Rare Video: Black Confederates and Confederate Reunion Compilation (The Civil War Diaries S4E7)

Rare video compilation of Black Confederates and Confederate Reunions Filmed between 1914 and 1938 showing veterans of the American Civil War.
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[@johnzeetee6747]

I can’t enough of watching these civil war veterans getting together and reliving their past… I wish I were able to speak to one today

[@westtnskirmishlog6820]

Good, strong brave men. God rest them.

[@ShortLandPattern]

Rest in peace to all Civil War Veterans

[@greggorski2174]

Technically it was not a Civil War. It was a War Between States.

[@DavidWilliams-tr1yx]

Wish I could’ve of talked to with some of these brave men. Black men fought for the North and South. People need to research their history.

[@cynthiaturner8419]

Agree 💯

[@yuppy1967]

That is awesome, they say it like it is (was)!!! How they have twisted things today, it is a shame.

[@tonybarnes3858]

Twisted how?

[@yuppy1967]

@@tonybarnes3858 fake history, rewriting history with a negative slant on the confederacy, left leaning and pro communist agenda, wokeness, victim shaming and the perpetual victim mentality and so on and so on.., I didn’t think I needed to explain my previous statement, where have you been

[@benjaminlathem2745]

​@tonybarnes3858 well for starters men think they're women. I got amillion more just hate typing. Don't have time to argue with morons fr.

[@speakupriseup4549]

Terrific to see the old fellows in the flesh

[@BirdDogg]

Stay tuned, pretty rare one coming on tonight’s episode!

[@markchoate9021]

Thanks for doing this. With all of the ignorance that is out there on this subject, coupled with the lies taught in our schools on the subject, this is a breath of fresh air......

[@allischalmersrescueofbarab9485]

👍 Amen to that. Honor to ALL of our veterans.

[@tonybarnes3858]

What lies?

[@constitution_8939]

A bit more proof that the Sad, Unnecessary and Unfortunate Civil War was Not over Slavery but States Rights and very possibly over another matter that's been kept quiet about and only known to the few at the top of the Leadership of both sides beyond the Military but those who Financed and Orchestrated the events that led to it and All those that followed it and continues to this day which is one if not the Most Important Secret since the building of the Great Pyramids allover the World not just those known of and their actual function and purpose.

[@aidengranahan3598]

​@@tonybarnes3858All of them.

[@mountaineer7435]

​@@tonybarnes3858 Stupid people ask stupid questions!😂

[@rt3box6tx74]

US Veterans from WW2 traveled to Europe to meet and talk about the hardships of their war against various enemies. Same with Japan, Vietnam. Men don't hold onto animosity. Why did we allow evil forces of hate to take away the post war camaraderie between Rebel and Yankee soldier? We know why, but being southerners we have the manners to leave it be.

[@mattmarzula]

This very video undermines your assessment. Time takes away reunions.

[@rt3box6tx74]

@mattmarzula Did you miss accounts of the trips WW2 veterans were making to Europe's great battlefields in their 80s and 90s?

[@tonybarnes3858]

Cameraderie...yeah, among whites.

[@allen_p]

Thank you for sharing. Incredible video to preserve and share

[@lanet60]

I love these old videos, keep em coming Chris. Love the BirdDoggs channel.

[@adamw7290]

Great video! It's always good to see the real footage.

[@zebdoz333]

At lest on the films everyone seems pretty chill

[@rt3box6tx74]

I'm sure you can find accounts of any unchill moments accounted for on page 5 of the newspapers of that period.

[@forrestwebb8590]

The people of today, aren't taught the old soldiers from the north and the south, after many years, let go of the old ways and came together as comrades in the end!! If they could do it, then folks today, surely could learn to get along with each other! God's Speed

[@rickeargle]

Not my experience.. My grandfather was born in S.C. in 1900..Anyone who ever said the word yankee was told no such word-- its damn yankee.. His grandfather owed 250 acres of land (inherited from his ggg grandfather who came who to S.C. in1752).. His youngest brother wounded at ae18 at Gettysburg-- Mead Lincoln refused to accept wounded as POW (Sherman position was it was crazy to trade 1 condeferate for 1 union soldier as any confederate was worth 10 times more). His brothers lasted six weeks before dying(no medical treatment until the wounded reached hospital l in Richmond. By federal ceneus ha of farm animals are dead or stolen.. 1866 you know reconstruction brought 1000% increase in property taxes--enforced collection by union troops- so 150 areas lost in taxes-- he was murdered later that year.. His other brother returned to find most infracture `destroyed-- his land being taken by taxes he killed his family with an axe , burned everything on his land that would burn then killed himself. Their bother inlaws killed at Pittsburg Landing.. Their great great great uncle KIA at age 72 in The Wilderness.. Two ricest states in the Union in 1860 S.C ( gold mines, largest exporter of rice in the world, lumber including cypress, naval store- turpinetime spars rope dies as well as of course cotton and tobacco.. Funny longest producing gold mine is in S.C.-- you wreally think those boys in blue just dying to liberate slaves--very happy to liberate the Sioux Blackfoot Crow etc after doing such generous service.. and Mississippi somehow became poorest-- MS still poorest.. Probable forgot to mention in your history texts south was individed into miltary districts run by generals all of which because millionaires.. No hard feelings acourse they voted to elected 4 union general as presidents..

[@rickeargle]

funny moderatores dont wish to remenber the federal trps killing the plains indians

[@rickeargle]

1861 NY shipping publication position they had to invade the south-`- if they where free to trade port of Boston would shutdown from the competation-- NY would have grass growing in the streets.. they came to kill steal rape just as they did "settling" the west.

[@rickeargle]

Met a gentlemen after he spoke at History club meeting. He remembered his grandfather being buried in his confederate uniform in the Kississimee AME cemetary complete with pointed headstone and flowers from daughters of the confederancy.

[@B126USMC]

@@rickeargle Thank you for speaking up. You are telling the truth. I've heard similar stories from southern gents I was in the service with, many telling these truths via generations of family that experienced this. Most people ( generations ) couldn't give a damn. Still poking at the south as traitors. What's crazy is they're too stupid to know better. And what adds to that stupidness they show , is that the USA was formed on the very basis the Southern states iterated was the same rights they had. Only the Southern states had the law(s) written in our constitution that gave them the very rights to secede .The USA was formed on rebellion & seceding ,and for that matter, traitorous actions that would get any American shot or hung, if the British got their hands on them. They rose up against their covering, ruling body, the King & Queen, aka , Great Britain.This was a country that was ruled under British law, British courts, British troops had bases here (forts) they protected the common people & helped enforce British law(s). I could go on, and on. The "founding" fathers , who wrote our Constitution , included in that paperwork, a law , that pertained to any state had the right to withdraw or leave the formed Union if they were not treated justly, fairly, or were not satisfied by the Constitution, etc. ; as they knew from their experience the lateral affordability needed to keep from being oppressed. It's a great misdeed , sad, what the Southern states had to endure. This war could have been avoided. But the greedy people in the North ( and that includes Lincoln) would not have any of the Southern States seceding. The northerners were going to reap the benefits ; one way or the other. They were already raping the south unfairly, unjustly, of its resources, lining their pockets. The Southern states was going to enrich them , one way or another. I stated earlier, Lincoln & his cronies feared if the southern states succeeded with their seceding, that they would go after the open lands to the west, and claim those lands as part of their territory . Lincoln & his cronies weren't going to let that happen. The carpetbaggers, the greedy, the criminals, the scum of the north came south after the war was over, and plundered all they could get their hands. The government doesn't print this in their history books. They tell and fabricate lies.....all lies......and the generations ...all since the turn of the 20th century mostly; believe these lies, and pass those untruths to their children , and grandchildren, and great grandchildren, etc. Now to make things worse, they want to tear down , destroy everything , anything that relates to the South....They want to obliterate any infrastructure related to that war & the southerners. Shame on them ! Shame on anybody , organization, that wants to bury the truths of history.

[@martinbonniciphotography]

I really love this channel. I found it by mistake some time ago and I'm very glad that I did. I thoroughly enjoy the old footage and often find myself mesmerised by it. Also, the old interviews are gold, some certainly sound very different than the current day narratives. Sending good vibes from the Mediterranean.

[@BirdDogg]

Thanks Martin! Looking forward to sharing more in the future. Working on a new series now that I’m hoping to kick off shortly after this season of the CW Diaries ends.

[@Lisahough4738]

God bless them both blue and gray...black & white . THESE MEN HAD COMMON SENSE SOMETHING SADLY LACKING TODAY.😊

[@BirdDogg]

Common sense and humility!

[@markadkins9290]

Thanks again, i keep hoping to see my great great grandfather in one of these videos. I know he was there.

[@Lisahough4738]

The spirit of these Men lives on in the blood of there great great grand children. The South Shall Rise Again.🎉

[@7Steveski]

I was born 90 years after the end of the civil war. The last veterans died about then.

[@BirdDogg]

I think the last one to go was about 1958 or so.

[@deadhorse1391]

@@BirdDogg1956

[@idigdaytona4478]

Well done BirdDogg !

[@cynthiaswearingen1037]

This was awesome!!!❤

[@bryanst.martin7134]

Civil war didn't end slavery. It incorporated every one of us as slaves. Are you in debt?

[@mattmarzula]

Nope. No debt. You suffer from mental slavery.

[@greg7129]

You are exactly right !

[@stevemathew5281]

Yup, the big Plantation is the White House.

[@user-yo2eg5hq1n]

This country was started by the Masons and wealthy elite. I could talk for hrs on this but please watch one video titled Shadow Government. Jeykle Island in Georgia is where the Rockerfellers and others began the NWO AKA; the antichrist. These are the final days Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24 and the prophet Daniel spoke of. I have personally been studying Eschatology since 1983. Over 80% of biblical prophecy has already come to pass and the horses of the Apocalypse will soon be running strong in the 7yr tribulation that Gabriel spoke to the prophet Daniel which is 100% accurate. Please seek Jesus while he can be found!

[@davedammann741]

The.big plantation is EXON and The NRA.​@@stevemathew5281

[@alexmartinez7278]

To bad the true history of the War will never be known to Americans of this day and age.

[@greg7129]

Agree !

[@kninezbanks]

The true history is already known......confederacy = slavery.......14 minute video, black soliders accounted for just the first 1.30 seconds.....The second black soldier said he did everything they told him to do, the third is an uncle tom saying he would have been a beast in africa and whites made him human by bringing his race to america, peak uncle tom-ism......over 99% of black southern men did not step foot on the battlefield....the few black confederate soldiers were mostly ignorant slaves, serving non battle roles, cleaning and cooking, tending to horses, only allowed to pick up arms at the very end of the war when the confederacy got desperate......and how were they rewarded for their service? by jim crow. The civil war was because the south wanted to protect slavery and preserve white supremacy, all the founding documents confirm this, all the compromises, commissioners, conventions confirm it was slavery. the confederate president, vice president, senators, governors, congressmen, state legislators, mayors, generals, supreme court justices, former presidents, in hundreds of thousands of words...enough to replace the new testament....more proof than of God's existence, confirmed it was slavery, they called the south "Slave holding states" or "Slave states".....and the north "Non-slaveholding states" or "free states" thousands of times.....all the senate farewell speeches confirm this fact. It's a tough pill for conservatives and gun-nuts to swallow and accept that america's biggest armed rebellion against the government was for a bad cause....this delusion is 10x worse and more divisive than the "gender dysphoria" they complain about daily....pathetic.

[@mattmarzula]

​@@greg7129How? Just go to any preserved Civil War battlefield and read as you walk around. There's so many books and studies on the subject. This is a ridiculous assertion born of ignorance.

[@greg7129]

@@mattmarzula What exactly are you going on about ?

[@greg7129]

@@mattmarzula So what you are saying is, if you do not believe the official story you are ignorant ? You have it basackwards. Same problem going on right now, too many believing the official story. Use your brain that the Most High gave you, then maybe you might understand. Speaking of books, there are many that refutes the official story but guess what, they are not popular. Now try and figure that out in a so called free country. No debates allowed, if you do not go along with the program you get an F. If you do not know the definitions of propaganda, indoctrination, which some call brainwashing, look them up. It has been going on since before you and I were born ......way before. The war of northern aggression enslaved everyone, did not free anyone. Peace and blessings

[@simonprodhan5050]

wonderful footage, my fascination with the civil war has endured all my life(i'm 58) and i'm especially interested in the confederacy, ya-hoo!

[@B126USMC]

ALL of these old warriors were the VERY BEST men America had...quite possibly the BEST ever....

[@dalemoss4684]

Truly priceless footage. Thanks, Birddogg, i love your channel!

[@glockerbob]

Been quite awhile, but well worth it, Excellent vidja my friend.

[@tablature6121]

I wish the Northern veterans could see what the "Union" they were fighting to preserve has become today -- powerful, unresponsive to the people, bureaucracy laden, almighty centralized federal government, states rights be damned. That's what Lincoln wanted and that's what Lincoln got, but we're the ones who suffer from it today.

[@rt3box6tx74]

Centralized gov't from DC was the goal.

[@mattmarzula]

Well... Don't pretend that the majority of what you're lamenting is largely due to Democrats. That's not exactly a "Union" thing. Also, how the hell are you suffering?

[@kevinbarrow5396]

​@rt3box6tx74 and centralized government was the problem then and its a problem now!the only solace I take from it,is the lie that this country fought to end slavery and now that lie has become the battle cry for reparations and the rape of this countries wealth to appease those who believe they deserve more than they do and are willing to destroy the union and the country to get it!all for the narrative that lincoln freed the slaves because he detested slavery all the while only freeing the slaves because he was getting his ass kicked and needed more soldiers so he drug slaves into the war!

[@fetusbelt6851]

.......wide awakes........rolling in their graves........

[@kolepate7057]

‘xactly

[@B126USMC]

I'm 74. I heard of the "Rebel" yell. This is the 1st time I've actually heard it.Can only imagine how deafening it would sound via hundreds, maybe at time thousands , tens of thousands of men running into battle yelling it. Surprised these gentlemen still have the vocal cords to give the "Rebel" yell . God Bless all of them

[@davidbarrett2315]

Go put your legs on now gets me Everytime. who wouldnt run like hell n that coming at ya.

[@rebelbatdave5993]

Thanks! Definitely Shared! DEO VINDICE! From SOUTHERN OHIO! COPPERHEADS KNOW THE TRUTH!

[@stubstoo6331]

Yeah quite a few of them.

[@johngaither9263]

It's said the city of Cincinnati contributed more to the confederate war effort than did the entire state of Tennessee and I believe it. They didn't give a damn about the southern cause, just their money.

[@user-kq7bf1et1i]

Amazing footage

[@rayjaypaulsen]

Thanks for sharing Chris 👍

[@glennl9630]

Incredible

[@andreamarin4296]

Wow this was really enjoyable!!! I loved seeing how everyone had so much pride in this great country. That huge flag!! And I laughed at the rebel yells at the end. ❤

[@michaelwood6353]

Absolutely love the Rebel yell!!!

[@OasisTypeZaku]

These are strong men, proud men, and they have a Right to Be. They fought bravely, risked death, and are largely forgotten because of a "narrative."😢. I would not be worthy to shake their hands, though I would all the same, they deserve all of our Respect and Love.❤️. May you fine gentlemen rest easy.❤

[@mikechrister2736]

Unbelievable 😳

[@michaeldouglas1243]

Gratifying to see how many of them were master masons. From one brother to those brothers of the past.

[@kolepate7057]

* *scoffs at your order for their ever increasing humanistic distortions* *

[@constitution_8939]

Would you say the Scottish Rite infiltrating Masonry distorted and wrecked it from the time Gen. George Washinton identified with it which had formed by Adam Weishaupt in Bavaria in 1776?

[@benjaminlathem2745]

Thank you for your service.

[@richforrest6983]

Great respect thanks for this video

[@geecheefarmer]

Interesting. Especially being from South Carolina. Thanks for sharing.😊

[@B126USMC]

were you surprised ?

[@geecheefarmer]

@@B126USMC nah it just isnt spoken of or taught in school.

[@B126USMC]

@@geecheefarmer You got that right.....they don't want anyone to know the real truths

[@billm4138]

They never forgot..Yet the did forgive..Something lacking in our world today...Salute!!

[@RobertBlackmon-wo8mp]

Nothing but truth!!

[@FINNIUSORION]

When my father was very young there were ww1 veteran parades and reunions and there were still a few civil war veterans around. When I was little it was ww2 parades and a few ww1 veterans around. When was the last time you seen a veterans parade that wasn't a small town parade on veterans day? We have plenty of veterans that have seen combat we just don't celebrate them or our country like we have in past generations.

[@BirdDogg]

Truly sad state of affairs.

[@B126USMC]

I'm a Vietnam war combat veteran, never was a a parade for us. We were despised, hated, treated wrongly, so badly, we had to as soon as possible get out of our uniforms & into civilian clothes. We were metaphorically , left in the dark.

[@BirdDogg]

@@B126USMC sadly, patriotism is all but dead.

[@grimdesaye6534]

God Bless these Southern Heros. 😊

[@daveblackburn5393]

A grateful nation remembers. Respectfully herr Dave vlackburn

[@garyhammond2213]

I love those Black Confederate Veterans. True Patriots. Oh, it was a myth, I see.

[@rt3box6tx74]

The first time I saw and heard HK Edgerton I bawled my eyes out. Sometimes I play my female card. Though I was only 8 yrs old thus didn't understand our connection I met descendents of people enslaved to my great great grandfather. There was love and kindness in their eyes. Through family connections maintained since before their freedom, they knew me. Those two ladies were beautiful people, living just down the street from three of my great aunts. I regret I wasn't old enough to understand who they were. Fifty yrs later in TX Slave Narratives I found a story of their forebear's journey from GA to Waco to live in houses nearby our family's new ranch HQ. GA was a nightmare in the post war era. An old man told the story of their rushed trip to TX when he was a little boy. They avoided towns, cold camped most nights and arrived with all the group intact in the Conestoga wagons they built from materials obtained by tearing down a barn. They were worried their wagons and provisions would be stolen - but made it without incident.

[@tonybarnes3858]

You have to understand how it can happen. Africans were among the British at Islandawana too.

[@tonybarnes3858]

What was a myth?

[@kennethmoles4643]

I honestly love every single one of these men and honor them for what they went through. I just wish they'd not had to and the second civil war could have been avoided. The first civil war occurred from 1776-1781. The Monarchy set up the first and the issues not resolved in 1781 led to the second.

[@BirdDogg]

New, remastered video tomorrow and the following Wednesday of the very last survivors of the war!

[@joebird1400]

As the third man spoke, the white man took him out of Africa and made a human out of me..

[@deadhorse1391]

Well that certainly not politically correct today !

[@pracylopgonzer3176]

He’s obviously “ not black” because he sure wouldn’t vote for Biden Lol

[@hafizihilmibinabdulhalim1004]

​@@pracylopgonzer3176But confederate voted Democrats 😂😂

[@powerpace1]

Not all democrats were the same in the south. There were two Democratic conventions in 1860. When the question of continued slavery came up there weren't enough vote to keep slavery. The proslavers canceled and held another convention without the anti slaver democrats ​@hafizihilmibinabdulhalim1004

[@jimmyanderson2988]

That’s why Lincoln won the democrats split the ticket with two running for the same ticket!!! That let Lincoln in the back door so to speak !!!!

[@bamadave6324]

Nice vid. Hope you will do some relic hunting videos soon

[@BirdDogg]

I’ve only gotten out about a dozen times in the last year or so, been so incredibly buried trying to get the new house going. Hopefully I can get back to it afore long.

[@patriotrising6214]

My family has pictures of the Wilson creek battle between Missouri volunteer Army and Union soldiers. My family on both sides fought an defeated the Yankees there . One of those pictures shows 5 mounted Missouri volunteer officers. 2 of the officers were Black . Free Missouri farmers who farmers were burned to the ground . Revise your history to fit the moment truth be told regardless!

[@factsoftheconfederacy7151]

God Bless them all

[@Jeffersonian1975]

The war was about federal supremacy over the states. The antithesis of the the Constitution

[@tl270]

This really changes the narrative 😂😂😂😂 black confederates

[@Lisahough4738]

Historic fact

[@blackpacking101]

They all consider themselves to be “body servents”

[@jimmyanderson2988]

You heard the man I did what they told me to do regardless of what it was sounds like a soldier to me !!!!! Remember what Forrest Gump told the drill instructor to do what you tell me to do drill sergeant, sir !!!!!!!!

[@jimmyanderson2988]

You heard the man I did what they told me to do regardless of what it was sounds like a soldier to me !!!!! Remember what Forrest Gump told the drill instructor to do what you tell me to do drill sergeant, sir !!!!!!!!

[@james-zl4il]

Can anyone tell me where to find a picture of the flag of the Georgia Volunteers 26th regiment Company H. If one exists

[@odinsavenger4965]

This was America's greatest generation in my opinion.

[@B126USMC]

EXACTLY......."THE GREATEST GENERATION"........

[@BillyJ244]

This was way before we had to be politically correct. Way before the millennials who are afraid of a Confederate flag or a statue of Robert E Lee. These things are history and should be honored. Those who forget history be it good or bad are doomed to repeat it. These were good brave men. Also I agree with the other comments talking about how we are slaves. We all work everyday we all pay taxes and the majority of us live paycheck to paycheck. I feel like a slave.

[@leadshark9461]

Millennials? Union veterans in 1889 were already against CSA monuments. Nothing about Robert E. Lee should be honored. He was a cruel slave owner and led thousands of men to their deaths.

[@pracylopgonzer3176]

It’s starting again in Texas thanks to pig headed Sleepy Joe

[@tonybarnes3858]

The battle flags and confederate hero statues were financed and erected long after the war in order to re-state or reaffirm the slave-holding values of the antebellum south. The Klan ran amok, rights were denied. Re the Civil War and it's cause: THE HISTORY AND HUMAN BEINGS WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN, COME AND GO AS THE ARTIFACTS MAY. THE DENIAL WILL NEVER BE IGNORED.

[@B126USMC]

You work and the government taxes those hard earned dollars. Then the money you have left, you spend on things for your life, and the government taxes that money once agin, and finally, if you I merit anything, the government wants a third tax (or more) on what's been paid & taxed already over & over again. Yeah, we're "free" alright; in the "sense" of the word. They've come along way over the centuries to use a more modern "under the surface "( so to say); keeping us "enslaved" to the system.....

[@Sammy-ty1wz]

Some have "GAR" on their clothing Its "Grand Army of the Republic" a fraternal order of Vets of the Civil War (on the Union side) , similar to today's American Legion, DAV or VFW.

[@BirdDogg]

There was a mix at these reunions for sure

[@deadhorse1391]

Those Black Confederates must be an embarrassment to the revisionist today that say they never existed My mother used to talk about going to her great Uncle George who was in the civil war 100th birthday After having the cake they had a shooting match with Uncle George using his old musket.

[@richardstephens5570]

They were "body servants", blacks were not allowed to enlist in the Confederate Army. They followed their masters into the army and did what they were told. They often served as cooks, teamsters and worked in the field hospitals. Some were given weapons and fought in battles. Sometimes they were given their freedom during the war and chose to stay with their master. If their master died, they would escort his body home.

[@Civilwar.relics]

All the Civil War controversy has driven everything i have up in value, buttons i paid $50 for have gone to $1000. Like the NC beehive military button got on Ebay in a box of mixed stuff for $40, the rifleman buttons i paid 200$ are now $1000 buttons, and the super rare Irish Jasper Greens button i have is valued at $1700. You guys hating the Civil War is making me rich lol

[@BirdDogg]

Its helped with videos a lot and hasn’t hurt my collection value either 😂

[@HardscrabbleBlake1968]

Where did you find the Black Confederates video? Do you have any information on where and when it was taken? Are their names recorded?

[@BirdDogg]

Honestly I don’t remember and haven’t researched the reunions in a while, the video has been here on my hard drive for years. I would assume it is from either the LOC or national archives based on my previous sources. If I remember correctly though it was from a Memphis reunion.

[@pracylopgonzer3176]

There were a lot more than people realized. To rope of the South they fought because they were invaded as they saw it. A lot of people couldn’t read & really were to busy for politics so they let the leaders take them to war. However when they were called they responded. God Bless them all North & South, we are all one people whether you like it or not

[@BirdDogg]

@@pracylopgonzer3176 When they said bodyguard they meant literally and figuratively. They were not only watching their back but would be responsible for ensuring the body got home if the soldier was killed.

[@HardscrabbleBlake1968]

@@BirdDogg I don't believe these guys were really Confederate soldiers, at least not in the officially enlisted sense. I think they were slaves taken to the war by their masters, they served loyally and provided vital support services to the enlisted soldiers and shared their hardships, and possibly got caught up in the fighting occasionally. Overtime a sense of camaraderie may have developed between them and the white soldiers, so in old age they were genuinely welcomed by Confederate veterans at the reunions.

[@BirdDogg]

@@HardscrabbleBlake1968 That’s the grey area of war, and what the channel focuses on largely with this series. They were accepted during the war or they wouldn’t have been there amongst the troops to begin with. Spies, traitors and deserters were a constant concern and so certainly only the most trusted men would have been brought along in the slave/owner dynamic. They were literally and figuratively their owners bodyguards, in camp, on the field, and if the soldier perished they would escort the body home., the epitome of loyalty. With that said while certainly not common, there were several instances of free, black men who were property and business owners in the south, who joined up and ultimately fought in the fray, additionally, there were several masters, who freed their slaves before they left for war, only to have the slaves follow them into combat. Each man finds his own way in life I suppose. I know we like to think we have progressed as a society, but seeing the way, all of these men interact versus the way, modern society, interacts with each other, leaves me with doubts.

[@joeyhunter842]

Where is Clayton Bigsby?

[@stevez.6805]

Old codgers doing the rebel yell was better than any comedy skit.

[@JovanLopez-dj3si]

Carpetbaggers🤠

[@MegaAli213]

The 14th amendment incorporated all US citizens as residents of the District of Columbia not the Republic. See article 4 in contrast with the 14th amendment and act of 1870. Blacks Law Dictionary 4th edition.

[@wes2262]

Uncle Rukus and his bros

[@ryanhaase1271]

God Bless the Glorious Confederacy

[@eltroyano3574]

But i dont see the black AND white toguether.where Is the union?.

[@richardchristian4901]

Civil war did not really end slavery. It kept on till 1962. All those men died for what so the black man can be taken advantage of! So they can be made the lesser man! I am proud of this video. A lot of people will denie that there were such a thing!

[@greg7129]

We all are slaves to this day

[@williewonka6694]

Who will remember, now that the boys in blue are gone?

[@B126USMC]

obviously no one remembers anything that's the truth; however tell people lies, and they will remember

[@inthedarkwoods2022]

Thank you for your service??? I guess

[@andygossard4293]

They probably heard rumor Billy Idol was going to get a record together in about 50 years and wanted to give him an instruction, but it didn't take.

[@greggorski2174]

God bless Dixie!!!

[@Eid_Dod]

Some fought to break the shackles, some fought to tighten them

[@maxfalconi6995]

This historical truth doesn't fit the current narrative

[@B126USMC]

That's right.......and that's the way they want it.......They've been altering history, changing history to fit their goals & narratives, or erasing history.......that should make people "wonder"

[@charleshash4919]

Couldn't possibly be an AI product, right?

[@BirdDogg]

The original film has been stored at the library of Congress for more than 50 years…

[@natewatl9423]

01:04 ".....and made a human out of me....." Pathetic!

[@BirdDogg]

So treating some of the first leaders in black equality as equals was somehow pathetic? An interesting take.

[@B126USMC]

I'd say you're obviously not very well educated...oh. I realize you're educated ; under the government system ......or just via "hear-say". Not competent enough to truly understand.The democrat lies have held you down. Hitler & Joseph Goebbels learned the American propaganda tricks so well themselves; they used it on the German people, Tell the lie(s) long enough, and the people will believe you. American ads, advertising , political elections ( where you get all that junk mail flooded upon you ) and the billboards , and sign in yards, the commercials on media types....it's all a form of propaganda. They "get" you. Now if the truth(s) were established & put out.....what would happen to those people? They'd respond the same way you have. The democrat ,liberal, leftist machine is powerful. They truly work their propaganda very well

[@George-zd6rb]

The good Ole days, when a former slave would give his life for his master!

[@pizzafrenzyman]

ya'll lost

[@BirdDogg]

Who is y’all? The last combatant of the civil war died more than 70 years ago. Do something constructive with your life.

[@thomasphillips8539]

Deliver a pizza... lol

[@B126USMC]

Not the point here.....

[@johnmanier9047]

It was a sad time in America. May we never experience it again

[@B126USMC]

The objective of erasing our history, tearing down statues, flags, not even teaching our true history, etc,. falls under....."If you don't learn from history, then history will repeat itself"