Southerner Shares Civil War Story

[@timgilligan1981]

I just found your channel today and appreciate all your points and facts concerning the effects and decisions people made to honor their families dead. Empathy is right...the melting pot is what makes this country strong and special. We can't put our values and morals to those who lived 160 plus years ago. I love all the CS soldiers monuments at courthouses in the South and was sickened when there was a movement to bring down these massive headstones to american patriots. I am a Floridian by birth too and became a Civil War reenactor in 1990 because of the Battle of Olustee event in Feb. GOD bless you Sir and this passion you have for this preservation and remembrance. Tim G.

[@Georgian1987]

Mr. Zipperer, I just happened across your videos as I am interested in tending to veteran graves in my area. I am especially grateful for this video. I had two 3rd great uncles who also served in the 50th Georgia, one of which was wounded in action at Foxes Gap on 09/14/1862. I strongly recommend you pick up a copy of "Wiregrass to Appomattox" by James W. Parrish, which details the entire history of the 50th Georgia Infantry. Due to discovering my family history several years prior, my wife and I are finally making a trip to South Mountain, Antietam, and Gettysburg this fall.....I imagine it is surreal to walk in the footsteps of your ancestors. Thank you for the wonderful videos and remembering our history and veterans!

[@AnalyticalSurvival]

Amen! I particularly enjoyed your closing comments...very true, and ones that we should all embrace with humility and gratitude! Many blessings --GM

[@marilynmcfann295]

Thank you, to you and your family for serving our great USA in such an honorable way! Amen

[@curtiscarpenter7423]

I want to say thanks to you and your family for serving 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸. My grandma passed away a year ago at the age of 102. I remember she told me her brother got shot down in ww2. And her 2 husband got a purple heart and ww2. I really miss hearing his story. God bless to everyone who served

[@theyfaceeast]

I'm so sorry to hear about your grandma. I lost my first grandmother about 7 years ago and my second grandmother 2 years ago. Thank you for sharing how much you loved your grandma by listening closely to her stories. Keep those stories in your heart and tell them to younger generations. They will hold on to those stories too. I am the keeper of my family tree including names, dates, events, military service, photos, and stories. I'm so glad I listened and made the effort to visit my grandparents to go through their photo albums with them before they went to heaven.

[@HANDHELD_HISTORY]

My 4x great grandfather was pvt. James L. David was in the 50th Georgia and was wounded at Chancellorsville, he died of his wounds at a field hospital two weeks later. He left behind a six year old son and wife.

[@marilynmcfann295]

Wow! Thank you, for sharing your personal story! I am honored to hear your story. So interesting! I'm very intrigued. God bless America!

[@judyoung8347]

Thank you for this Video. I love History. We cannot bring back the Past, but the Past is History and History is here to stay. Blessings.

[@keithfurr7224]

This is a wonderful video, some many great stories of our histories died with those great generations, thanks for saving part of this story of our history

[@theyfaceeast]

You're welcome Keith. Thanks for watching. My family members "were" America's history from at least 1631 to the present. None of them were famous, but they each were amazing. I've always been fascinated by the Civil War, so I find it rewarding to learn through my ancestors eyes what really happened. I plan to shoot some more history videos soon.

[@keithfurr7224]

@@theyfaceeast I have always enjoyed military history, so when I searched my descendants and found that my great great grandfather and his father uncles and cousins all served it made me want to dig more. Mine like yours may not have famous names but our descendants were part of our history, they had amazing perseverance through some tough times, they were present at historical events like South Mountain, Second Manasas, and Gettysburg and most important to me, they returned and built successful lives during a divisive time and raised their children to morals. Thank you so much for the story and I assure you I win watch for more.

[@scottbowden4931]

I love it. Thanks for sharing.

[@Y_ora]

I am a big fan and you a true hero to me and the rest of us!

[@theyfaceeast]

Ok I'm going to tell my wife what you said! Thank you for watching and sharing.

[@mhaye96511]

Just watched your video and when you showed the war record I noticed the last name Manning above your past relative. My boyfriends last name is Manning and is from South Georgia! Lewis P Manning is his great grandfather! This is very exciting! Thanks for sharing that page on the video.

[@theyfaceeast]

I just searched FOLD3.com for Manning, Lewis, Civil War Confederate, Georgia. There was only one search result: Lewis P. Manning, Company A, 50th Georgia Infantry Regiment. He had a difficult time of it as records show he suffered from sickness more than most. He was in and out of hospitals multiple times, appears to have been sent home on sick furlough for almost 4 months, and several cards show him "absent, sick." I can't confirm he was at South Mountain and/or Antietam, but two of his cards clearly support the following. On 8 May 1863, he was admitted to General Hospital #21 at Richmond, VA with complaint of Debility. This was two days after he came out of the Battle of Chancellorsville. Debility seems to have been a combination of pure physical exhaustion and combat fatigue. Read about Chancellorsville where 60,000 Southerners attacked and defeated a force 2.25X their size, 134,000 Union Soldiers. In summary, they gave it their all, and that fact is supported by Lewis P. Manning being admitted to a hospital suffering from debility. Ten days later, on 18 May 1863, he was returned to duty from General Hospital #21 at Richmond, VA. Therefore, he would have marched northward with the 50th Georgia to a place called Gettysburg where he fought in arguably the most famous battle in American history. Lewis P. Manning was Present for the time period 29 Feb 1864 to 31 Aug 1864. Based on this, we know he fought in the following battles: The Wilderness, Spotsylvania Courthouse, North Anna, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. From Sep 1864 to the end of the war, it looks like he was absent sick. He was surrendered on 10 May 1865 at Tallahassee, FL, so he must have gone home sometime after Sep 1864 and remained in Georgia to the end of the war. Please let me know if this is in fact your boyfriend's ancestor. That would be quite a needle in the haystack for his name to be in my video, you happen to watch it, and tie it to your boyfriend's great grandfather.

[@mhaye96511]

@@theyfaceeast thank you for this great information!!! It is such a small world! I will share this info with my boyfriend!

[@wdavis6814]

My 3rd and 4th Great Grandfathers fought in the Civil War, New Jersey Federals and Florida Rebels. Managed to visit the Davis family graveyard and paid my respects near the Florida Georgia border.

[@HeadhuntexGamer]

Amazing video, from Brazil 👍

[@catherineengle4196]

Amen!

[@allthingselderly]

How does a family give permission to a cleaning company, or person, to go to cemetery and clean the stones of loved ones the family has paid for? Does the family need to contact the cemetery dept in the town, city...and inform them that someone will be cleaning their family paid headstones? Thanks.

[@starrystarrynight9822]

Did anyone else get a warning about potential "inappropriate content" when you tried to see this video? Makes no sense to me...what?--because his great great great grandmother had a child with someone else than his grandfather?

[@yeetymcflyiv3387]

So can you just look up your last name in an old census

[@markbeckham7298]

Funny how you only say the USA is God's country as England gave birth to the USA and we consider the UK to also be God's country.

[@theyfaceeast]

Hi Mark. My ancestors were religiously persecuted in Europe, including in England, for their Protestant beliefs. The teachings of Martin Luther inspired them to translate the Geneva Bible. The King James version of the Bible is based on the Geneva Bible and was the king's attempt to integrate Catholics and Protestants into his Church of England. The Pope is atop the Catholic hierarchy and the king of England placed himself atop his Church of England. Not willing to submit to other forms of worship, they departed their homes to travel across the Atlantic Ocean where they could have a one on one relationship directly with Jesus Christ without an intermediary to reach God, such as the king of England with his Church of England, or the Pope. The people who left Europe for the New World were independent thinkers unwilling to submit to any authority other than the Trinity: God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Turns out those Protestant believers established the United States beating out the world super powers of the time: England, France, and Spain. No, not every human in the United States was a Protestant Christian, but the vast majority were. So the United States being God's Country is based on facts, on historical events, over a 350 year period from 1607 to 1960 against all odds to become the world's super power. But we haven't forgotten where our people came from in the beginning: England.

[@markbeckham7298]

@@theyfaceeast I find that so many people in the USA think their DNA is limited to the USA as more than likely most of the WASP in the USA will find their DNA from the UK and most people in the UK define themselves as Christians but we have to acknowledge the past of over 1000 years so I guess my point here is that the UK is also a Godly nation.

[@theyfaceeast]

@@markbeckham7298 very good point you make about the source of our DNA here in the U.S. Losing my grandparents in their 90's recently initiated my family tree research. Obtaining their DNA prior to their deaths opened a realm of discovery I could have never imagined. One of my grandmothers was 100% from the British Isles. I say the British Isles, because people from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales intermarried here in the U.S. What makes her DNA origins so amazing is that her first ancestor to arrive here did so in 1634! I've read his handwritten documents where he refers to his owner as "Master." Turns out he was an indentured servant for 7 years. I find history as experienced through the eyes of my ancestors to be absolutely captivating. Per your point about England being a Godly nation, not all Christians in England left for the New World :)

[@markbeckham7298]

@@theyfaceeast Hopefully your story and your work will inspire others to take care of the graves and cemeteries as when they are lost so goes so much history with them, there are big pushes in the UK to preserve and restore and maintain the cemeteries where so many of the graves are over 1,000 years old! good luck my friend!

[@theyfaceeast]

@@markbeckham7298 Thank you Mark! Many in those 1,000 year old UK graves are the sources of the DNA that lives within me today. We will get there. I will stay the course as long as it takes. Slowly but surely we are reaching people who will take action in their local community cemeteries. Eventually the momentum will accelerate. God has a plan and it will happen when He wants it to happen.

[@ahmadhussain-Fitness]

Leave dies veterans i saw many videos in which many of your veterans begging nd homeless so do something for them instead of deads.

[@theyfaceeast]

Both initiatives are important and worthy of funding. The world is full of things that cannot be overlooked and must each be tended to by the living. Death is part of life. Forgetting the dead is forgetting human history. There is much to learn from those who came before us, both good and not so good. Soldiers stand watch over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 24 hours a day 365 days a year regardless of weather conditions for a reason. To be selected to be one of these guards is one of the highest honors a man can achieve in the United States of America. While speaking with a young man last week, he had no knowledge of Arlington National Cemetery and he had never heard of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. That's a major problem and massive risk to our sovereignty as ongoing independent nation.

[@powertekusa]

Ahmad Hussain, I'm a retired Master Sergeant, U.S. Army where I served this great country for 22 years. There is a brotherhood among soldiers, sailors and Marines in this country, both living and deceased. We care about those that are in need, but the deceased are/were important as well. The man that does these videos is a veteran himself. I personally take offense to your comment because it is obvious to me that you have never served in the military and have absolutely no clue what it truly means to be a veteran.