Rare Film: Confederates in Battle Again (The Civil War Diaries S4E19)

In today's video we view Confederate veterans on film in "Confederate Ironclad" a film made in 1912 (50 years after the battle of the Monitor and Merrimack) featuring the only known footage of actual Confederate veterans reenacting battles, and includes Civil War period ships, weapons and accoutrements making it possibly the most authentic Civil War film ever made.
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[@historynoble8945]

Imagine having to figure out how to nonstop play the piano fitting the emotions of battle for 15 minutes straight 😬

[@BirdDogg]

I have a hard time with a 1 minute video 😂

[@Dragonette666]

they probably did it in 1 take too.

[@Packaroo]

The piano player rehearsed the music using the film, before it was shown in theaters?

[@BirdDogg]

@@Packaroo I think they probably did, but they were likely playing from a score.

[@marksnyder8022]

True Story: The middle part of this film is still used as a training video on "normal railway operations" by Norfolk Southern Railroad.

[@BirdDogg]

That’s pretty cool!

[@garylawson5381]

Thanks for sharing this Silent Film!!!

[@lw4268]

The last scene shows the Confederate officer holding a Model 1873 Colt revolver.

[@BirdDogg]

Good eye soldier!

[@STho205]

Ever watch the Big Valley, Gun smoke, Bonanza or most movie westerns set 1850s to 1870s with all the 1905 revolvers.

[@lw4268]

Yep. John Wayne starred in "Stagecoach" that depicted the stage lines in the 1870's. He fought off Indians and Badmen with an 1892 Winchester saddle ring carbine!@@STho205

[@louisianagray8618]

Thoroughly enjoyed the little short movie thank you for bringing it to us I hope you can find more

[@owencrater7089]

Ya gotta love these forgotten gems.

[@kevinbarrow5396]

Confederates keeping the constitution alive!

[@SaveDaDrama4YoMoma]

Since 1865

[@Paulftate]

woke progressive liberalism destroying America ​@@SaveDaDrama4YoMoma

[@Lisahough4738]

The South Shall Rise again.

[@Paulftate]

@@Lisahough4738 I think the Lord every morning that I'm able to get vertical

[@azul8811]

Was there a CSA Constitution?

[@rodgeroxie8459]

Thanks for sharing this silent movie. It’s a bit of history.

[@lanet63]

The suspense was killing me. Good film. Thankyou

[@BirdDogg]

Thanks For always being here Lanet, appreciate ya so much!

[@flintlockhomestead460]

How do you know there are Confederate veterans in this movie? I doubt it. I haven't seen anyone in it old enough. Even the youngest would have been about 66 years old. Remember the 50th Anniversary of Gettysburg came a year later after this movie was made. Wonder if this is very loosely based on the career of the C.S.S. Albemarle and the 1864 Plymouth, North Carolina campaign?

[@BirdDogg]

It’s documented as such although the only roles I found documented positively were that veterans were working in artillery crews. With that said, I was watching super close myself for other scenes with veterans obvious. I don’t remember the exact time stamps at the moment(I’m working or I’d watch it all again) but it seems there was a boat scene and a marching scene where they were marching away from the camera that I remember with obvious veteran aged actors. As to who was who in which scenes throughout though is hard to say.

[@davide9658]

That Yankee spy Elinor was certainly a diabolical wench. But alls well in the end. Yancey ends up with Rose, the Southern belle, who saved the day and proved her mettle when things got a little dicey. Interesting production for 1912. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[@user-ju6zz8tf3x]

😂😂 STOP TALKING ABOUT YOUR WIFE.

[@scottyb68]

And they still lost the war.

[@charlesforrest7678]

South lost the battle, but didn't lose the war. Just travel to any yankee-city up north. 😮 In the future, be careful for what you ask for!😊

[@StevenSmith-dc1fq]

Just remarkable. And exciting too!

[@hellraiser639]

We may be called on to preserve our liberty very soon , may God keep you and guide your righteous hand.

[@snocamo154]

Within ten years, if the current American blue state and red state cold war keeps going.

[@tennesseeridgerunner5992]

Thank you sir, thank you.

[@lawrencejump7391]

Very cute and entertaining movie .

[@78jog89]

Awesome. Thanks for posting!

[@suzanneflowers2230]

This is great! Thank you.

[@RedcoatsReturn]

A beautiful film, wonderful piano accompany too 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😊👍👍

[@mercedithcompala8148]

Spectacular

[@Roosterdoodler]

Awesome 👏

[@landonpotts6815]

Great job on this video.

[@gdubgoin]

i keep hearing Yosemite sam .... blasted norther dirt on my boots ..gotta burn my boots..another STERLING VIDEO. not sure about the side arms..but i would like a closer look at those sabers.

[@BirdDogg]

Ol’ Sam is always good for a laugh 😆

[@markadkins9290]

Great stuff!!!

[@snocamo154]

The North attacked a sovereign nation when it attacked the Confederate States of America. Fort Sumter was their 9/11, I suppose. Cost over 620,000 American lives before it ended. Personally, I would have sent a bill to Pres. Jeff Davis to cover the cost of the damage to the fort and lives lost at Sumter instead of 75,000 Union soldiers.

[@DropGary]

Its 2024 and still the Civil War is trying to be fought. Inconceivable.

[@kpkndusa]

The biggest thing that got me was the locomotive with outside cylinders but no main connecting rod to the drivers.

[@STho205]

I think this may be built atop a gasoline boxcab or some other industrial switcher (note tender) that's geared. I thought that weird too. I'd expect a costumed 1900 era steam loco if they didn't have any working 1860s ones. Maybe it is a real one fitted with a false truck motor

[@kpkndusa]

@@STho205 I thought that too.

[@BobL84]

to bad we didnt have movie cameras during the civil war even still photos were rare then.

[@jesterboykins2899]

Back then the rebs were the good guys. Still are to me. Always were

[@JayTX.]

As to me

[@user-ju6zz8tf3x]

😢😂 ANYBODY WILLING TO COMMIT MURDER IS NOT A GOOD GUY.BIBLE--JESUS SAID GOD IS THE ONLY GOOD GUY.❣️💔 SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY BLESS YOU WITH PEACE

[@jesterboykins2899]

@@user-ju6zz8tf3x Mary has no power to do anything. Mary won’t save you in the final day. Belief in her is your ignorance on the surface. The fact you claim anything besides the name of Jesus Christ shows your lack of knowledge of Gods word and your willingness to do what you are told, and not what scripture says. God the father. God the son. God the Holy Spirit. Mary doesn’t even count in the grand scheme. Yes she was chosen by God and in the lineage of David, but her only purpose was to bare the son of man in her womb and raise him. That’s it. Then she died. End of story. Typical Catholic idolater.

[@JayTX.]

@@user-ju6zz8tf3x many a man was found righteous in the Bible for going to war and killing thousands.....

[@Spencer12233]

Nah, I wouldn’t say “were” Mr slavery lover.

[@bjohnson515]

The most realistic battle portrayal can be found in the original "Birth of a Naiton".......in which the scenes were created with the input of actual civil war veterans as consultants.

[@BirdDogg]

They were used in this film as well, specifically in the artillery scenes.

[@Lisahough4738]

Bird Dog 🐶 you great at presenting Southern Antibellum the people today don't understand how things were back then ,and they seek to destroy our history😮

[@johnjameson2731]

Long Live DIXIE...❤ DEO VINDICE.

[@AAPHomestead]

Very cool

[@shirleybalinski4535]

Interesting film. Makes one feel you were there!!

[@totalstranger9563]

Would love to see an AI enhanced, colorized version. We still see artifacts of the women’s clothing and wow they were that tiny.

[@BirdDogg]

I have been experimenting some with colorizing them but the results have varied. With that said, at the speed things are moving with technology, I’m hopeful that I can start to colorize some in the future

[@mrkitty1367]

dang goodun !

[@rayjaypaulsen]

Are there anyone of these videos Chris? I've seen silent movies before but nothing like these! Take care my friend.

[@BirdDogg]

This is the only one I found with actual vets but I may feature some more old Civil War movies at some point

[@markwilliford4567]

What is the name of the ironclad? Is it still preserved or at a museum?

[@larrystultz7545]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@pup8112]

Great film Birddogg! Was that the CSS Tennessee kicking a$$?

[@BirdDogg]

I think so!

[@TheCivilwargal]

Seemed to be more like the Albemarle's fight with the Union's ad-hoc gunboats in the North Carolina sounds. The Tennessee was in Mobile Bay, and fought real ironclads, not to mention Farragut's ships of the line.

[@oldsouthmike65]

Awesome

[@joecollie4314]

Does anyone know the name of the actress who played the spy girl? Even in this old silent film, you can tell she was very pretty .Go's to show don't be fooled by the deception of beauty.

[@BirdDogg]

Anna Q. Nilsson was the northern spy girl

[@user-bf4df5vo9z]

My ancestors were on both sides of this war.

[@adamw7290]

👍

[@idigdaytona4478]

Nice old film.

[@15thga87]

Deo Vindice

[@robertwilliams450]

Well ain't she just as pretty as a June bug on a fence post❤

[@3rdnewjerseyregiment974]

Doesn't look like they were using period correct uniforms but interesting video for sure

[@BirdDogg]

Agreed, some of them are way off, but it’s neat to think there were actual veterans in the film and helping man the artillery.

[@DrBLReid]

Don't see any Pro-South movies today!

[@BirdDogg]

Stay tuned!

[@sorenschmidt1976]

Fine the Film,confederates Army❤

[@erickdupont4503]

Definitely NOT authentic 1860’s. An early movie based on the war but short on many details such as uniform subtleties.

[@BirdDogg]

It’s pretty cool knowing that there are actual veterans in the film helping make the battle scenes as authentic as possible though. I guess they were the early form of technical advisors

[@JRCinKY]

What a shame things went Bad in July 1863. We are paying for that Still especially Now..

[@tomgreen1721]

I cant hear what they are sayin , please turn your volume up

[@BirdDogg]

😂🫡

[@MuttTheHoople]

This movie is cursed. NOT ONE of the actors in this movie is alive today.

[@georgeparris8293]

Wikipedia: The advent of film as an artistic medium is not clearly defined. There were earlier cinematographic screenings by others, however, the commercial, public screening of ten Lumière brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895,

[@BirdDogg]

Interesting fact, not sure what that has to do with this film?

[@MegaWillieo]

The uniforms and equipment is original as a lot of it still existed. As for veterans they would have been very young during the war. The piano is annoying

[@BirdDogg]

Annoying indeed but a part of the historical record of the film.

[@willsherman1049]

Too much romanticism and not enough reality. The truth is found in a balance. Northern greed and ambition versus southern racism and cruelty.

[@BirdDogg]

Indeed, though it is neat to see a film that actually has a few veterans in it.

[@kevinsturguess9966]

There was an ad so I hated it.

[@BirdDogg]

That’s how KZbin works. Do you think they can afford the servers needed to host billions of hours of content just out of pocket? As for me as the content creator, they will run ads on my content wether I make anything or not, the creators who are doing a money grab are obvious because they have “sponsored”’videos where they themselves do an ad in the middle of the video, that, that is worth hating. But here’s a pro-tip, if you use KZbin as a source of entertainment, news, information etc. and don’t have the bandwidth for commercials, just pay for premium like the rest of us. Ad free content, easy fix.

[@rickwhite8793]

Thats weird....i hadn't heard of this movie until i came across it randomly a couple of months ago and it had only been viewed like 100 times and now here it is again! Damn Yankee spies and proper Southern chivalry at the end letting the Union officer go free and the spy as well!! Well i guess she was a lady. 🤨 🇸🇴 LONG LIVE DIXIE! 🇸🇴