Field Musicians of the Civil War

[MattyRlufc]

Apparently Yankee doodle was adopted by the English in the American revolution as an insult i.e. Americans are all effete and stupid. The Americans started singing it as an insult to the insult, and eventually it become an iconic song of Americanism. Or so I heard.

[TheAlice1865]

@MattyRlufc you are an idiot we won!!

[Coolty44]

2nd song, whats it normally called to?

[doonaman13]

i want this played at my funeral.

[frisbeegirl333]

Does anyone else feel like the first few parts of the video sounds like the old Barney song?

[parafleet]

The green you have found is good as gold.

[Mr19thIndiana]

epic

[wiltsmith100]

DIXIE LAND IS CURSED! I SHALL NEVER STEP UPON IT!

[lumthegreat]

what the name of the song at 1:45

[Bruno47602]

Well!It`s Right!!!

[duckslayer111]

What is the name of the bugle song at the beginning?

[tkdmasterbound]

Hey!! I love this video! I am a civil war musician myself, and I bought a civil war musicians shell, its so cool, i got it because when I saw it on this video i was like, THIS IS A MUST HAVE!!

[madmag97]

Hi! I'm doing a report on music of the civil war and we have to have a lot of photographs. I loved your video it helped me a lot with my research. I was just wondering - where you did you get your pictures? It would be really helpful to know. Thanks!

[H0llaZ1990]

@madmag97(dot) civilwarphotos (dot) net/files/military_life(dot) htm

[worldof00t]

what the name of song at 0:33

[jediknightaj]

@worldof00t Fife and drum version of Yankee Dootle

[MyMoppet52]

@worldof00t I saw you asked about Yankee Doodle and got your response. Just in case you are not from the USA, it started to be popular in the American Revolution, but was adopted by the North in the Civil War. My best to you.

[HustlerMitch]

anyone who understands this and knows the song plz tell me

"buuuum bum buuuum tsh tsh buuuum bum buuuum tsh tsh

[Bananamaltastic]

what is the name of the drum-only song at 1:54? It would be really helpful if u could responds ASAP because I would like to use it in a Civil War Project due in two days... And if at all posible do you know of any mp3 downloads for that song (free perferably)

[thunderboltflash]

The South, now comprising 40% of US population, without a Democrat Party, is now the center of immigration from the slave states of the Democrat North!

Irony! The South! Free! Federal! Constitutionalist! GOP!

[YourGodandKing]

gor bless the union, hamilton federalism forever!

[Nivektube1958]

Excellent compilation. The sound breathed life into the photographs.

[crazedxfighter]

we have 4 communist here... shall we hang em by thee thread

[biancademonet]

@TheBoberton LMAO at you, first I support gun ownership so that a free people can use them against would be theofascist tyrants. Second I already live in the North and as such am a "damnyankee" EPIC FAIL! Should the fundies try to impose their tyranny in the North, they would not be greeted by servile obediance, but armed defiance...not all gun owners or proponents of LEGAL gun ownership are GOPPIG Neocons or members of the Corporatist backed Tea-Bag movement. Liberals hunt too....

[TheBoberton]

@biancademonet

1. I never said you lived in the South. I said "People like you would leave".

2. You just don't get the term tyranny, do you? If a theocratic government was instituted with the consent of the Southern people, it wouldn't be tyranny.

3. Ok, but a Southern nation wouldn't go after the north. And once again, it wouldn't be a theocratic government, just to remind you.

[biancademonet]

@TheBoberton Statistics point out that the best educated states are in the NORTH, NOT the South, the highest rates of teen pregancy, illiteracy, and poverty are in the South...Poverty, ignorance, and poor education are BREEDING GROUNDS for the bigotry and ignorance that festers at the heart of Fundamentallism.We've successfully QUASHED every attempt to force the false teach of YEC in our schools here in the North..YEC is a false teaching that has NO PLACE in the PS, yet is BACKED by fundies

[stellalouise1]

@biancademonet Do your stats show that the vast majority of the black US popultion live in the south? Hispanic too. Minority areas in the north show the SAME THING and this affects the south's entire "score". I am not a bigot, I am pointing out that you are. The south is the most diverse area of the country. You think you are railing against white southerners, when you are bashing minorities with your stats. P.S. most blacks & Hispanics dastardly Christians as well. Take a look at WHO you bash.

[TheBoberton]

@biancademonet

Oh yeah, last point:

When have I ever said that the Confederacy would be a theocratic government? (It wasn't one originally)

I agree that there should be separation between the church and the government.

However, that does not mean that our leaders cannot look to God for guidance.

[biancademonet]

@TheBoberton While you never have said as such, by defending the stated goals of the Christian Right of today, you are tacitly approving of the vile goals of those who are the enemies of freedom within this nation. I am not an atheist, but because of my faith, should Robertson and his ilk EVER seize power I would be subject to state backed persecution . The problem is NOT looking to a Divine Being for guidance, the problem lies in trying to force the edicts of one faith into the laws

[TheBoberton]

@biancademonet

And as I said, if the theocratic government was started with the consent of the Southern population, it wouldn't be tyranny.

[hellcat54]

very nice video.

[biancademonet]

@TheBoberton America must ever remain united, especially in light of today's challenges. Were the South to secede today, given the current idiocracy-theocratic tendencies in several Dixie States we'd have a version of Iran right on this continent...wannabe theocrats are the enemies of freedom today, much as Nazis were in the 30s and 40s and Communists in the 50s....

[hankmaze4]

How I remember being in the Parris Island, S.C. Marine Field Music School in 1954. WE also comprised the Parris Island Drum and Bugle Corps. How proud we were when we marched down the streets or played in the weekly Boot Camp Graduations. We have come a long way from then......schools have made so many of our children dummies and worthless. Shame

[klyydsdale]

@TheBoberton Both armies were pretty green

[azwags]

Very nice video. I'd love to know the tunes played here. I hear a version of Yankee Doodle.... Anyone?

Also, what group is performing here?

[azwags]

Very nice video. I'd love to know the tunes played here. I hear a version of Yankee Doodle.... Anyone?

[starcraftfan911666]

i like the fife... tally ho!

[SmallvilleFann1983]

Can Someone Listen To My EVP Video Theres Some Kind Of Flute Being Played Near The End Of It For About A Minute And I Need To Know What Song It Is. Keep In Mind Its A Ghost Playing It! It Sounds Like Either A Flute Or A Harmonica!

[SomeGuyDrumming]

the drumline doesnt sound clean at all

[kadeem121]

LONG LIVE THE UNION

"E Pluribus Unum"

[PeachyDelicious]

Deo Vindice!

[PeachyDelicious]

Deo Vindice!

[Spartanfanatic]

AMAZING!!!!

[RedZeroFive]

I love marching to these in Civil War Re-enactments. Especially with the sounds of the boots and canteens.

[THExNEKOxCHAN]

Notice how the fife song has the characteristic flat sound common to earlier eras of music...or maybe that's just me.

[dave777blaster]

yanky doodle was a song from 1776 war

which may have been used during the civil war but did not originate in that war

[tjmac17]

Barney!!!

[ajtesta]

Excellent history and presentation! Love Civil War history.

[RiverBirch1967]

I am glad to see a tribute to these men, some of whom were very young boys.

[mynamearekid]

I wish they had video during the Civil War

[iosononapoletanovero]

yea i wud have luvd to see some videos...

[pwthcim]

@mynamearekid They did! I have lots of film in color!

[bluebelly07]

Drummer boys at 2:19 through 2:30 smiling at something off camera - kinda makes you wonder....

[hardtackjack]

Haha, true...one the few times you see people actually smiling in these ferrotypes. lol

[bluebelly07]

Remember, these are kids, Victorian rules, were made to be broken. I still wonder what it was that made them smile. Lost to history, I suppose.

[hardtackjack]

True...it's always kindof neat when you get a photo like that. We've been reenacting and such since '94--as well as collecting books and so forth. My mom has a collection of ferrotypes going up until the Gay 90s, including so photographer's mistakes and some "goofing around" shots...really makes you look at the subjects as people rather than museum pieces.

[MrJimmyboy1972]

bluebelly07, i was a boy drummer in the 15th battalion the parachute regiment pipe band in 1964. by luck i didnt have to go to war at that time, did later on though, when i was a regular soldier. not very nice. also you mentioned "smile" in that situation if you didnt smile, you would cry.

[2ndpadrummer]

they did have a good sense of humor back then

[Morena21871]

Its sad because a lot of them lost their lives

[cumbas]

yes nice !!

5*****

i know more of these musics & and each time I'm impressed to note that sonorities really teh same those of the French military musics during our Revolution and our 1st Empire in France between 1789 & 1815

And even the tactics of the battles also ^^

since the 50 years which separate the wars from the 1st Empire and your Civil War had almost not evolved on the tactical level (only weapons had evolved of course)

[cumbas]

Watch my videos in my playlist about "Music and Marchs of the Republic & the 1st Empire" to see that

/view_play_list?p=8A3F1889D523­CAE8

[gobearcubies]

very nice!!! Thank you!!!

[21000gamer]

god bless america

[russ1234123]

where can i download these songs, i need them for a project

[Jackskull65]

love the civil war and im in the band play tuba im a big american history fan

[RufusVideos]

thats because they are kids

[VampriesKagome]

BARNEY!!!

[Nfl233]

dang! 1:20 looks like 3 kids

[rebpvt1864]

They are, the federal army enlisted children as young as nine years old to accompany regiments as musitions, and stretcher bearers. Along with the confederate homeguard consisting of a majority of very young boys and old men.

[hitcrack1]

cn u send me the music not the video coz i need to use it 4 a History Project

[rebelstang]

GOD BLESS, DIXIE!

May She Rise Up! Out of The Ashes!

Dio Vindice!

[sockettuem]

@rebelstang, it is Deo Vindice, not dio vindice.

[sotapoikasami]

I put sum music in my telephone :D

[agameofdarts]

i once took out a raft onto the james river

[Italianx2x95]

that looks like charlie goddard at 1:29 on bottom row 2nd to last on the right.

[FolkGirlOfOld]

Nice little vid ! Love the tin type choice. Well done!

[maineman527]

the civil war never happened

[Outlaw1876]

Wat?

[Albukhshi]

he's some idiot. don't bother with him.

[grae707]

Now I see why the people of the Southern States hate you yankee's. Go the Bonnie Blue Flag.

[Glansdring]

They lost because they couldn't type or spell either. :-)

[sheetshaker2]

gret photos, and I would beleive historic sounds for that time.

[crierman1863]

Good job w/the music and pics!

Enjoyed it very much.

:0)

[Falli2006]

Thanks for the good Music.

Thumbs Up

[SidNightWalker]

That's REAL country music!

[grae707]

yankee doddle,sung by British troops to discribe Washington's rag-tag army of peasants. Yes I am British, my god how did we lose that war of inserection.Anyhow you made a good fist of it.

[jft886]

Excellent !

[doox420]

the southern troops were fuckin barefooted

[FATWONTON]

while probably not barefooted, you are correct. they often wore leather skins on their feet

[clickclopclack]

the south lost cause they were full of slaves cotton and arrogance!!!! "Rhett Said that not me "

[chaloner]

what songs are being played?

[Vercingetorix2006]

Isn't that version of Yankee Doodle a War of 1812 arrangement? Would it have been played the same in the 1860s if it is?

Exposure times were long...easier not to smile than to hold one for a minute or so. VERY interesting photo that.

Excellent video...thanks!

[toobyu2859]

At 2:20 to 2:28 or so is a sight I have never seen in any civil War photo. The row of drummers are laughing about something off camera. I have hardly viewed any photos of any soldier smiling, let alone laughing as they are here. It must have been a candid shot that caught them off guard. Makes them seem more like people we would know instead of the usual grim visages displayed in most of the pictures of the time.

[ElIndianaJones]

That got through my head..also :)

That shot makes them alive..., not just people from years ago..

Photos are special....it "records" seconds of time...

[toobyu2859]

It is strange how every soldier of the time was convinced he must put on a serious face when taking a picture. An unwritten rule strictly adhered to. So universal in practice that it does make them seem remote. Except for those drummers.

[ElIndianaJones]

Yes, it was probably the fashion of that era, too look serious and standing correct...

Maybe they didnt have the 2 chance too take the picture again? Too expensive....? :)

it was so new.....at the time :)

[blutkehlchen69]

Sorry for my bad english , but non laughing at photos was norma,at this time , all over the world, even at a marriage

[toobyu2859]

Yes blutkehlchen, I realize this. That's why they always seem a little distant to us in this age. To have caught any soldiers laughing was a rare thing. And both sets of my grandparents had grim faces in their wedding pictures, the one taken in 1913, the other around the same time. And pardon ME for knowing no German at all. I'm figuring "kommentar posten" means "post your comment", right?

[xwishmasterx]

I think this melody has French background..

[gusterson]

How come there's nothing with the song "Gathering Clouds" ? I love that song.

[nookiboi]

I dont know how many of you may have seen the documentary on the civil war that was made by ken burns, but please pardon the sentimental comment, but i feel that nearly episode left me with a tear in my eye, seeing all those photos and knowing everyone of those people you see are now long passed on and the strength of character in that generation of people was incredible, theres some quality in man of those days us modern men should learn alot from today, Aussie dude here but god bless the south

[KERPI3S]

i love the fife haha.

[pjbaba]

Great Drumming,great music Thank you Phil

[FATWONTON]

Beautiful music, I can picture my ancestors gettin ready to kick some ass gettin pumped up to this music

[stevensmittle]

"(Jefferson's) ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. ... Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery -- subordination to the superior race -- is his natural and normal condition."

-Confederate Vice-President

Alexander Stephens's"Cornerstone Speech," March 21, 1861.

[GettysburgGhost1863]

Long live the Union!

[BigDogg976]

long live the confederacy !

[woa12]

I dont want to see a yankee in a uniform unless its dead!

[tomkyle1]

Again a nice video with great music. Thanks a lot.

[KEGST]

I wonder what happend to all the men who were in the pictures, if they survived the war or not. It's a bit sad when you think about it. They must have wondered that too. Btw, I liked the video very much, long live the South!, preserve the Union! There, now both sides have been greeted! (^_^)

[ELItheDrummer]

You gotta see this 2yr old left handed drummer!

You won't believe your eyes...

[jeffhegarty]

Are these all Union tunes?

[GuinevereJuliet]

Enjoyed this very much. As a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, I am enthralled with any and every aspect of the War. My ancestors served in the Orleans Artillery and the Bienville Rifles. To participate in a re-enactment must be exciting and I envy those of you who have.

[teddythebear1234]

yea bummer this seasons pretty much over, but im lookin forward to the 145th fredicksburg in 2 weeks. (sorry i never mentioned my name im Nathan Valentine, from Denny Rohrbough's company)

[teddythebear1234]

how you doin jari?

[tapsbugler]

Doing well...

Busy time of the year but looking forward to next year!

[grzesiekras]

32cond second sory for my language i'm from poland

[grzesiekras]

what's the name of second song it starts in

[tapsbugler]

Yankee Doodle (Fife and Drums)

[cshoresal]

An interesting series of photos! There are quite a few 16ish looking boys, but most of them appeared to be in their 20's or 30's to me. Nice. Thanks for posting!

[Caponecappy]

Cshoresal, No they where 16ish.. thats the only reason they have a drum but not a gun ...

[cshoresal]

That's what I've always heard and read, but when I look closely at these photos, I see a surprising number of men who had left 15 behind some time ago...

Of those I could reasonably identify:

60 are "boys" (15 or under, although quite a few look like late teens to me)

31 are "men" (20s - 30s)

2 seem like more "mature" men... 40s?

I'm not counting non-musician soldiers

One group had what looked like 15 adult musicians and 7 boys.

[cshoresal]

(sorry... had to break the post up because it was too long)

I'm sure the boys would have an adult in command who would have posed with them in the group shots, and the older adults might have been nostalgia pictures after the war, but still, the numbers surprised me.

[Caponecappy]

Well Cshoresal, All I can say that you spend more time on it then I did and I will go allong with that. I whent on with the thinking that war will make a 20 year old look like man way in his 30's . besides that I couldnt figure out why a armies that needed every man and every gun would let able men drum around.

:)

anyway really love drum and fife.. hehe cant help to stamp my feet at times :D

[cshoresal]

haha, I know... I spend an awful lot of time looking at images from the era in the pursuit of accurate ideas for clothing & accessories. This was a little off track, but combined the two interests... cw reenacting and f&d. It's not hard to do, really, just a few columns for the items your looking for and tally marks as you scan the images. Doesn't take long once you're used to it.

[cshoresal]

Maybe some of the images have both "active" musicians and "alums" who had switched over but sat in for the photo op anyway? And/Or maybe some weren't "able" soldiers for some unapparent reason? I don't know, but it's interesting to ponder.

[cshoresal]

Who is playing?

[Drummer7rf]

Good Job

[ssgd1960]

Well done !!

[Pickett14thLouisiana]

Awesome video!

[RedShirtArmy]

very nice video.

Deo Vindice, God bless Dixie!

[CivilWarReenactor]

Very True

[TheAtocha]

There was not a Civil War; There was of due course, a war between States.

[joseywalesgang]

Bravo!

[geezerart]

Great!!!!!!