derek warfield-wearing of the gray

[utubecenseorstruth]

God bless Dixie

[crazyman1864]

God bless Dixie and Erin go Braugh!

[utubecenseorstruth]

what a great song

[TheFooob]

I wonder if the Irish brigades that fought for the CSA knew that the CSA was covertly supported by the British Government! (not The British People who mostly supported the North, Abraham Lincoln was a hero among the British working people).

[TheUlsterprotestant]

i have a lot of respect for the men who wore the grey they were outnumberd there equitment was nt as good as the unions yet an al they won nearly every battle an managed to fight on for 4 years. lee an jackson proably 2 of the best generals the states ever had. i take pride in knowing that great general stonewll jackson family were origanly from my home town/area of loughgall Ulster

[Stuart4791]

same here

[Shadowmourne07]

I wear the Gray everyday.

[Consrvatev]

I find it somewhat humorous that there is an argument about English conquests in Britain on a video about the American Civil War

[tommythompson364]

@Consrvatev

agreed

[Gunitz27]

someone have the lyrics?

[Gunitz27]

someone have the lyrics?

[bullyboy1863]

hey, stop arguing on my video. K. Thanks.

[cherokeetrace]

You throw that word redneck around careless like, as an insult.

If you'd ever been South you'd find that most of it's people are of Irish, Scot/Irish ancestry and proud of it. But you go ahead and wallow in your sty of bigotry and hackneyed cliches

[paul6j7o]

@cherokeetrace Scottish aswell mate...Non of this Scot/Irish stuff...Although that is true also.Just had to clear a point their mate.

[cherokeetrace]

@paul6j7o No offense meant my friend. Of course the Scots are well represented in the South. But the mix of both is quite large here about. There's an excellent book on the subject that I think you'd find of interest: BORN FIGHTING: HOW THE SCOTS-IRISH SHAPED AMERICA by James Webb.

The South owes a debt to the Scots, Irish and Welsh, for we inherited y'alls love of the land, family, God, Country freedom and the right of the individual plus the suspicion of government growing too dominant

[Ultraroyaliste]

@cherokeetrace The Irish, Scots, and Welsh never championed 'the right of the individual.' That's an English idea. The Irish and Scots still maintained their glorious clan system before being conquered by the English, and the clan system did not exactly respect the 'individual' or any other nonsense that comes from the Enlightenment.

[cherokeetrace]

@Ultraroyaliste Thanks for the different take. I reckon with a new land came a new attitude in some things perhaps.

[hfceasyccs]

@Ultraroyaliste the scots and irish were never conquered by the english

[Ultraroyaliste]

@hfceasyccs Hah, sure. What language is the most widely spoken in Ireland and Scotland again ? The Scots were bought and sold for English gold twice, first by greedy parliamentarians -- under the spell of John Knox -- who took English promises and money to end the Auld Alliance and abandon the Church, and then again for the same motives with the Act of Union (1707). As for Ireland, the English have ravaged them for 800 years and still have a foothold in the north and, culturally, in Dublin.

[hfceasyccs]

@Ultraroyaliste pick up a book u fuckin idiot the union wars were started by a scots man king james the 2nd of england mary queen scots son and the low landers of scotland were with england so it was england the low land scots and wales vs the highlands and the highland fought with swords and still nearly done the english london was evacuated and it was also a civil war between the scots as i see u are a loyalist you will always stick up for england wich i abhor excuse the spelling im quit drunk

[purplepimpernel]

@hfceasyccs There's a good reason the lowlanders sided with England. They were Anglo-Saxons. That part of Northumbria, a Angeln Kingdom in the North. It has come to me that my own maternal grandfather's line was in fact one of the son's of Ralph Neville who fell out of favor with Elizabeth I. Ralph was Mary's jailor but fell in love with her and hence his own doom. 3 brothers changed their name and came to the colonies.

[purplepimpernel]

@Ultraroyaliste The Normans were responsible for the trouble in Ireland as the Saxon lords had very little power after the Normans invaded & occupied England. King's changed all round but the lowly Saxon kept our mutilated language for their use. The family name pre-fix "Fitz" is a Norman invention.

[kilomeister]

warfield is a hypocrite. he'll quite happily play in boston and south bend, where he will perform the green version.

the southern dollar has clouded his mind. maybe he want's to start a redneck nascar race.

[BaronVonKenny]

@kilomeister I don't see how that makes him a hypocrite. He recorded several Union albums, he's not advocating secession, he's just looking at the history of the Irish emigrants, where they went, and what causes they took up.

[utubecenseorstruth]

@BaronVonKenny exactly and lets not forget IRish need not apply were much more common in union territory

[paul6j7o]

At the end of the day the only clothes that were avalibale were wore.

[utubecenseorstruth]

damn this guy is not bad. I like bobby horton, but this makes me think of the irish brigade all the way.

[tette666]

Does anyone have the lyrics? for I'm not a native-english-speaker, so don't understand everything he's singing. thanks in advance! :D

[utubecenseorstruth]

@tette666 i am a native english speaker and there are words i have a hard time with in this song. it is spoken with HEAVY IRISH dialect. Good luck with it

[CapnConfederacy]

Don't forget Richmond Gray which was almost black. Or butternut, or any number of uniforms we fielded. DEO VINDICE!

[rifleman1122]

why did the CSA wear gray? why not green? or red? just curious

[StealthBreach]

In part because gray dye was cheaper, and red was already the national hue of great britain. Green was out because camoflauge hadn't caught on yet.

[rifleman1122]

thanks. makes sense

[LAHFaust]

@StealthBreach The Russians wore green uniforms.

[StealthBreach]

@LAHFaust Yes, that's true. As did a number of european countries and at least 3 confederate regiments that I know of. I assumed that rifleman was thinking that green would be an obvious choice for its camoflauging properties.

Also, was Russia still wearing green at the time? I've heard that they were wearing brown during the crimean war, which is only a few years prior to the ACW.

[LAHFaust]

@StealthBreach You are correct, the Russians had phased out the green uniforms by the ACW, though I believe the British light infantry still wore the green uniforms (rifle green) they adopted during the Napoleonic era. Also, a few of the German nation-states wore green uniforms, while only in Prussia and Saxony, on the Jaegers wore green (essentially the colour the Wehrmacht wore during WW2.) Also, the Continental Army wore green uniforms during the Revolution.

[SunTzu176]

@rifleman1122 They actually wore BUTTERNUT 90% of the time because it was the cheapest. Next up in price was gray. What ever was cheap is what they wore, black, gray, red, brown, tan, hell even blue.

They where men from all walks of life and states who came with whatever they could put together

[fearlessfred14]

@rifleman1122

It's no coincidence that gray, butternut, and blue were very cheap dyes in that time. Both armies were very strapped for funds, and used the cheapest colors they could. They also didn't standardize very well, with some blue-clad confederates and even gray-clad Wisconsin troops (I think the 2nd Wisconsin wore gray). Green was notably the color of the US Sharpshooters, but some Confederate units wore it as well.

[kmcquiggin1]

@rifleman1122 The reason they were grey is simply because it was the easiest color to produce and it wouldn't easily be confused with dark blue. Many soldiers never even had a uniform, and just wore civillian clothes.

[MatzeNuss]

Long live DIXIE !!

Deo Vindice

[StealthBreach]

oh.. sorry dude. I get carried away sometimes.

[StealthBreach]

Ha. All 11 former confedreate states swiftly ratified the 13th ammendment. Then you proposed the 14th, which altough it gave citizenship to everyone but Native Americans, it also took away voting rights from everyone who had took part in the rebellion. The former Confed. states as well as NJ and OR voted against it, which meant it would not have ratified.

At this point the senate decided that the 11 states would then be forced to ratify the ammendment in order to be readmitted to the union.

[StealthBreach]

let's think about that. Obviously, you beleive secession is illegal, and assuming that to be true, then legally speaking the 11 states never actually left. Hence, no need to be readmitted if one never legally left. yet, we were forced to vote away our constituional rights in exchange for readmittance to a union that YOU said we never left. How does THAT make sense? Once this happened, the only people in the south that had any political power were scalawags, most blacks & carpetbaggers.

[StealthBreach]

hence, the formation of the KKK and later, Jim Crow. Explain that one.

But-- before segregation was enacted- republican pres candidate rutherford b hayes agreed to withdraw federal troops from the south, and return them to home rule, in exchange for electoral votes from several southern sates. though his opponent, Sam tilden, had the popular vote by a slim margin (51- 48%), those electoral votes gave Hayes the presidency. enter Jim crow and segregation.

Explain that, mrSmartyman.

[StealthBreach]

In fact, don't even try.

[KrKilllla]

You traitor bastards got what you deserved...Long live the Union Irish, Long live the 69th. Long live Gen. Sherman. Marched and Burned you treasonous bastards to the sea.

[StealthBreach]

Yep, and as a direct result of your victory, our government has since then swelled far beyond it's original constitutional limits.

Ye sewed the wind, and ye shall sew the whirlwind. Enjoy.

[StealthBreach]

oops, reap the whirlwind.

[TheRebrouser23]

@KrKilllla The only real traitors are you thieving, amoral scum. The traitors to the originally established government and ideals that valued the sovereignty of each individual state. Not to mention the power grab you bastards were enforcing upon the South which would override Southern representation in Congress, which also can be found evident in present day.

[DurhamRebel]

@KrKilllla and the patriots of the revolution were called rebels and traitors as well.

[Stalin111]

hehehe, the melodiy is identical to "Army of the free", a union-Song.

[furiousdane69]

Its originally taken from "Rising of the Moon" which is a song about the Irish uprising against Britain in 1798.

[TennesseeShine]

Nice version!  My Great Grandmother was a Malone.

[CrosslegLuke]

BOOOOOOM! THANK YOU WARFIELD!!!!

The Original (Unwatered Down) Version!!!!!!!

[CrosslegLuke]

well not Quiet but better, and closer then Bobby horton's Version

[TheConfederateBoy]

Forever wearing the gray