My father grew up in the 1940 during WW II in Tennessee. He told me he remembers a couple of Civil War vets who were still living. I looked it up. The last Civil War vet died in 1959.
@salakast Technically yes but we should remember that with a foreign hostile force making themselves at home in the Southern harbor of Charleston all the pleases in Dixie couldn't send that threat back home. If Al Quidea held Staten Island would it matter if we fired the "first shot" to send them on their way? Funny thing is there are just 2 wars that critics bitch about who made the first shot. The krouts in WWII and the Confederates in 1861. lol
Makes me think of my ancestor who fought at Gettysburg in the 33rd VA Infantry. He was only 20 during the battle, and am so proud to be a decendant. :)
@33VaInf You should be proud. I bet he fought valiantly. I have great great great uncle who fought there too. Glad as Americans we can bind our wounds and be friends North and South again. Unlike other countries who fignt on and on each generation. This in one of many things that makes USA great!
In memory of my great-grandfather, Cpl. Albert L. Akers, Co. I, 17th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, who fought from 1861-1865 --- Wild Cat, Ky. Perryville, Stones River. Tullahoma, Campaign, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta Campaign, March to the Sea, Carolinas Campaign. One of the last of the "Boys in Blue," he attended the 75th Reunion and lived to see World War II.
i was there yesterday. it moves me everytime i visit Gettysburg. as it gets further and further away from those three horrific days, it saddens me even more. what these soldiers went through should never be forgotten by all races in this nation
@erintheresa818 I agree...it's really hallowed ground and I've been there many times and am truly moved every time I visit there. I hope they don't let any more developments encroach on the grand battlefield.
sorry about the youtube account name, im on my sisters account. My great grandfather was in the 69th PA irish birgade he was wounded at Gettysburg during picketts charge i am now a civil war reenactor
dont forget i think there are still some WWI vets out there. they fought in the war that we didnt have to join but they still did. i think there is like only a few left, like less than 10? we must never forget the sacrifice that all the soldiers made just to make the world a better place, including those in WWI.
God bless these men. What we see in this video of Civil War Vets is the same thing we are witnessing TODAY of our WWII Veterans. Today, there is not a Civil War vet to listen to or thank. Soon, like the men in this video, there will be no more WWII vets left to listen to or thank. While they (WWII Vets) are here, listen to their stories, shake their hands, and thank them for their service.
Imagine what all these men saw in their lifetimes. When one thinks of the world in 1864 and again in 1939, it's mind boggling to think of all the changes they went through.
@coolsouthernrain75 Yes those Brave Union troopers stood Against the Violent Terrorism of the Southern Despots on the ground and threw back their army of Terrorists into the depth of the south never to Trample Freedom or Enslave again . As for the CS veterans should have been grabbed as war criminals that day shame we didn't might have ended the stupid states right
@coolsouthernrain75 Yes those Brave Union troopers stood Against the Violent Terrorism of the Southern Despots on the ground and threw back their army of Terrorists into the depth of the south never to Trample Freedom or Enslave again . As for the CS veterans should have been grabbed as war criminals that day shame we didn't might have ended the stupid states right
My great-great grandfather was one of the only 25 actual Gettysburg survivors to attend the 75th reunion. He appeared in a Life magazine photo in a handshake across the headgerow. I have been the keeper of the family history, documents and artifacts and I have his Gettysburg rifle at my home. Everyone of these men is a true America hero. He was the last Civil War Veteran of Somerset Co. Pa. to die at the age of 95 years. I weep at the memory of these men.
My Great-Grandfather was in the Battle of Gettysburg with the Indiana Infantery. I remember when he passed away in 1937 at the age 93. I miss hearing his stories of the Civil War.
@m0n3yman13 Yes I know after I wrote that . I don't know why I was hung up on 70! But still what a long time for these old guys to be able to get around. sort of. I wonder how clear their memories of the battle were? Imagine today they'd be so medicated and stuck in nursing homes and told to be quiet!
When I was 11 years old... which was many years ago... I visited Gettysburg on a summer family vacation.... I will never forget it.
It is hallowed and sacred ground... it felt errie standing there knowing that almost two centuries ago, American dead laid on that same ground.
They sacrificed a lot to preserve our Union and to the Confederates, well they were on the wrong side of history. But all should be forgiven but never forgotten.
What strikes me, in this video, is that these old men were being honored by those young soldiers. Those young soldiers are now old men who are being honored by our young soldiers. It'll be 2019 when we commemorate the 75th Anniversary of D-Day. The cycle will always continue. As long as we have a country in which to honor them from. God Bless America and those that have sacrificed so much for us to have this great nation.
It's important that we may never forget those who fought or died during this horrible war. It's hard to think that more men died in the Civil War than in all other American wars combined, and almost as many men died at Gettysburg than in all the years of fighting in Vietnam. This is a great video and thanks for posting!
@Gettysburg20thMaine - Agreed with your sentiments. But an important correction - While there were 58,000 casualties at Gettysburg (which includes wounded and missing), those killed numbered around 7000. Still deeply sad though.
@TheLostIdea The South -has- risen again. It is in the South where there is now the greatest economic prosperity and the greatest growth. Southern cities like Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham, Birmingham, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston are now the places in this country where companies are expanding, faith is strong, culture advances, and jobs are plentiful. Meanwhile, no one in the South has heard anything of the KKK in many years; its few survivors seem to be in racist enclaves in the North.
My grandfather had the great honor of meeting a civil war vet when he was 11 back in 1943...My grandfather said the guy told him he was 103 years old! The guy was born in 1840! These men have seen more change than we'll(most likely)ever see in our lifetimes...
@ThePatriots010304 My cousin died in 2002 at the age of 97. She was raised by her grandfather, who was in Pickett's Charge. She had fascinating stories he had told her, and she let me see letters written by her great-uncle, who died at Gettysburg. It was not really so long ago.
Angels i tell you! Angels those men were and still are! they made this country the way it is today! i love each and every one of those men in botherhood( but i am a girl) and i hope one day i will see them all....if i were born before the civil war i would even went on the feild when i were only 10 yeard of age or less to help those men! i am 10 now and i went here yesterday on a school field trip
Rest In Peace Soliders may the lord be on your side
I recall the funeral of the last Civil War veteran in Hazleton PA. I was a tot. My great grand pap Brennan was decorated at Kennesaw Mtn. 3 uncles in WWII and grand-uncles in WWI .. also in cavalry. Our freedom is not free .. and it should not be taken for granted. Nobody is going to give you a country if you give this one away.
@Gitfidlpickr I so agree with your statement that freedom is not free and that "Nobody is going to give you a country if you give this one away". This statement is so true today more than ever, but the enemy is no longer Communism, or Islam, it is our own government. Please do research into the New World Order, and into FEMA prison camps as well as Illuminati. You will find "The Enemy Within" .....not outside. Our country has been compromised by a shadow government. We must take it back!
@Gitfidlpickr You're right. Freedom isn't free. Hundreds of thousands of Confederate soldiers gave their lives so that they could be. Too bad my great great uncle took a bullet in the neck fighting on the wrong side of this war.
@TThorne931 Lol. Your posts are almost as worthless as the speeches of a Soviet Apparatchik. You are brainwashed my friend in thinking that the Confederates were skinhead slavers. It is sad that you actually think you formed your own opinion when in reality simply you accepted the contemporary narrative that was created by those who profit from class warfare and ethnic tension. To wit: go fuck yourself.
@TThorne931 If the Confederacy was evil so was Thomas Jefferson who wrote the Declaration of Independence and George Washington who lead the fight. They fought for the same ideals.
The South paid 80% of the taxes and consisted of 30% of the US population. Lincoln instituted the Morrill tariff which increased taxes (the South controlled all but three major US ports) from 20% to 47%. It would've killed the South, they had no choice but to secede and Lincoln murdered them for it.
@Gitfidlpickr I am originally from Pennsylvania and had no fewer that 15 relatives that served in the Union Army. That is part of the reason that I became a Civil War reenactor.
@bluegreydude4 Wow, thats quite a few, and I'm sure you're very proud of the fact too. So far from what I've been able to find I only had 6 of my relatives fight during the civil war, all confederate of course haha. Who knows maybe our ancestors shot at each other once upon a time. Never have done any reenacting, though i have been invited to attend, my work rarely allows me free time, regrettably. Take care yank. Deo Vindice
Just think of the sights and sounds those old eyes and ears heard, horrible probably, they must thank god they survived, no treatment for PTSD in those days.
It's amazing to think that the civil war really wasn't THAT long ago, and almost as amazing is that only 80 years before the Civil War, the US won it's independence.
My wife and I toured Gettysburg several years ago , and saw the many pictures of both the 1913(50th Anniversary) and the 1938(75th) . It is a truely moving experience . 1800 Civil war veterans coming together 75 years later to renew friendships and forgive differences from SO long age . The average age had to be in the mid to upper 90s . I hear that Wal-Mart is wanting to build a Super Center next to the battlefields . Of all places where one is NOT wanted .
Everytime I watch this it brings tears to my eyes. I get the same feeling watching videos of WW2, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan, The Balkans to Haiti, Grenada to Panama, WW1 to the Phillipinnes and the Revolutionary War to the Halls of Montezuma. I get the same feeling of Patriotism and I'm proud to be an American! My family has been in every war going back to the Revolutionary War.
It is so hard to imagine all 4 of my grandparents were alive during this and I am only 26.I give only my sincerest thanks to any Veterans, fighting for what you believe in is one of the most beautiful ideas.
Have "we", the United States Army learned nothing from the past; and, how is it that Army Media can with such devotion craft such a memorial video without it understanding its own failings of then and today. For, to obey illegal orders, and to prosecute war upon the States was a vile and contemptuous act. How one President could so captivate with words and expression of emotion to elicit the complete compliance and obedience of an army. Lincoln & Hitler did it. Barry Sotorro is trying.
@rjc071 I doubt there was ever contempt in the heart of Mr.16. For Lincoln it was the hardest thing he ever had to do For Hitler, the easiest. For Mr.42 he would think it the most necessary thing to do. There is a difference between the 3. Dont you dare compare the three. You may wrongly predict the next move and it may be the death of you.
I wonder who the hero of the Second American Civil War will be...Palin? Beck? Obama? Colbert? If us Americans don't get our shit together they'll be making bronze busts out of one of the abovementioned figures....
Those are true Heros. We can never forget them. It would have been such an honor to shake their hands. I remember visiting Gettysburg and standing where the soldiers stood and seeing the view that they saw. Its a great experience. Il never forget it as long as i live.
It's funny how old soldiers fade away, and all we're left with is statues. Thank goodness for photography, so these images are saved forever. Sometimes young people don't believe it ever happened. These pictures will make it more real for them. You can see the war in their faces and eyes.
look at those young kids at 0:48. what an amazing honour to meet those veterans. , Just imagine all the stories those veterans could tell about there experiences in the war. And they are still sporting the same style beards that they did those many many years agos. Just think, these veterans lived through WW1 and WW2, seeing the change in technology and all. Imagine showing them an old photograph of gettysburg and they reply ' ah yes i remember that ' pointing at the photograph. very moving
why it makes me cry... ;o( i just cant imagine how much pain they suffered just to give their country a better future.. hail them... love the music...
@1085sasa Better future? Not everyone agreed with the outcome. Everytime I see deficit, debt, war, inflation and unemployment, you'd better damn well believe I wish we'd won our freedom.
@tippitytop1 Sorry, but if you're talking about moving film, that's impossible. Gettysburg was fought in 1863, a quarter century before even the earliest crude "moving pictures".
@tippitytop1 I just found the clip to which you're referring, and it's a laughable, obvious hoax. In fact, if you do a Youtube search for the 2008 Gettysburg reenactment and you'll find the exact clip that was used for the hoax, only in color.
Btw, the last name of the supposed Frenchman photographer means "hoax" in French.
Our History, wow so many emotions! 150th will be soon let us remember the lessons of our fore fathers and preserve our history. Honor the dead and remember the struggle. America the beautiful, god grant their souls peace.
my grandmother is still around and we talk.. .she knew these civil war people...her grandfather was in the Union army... it's 2010 and she knows people from the 1840s...
thanks for this beautiful film that makes us touch a part of US History ! Please could you tell me what music you used for this video ??? I just love it. thank you so much
Oh and one more note, my fathers foster parents lived in maryland in Hartford county, and he told me when he was a kid growing up in 1930s md he would hear stories from his adoptive familys grandmother who was a 8 year old at the time of the battle of gettysburg, they said they could actually hear the battle and cowered under their kitchen table from the cannon fire.
I go here every year, I did the 135 reenactment, when we did picketts charge I saw people in the crowd crying. I had so many people stop and take pics with me, it s a great place. if you go, go in the fall when the leaves change. I also wanted to say thanks dad for serving in Korea, noone ever said thanks to you guys when you came home. I miss you much. thanks for the upload and to all military vets, active and retired we love you, I love you for my freedom! God bless you heroes..
The oldest man I ever had the honour of knowing died in the 90s at the age of 106. He had all his marbles so to speak and could remember stuff from the Boer war!!
@Scotsbell sounds boring... no i love to listen to the old vets but i don't think you're friend was old enough for that war of 1900 in South Africa.. I'm surrounded by civil war battlefields here in central Virginia..
@irish89055 Did I say that he was in active service? He was 10 years old when the Boer war ended and his father and uncle were involved. He was not in the least bit boring as he could talk about life from the late 1800s which is when he was born.. American history is indeed interesting albeit fairly recent if compared to European history but having been in Virginia I agree that the battlefields are worth a visit.
Read "Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration" by Lucius Chittenden, who served as secretary of the Treasury for most of the war years. It's published by Nabu Public Domain Reprints. Original was published in 1904 to "set the record" as Chittenden knew it. Amazing personal remembrences and first hand accounts of encounters with this president whom he considered a genius.
Jsd8675; I was born in 1971 and actually dawned on me that I knew people from the 1800s. Never thought of that until you mentioned it. Hope someday I can say the same to a Youngster.
Funny, seeing these guys is just like seeing us today in the past. how our world reflects their world. i've been studdying the Civil War quite a bit, and I'd hate to say, we are repeating history again.
My father grew up in the 1940 during WW II in Tennessee. He told me he remembers a couple of Civil War vets who were still living. I looked it up. The last Civil War vet died in 1959.
chiefymike 1 week ago
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The last veteran died in 1956, the one who died in '59 was never enlisted.
RawChristianSuperman 6 days ago
Probably a few of those men died there then too.
planetrockford 3 weeks ago
just imagine, a year later, WWII would begin. dont we ever learn from our mistakes?
salakast 1 month ago
@salakast When Lincolns invade the South or Hitlers invade the Poles I reckon your right my friend.
rebelcry99 1 week ago
@rebelcry99 the south attacked first, but i guess youre right
salakast 1 week ago
@salakast Technically yes but we should remember that with a foreign hostile force making themselves at home in the Southern harbor of Charleston all the pleases in Dixie couldn't send that threat back home. If Al Quidea held Staten Island would it matter if we fired the "first shot" to send them on their way? Funny thing is there are just 2 wars that critics bitch about who made the first shot. The krouts in WWII and the Confederates in 1861. lol
rebelcry99 1 week ago
Who is the one at 1:18?
thecapone45 1 month ago
Makes me think of my ancestor who fought at Gettysburg in the 33rd VA Infantry. He was only 20 during the battle, and am so proud to be a decendant. :)
33VaInf 1 month ago
@33VaInf You should be proud. I bet he fought valiantly. I have great great great uncle who fought there too. Glad as Americans we can bind our wounds and be friends North and South again. Unlike other countries who fignt on and on each generation. This in one of many things that makes USA great!
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Wow, 75th? And the 150th anniversary is next year.
RevengeOfTheKaizer 1 month ago
@RevengeOfTheKaizer and to think its probably some of the first last footage of these men
ryanjames170 1 month ago
and so through the hallowed halls of human history another generation leaves its mark and no more. R.I.P soldiers of the blue and grey
ting9395 1 month ago
In memory of my great-grandfather, Cpl. Albert L. Akers, Co. I, 17th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, who fought from 1861-1865 --- Wild Cat, Ky. Perryville, Stones River. Tullahoma, Campaign, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta Campaign, March to the Sea, Carolinas Campaign. One of the last of the "Boys in Blue," he attended the 75th Reunion and lived to see World War II.
agatematt 2 months ago
Thanks for posting.
mojopin12 2 months ago
Anyone have a clue about the song?
AlwaysOnLookout 3 months ago in playlist Favoriter från AlwaysOnLookout
Wow.. Those people saw a lot of change in their lifetimes.
TheAwakenedHeretic 3 months ago
Truly amazing!
hoggerdave 3 months ago
Absolutely beautiful video...had me in tears the whole way
Mickagume 4 months ago
i was there yesterday. it moves me everytime i visit Gettysburg. as it gets further and further away from those three horrific days, it saddens me even more. what these soldiers went through should never be forgotten by all races in this nation
erintheresa818 4 months ago
@erintheresa818 I agree...it's really hallowed ground and I've been there many times and am truly moved every time I visit there. I hope they don't let any more developments encroach on the grand battlefield.
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LibranEsq 4 months ago
@ohaiojesse there are none left :( the last one just died in may, he lived to be 110
DrewsVideo 4 months ago
sorry about the youtube account name, im on my sisters account. My great grandfather was in the 69th PA irish birgade he was wounded at Gettysburg during picketts charge i am now a civil war reenactor
KVLCheerleaders 4 months ago
btw who was the guy that was narrating the gettysburg address at the end of the film? was it lincoln or some other guy narrating for us?
ohaiojesse 4 months ago
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Franklin Roosevelt...
ThePatriots010304 4 months ago
@ohaiojesse It certainly was not President Lincoln
TheCurbjumper 4 months ago
dont forget i think there are still some WWI vets out there. they fought in the war that we didnt have to join but they still did. i think there is like only a few left, like less than 10? we must never forget the sacrifice that all the soldiers made just to make the world a better place, including those in WWI.
ohaiojesse 4 months ago
God bless these men. What we see in this video of Civil War Vets is the same thing we are witnessing TODAY of our WWII Veterans. Today, there is not a Civil War vet to listen to or thank. Soon, like the men in this video, there will be no more WWII vets left to listen to or thank. While they (WWII Vets) are here, listen to their stories, shake their hands, and thank them for their service.
iiijg26 4 months ago
@iiijg26 you are very true here...but really after any war it should be that way
soup460 4 months ago
No matter how many times I watch this, I'm still amazed. What these men must have seen...
teawithmarmalade 5 months ago
Love it. Thanks for uploading!
mzmudcat 5 months ago
Imagine what all these men saw in their lifetimes. When one thinks of the world in 1864 and again in 1939, it's mind boggling to think of all the changes they went through.
coolsouthernrain75 5 months ago
@coolsouthernrain75 Yes those Brave Union troopers stood Against the Violent Terrorism of the Southern Despots on the ground and threw back their army of Terrorists into the depth of the south never to Trample Freedom or Enslave again . As for the CS veterans should have been grabbed as war criminals that day shame we didn't might have ended the stupid states right
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 ......And to think the northerners always feel that southerners are still fighting the war.
coolsouthernrain75 5 months ago
@coolsouthernrain75 I mark it as commemeration of the Brave US army Stomping to Death Traitors and Slavers under the boot of the Free
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 ......Gee.......I can tell you have some repressed feelings.....don't you?
coolsouthernrain75 5 months ago
@coolsouthernrain75 Yes those Brave Union troopers stood Against the Violent Terrorism of the Southern Despots on the ground and threw back their army of Terrorists into the depth of the south never to Trample Freedom or Enslave again . As for the CS veterans should have been grabbed as war criminals that day shame we didn't might have ended the stupid states right
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Gitfidlpickr 5 months ago
Go Army. This we'll defend
TGAllstar 5 months ago
I sometimes wish there was still a military draft, so every American can really feel the honor of serving their country.
TheLightningspeed 5 months ago
My great-great grandfather was one of the only 25 actual Gettysburg survivors to attend the 75th reunion. He appeared in a Life magazine photo in a handshake across the headgerow. I have been the keeper of the family history, documents and artifacts and I have his Gettysburg rifle at my home. Everyone of these men is a true America hero. He was the last Civil War Veteran of Somerset Co. Pa. to die at the age of 95 years. I weep at the memory of these men.
GoldenJewelNoel 6 months ago
@GoldenJewelNoel He better have been Union otherwise he isn't an American hero
TThorne931 5 months ago
wow its hard to imagine this happing im 12 and i would be in war, wow r.i.p. civil war veterans God bless you
jakobbenzi 6 months ago
Remember a lot of these soldiers were young teenagers, some were 12 or 13 and were soldiers.
Imachowderhead 6 months ago
My Great-Grandfather was in the Battle of Gettysburg with the Indiana Infantery. I remember when he passed away in 1937 at the age 93. I miss hearing his stories of the Civil War.
ATSF1927 6 months ago
Hard to believe that these men who are shown fought brother, father, and even best friends. t's just so sad
Acesinoproductions 6 months ago
This was 1933? I can't believe there were that many x soldier's still alive. Golly
Ms2blackcats 6 months ago
@Ms2blackcats The battle took place in 1863, hence the 75th anniversary would have been 1938. Remarkable.
m0n3yman13 6 months ago
@m0n3yman13 Yes I know after I wrote that . I don't know why I was hung up on 70! But still what a long time for these old guys to be able to get around. sort of. I wonder how clear their memories of the battle were? Imagine today they'd be so medicated and stuck in nursing homes and told to be quiet!
Ms2blackcats 6 months ago
What music is it?
62jorel 7 months ago
When I was 11 years old... which was many years ago... I visited Gettysburg on a summer family vacation.... I will never forget it.
It is hallowed and sacred ground... it felt errie standing there knowing that almost two centuries ago, American dead laid on that same ground.
They sacrificed a lot to preserve our Union and to the Confederates, well they were on the wrong side of history. But all should be forgiven but never forgotten.
SnickleFritz79 7 months ago
beautiful !!!!!!!!
buzzbox2nd 7 months ago
What strikes me, in this video, is that these old men were being honored by those young soldiers. Those young soldiers are now old men who are being honored by our young soldiers. It'll be 2019 when we commemorate the 75th Anniversary of D-Day. The cycle will always continue. As long as we have a country in which to honor them from. God Bless America and those that have sacrificed so much for us to have this great nation.
ed1968man 7 months ago
Rip
31jeffburton 7 months ago
0:17-0:21 and 2:20-2:28 are my favourite bits.
MichaelCasanovaMusic 7 months ago
Think, in just a few years, we'll be commemorating the 75th Anniversary of some of WWII's most significant battles.
toddsmitts 8 months ago
Interesting video considering the recent deaths of the last American and British WWI vets.
toddsmitts 8 months ago
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ImTheCrew 8 months ago
It's important that we may never forget those who fought or died during this horrible war. It's hard to think that more men died in the Civil War than in all other American wars combined, and almost as many men died at Gettysburg than in all the years of fighting in Vietnam. This is a great video and thanks for posting!
Gettysburg20thMaine 9 months ago
@Gettysburg20thMaine - Agreed with your sentiments. But an important correction - While there were 58,000 casualties at Gettysburg (which includes wounded and missing), those killed numbered around 7000. Still deeply sad though.
richferguson11 8 months ago
The south will rise again
ChrisHill991 9 months ago
@ChrisHill991- You'have been saying that for over 150 years all you have to show for it is the KKK.
TheLostIdea 8 months ago
@TheLostIdea The South -has- risen again. It is in the South where there is now the greatest economic prosperity and the greatest growth. Southern cities like Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham, Birmingham, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston are now the places in this country where companies are expanding, faith is strong, culture advances, and jobs are plentiful. Meanwhile, no one in the South has heard anything of the KKK in many years; its few survivors seem to be in racist enclaves in the North.
AndreaRKent 7 months ago
@AndreaRKent The poorest state in the Union is still Mississippi.
mrhipsterdoofus 7 months ago
@ChrisHill991 then it will be smashed back down in to its place...
canhelpwithgames 7 months ago
My grandfather had the great honor of meeting a civil war vet when he was 11 back in 1943...My grandfather said the guy told him he was 103 years old! The guy was born in 1840! These men have seen more change than we'll(most likely)ever see in our lifetimes...
ThePatriots010304 9 months ago
@ThePatriots010304 My cousin died in 2002 at the age of 97. She was raised by her grandfather, who was in Pickett's Charge. She had fascinating stories he had told her, and she let me see letters written by her great-uncle, who died at Gettysburg. It was not really so long ago.
AndreaRKent 7 months ago
Angels i tell you! Angels those men were and still are! they made this country the way it is today! i love each and every one of those men in botherhood( but i am a girl) and i hope one day i will see them all....if i were born before the civil war i would even went on the feild when i were only 10 yeard of age or less to help those men! i am 10 now and i went here yesterday on a school field trip
Rest In Peace Soliders may the lord be on your side
DustinandAlayna4ever 9 months ago
from Italy....very wonderfull storical document, the face to the old soldiers...bello
bugna1968 9 months ago 2
Imagine the opportunity to be sitting next to these men, hearing stories about the most written about battle in American history.
TheTrimby1973 9 months ago 2
Its rediculous to think that 75 years ago, these men wouldve fought to the death.
blacklegionairsoft1 10 months ago
I recall the funeral of the last Civil War veteran in Hazleton PA. I was a tot. My great grand pap Brennan was decorated at Kennesaw Mtn. 3 uncles in WWII and grand-uncles in WWI .. also in cavalry. Our freedom is not free .. and it should not be taken for granted. Nobody is going to give you a country if you give this one away.
Gitfidlpickr 10 months ago 46
@Gitfidlpickr Well said. Here's to freedom that's not free. Paid for by the blood of it's people. God save the Union.
buffet62 6 months ago
@Gitfidlpickr I so agree with your statement that freedom is not free and that "Nobody is going to give you a country if you give this one away". This statement is so true today more than ever, but the enemy is no longer Communism, or Islam, it is our own government. Please do research into the New World Order, and into FEMA prison camps as well as Illuminati. You will find "The Enemy Within" .....not outside. Our country has been compromised by a shadow government. We must take it back!
Trevoc2 6 months ago
@Gitfidlpickr who was the last civil war veteren?
PD19954 6 months ago
@Gitfidlpickr You're right. Freedom isn't free. Hundreds of thousands of Confederate soldiers gave their lives so that they could be. Too bad my great great uncle took a bullet in the neck fighting on the wrong side of this war.
fostersfibs 5 months ago
@fostersfibs Who cares about Confederates they were skinhead slavers . America was much stronger with the Dead Confed
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 Lol. Your posts are almost as worthless as the speeches of a Soviet Apparatchik. You are brainwashed my friend in thinking that the Confederates were skinhead slavers. It is sad that you actually think you formed your own opinion when in reality simply you accepted the contemporary narrative that was created by those who profit from class warfare and ethnic tension. To wit: go fuck yourself.
fostersfibs 5 months ago
@fostersfibs this is my own ideas that the Confederacy was a great evil
TThorne931 5 months ago
@TThorne931 I suppose it is your own grammar as well.
fostersfibs 5 months ago
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@TThorne931 I suppose it is your own grammar as well.
fostersfibs 5 months ago
@TThorne931 If the Confederacy was evil so was Thomas Jefferson who wrote the Declaration of Independence and George Washington who lead the fight. They fought for the same ideals.
The South paid 80% of the taxes and consisted of 30% of the US population. Lincoln instituted the Morrill tariff which increased taxes (the South controlled all but three major US ports) from 20% to 47%. It would've killed the South, they had no choice but to secede and Lincoln murdered them for it.
abcmole 1 month ago
@Gitfidlpickr I am originally from Pennsylvania and had no fewer that 15 relatives that served in the Union Army. That is part of the reason that I became a Civil War reenactor.
bluegreydude4 3 months ago
@bluegreydude4 Wow, thats quite a few, and I'm sure you're very proud of the fact too. So far from what I've been able to find I only had 6 of my relatives fight during the civil war, all confederate of course haha. Who knows maybe our ancestors shot at each other once upon a time. Never have done any reenacting, though i have been invited to attend, my work rarely allows me free time, regrettably. Take care yank. Deo Vindice
Spawn40k 2 months ago
Just think of the sights and sounds those old eyes and ears heard, horrible probably, they must thank god they survived, no treatment for PTSD in those days.
ARLO999 10 months ago 2
i didn't know that sauron from the lord of the rings, served in the american civil war? 1:17 :D
DKbeatlefan 10 months ago
This video just blows me away. It's really amazing to actually see them alive here. I hope the truly rest in piece.
maxbobb0002 10 months ago 12
@maxbobb0002 no kidding. After the conditions they fought in...
soup460 4 months ago
Just think, these men lived through The Great War, and some will live into WWII. What a time to be alive!
capie44 10 months ago 3
Quite simply; they are alive again. And always will be.
raspycellist 10 months ago 4
god bless and rest the souls of these fine gentlemen!
glamking75 10 months ago
It's amazing to think that the civil war really wasn't THAT long ago, and almost as amazing is that only 80 years before the Civil War, the US won it's independence.
skittlesareyum48 10 months ago
Interesting thanks for sharing
MrMediamate 10 months ago
they were all great americans on both sides, "when men were men"
leonetski 10 months ago
Not only is the video moving, but the music is moving. Can anyone identify the music for me? Thanks.
gebarr 10 months ago
these were real men
TheHonkyquacker13 11 months ago
historic movie ,congratulations !
almirantenegro 11 months ago
bless them all
TheJoec2005 11 months ago
My wife and I toured Gettysburg several years ago , and saw the many pictures of both the 1913(50th Anniversary) and the 1938(75th) . It is a truely moving experience . 1800 Civil war veterans coming together 75 years later to renew friendships and forgive differences from SO long age . The average age had to be in the mid to upper 90s . I hear that Wal-Mart is wanting to build a Super Center next to the battlefields . Of all places where one is NOT wanted .
jerryg65 11 months ago 3
@jerryg65 Piss on Wal-Mart. Thankless bunch of jerks!
akretowicz 11 months ago 4
@jerryg65 i read online Wal-Mart pulled out of the deal now
atfigure 10 months ago
Everytime I watch this it brings tears to my eyes. I get the same feeling watching videos of WW2, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan, The Balkans to Haiti, Grenada to Panama, WW1 to the Phillipinnes and the Revolutionary War to the Halls of Montezuma. I get the same feeling of Patriotism and I'm proud to be an American! My family has been in every war going back to the Revolutionary War.
boatstaylor 11 months ago 2
@boatstaylor
whoa, really? How do you know?
kennykyle133 11 months ago
It is so hard to imagine all 4 of my grandparents were alive during this and I am only 26.I give only my sincerest thanks to any Veterans, fighting for what you believe in is one of the most beautiful ideas.
Ihateworking1 11 months ago 3
Ask not what your country can do for you:
Ask what YOU can do for your country.
-JFK
willypdyer 1 year ago
Have "we", the United States Army learned nothing from the past; and, how is it that Army Media can with such devotion craft such a memorial video without it understanding its own failings of then and today. For, to obey illegal orders, and to prosecute war upon the States was a vile and contemptuous act. How one President could so captivate with words and expression of emotion to elicit the complete compliance and obedience of an army. Lincoln & Hitler did it. Barry Sotorro is trying.
rjc071 1 year ago
@rjc071 I doubt there was ever contempt in the heart of Mr.16. For Lincoln it was the hardest thing he ever had to do For Hitler, the easiest. For Mr.42 he would think it the most necessary thing to do. There is a difference between the 3. Dont you dare compare the three. You may wrongly predict the next move and it may be the death of you.
Spankydaham924 1 year ago
I wonder who the hero of the Second American Civil War will be...Palin? Beck? Obama? Colbert? If us Americans don't get our shit together they'll be making bronze busts out of one of the abovementioned figures....
CzechDetectingChap 1 year ago
Those are true Heros. We can never forget them. It would have been such an honor to shake their hands. I remember visiting Gettysburg and standing where the soldiers stood and seeing the view that they saw. Its a great experience. Il never forget it as long as i live.
MegaNazislayer 1 year ago
this is amazing footage. a great bunch of guys.
MrJimmyboy1972 1 year ago
It's funny how old soldiers fade away, and all we're left with is statues. Thank goodness for photography, so these images are saved forever. Sometimes young people don't believe it ever happened. These pictures will make it more real for them. You can see the war in their faces and eyes.
illustrate100 1 year ago 2
look at those young kids at 0:48. what an amazing honour to meet those veterans. , Just imagine all the stories those veterans could tell about there experiences in the war. And they are still sporting the same style beards that they did those many many years agos. Just think, these veterans lived through WW1 and WW2, seeing the change in technology and all. Imagine showing them an old photograph of gettysburg and they reply ' ah yes i remember that ' pointing at the photograph. very moving
BlackSabbathmad 1 year ago
@BlackSabbathmad thos are boy scouts omg
canhelpwithgames 7 months ago
I will never forget my trip to gettysburg.
katrachosps 1 year ago
gooooooood tune! anyone know the name of it? the montage was very moving also.
bloosey1 1 year ago
May God bless them for all eternity.
akretowicz 1 year ago 3
The music is beautiful to remember them by.
gootenslog 1 year ago 2
why it makes me cry... ;o( i just cant imagine how much pain they suffered just to give their country a better future.. hail them... love the music...
1085sasa 1 year ago 13
@1085sasa now everytime i visit my youtube acct i always make sure that i listen/watch this beautiful video...
1085sasa 1 year ago
@1085sasa Better future? Not everyone agreed with the outcome. Everytime I see deficit, debt, war, inflation and unemployment, you'd better damn well believe I wish we'd won our freedom.
mnpd007 5 months ago
Beautiful, but pray you never have to experience history like they did. For a soldier, cope or not, they live with it the rest of their lives.
Mahbu 1 year ago
Beautiful. Our greatest which defines us today.
macdogq 1 year ago
very sad.
TheIceman567 1 year ago
A few years ago, I met a man in his 90s, his father had fought for the Confederacy; I had goose-bumps... Living History... WOW!!!
lonewolf379th 1 year ago 2
this is so cool- ever see the actual bit of film of confederates marching off to Gettysburg?
A Frenchman shot the film- it is very freaky and cool to see
tippitytop1 1 year ago
@tippitytop1 Sorry, but if you're talking about moving film, that's impossible. Gettysburg was fought in 1863, a quarter century before even the earliest crude "moving pictures".
RManBB2010 10 months ago
@tippitytop1 I just found the clip to which you're referring, and it's a laughable, obvious hoax. In fact, if you do a Youtube search for the 2008 Gettysburg reenactment and you'll find the exact clip that was used for the hoax, only in color.
Btw, the last name of the supposed Frenchman photographer means "hoax" in French.
RManBB2010 10 months ago
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@tippitytop1 I've seen it. Very cool.
BahamutElDiablo 8 months ago
So blessed to see this
bigbadge107 1 year ago
Our History, wow so many emotions! 150th will be soon let us remember the lessons of our fore fathers and preserve our history. Honor the dead and remember the struggle. America the beautiful, god grant their souls peace.
JeffersonAction 1 year ago
You should see what the assholes at gettysburg have concocted about these reunions they worry aboutt the blacks setting up the tents thats it!
Lumotaku 1 year ago
Great footage, although it would have been nice to hear them during an interview.
visor109 1 year ago
This is very beautiful. My country once crippled, has done a great deal to heal its wounds.
PhiloAmericana 1 year ago
my grandmother is still around and we talk.. .she knew these civil war people...her grandfather was in the Union army... it's 2010 and she knows people from the 1840s...
WindAndTheLion 1 year ago 3
@WindAndTheLion Amasing! She must have a lot of stories to tell!
OtakuPraetorius 1 year ago
@WindAndTheLion
You are most fortunate that to still have her.
lonewolf379th 1 year ago
i would like to have known the old guy at the 50 second mark to hear his story. man is this a fascinating film!
bloosey1 1 year ago
thanks for this beautiful film that makes us touch a part of US History ! Please could you tell me what music you used for this video ??? I just love it. thank you so much
Sugalouette 1 year ago
Ever seen the still picture, a daguereotype, of Andrew Jackson as an old man? He was alive in George Washingtons time. Now THATS amazing.
rubbersole79 1 year ago 2
ONORE ai DIFENSORI del SUD
pinjo14 1 year ago
Its amazing to see this kind of footage, of a person who actually participated in the war, and then Gettysburg! See them move, its amazing!
hherlevdk 1 year ago
1:30. Grandpa's got the moves! Good for him!
TheTrimby1973 1 year ago 3
Wow! This is so beautiful. All sides coming together for unity.
macdogq 1 year ago
Survivors of the "Devil's Den." RIP
Ripley44mag 1 year ago
The American civil war was not all that long ago.
leahcimber 1 year ago
I suppose the European equivalent of this is footage of Paul von Hindenburg.
vdven 1 year ago
great video, just wondering what the name of the song playing during the video is
CKing180 1 year ago
very cool video
skew06 1 year ago
Mason-Dixon Line- The dividing line between Y`all and You`se guys....
Kharkovkid 1 year ago 2
This is the only video on You Tube that makes me cry. Very very emotional.
SnickleFritz79 1 year ago 2
Oh and one more note, my fathers foster parents lived in maryland in Hartford county, and he told me when he was a kid growing up in 1930s md he would hear stories from his adoptive familys grandmother who was a 8 year old at the time of the battle of gettysburg, they said they could actually hear the battle and cowered under their kitchen table from the cannon fire.
wilhelm1974 1 year ago
I go here every year, I did the 135 reenactment, when we did picketts charge I saw people in the crowd crying. I had so many people stop and take pics with me, it s a great place. if you go, go in the fall when the leaves change. I also wanted to say thanks dad for serving in Korea, noone ever said thanks to you guys when you came home. I miss you much. thanks for the upload and to all military vets, active and retired we love you, I love you for my freedom! God bless you heroes..
wilhelm1974 1 year ago
The oldest man I ever had the honour of knowing died in the 90s at the age of 106. He had all his marbles so to speak and could remember stuff from the Boer war!!
Scotsbell 1 year ago
@Scotsbell sounds boring... no i love to listen to the old vets but i don't think you're friend was old enough for that war of 1900 in South Africa.. I'm surrounded by civil war battlefields here in central Virginia..
irish89055 1 year ago
@irish89055 Did I say that he was in active service? He was 10 years old when the Boer war ended and his father and uncle were involved. He was not in the least bit boring as he could talk about life from the late 1800s which is when he was born.. American history is indeed interesting albeit fairly recent if compared to European history but having been in Virginia I agree that the battlefields are worth a visit.
Scotsbell 1 year ago
@Scotsbell touchy, touchy... the boring comment went over your head..
irish89055 1 year ago
@irish89055 and you sir, are rude.
Scotsbell 1 year ago
Read "Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration" by Lucius Chittenden, who served as secretary of the Treasury for most of the war years. It's published by Nabu Public Domain Reprints. Original was published in 1904 to "set the record" as Chittenden knew it. Amazing personal remembrences and first hand accounts of encounters with this president whom he considered a genius.
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jabbadu431 1 year ago
Jsd8675; I was born in 1971 and actually dawned on me that I knew people from the 1800s. Never thought of that until you mentioned it. Hope someday I can say the same to a Youngster.
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GETTYSBURGbook 1 year ago
Funny, seeing these guys is just like seeing us today in the past. how our world reflects their world. i've been studdying the Civil War quite a bit, and I'd hate to say, we are repeating history again.
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GETTYSBURGbook 1 year ago
Wow 75 years already. Time flies.
JamesTKirkCobain 1 year ago
1:32 - I hope I can dance a jig like that when I'm that age!
JobberBud 1 year ago
Civil war vets alive at the 75th anniversary of Gettysburg fought in the Civil War as teenagers; few of them were over 25.
bookkeeper57 1 year ago
Wonderful, but maybe civilization was in the South ?
Sarcantus 1 year ago