Rare Video: Confederates and Yankees meet at Vicksburg (The Civil War Diaries S4E9)

In this episode we visit the 1917 Blue and Grey Reunion in Vicksburg Mississippi in this rare video which was fully remastered on the campus of East Tennessee State University.
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[@cynthiaswearingen1037]

Thank you for sharing these fine old films of the veterans.❤

[@fixedgearfever69]

According to people on Twitter they all hated each other. 😂 reconciliation was a real thing .

[@alanmoberly64]

The civil war always leaves me with an odd almost spooky feeling. Your videos on Lieutenant Samuel M. Mckamey have haunted me. I can picture a young lieutenant riding home to the barn. Climbing down off his horse taking the coat off and hanging it in the barn. Taking care of the horse and walking to the house while trying to put the war behind him. I get frustrated when blow hards today try and gloss over the fact that they have the advantage of 160 years between then and now. No one today has any idea of the thought process of the time.

[@Lisahough4738]

Thanks bird dog your a true patriot .

[@alanmoberly64]

I was rewatching the McKamey videos. Can you tell what style the house is. Two story, single story etc. I'm trying to fill in my vision of his return home. Plain or ornate.

[@jamescoffey8679]

Bird Dogg, Thank you for sharing!

[@westtnskirmishlog6820]

Outstanding as always. Amazing to be able to see these great men in motion and hear their words. Great work BirdDogg.

[@mariemorgan7759]

I heard about this film,but never seen the entire reel. Thanks so much for the upload. Iam very glad they did film this reunion. 💕🙏

[@glennt8687]

Very nicely presented. Thank you!

[@rt3box6tx74]

A pic worth a thousand words. Video worth a million. Thank you sir.

[@BirdDogg]

Now if we could get it to a million views!! Preserving history, one view at a time!

[@rt3box6tx74]

@@BirdDogg Agree, but TBH our society is a tad distracted right now.

[@LostInMarxism]

​@@rt3box6tx74Distracted? We are being... literally... redrum'd. I cannot divulge crime nor contagion statistics herein... put we are being targeted.

[@edwardaustin740]

I really appreciate the video. It's very humbling to see the North and the South coming together, shaking hands, and living it up one last time. The Commemorative coins sold during that reunion are pretty sweet looking. I can't afford one yet. Another great video. Thanks Bird dog.

[@allen_p]

What a wonderful tribute

[@markadkins9290]

Great stuff! Keep up the great work! History is very important! Real history! SCV

[@patrickbush9526]

Wow, absolutely amazing Thanks, Tenfold!!

[@jeffnelson9420]

Thanks Chris, looks like we as a Nation are headed into some more turbulent times.

[@The_Red_Off_Road]

My grandfather served in the 7th MS Reg Co A. He wasn’t at Vicksburg but he did survive the entire war, whereas his two best friends that joined with him did not. He is buried next to the old family farm, way back in the woods where no yankee will ever find his headstone.

[@dalemoss4684]

This is real history. Thanks for this, Birddogg

[@The_Red_Off_Road]

New subscriber. My morning has gone pretty good with some southern bluegrass mountain music playing in the background.

[@MrRobingilliam]

Welcme back when you going live with more music

[@geecheefarmer]

More REAL history.❤

[@tablature6121]

Note the date of surrender: July 4, 1863. Have heard that the folks of Vicksburg refused to celebrate the 4th for many years afterwards.

[@zebdoz333]

Great upload, I wonder, have you ever heard of what they called the soldiers disease? How many , many vets on both sides developed heart disease and alcoholism? Interesting to read how war can keep causing problems even years afterwards, i am a vet and I more than understand, but what I would think of as hell now probably wouldn’t even compare to the he’ll of then

[@BirdDogg]

Hard to imagine what they went through.. I have heard of soldiers disease but hadn’t dug into it, I’ll dig a little more. thank you for your service!!

[@virginiacook2724]

Both sides had good and brave soldiers

[@LostInMarxism]

Kind Sir, where'd your "cannonball" short run off to? Do not tease! Tally Ho! Long live Southern and C.S.A. history. Some mark 1865 as the year our Republic died. I now agree.

[@Dallas-us6xm]

I had two great great grandfathers who fought for the south.Neither ever surrendered and to their dying never swore allegiance to the yankee government.

[@elijahFree2000]

Their armies surrendered.

[@johnjameson2731]

God bless DIXIE, and God bless the U.S But wish she would find her way back to God Almighty.

[@ThompPL1]

6:55 . . . So the Confederates were *all* "racists" uhhh ? . . . What about those Blues from Ford Motor Company ?