always my grandfather's signature line..."times change, but people don't". So true.

[@grantsmythe8625]

@@digitalfootballer9032 Yes, we have the same emotions, the same temptations, the same fears, the same joys and sorrows today that men and women have had since time began. I really do appreciate modern technology, conveniences and medicine, especially at 69 years of age but I do wonder if people in the past weren't better as people than we are today....in terms of character and honor and integrity and decency.

[@stog9821]

@@grantsmythe8625 as this was recorded in1947 I’d guess he’d learnt to turn on a light switch and possibly even a radio. I wonder if he ever learnt to drive.

[@majorpayne608]

The first "quick break" electric light switch was invented in 1884. Well within his life span.

[@tillik1004]

You can hear in this man's accent how the English accent morphed into the American Southern accent. His accent is closer to the English accent than the speakers of today, still recognizable even as English.

[@coburna5]

I thought that very same thing in other civil war interviews.

[@jginther1981]

Speed a southern accent up and it sounds very English. You can hear this mans southern on words that have R or end in ER.

[@lornaharrington1885]

😂

[@jchastain789]

I sped the video to 2x sounds like a dude from the south I know. Lol I'm in nc

[@IveJustHadAPiss]

I'm not sure this comment is particularly accurate .19th Century English accents were heavily rhotic, and not dissimilar to the accents one might hear in a series like _John Adams._ They eventually lost their rhoticity over the duration of the century, and - of course - the Southern accent was also widely influenced by Scottish and Irish brogues which never lost their "hard r". You also have to take into account the natural evolution of this man's accent over the course of time. He may have sounded slightly different during the height of the war. Accents generally don't shift much during the course of a lifetime, but they can (and do) adapt to geographical and cultural changes. To me, it sounds like he'd adopted many of the nuances of the _Eastern Standard_ accent used by the likes of Edison, McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt, which might be on account of his class background or status he assumed after the civil war.

[@danielanthony8373]

It's amazing I'm hearing a voice of a man born in 1846 that fought in the Civil War on my phone in 2023 in Melbourne Australia

[@carolynrussell4215]

My great great grand daddies fought in the civil war. One for the north, the other for south.

[@777dragonborn]

It's shows how much more liberty there's was in independent states before the federal union engulfed them. Now today we pay local state and federal taxes . It's better to be a undocumented illegal migrant Than a American citizen . Thats how bad taxation is.

[@gregorymanson1015]

I know its mindblowing

[@Felipe-mg1pw]

As somebody from New Earth, Mars I can confirm in 2601

[@letmebereal]

Where's Australia??

[@atrainradio929]

He was born in 1846, only 70 years ago was the US founded in 1776. And 200 years after his birth we’re listening to his voice. Quite possibly the most amazing audio ever recorded.

[@barnsleyman32]

there's a recording on youtube of pt barnum's voice, who was born in 1810. crazy

[@patriciavicari7002]

Nearly 200 years

[@xxyyzz8464]

@@patriciavicari7002 Commenter could be a time traveler from 2046.

[@SStupendous]

@@xxyyzz8464 Dislike when people round like that, almost purposely makes stuff sound more distant. So WW2 was well over 100 years ago, and Gen Z born in the mid 1990s would be over 50 years old if this man was born 200 years ago.

[@virginiaspeciale8641]

There is also a man who witnessed the assasination of Abraham Lincoln on KZbin.

[@diegowhite9689]

And this is exactly why it is so important that the youth listen and talk to our elderly. Once they are gone, part of our history dies. This is priceless!!

[@bradleyniven7942]

Its also exactly why you shouldn't trust someone just because they are ederly. His guilty conscious and others like him created a false narrative to justify their actions that people spew still today. "States rights"

[@brianb7869]

I like how he recollects the fact he wasn't it in any large battle, 'fortunately, or maybe unfortunately' with a slight chuckle.

[@theredboneking]

It was never about freeing the slaves. Lincoln made it clear that he didn’t give a shite about them. The North was losing until they switched to the inhuman scorched earth policy. Bigger population, bigger government, means bigger theft. Mark Skidmore conducted a independent audit of the USA and found $90 trillion stolen that congress never approved.

[@Syphon05]

One of my biggest regrets, not asking my great grandparents, and grandparents more questions about their lives.

[@beautruex7012]

I built a Time Machine! Makes talking to folks of the past or future, much easier!

[@consco3667]

As a teenager I shared a hospital room with a WW1 vet. He was credited with shooting down a German plane. He was a machine gunner. I was 15. He was 81. That was 1976. I am 61 now. He was a fascinating guy

[@benjo33]

Incredible story sir, remarkable to hear such things, when we seem so detached from history. We’re not the far apart in truth.

[@Dr.Madd138]

I had the honor to meet a WW2 vet that drove a landing craft on D-Day, he told me it was truly a come to God moment watching the 8mm rounds fly overhead while his craft became a meat grinder. He told me he’d be more than happy to do it all over again for this country.

[@benjo33]

@@Dr.Madd138 a generation above the rest, men who believed in America. I wish we had the same patriotism today

[@alanwright7819]

One of my uncles fought in WW I. I never had much opportunity to talk with him about it, so I still have no idea what he did, but I do know that he earned a couple of medals. As a child, I was always told that he didn’t like to talk about it.

[@finddeniro]

I met several WW1 veterans.. Early 1960s ..a Spanish America war Veteran..dying.. He want to show the charter of Arm to young boys..to be remembered..

[@noelleagape8684]

Wow! It's amazing hearing the voice of someone who actually experienced the Civil War!

[@haroldbidwell3079]

Yes yes it is

[@vm.999]

❤

[@juanhernandez2907]

Exactly what I was thinking!!

[@jerrywindhamjr3077]

This is amazing

[@sherila4834]

My grandfather was born in 1898 in Baltimore MD, where he lived his entire life till he passed in 1983, at the age of 85. His vocal mannerisms, especially in the pauses between phrases and emphases of words, were very much the same as this Civil War veteran. (My grandfather was conscripted into the army for WWI but the war ended soon after he was issued a uniform.) He was a quiet man but had learned public speaking during high school & college (he graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1920). When he spoke in front of others, his cadences were much the same as this man. I wonder if public speaking was a skill this amazing 101 yr old learned also. Their accents are also similar. Maryland was a slave state too, south of Mason-Dixon. But my grandfather's voice lost its oomph after a mild stroke in his early 80s. I just can't imagine how this man who grew up during the horse & buggy era, without electricity & indoor plumbing, who was wounded & imprisoned during that cataclysmic war & who lived to see the industrial revolution, the rise of automobiles & skyscrapers, vaudeville, radio, silent films, sound films, the Great Depression, 2 world wars, the time of an Atomic bomb and the start of the Cold War could speak with such clarity, spirit, thoughtfulness, & energy. We are so lucky to hear him. This is one of those rare moments when the internet feels like a profound gift to humanity.

[@SammyAmy-un8bi]

His accent sounds much closer to British English people than Americans do now. It's fascinating how mannerisms and ways of speaking not to mention behaviour and culture, have diverged. This is without thinking about all the technological changes he saw and we have seen since. Fascinating!

[@GregMillerVideos]

@@SammyAmy-un8bi ...almost like what they call a 'mid-atlantic' accent.

[@mjrose]

@@GregMillerVideos The ccc

[@MasterBlasterSr]

@@GregMillerVideos it is the same in Shenandoah today

[@erisgh0sted961]

The internet has always been a profound gift. It's the whole worlds knowledge made accessible to everyone. Unfortunately there's also a wealth of lies, porn, and garbage. My generation were the first to have access to it. We are able to parse the gold, from the garbage easily. Every generation before us, are susceptible to all the lies. They'll believe anything with 40 likes on Facebook. The ones that came after us, susceptible to all the garbage. They'll spend every waking minute watching porn, mindless, senseless prank videos, and garbage. In betwixt lay all the knowledge, and wisdom of the ages.

[@chadinmich1]

This guy was extremely coherent at 101 years old. This is so cool to hear him speak all these years later.

[@tomasparkington4400]

His mind is so clear because he is not exposed to all the toxicity of today.

[@banjiman9869]

Yep now they pump us with chemicals and metals. Now we suffer even more health wise. These men ate fresh deer hearts raw hunting, and ate the freshest produce and meats you could imagine. All natural and original. Were mutants now, and now people wanna implement transhumanist agendas to further skew our nature.

[@ortho-g9826]

101 and unvaccinated! I wonder hmmm....

[@SuperDrLisa]

I can't remember what I had for breakfast!

[@markbelot3350]

@@ortho-g9826 That's what you get out of this? It's time to retire your tinfoil hat.

[@RedcoatsReturn]

Incredible! 😲 The voice of a man who experienced the American Civil War, WWI, WWII and all the great changes in 100 years. A time machine in one man!

[@jeffhester1443]

Astonishing. Imagine if we could hear a witness of the revolution and declaration of independence.

[@ramongonzalez2112]

Hopefully there’s video of this man describing these events; truly incredible.👏

[@Jack-th9zg]

When he went to war the fastest vehicle was a steam powered locomotive, traveling about 35 mph. When he died we had jet planes and nuclear bombs.

[@g.davidlawrence8471]

@@Jack-th9zg And today, I have experienced the personal computer, and cell phone... Among other things...

[@g.davidlawrence8471]

Yes... "Have you ever sat down with an old man, and let him speak his mind?"...

[@freyalw326]

I just researched this man and his father was born in 1797 and his grandfather was born in 1750. Mad. That's 270 years and we're listening to the grandson of a man born in the 1750s. A bit like John Tyler's grandsons.

[@aragorn1780]

what's really interesting to me is the accent... you can tell there's the beginnings of an Appalachian/Southern drawl, yet there's also an element of Englishness/Transatlantic, like you can clearly hear the transition where the American accents became more distinct from British English (keep in mind I'm a language/linguistics major so this strikes me particularly xD)

[@godsdj7316]

I love that. ^^

[@stephenmani8495]

Absolutely. Fascinating to hear that. It gives the goosebumps to hear live how new accents evolve! Beats anything you can read in a book.

[@MarkKelly-rc6pg]

As an Englishman I was struck by how English this gentleman sounded; to be precise a south of England accent.

[@philipswain4122]

The diction and clarity of speech is astonishing. No filler words. Utterly poetic

[@Lar308]

He's probably reading from a teleprompter.

[@ThePolypam]

​@@Lar308 in 1947? 😂

[@thepervertedmonk2353]

@@Lar308 whew.. 😅😅

[@squeakybiki7821]

"Uh" is a filler word. He is utilizing them.

[@notonyourlife7939]

​@@squeakybiki7821 And there it is... there's always one. Congratulations, you're it. 🤣👍

[@tacfoley4443]

In 1897, my grandmother, then seven years old, got a 'birthday hug' from a man who had been a drummer boy at the Battle of Waterloo, in 1815. Although badly injured, he'd survived the night after the battle kept warm in the arms of his own father, and thereafter, passed down the memory of those safe arms to anybody who would listen. My grandmother passed on the hug to her daughter - when she turned seven - and she, in turn, passed it on to me. I've passed it on to my daughter, and she did the same to her daughter...

[@alexanderwhite1171]

So cool

[@jesusissalvation74]

My grandfather was born 1892 he fought in WW1 he had a piece of metal shrapnel in the back of his head they couldn't surgery to get it out. He passed in 1968 still metal shrapnel in his head he had a lot of problems with his head. Miss him and loved him very much.

[@nicholasmartin297]

Incredible story! It’s one thing to see records of births and deaths on paper, but what you described is real, living history. Thank you.

[@nerifterafrnam4682]

Pass the hugs y´all

[@rickclark4112]

That's simply great....

[@user-yp6in8nl9z]

to think this man lived through the civil war and both world wars is incredible.

[@richardhall206]

What an extraordinary treat to hear this. Thank you. Any one else notice how different his accent is to modern American? So much closer to British, specifically English, pronunciation than is the case. More emphasis on last vowels and precise annunciation of consonants.

[@Ickie71]

After all is said and done most of you all hail from the British,as it was British settlers that settled in America long before America was created.

[@richardhall206]

@@Ickie71 Of course, but this recording concerns events 200 years after British colonization started and recorded only 1 or 2 generations before 'talkies' started where distinct American accents are discernible.

[@residentzero]

Thanks God he doesn't have that heavy southern "drawl" accent which is strange. He sounds intelligible

[@GreetingsandSalutations4007]

@@residentzerothat’s a very regionalist and bigoted statement. Accents develop regionally and all are legitimate.

[@nutterbuttergutter]

@@Ickie71 the bulk of European Americans are german in descent.

[@merlepatterson]

Imagine this man served in the Civil War and then lived to witness the creation of the automobile, the airplane, WWI and WWII and then after the end of WWII he gave this interview on an electronic recording machine which used electric power which was also invented long after he was born.

[@joeblog2672]

Who said the transistor era of the 50's till now has seen the most excitement?

[@user-wi9hv2pb2q]

Anyone from the 1800s lived through the greatest upheavals in history, especially if they made it to the 1950s. When he was born Native Americans in some areas would still be living in the stone age and most of the world lived the same as they had for since the middle ages. He saw the birth of the atomic age and the anthropocene. Who knows what we may see in the future?

[@Elvis_Pond5]

​@@user-wi9hv2pb2q Inflation 😆

[@joes5192]

​@user-wi9hv2pb2q the birth of Humans as interplanetary beings for one

[@SStupendous]

-Invented only a decade after the war he fought in, to. Go back 20 years before the US Civil War and 20 years after, the 1840s and 1880s. HUGE technological difference. Go back 50 and even larger, a century and even larger. It seems there was more change then in technology than now.

[@johnnyy5327]

Never in my 21 years of life I’d ever thought I’d be able to listen to this man talk about something that happened over a 160 years ago

[@chaplainmattsanders4884]

Me, too…in my nearly 60 years! Cool that a young adult like yourself has the interest in something like this. Compliments!

[@davids8449]

I am 251 years old today and can remember the event as if it was yesterday......I never thought I would live long enough to see the end of the IKEA furniture sale we use to refer to the sale as the matchstick sale

[@hourglasstarot3717]

Well sad enough it had a lot to do with slavery. This boy probably couldn’t even imagine a life without slaves. How sad that his parents were the same. Freedom from slavery was not even important enough to discuss. - never really expected to happen Not even noteworthy. So sad this stuff. Death for nothing. And that’s why we are hear now. To learn our lessons.

[@diggerpete9334]

The recording is much later. He was old by then.

[@SR-iy4gg]

@@diggerpete9334 Obviously, it wasn't recorded in the 1860s! The person didn't say that. He said, " talk about something that happened over a 160 years ago."

[@susanbiggs5505]

What an amazing man. My dad is a WWII vet. He is 97, and one of the 7/10s of 1 percent of US WWII vets still living. My dad is still so sharp like this man. Every day with him is a gift. I try to visit him and hang out several times a week.

[@Lannis31]

I don't know of he is an amazing man and gift. He fought for the Confederate army and fought to maintain slavery.

[@YoMomsDaBombDotCom]

@@Lannis31just like not every German fought ww2 to kill Jews, not every confederate fought for slavery. War is much more complicated than a single focus issue. Obviously, it went the way it was meant to go, but to demonize the man isn’t really necessary.

[@tylernaturalist6437]

@@Lannis31 1) she’s talking primarily about her WW2 veteran father 2) the man speaking in the interview speaks of how blessed he was to have raised his children in a society that no longer practiced slavery, and that he was but a child when he was recruited to fight. Simpleton 😂

[@matthewblack111]

Please take some time to record his history. You never know if 150 years from now it'll be worthwhile to others.

[@riobabic8960]

I remember just a few years ago when just a handful of ww1 vets were left !

[@cindyjones3216]

He was 101 years old when this was recorded! Absolutely amazing!

[@tommas2674]

fewer vaccines people lived longer.

[@salar1586]

@@tommas2674 exactly, 2024 newborns gotta take 40 now or more.

[@salar1586]

@@tommas2674 Its very simple, Its Not Natural, why do people fall for it we are sheep we deserve to ☠. Survival of the fittest

[@tommas2674]

​@@salar1586 yes. cold virus mutate too fast to make a vac so every year people are pressed to put more in themselves. Dr. Salk vaccine for polio worked thank God because it didn't mutate or mutate fast. My dog a little died from I believe his 16th rabies vac, at 16 the day of his shot he picked out his clothes and we did zoomies and ran around outside, then went for the "vaccine" that night it was all down hill>>>> Who needs it after so many and not outside on ones own even but that and "fixing" animals is guaranteed money for vets,...lobbyist,...too like big corps, pharma...

[@mf--]

​@@tommas2674 That ignores the millions dying from polio, terberculous, etc. The smallpox vaccice came to the US in the 1840s saving millions.

[@kellymason7977]

Poor guy lived through the Civil War, WWI, AND WWII. He deserves an eternity of peace

[@rostam79]

Yes, but in the USA...so only the civil war was important for him. My grand grandfather was in ww1 and ww2 soldier in the german army

[@saabsk5955]

Kelly where you from the south?

[@jamesrogers4674]

Probably not ww2.

[@sc2win]

And the Great Depression.

[@laurajaneluvsbeauty9596]

The world wars are also very important to us here in the US. I had family in both

[@stovepipe9er]

It’s really something to hear a recording from 1947 from a 100+ year old civil war veteran.

[@jasonsphinx8461]

~

[@bamaraiderable]

This is real history; not a stale textbook, but life and experience.

[@2pugman]

My great uncle 1847 to 1947 was in the 1st NJ Cavalry. We have film of him doing his sword drill practice in 1946.

[@tommas2674]

there are many on here earlier than that, an ex "slave" of Jefferson Davis, who loved Davis. ... and much more.

[@tommas2674]

it would not have done the north any good to let out that the south wanted to secede due to gross unfair taxation.

[@Dreadnought16]

He was obviously a very intelligent man. Fascinating hearing him speak with such detail. I wish my mind was as sharp as his!!

[@rhonda8231]

I do hope that history teachers play these in their classes. It is so important to know your history, and what better way than to hear it from someone who was there. I feel like I found a rare gem on youtube.

[@chiarac3833]

You should see the holographic interviews with Holocaust survivors. Preserving these stories forever is a wonderful gift to the future.

[@rhonda8231]

@@chiarac3833 where can you see that? I have never heard about it, I would love to see it.

[@fjb3544]

History teachers? What’s that? And if there is any left they certainly aren’t going to play the part about the war not being over slavery

[@chrisboyd168]

States rights? Please.

[@rhonda8231]

​@@chrisboyd168 No I am Canadian

[@JS45678]

Never in my entire 50+ years of existence would I ever have guessed to actually hear a real human being who lived through the Civil War…It suddenly became more than something I learned back in school…It became horribly REAL. A battle that saw Americans fight fellow Americans to the death. Wow! Respect to the person who posted this; Thank You! 🙏♥️

[@beautruex7012]

We need a civil war nowadays!

[@tonyaharmon1383]

@John Smith Your Comment, Your Shock & Your Amazement Have Really Mystified & Horrified Me! I'm Sincerely Wondering If You Sir Are You From These United States Of America? Because Myself, I Am A 58 yr old Disabled Grandma. So We Are Of A Similar Age. I'm Actually Stumped & Need To Figure This Out.... 1. Never Thought You'd Hear From Someone Who Lived Through The Civil War? Did You Never Hear Readings Of Actual Civil War Soldier's Letters To Their Families? Read Any Of The Overwhelming Number Of Biographies Written By or About These War Soldiers? Read Any True History Stories? Heard, Read About Or Visited The Internment Camps of The "Prisoners Of War" Taken From & Kept In Custody By Both Sides? Are You Aware of The Numbers Of Soldiers Who Fought In The Civil War? Do You Realize That Not Only The Actual Soldiers But Their Parents, Siblings, Spouses, Children & Extended Families Alive At That Time, They ALL Survived The Civil War? Do You Realize That Any Book, Article Or News Papers Written For A Long Time After The Civil War, Were ALL Written By Survivors Of The Civil War? You Said "It Suddenly Became More Than Something You Learned Back In School...." It BECAME Horribly REAL? These MANY Civil War Battles Went On For Numerous YEARS, Through Some of The Hardest Winters & While Most of Those Soldiers Were Traveling On Foot, Underclothed, Sick & Undernourished! SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST ONE BATTLE! You Seem Amazed That Americans Were Fighting Fellow Americans To DEATH! Then You Comment "WOW!" Are You Not Aware This War Was Known As "The War Of Brother Against Brother"? In An Extremely High Number of Cases, Those Very Brothers Shot & Fought Literally FACE To FACE! Some Then Holding The Brother He Had Just Killed! I Have A Few Questions For You: 1. Are You Really In Your 50's As I Am? 2. Are You From America? 3. If Yes To Both, What Kind Of Bad History Teacher Did You Have At School? 4. What About Family & Local History? I Just Don't Get You, How & What You Said In Your Comment! You See, I Love History! I'm From A Family With Many Military Members Over The Generations. I Was Raised To Believe That If We Don't Remember Our History, We Are Bound To Repeat It! My Father Was Not Only A Military Officer for 24 Years But Also A Military War Hero! I Had Wonderful History Teachers Too! As A Parent I Went Above & Beyond What the Schools Were Teaching My Children, Due To The Constantly Changing "Standards of Learning"! So I Made Sure My Children Knew, Understood & Respected Their History. To Me, That's How All Children Should Be Taught. Maybe Once You've Read My Reaction To Your Comment & My Questions, You Will Understand What I Mean! This & Every War Are Extremely Serious & Painful! Maybe You Just Chose Words Which Generalized The Subject Matter You Wrote About. Anyway, Have A Safe & Happy Holiday Season & A Good New Year!!

[@JS45678]

@@tonyaharmon1383 I meant no disrespect by my posted comment. I am, indeed, a United States citizen and highly educated in sciences and mathematics (not history). My comment was meant to convey my genuine surprise (shock) to hear a recording from a real person who actually lived so long ago describing details of the era compared to reading about the Civil War in a history book. In conclusion, this audio recording put a real human “face” (voice) on what were merely events and famous dates documented in a history book I had to memorize as a child. Again, I meant no disrespect and apologize, in advance, if my post felt that way to you. 🇺🇸🙂🇺🇸

[@tonyaharmon1383]

I'm Thankful This Was Posted Too!!

[@JS45678]

@@tonyaharmon1383 Me too! 🇺🇸😃🇺🇸

[@talentlessproductions819]

Holy shit, he was 101 years old when he recorded this, and speaks more cognitively then some people I've met.

[@susan2310]

Better than Biden born 100 years later.

[@andrewgonzalez4230]

Speaks more cognitively than the current POTUS.

[@josewong5412]

@@andrewgonzalez4230 lol... You beat me to it!

[@silasmarner7586]

Cornpop dog pony soldier Biden comes to mind

[@ryanshepard1838]

YA LIKE FJB😂!!!!

[@sidneyblackwelder3540]

My great, great grandfather was Sidney Bryant. He was shot and captured at Petersburg at a battle called, "The Battle of Burgress Mill". He was also imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland. I can't help but wonder if the two of them knew one another or crossed paths at Point Lookout.

[@seanrussell6184]

I used to go to Point Lookout many sunsets. It's a beautiful place, & said to be one of the most haunted places of Maryland. This recording is amazing. 😊❤

[@hcellix]

I find it incredibly emotional because My family lost two brothers on the same day. I do remember that as a child there were a few people that were over 100 that were born around that time. It's amazing how much has changed in just a 150 years. I know change is happening so fast that people are having problems finding a hold on something to grab on to. I am 66 and it has changed so much just in the last 25 years. Scary...but hopeful...we as a species can adapt but we need to find ways to slow down and enjoy life with our love ones.

[@Tellemore]

What an honour to hear this gentleman speak. My own grandfather was born in 1857 in Tipperary, Ireland and he died the day after Christmas 1957. He was considered too old to enlist for WWI and even too old for the Boer War in !899 in South Africa. When my late father was born in 1913 my grandfather was already 56 and my grandmother was (1870) 43 years old by then. She died on July 13, 1971 just short of her 102nd birthday (today is the anniversary of her passing. Imagine having seen the transformation of society from sailing ships, pony & trap, steam engines to motor cars, jumbo jets and men walking on the moon!

[@59Alaskan]

Wow, impressive!! True about living all that time to be in the "future".. but, may I ask how old YOU are..??

[@scottpreston5074]

The changes now are even more insanely fast.someday we will be reminiscing in a hologram and people will be saying"they actually spoke that way before time travel."

[@karlabritfeld7104]

You got some good genes on your family. My grandparents were also born in the 1850s. From Scotland and Germany.

[@hdn4nd]

You are going to live a long time.

[@ancesthntr]

My great grandfather in Russia had a cousin who was born in 1873. The guy served in WW1, which started when he was 41. Come the German invasion of the USSR in 1941, he volunteered. As bad off as they were, they said, “Go home, grandpa, we don’t need you.” He insisted, and because he knew how to drive and shoot, they used him to drive around some general. One day, while driving across a bridge, the Luftwaffe shot it out from under them…at which point this 68-year-old man swam across the river with the non-swimmer general in tow. On a separate note, I remember sitting in our living room as a kid with my grandfather, born in 1901, when Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon. He told me of seeing the first planes in Russia as a kid of my age (in 1969). I cannot imagine what was going through his mind - having grown up with horses and carts , and living to see men on the Moon.

[@Jose-kx5xu]

Never thought I'd be able to hear the voice of a Confederate veteran. This is treasure.

[@therealivydawg]

Voice of a traitor.

[@arthurroberts9462]

@@therealivydawg a traitor to who? His State or yours, or are you uneducated and indoctrinated enough to believe that there was such a thing as an American military?

[@historyman0569]

@@therealivydawg So is the United States.

[@nathanv4320]

@@therealivydawg 😢

[@williamjones2596]

@@therealivydawg Just because someone no longer wants to be part of an organization does not make them a traitor to that organization. The country was very young, and many of the Confederates thought they were the ones who were more in keeping with the spirit of the American Revolution. Would you also say those soldiers were traitors? Unlikely. And “I think they’re all a bunch of racist meanies” can’t be the standard for what makes a traitor.

[@woweric]

my mom and dad where friends with this really nice old woman when i was just a baby. they said her great grandfather had served in the confederate army and she had a huge authentic painting of him in his uniform in her living room. it just amazes me how my parents knew somebody that was RELATED to a civil war solider and possibly knew stories from the battlefield and such. sometimes i wish i was alive at that time to possibly hear her stories about him that where passed on from her family.

[@kczbluesman]

Nice job remastering the audio. Really appreciate you doing this. This is truly a gem, and the last 2 minutes contain so much wisdom from that 101 year old Civil War veteran.

[@DorenesFoodPrepResource]

True, especially about State's rights. We are seeing that currently aren't we?

[@handymurray]

This is pure gold. His first hand recollections are priceless. It's fascinating to hear the strong English and Irish accents in his speech patterns.

[@edwardburroughs1489]

I just hear an American accent - albeit an old fashioned done - but I'm English so we must hear differently.

[@theredboneking]

Assuming this is real, the civil war was never about freeing the slaves. If it was recorded in the late 40s, Black people still had separate entrances in many northern establishments. The South was still a nightmare for African Americans in the 40s. I highly doubt this is legitimate.

[@henryofskalitz2228]

This is actually the old English accent before everyone wanted to become royals

[@theredboneking]

@Dirk Diggler In the 40s, you were a thousand times more likely to hear a Caucasian openly discussing how Black people shouldn’t hold any positions of power. Even actor John Wayne said as much. Lincoln himself said African Americans are not equal, and should never be equal to White people. Heavy weight champion Jack Johnson was denied entry into the Empress Hotel, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in the early 1900’s. Yet we are led to believe a Caucasian being recorded, telling us he was the champion of freeing African American slaves, when it wouldn’t be popular to do so. I don’t buy it for one bit. Sweet Home Alabama - “I hope Neil Young will remember, a Southern Man don’t need him around anyhow”. ☝️When was that written ☝️

[@Bella-fz9fy]

His accent sounds half the time English and half American.When he said “cavalry” it sounded so English😂

[@buckrepublican8782]

I remember at 6 years old I talked to an old man, 102 years old, who was sitting on a courthouse bench in Bolivar, Mo. He was with others and they were referred to at the time as the "spit and whittle" club. He was the oldest there and was a drummer boy in the Civil War, saying he was just a little older than I was. Two other men confirmed his participation as their fathers had known him during the time, all being from Polk County, Mo. They were Confederates in an area that divided the local population on both sides. From battles he saw he described the smoke and gun fire and would just say men died, most of his stories were about fetching horses, supplies and helping the cooks. He talked about there being no food, having to hunt and forage and how sick they were.. He carried with him a Confederate pin that had been attached to his drum. That was 1955, he made quite an impression.

[@belle16117]

That is incredible!

[@richard6133]

I had a similar experience, but with a WWI aviator. Invaluable. I just wish I could have been old enough to realize to pay better attention.

[@JS-wp4gs]

Thats an interesting story considering it couldn't have happened. in 1955 there was a grand total of one surviving civil war veteran left and he was union

[@syrenasketches6902]

@@JS-wp4gs he said he was a Drummer boy in the war, not a soldier.

[@lindak1768]

I’m a little younger than you. My Grandparents lived in Bolivar Mo. I remember the old men sitting on the benches and window sills around the square. A lot of them whittled. Lol Lots of fond memories of Bolivar and my relatives. Most of them buried there in Greenwood Cemetery. I went to a horrible dentist there on the square, that was not a good memory and I’ve been paying for that for years with bad teeth. Jack Hacker was his name and he lived up to it!

[@tiffanyi5645]

This old man that I’m listening to fought in the civil war as a Confederate Soldier. I’m hearing the voice of a 19th century man giving priceless testimony of such an important historical moment. As a black Puerto Rican woman in NYC, I can’t explain how incredibly complex this is for me lol

[@tyca659]

History is so complex. So glad you have an interest!

[@Jayson8888]

I don't see what being black has to do with this but it's cool you actually care about history.

[@marlenebulger6822]

Yeah, from VA and chooses the side of the traitors. Sad, but very interesting.

[@tyca659]

@@marlenebulger6822 how so?

[@xomox5316]

@@Jayson8888 you dont see what being black has to do with it, ok... lets take a moment, Jewish folks view stories of WWII Germany identify as such say they are jewish. Its the same as my view on stories about communists as my family was landowning Christian farmers and mass murdered by communist. So you have an example of race, religion/race and political/religious victims you dont see why each victim might identify as the target group of the genocide/oppression?

[@croakingfrog3173]

101 years old! Im shocked at his clarity of thought and speech.

[@TheBassgoddess]

“We never counted distances or time…” What an amazing story from someone who was a soldier in the Civil War !!

[@MrManfly]

It's so cool, in 2022, to actually HEAR from someone in who lived back then instead of just reading about it or just seeing photos !!

[@russellking9762]

exactly…i was watching a documentary about Niger in Africa where a woman was asked her age..she had no idea..even of what the current day of the week or year it is…explaining it was totally irrelevant to her everyday life…which consisted of the day to day struggle to gather food and water for her family

[@reviewguy3024]

I also noted his admission of his youth in relation to not fully comprehending important political issues.

[@NYC1927]

Yes! I caught that part too! If ONLY we could live like that today.

[@tarasmithskitchen2614]

I remember talking to my great grandmother, who was born in 1880, and the amazing stories she would tell. She outlived 7 husband's, and was 40 before penicillin was a thing. I feel privileged to have known her, she passed away in 1987.

[@seth1704]

Boy, who would want to marry her? she's the black widow. If I was #7, I would have had cold feet.

[@theredboneking]

Tara, that’s my Irish wife’s name as well. My grandfather was born in the late 1800s as well. He served in WW1 and like many soldiers, he refused to talk about it. He lived through the Great Depression and said that people in the 70s wouldn’t be as charitable if it happened then. I cringe to think what will happen when the famine hits.

[@TheErik249]

She outlived SEVEN husband's. How did these men pass away?

[@tarasmithskitchen2614]

@@TheErik249 wars, illness, ect. Most were when she was older. She even got married again in her 90s, and the last was in her 100s to a young fella in his 90s... she, like my grandmother, was married at 12, raising kids at 14, and had a bunch of kids, in a time when all that was normal. My great grandfather died of tb a decade before we really had any treatment for it. Vaccinations were not really a thing, rudimentary, other than sharing smallpox scabs, i think there were 1 or 2, but nothing like today....Times were different. She wasn't a black widow, she just had a really long life, and kept getting married. She worked until she was 106, and died at 107. She was awesome!

[@seth1704]

@@tarasmithskitchen2614 Tara I think it's neat how you posted your comment four months ago, and now within the last day, you've had four comments to start this thread. I was not trying to insult you, or your now deceased grandmother, by calling her a black widow, I apologize for this. I was just in awe that a woman could be married seven times with out a divorce being one of them. There should be more women like your grandma in this world, and if there were, I am sure this world would be a better place!

[@johnreed8336]

Amazed at this gentleman's accent. Yes he's an American from ' the South ' but so many of his words are sounded as if he were from the UK . Always wondered over time how the American accent evolved from an English one . This gentleman is in transitional stage between the two . I was greatly pleased at his assessment of why the South fought the civil war but i feel many today would want to disprove his statement. Very interesting to hear how he brought up his children to disrespect the tradition of slavery even though he faught and was wounded in those troubled times . Much respect .

[@davieh6]

Yes that's exactly what I thought. He sounds northern English with a slight southern US drawl. Very interesting!

[@mssha1980]

Well he also mentions that it’s his opinion and what he fought for. There was also lots of rewritten history that went on after reconstruction ended. If it was states right, why didn’t they free the slaves before the war?

[@amonoceros]

@@mssha1980 And why is it so hard for them to specify which rights they thought was worth going to war over, if not slavery?

[@Kurio71]

@@mssha1980 The plantation owners were the power brokers, the average man was a pawn

[@rogerwoodhouse7945]

What a well spoken gentleman and intelligent.His English is excellent.

[@michaelplanchunas3693]

When I was growing up in the 1950s, we had several elderly neighbors whom I knew about, but that was all of my interest in them. My loss. Our next-door neighbors were two retired schoolteachers who never married. Decades later I found out the eldest lived to be 103, dying in 1977, the younger dying at 97. All the history they saw, and I wasn't interested. But their next-door neighbors were an elderly couple who were personal friends with the Wright Brothers. The wife had accompanied them in 1903 to Kill Devil Hills in N C that fateful week as an assistant. Close cousins of mine saw many photos of the brothers with the couple in their home. We are the losers when we don't allow the elderly to tell their stories. So much eyewitness history gone forever.

[@jb47vintage]

I've done the same. History was sitting right in front of me.

[@claudiabottom4086]

I love listening to older people and their stories I always did

[@lindaanthony7890]

As a very young child, I loved listening to my Grandmother (born 1898) tell me stories about her early life and stories about my Grandfather (born 1887). As a very young child, I had no real concept of time, but still found the history exciting and I could listen to her all day.

[@Britspence381]

I know what you're saying, you just don't think of the value of their knowledge and experiences when you are young. My parents died when I was in my early 20's and there are so many things I wished I had talked with them about. Dad was a U.S. sailor in WWII, South Pacific, but I didn't have much interest in the War then and didn't ask him about his experiences. Mom once told me all of the places her family had lived in the rural South during the Depression, wish I had written that info down. What a loss.

[@HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat]

@@Britspence381 We can still tell ours, the future is there.

[@hinkapuss3675]

As a kid in the early 1950's I went with my Dad to an Independence Day parade in a nearby town In Maryland. WWII was barely over and many of the heroes of that war were marching, in uniform, in the parade. WWI vets, now old men got to ride in beautiful restored antique cars. And the oldest vet was in an elegant carriage pulled by a team of black horses. I remember like it was yesterday, my Dad leaning down to tell me excitedly, "That's the last surviving CIvil War veteran! As a boy, just your age, he ran away to fight in the war. He is over 100 years old."

[@phantomlord5707]

that’s awesome! and now 70 years later WWII vets are reaching that point 😔

[@josephclift3662]

Thanks for sharing this precious memory

[@beepbop6697]

​@@phantomlord5707 only 167,000 WW2 vets alive as of 2022.

[@mirandahotspring4019]

@@beepbop6697 They would all be 95 or more by now!

[@hinkapuss3675]

@@josephclift3662 You are most welcome!

[@ethanfoster4949]

These old audio interviews are like looking through a time machine its incredible this was amazing. Great work!

[@mandybentley2641]

Thank you for making and sharing these videos. They bring joy to my historical heart. It is amazing that we can see pictures of him and hear him speak all these years later. You are preserving our country’s history and that’s awesome! God bless you.

[@jackprecip5389]

Here's a man who fought in the Civil War with bayonets, single shot rifles, and horse cavalry, and lived long enough to witness the horrors of an atomic bomb dropped from an airplane.

[@stevefaure415]

Now this is a real treasure. Whoever had the good idea to start making historical recordings like this should really be honored. Amazing the old American accent too, it's not just the choice of words but the way he pronounces them, it's actually very different from how we speak now.

[@grumpyglyn1065]

I agree. I am from the UK , and it struck me how similar is his speech to my Great Great Uncle, who I remember from the 1970s. He was in his late 90s at the time, so would have been born just after your Civil War. If I heard this gentleman speak today I think that I would quite confused by his accent, it sounds much closer to a British accent , than modern American does.

[@niklase5901]

He sounds very British to me. Did he with his family emigrate from England perhaps?

[@claudiabottom4086]

Yes I noticed that dialect.

[@maid4thelamb85]

I have lived in southeastern Virginia most of my life. He sounds very much like some older people I knew back in the 1980s. We call it the "old Virginian accent". It is remarkably similar.

[@souta95]

My grandpa had a somewhat similar accent, though he was much younger (born in 1925). That being said, his ancestors came from Ireland to Spotsylvania, VA in the early 1800's then ended up in Southwest Michigan in the 1830's, where many of us still are today.

[@pamelanadel3787]

Wow. What can you type to top that! What a historian. He still had his mental faculties to record this. Thank you for your service. ❤️🙏🏻✝️🇺🇸

[@Braveheartman123]

This is a priceless recording that gives us so much insight into - and very important information about what the Civil War was fought for….NOT over slavery, but to preserve the rights of the individual States to govern themselves. I was close to my great-grandfather when I was a young boy. He was born in 1888 and passed in 1977. He was born in Connecticut but lived most of his life in Southwestern Massachusetts. He had an accent and referred to himself as a “swamp yankee.” He said things like “by and by” a lot and I loved spending time with him.

[@PPISAFETY]

I grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and in the early 1980's I made my way through college as a paramedic. We received many calls for service to a stately old building that looked like a smaller version of the White House, known to us as the Confederate Home For Ladies. This was actually called the Home For Needy Confederate Women. It was essentially a nursing home established for the widows, sisters, and daughters of men who had served in the Confederate Army and Navy. By the time I started going there for work, all that was left were essentially women who had been the much younger post-war brides, sisters, and daughters of older Confederate veterans. Some of the ladies were still quite lucid, and often lonely. I visited there off duty several times just to talk to some of them. While none were old enough to remember the actual Civil War, they told amazing stories of their lives in its aftermath with their husbands and fathers. I wish I had thought to record some of the conversations with them. The Commonwealth of Virginia paid for their care until the last one died, and the place was closed in 2008.

[@jancoley9051]

That is fascinating. So good a place of refuge and help existed and for so long. That is what you call good people. I am sure they appreciated your visits. Recordings would have been nice, at least you have your memories, their stories. In my city we have an organization called "Daughter's of the Confederate" They do many services, donations, and help in various supportive ways in Mobile, AL Thanks for sharing.

[@sarahflanagan9345]

These women were treated better than the slaves their husbands and fathers wanted to keep enslaved.

[@carlafward2744]

There was a novel by Allan Gurganus which came out in 1989, called The Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All. I got it as a birthday gift from my mother. It's quite good, told in the voice of a woman who was married off while a teenager to a middle aged Confederate veteran. She tells his story from her recollections of what he used to talk about, and describes the society of the day, and brings it up to the present day (1989, I guess). She touches on race and racial history a lot, and marvels at what has changed, and what has remained the same. I wish you'd recorded your conversations, too!

[@jgrysiak6566]

Dud anybody talk about Richmond being burned to the ground?

[@wolfeinhorn4661]

Amazing. Thank you so very much for sharing !

[@joelashdod7712]

When I was a child in Brooklyn in the 1950’s and 60’s, an elderly doctor lived on my street, I used to walk his dogs and he took me to see his horse. He had quite a history, and at age 16 he rode up San Juan Hill with Teddy Roosevelt, left the Army and trained as a doctor. Reentered the Army in 1910 and was a military doctor in four wars, in Mexico, WW1, WW2 and Korea. He had a great love of animals and I believe he was the model for Colonel Potter in the tv series Mash.

[@michaelwalters7333]

Wow, Badass

[@romine777]

I am amazed that this gentleman has such a sharp memory and is so articulate. Thank you for posting!

[@NeffyCat]

That was absolutely amazing to hear his perspective about the Civil War! I really appreciate your sharing this with us! Thank you so much, friend.Watched in full! I loved the pictures too.

[@dstorm7752]

Fabulous that somebody had the brainpower to get this gentleman on audiotape in 1947

[@cuebj]

In early days of tape recording, even before, with acetates, there was a lot of recording of folk memories, songs, stories now in various archives and digitally enhanced

[@richardcarpenter158]

I have a photograph on my wall of my great grandmother holding my sister on her lap. My great grandmother's father was in the 12th Virginia Infantry CSA. My sister is named after Robert E. Lee.

[@itsnerfornothing7554]

​@@richardcarpenter158 traitors all

[@theyumyums]

What a fascinating account of the time from someone who was there. I'm from England and it's interesting to hear how the accent is not that far removed from an English one and you can get a sense of how the difference developed. Also interesting to hear the word "furlough" used which nobody in the 21st century had any idea of until the Covid pandemic !.

[@toblakai5543]

Hes very much collected and great story teller at age of 101... mind blowing hearing living history.

[@cashkitty3472]

When you compare how he talks with a lot of people today you realise even with limited education he still speaks better than most living today.

[@JC-em4tx]

Perhaps today, we are indoctrinated more than we are educated

[@hillbilly4christ638]

You can thank your educational "system" for that.

[@johnrawls8668]

Dat right.

[@BELCAN57]

What a well spoken man.

[@markwood3389]

Well spoken or extremely deluded. It’s still interesting.

[@tomwiggins1225]

Well, spoken, period.

[@rotunda57]

Very well spoken bless him

[@Johnny-ip4mk]

@@markwood3389 Deluded? What part didn’t you understand? I think you’re the one that’s having a hard time understanding what the man said.

[@markwood3389]

@@Johnny-ip4mk I was talking about the Lost Cause. He was a Confederate soldier, fighting for slavery, and against the U.S. government. After the war, the Lost Cause was the way they rationalized it.

[@joshilasumman5141]

Just amazing to hear this audio.

[@tomb5396]

Just incredible how clear/concise this man was. Love these videos

[@louisskulnik7390]

Wow he sounds so strong for a 101 year old man. He sounded like he had another decade in him.

[@NorEEzta]

@@Jj-gi2uv 50x more testosterone, too.

[@theredboneking]

No aluminum filled chem trails either.

[@Emily-fo2xo]

still alive !

[@HalkerVeil]

It's not until you get old when you realize how short a year really is. And how recent his time was.

[@nothingtosuccess]

Thank you for the video and amazing glimpse into the past.

[@lilithrogers5204]

What an amazing life and memories this fellow has....thank you for sharing.

[@Donovan_Walker]

“We didn’t keep track of distance or time, in those days.” That’s awesome. This world would be a great deal better off if we didn’t worry about such things nowadays.

[@richardarrington5992]

I picked up on that too. That really shows such a different perspective of that era.

[@fanatamon]

So much cruisier.

[@ericpadilla2454]

No it wouldnt

[@cz2165]

Um… he didn’t worry about time because slaves did all the hard work.

[@AntQuick1102]

Lol distance and time are overrated?

[@papamartino]

Linguistically, this is priceless. It is an account of the great accent shift that occurred in North America. Although the accent has clearly shifted to modern southern English, you can still hear the distinct British pronunciation, especially with final [i] sound, ex. Cavalry.

[@dennisrichardsrichards8352]

Interesting Luc. I'm going to read more about the accent shift you spoke about above. Thank you.

[@richardsfault1]

The accent reminds me a bit of some Canadian accents I've heard.

[@abubaseet]

@@richardsfault1 I think the English accent from the 18th century has got to be the common denominator.

[@karekarenz7683]

Yes, you can definitely hear the British pronunciation --- a couple of words I picked up that didn't having the American rolling "r" sound ---- "remem-ba" and "bor-da" --- but he does have the flat "a" sound in most of his words, as in "he-f" not "har-f" for "half". His pronunciation of "school" was also interesting. He says it in the way most Australian's do today "sch-ooool".

[@AlbertH99]

He died on my first birthday!

[@user-oi4tj4pp8q]

I love this as someone who has always been interested in history. My family have two recordings one of my Grandfather telling of his boyhood memories and one of his mother telling of her early memories. Myself I was born in the 1970s and spent quite a lot of time around people who had fought in ww2 and my grandfathers voice still recalls similar memories of people who fought in the American civil war. My great gran tells of how she went west with her parents in a ultimately failed attempt at being settlers. I think doing recordings of your old folk is a very nice thing to do both for your future generations but also so that the elders can revisit their early memories that have faded with the loss of the people in those memories.

[@dawndellarocco2362]

How interesting and informative. Imagine this man who at 101 had such a great memory and a lot of courage to talk about his experience in the Civil War. A lot of men can't even talk about their war days. What a great storyteller and an interesting story and life that he led. God bless you for serving and fighting for our country. I love the old photos as well.

[@ImSpun13]

The quality of this recording is phenomenal! So glad this was preserved and is now available for everyone forever. What a gift to mankind!

[@rcpmac]

It was enhanced. You should read the blurb

[@rickclark4112]

This audio should be played in ALL history classes in America.... absolutely wonderfully enlightening....

[@rcpmac]

It’s banned in the southern states because it brings up uncomfortable truths

[@eddieb9930]

@@rcpmac Man just look at the uncomfortable truths going on today , If something don't change soon the average American will be eating hominy and crickets ! People need to go back and look at all world history and they would realize this has been the best place to live in all of history and does it have faults hell yeah plenty It's ran by humans .

[@Ninnjette-]

@@rcpmac People are so fragile they can’t handle history anymore, that doesn’t look good for America.

[@zvotaisvfi8678]

YES GREAT IDEA LETS TIE THE CHILDREN DOWN AND PUT ON A STROBE LIGHT WHILE WE DO IT TOO!!!!

[@laurajanesherman9126]

My local community college which was practically on the battle of 1st battle of Manassas and the history professor refused to teach or discuss this war… take a guess what would follow in 2014-15.

[@patriciadecicco8809]

This was sooo well done! Thank you so much for making it! I'm sure there was considerable effort on your end to make it so authentic, yet so audible as well. What an amazing account. And I've often said, if you grew up with slavery, you wouldn't have truly understood how evil it was, bc of your "conditioning ".

[@Falkriim]

Incredible audio, thank you for posting this.

[@b.a.d.2086]

My grandparents who raised me were born in 1898 and 1900. My grandfathers father was a detective on the early Union Pacific Railroad and my grandmothers mother saw 5 of her sons fight in the Civil War for the North, losing one. She nursed people after the Allegheny Arsenal exploded. My mother in law, a nurse, skipped the entire 20th century on her headstone! I was born in 1944 before D Day and have pictures of me sitting on the floor with my grandfather looking at the headlines announcing the end of WWII. Grandma went from horse and buggy to an airline trip around the world with me. She passed in 1998 age 98. They were amazing people!

[@lash3630]

They called them gum shoes.most were cruel to hobos.some beat them to death.gumshoes,well hells only half full,union Pacific,figures.

[@vieskow9544]

Remarkable

[@Hanzey1966]

@@lash3630 Interesting . . . We use to call Cops/ Detective"'s on ,,Sluipers,, (Dutch Slang) wich freely translated means ,,Sneakers'' , due to creeping/sneaking up on people without making any sound by footsteps.

[@oggjoshua]

You're saying your mother in law was born in the 1800s and died in the 2000s?

[@Hanzey1966]

@@oggjoshua That could be true , If i.e. born in 1899 and passed in 2001. I mean there are certainly people becoming 102 Years of age.

[@rachelcody3355]

what amazes me is I am sitting here in the year 2022, listening to the recollection of an old man, recorded 20 plus years before I was born about a war that happened over 160 years ago and through this technology it's as if I am sitting in the room with him listing. God bless and thank you.

[@NYC1927]

Totally! Born in the late 60s here as well and to hear him talk about a war that took place 100+ years before we were born is a total trip!

[@squidy4082]

It’s beyond me

[@2serveand2protect]

Regardless of political sympathies and/or allegiances anyone might have nowaday - those voices from the past - recorded and preserved - have an ENORMOUS historical value. Big thanks for posting this.

[@potatosalad6699]

So cool to hear his voice. I wish my ancestors would have been able to tell their stories like this. All I have are some diaries they wrote during the war and after.

[@coynichols3517]

What you have is still pretty awesome though!

[@JCtheROD]

He doesn't sound 101 years old, he sounds more clear than most people do today.

[@christianfreedom-seeker934]

I know, this is why I said "he is an "old joker" you get enough of them and you get a local liars club. He was probably just a man in his 70's trying to get attention. Voice and mind were too clear to be over 100. Truth is, most folks over 100 are drooling on themselves and have lost the willpower to talk.

[@judyholiday1794]

@@christianfreedom-seeker934 My Gran was a nurse,and one of her clients was a man that when he died at 98 was alert and had his full thinking process just the day before.. I was only 9 or 10 but I remember him vividly describing his childhood in Holland.

[@felixmadison5736]

Not quite as easy to listen to as Herschel Walker.

[@SarahK86]

@@christianfreedom-seeker934 hahahah.

[@tmckmusic8584]

He still has his faculties because he drank pure spring water, ate from a farm, walked every day, didn't have WiFi radiating his body, and wasn't vaccinated his whole life. Just sayin... We aren't so healthy these days.

[@buchan448]

love that we can hear and see the past like this, subbed and pressed the bell hello from Scotland

[@shanasmith4176]

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COURAGEOUS SERVICE MUCH RESPECT AND HONOR TO YOU

[@gregorsmith]

You can still hear a ting of an English accent mixed in his voice. It’s crazy how it has evolved in America depending on where you go like the Irish accent morphing into a Boston accent. I know I’m off topic but I find languages amazing. This must of been right around when voice recording was invented. The clarity is amazing.

[@Voltomess]

what amaze me most is not an accent but overall languages on earth I wonder why every part of the world invented his own language

[@roderickreilly9666]

If it was recorded when he was 101, it would have been recorded in 1947, year i was born.

[@roderickreilly9666]

The accent is revealing. Not what I'd consider a southern accent, but I'd be wrong. I've heard similar accents from other southerners of the same period.

[@rriveter9927]

There are many music recordings and from the 1920's, and earlier than that. Talking movies around his time also.

[@robertcottam9000]

That thought occurred to me as well - about the English accent I mean. Tiny bit of West Wales, too, I think.

[@smudgey1kenobey]

This guy is great! My grandmother saw the last of the covered wagons cross the Kansas prairie AND the first man walk on the moon in her lifetime.

[@Nick94MI]

That's some major change to see in a lifetime!

[@JokerFace090]

Thats cool. I still remember seeing the last 56k modem and the first rich dude go to space.

[@p1randymarsh618]

Nobody’s walked on the moon

[@Arete37]

My mother is 102 and her family owned a Model T Ford. These days she is still texting daily and buying stuff on Amazon.

[@RodneyFreeman]

This was absolutely amazing!

[@rocket22mike]

This is a real, beautiful gift to all of us! To be able to hear this man voice to tell us what war and his life really was like gives us a better understanding of this time, the civil war and early America. Wow!😀

[@gretchent7750]

Thank you for posting this gift! My Grandfather was born 20 years after Lincoln was shot. My Dad was born in 1927 and played cornet in high school in a small Wisconsin town. He played taps for all the fallen soldiers, even one from the Civil War. I don’t know why I’m sharing this…I guess I just want to share a bit of my history.

[@trishr2081]

It’s appreciated and I am very glad you shared. History is important.❤

[@johnpastore7685]

Very glad you did. It's positive.

[@wolfeinhorn4661]

Thank you for sharing our history !

[@1976mcfarlane]

What little town in Wisconsin? I'm on Wisconsin girl. I'm in Jefferson. I have family roots in mondovi area And iron River

[@joniarmel7308]

Good story !

[@TheHappyHousewife89]

He probably never imagined that people almost 200 years in the future would be listening to his story...

[@BitcoinMaxy34]

Well he recorded this in 1947 so almost 100 years in the future for sure.

[@bbsara0146]

imagine if he started shilling his merch store at the end of the interview

[@BasilMinhas]

76 years in the future

[@StuartKlimek]

it is likely the recording was not 200 years ago, but only 100 years ago. From the books that were written and the movies that were produced at the turn of the 20th century, the man very likely could imagine that the recording may in fact be being listened to by people in the present. Of course, his awareness to the extent of the cultural progress and Democrat regress could not have been known. If it could, it is almost certain that there would have been no World Wars that did occur.

[@Frankosclone]

On ap app on a phone that has the power of basically knows all in your hand he never wouldve guesssed

[@acebasinnation88888]

Beyond amazing human being, thanks truly and dearly

[@tinadoyle3803]

Absolutely incredible 👏

[@cropcircler]

What a fabulous storyteller and what a fabulous voice. Listening to him is like taking a time machine back to a long gone past.

[@coltonwarner7886]

“We didn’t count distances or time in those days” I don’t know why that hit me so hard but it does.

[@Sillysoft]

Both used to keep people busy and unaware what the government is doing

[@automan1591]

Yep that struck a note with me too. It may not be practical but somehow it feels comforting.. and vaguely familiar..

[@svachalek]

“In the state of Virginia. I didn’t know about states before that time.” Mind blown!

[@gr8tbigtreehugger]

Without a time piece, it's hard to set a baseline for distance i.e. 'six hours from here' as time is a factor in determining speed ('3 miles per hour.') Travel estimations are more likely "the better part of a day" kind of thing.

[@abumohandes4487]

@@automan1591 Sounds like Africa today.

[@TuedaysChild72]

This is amazing! And i love hearing how speech was at that time, not just accent, but mannerisms and word choices, so interesting!

[@shawnmcculley2995]

Just AMAZING to hear the voice of someone who was born in 1846!!!! One of my gr.gr.grandfathers was born in 1846. He died in 1929. Would've loved to have heard his stories.

[@72markmiester]

Wow, I can’t believe I’m hearing a man that actually fought in the civil war. Wow. To me this is incredible. This is all very significant historical evidence of our country. I find this very fascinating.

[@user-wr2cd1wy3b]

it is seriously blowing my mind, that they managed to find someone very, very old, on a very, very new piece of technology and just by a hair, caught what is to us now, something that feels like 'relative ancient history' in permanent wave form.

[@ElusiveMasquerade]

An extraordinary man from an extraordinary time. If only he would have known we would be listening to his voice filtering from our phones in the distant future.

[@Patrick3183]

He would assume someone is holding their phone receiver up to the record player so someone else can hear it down the line.

[@mariahwhitneycelinejanetmadona]

Extraordinary?

[@ElusiveMasquerade]

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[@mariahwhitneycelinejanetmadona]

@@ElusiveMasquerade 🏁

[@bumboclat]

the recording is from after ww2. So he has a concept of radio, phone and television. From there it's not too absurd to imagine youtube.

[@MrMalformedllama]

This dude was born when there were still people around from the American Revolution. And there were people around as recently as a decade ago who were the CHILDREN of civil war vets (they had kids at like 75/80). All of this stuff seems so ancient but realistically it's only been a few human lives that have passed in between all these events.

[@MaryRosebud]

His manner of speaking is so much like my grandmother’s. Some of the phrases he uses are the same as the phrases she used. My grandmother’s parents were children during the Civil War. They remembered hiding silverware down the well, and putting the pigs in the creek. I miss my grandmother. She was the world to me. There will always be wars and people will always live through them the best they can. But a grandmother is eternal, since she goes to Heaven.

[@FrostRare]

I notice that all of these interviews with Civil War veterans feature men who speak with a sense of dignity, rectitude, nobility, unashamedness, eloquence, deliberateness, carefulness, sensitivity, they never say “um” or make sarcastic, self-deprecating remarks. There’s only truth and respect in their speech. Not only respect for others, but respect for themselves.

[@jancoley9051]

Well said

[@solidkreate5007]

Our ancestors were not stupid people. I wish Americans would still speak this way instead of Ebonics slang mixed with retardation.

[@juliaussery4303]

Totally agree.

[@FrostRare]

@@juliaussery4303 glad you do! I wish actors who play in historical films would actually reference footage from the time they’re portraying. Maybe they’d capture the compelling nuances and style of this self-expression. Instead, we get characters wearing old style costumes moving and talking like people from 2023 lol. They change their accent, but for the most part they speak in this hushed, staggered, self conscious way that in no way represents the history.

[@Rayrard]

Interesting to hear the evolution of the southern accent. You can hear some British in there, but also an old fashioned southern accent. You don't hear this accent anymore. Seeing accounts of these battles it is amazing that he came through the whole thing without being hit more than once. These guys were standing in lines in the field. Almost miraculous to survive the whole war.

[@wps8091]

Yes, you are absolutely right. I didn't notice until you mentioned it. I'm English and to me he sounds like an Englishman with a Southern US twang. To you he sounds Southern with a dash of British. It's so fascinating to hear the evolution of the accent just like you said.

[@steveholmshaw8702]

You're so right. Im English and to me he sounds like an English man who's lived in America for a while.

[@CBBC435]

Yes. An accent of the British that has lingered.

[@alexsandifer5139]

I couldn't focus on his words because I was so interested in the evolution of southern accents

[@rediryou]

I live in Appalachia Virginia and I was thinking the same thing. While VA does have regional accents some of which almost sound Scottish I have not heard one quite like this gentleman's.

[@RotNcroch]

It’s incredible that this exists and it’s also incredible that he speaks more clearly than todays youth does!

[@rocknewtonfilsterwilly7364]

He's a 101, he should; anyone with a brain does.

[@teepee2759]

How amazing to have this recording!! We could learn so much if we would just listen.

[@chuckwest7045]

Thanks to whomever posted this. This gentleman had incredible attention to details. He remembered every little thing to the exact date and location of where these events took place. He was 101 at the time and remembering stuff that happened in his teens.

[@russellking9762]

exactly….just to be able to say you were still standing after being at Gettysburg is a feat of survival…think about it…thats like surviving the first landing on Omaha Beach 3 times over without getting hit…then making it through as a POW..and on top of that…making to 102yrs of age…without Dementia Alzheimers Parkinsons or a stroke…they built them tough in those days….it was an honour to listen to this man speak…i would have loved to hear or better still see his reaction when we went to the moon…than

[@rustyruss2962]

Yesyes

[@ancesthntr]

Yes, thanks for posting this amazing recollection of history by an amazing man.

[@JavierAcosta-fd4rd]

He told those stories a hundred times at all those Civil War re-enactments and family gatherings.

[@davidcorelli556]

@@russellking9762 It's not really that they made them tough back then to the fact that they made you weak today. How many poisons do they feed people today from food to pills?