A very sobering revelation. I’ve visited half a dozen battlefields with our family and instructed our children to display the utmost reverence for the holy ground. Four of our sons went on to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan. God bless them all. Great video presentation!

Union had plenty of food and supplies to feed the POW's, the South could not even feed their own soldiers, starving southern POW's is a crime.

@sgtlz

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Andersonville was a southern war prison. The commander of which was the only officer hanged for war crimes.

@johnceglick8714

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@@sgtlz An Austrian by name of Henry Wertz .

@Moe-xg6bu

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And you all clueless about what protects freedom and justice get the hell out

@Moe-xg6bu

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@@Jay-dx6hg much you pretending to understand like being we the people not even close

@Moe-xg6bu

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@@Jay-dx6hg clueless about what stand for lie down

I saw my oldest brother drafted and sent to Vietnam. It messed him up. My fiancee is a double veteran ( 10 years Coast Guard, 6 years Army) , she was raped in the military, she is a disabled veteran I see how she suffers & how poorly the VA treats her. I raised my son. I saw what a parent puts in to raising a child. I will never offer my child on the alter for some politicians foreign policy. It's always the same throughout history, a rich man's war, a poor man's fight. I honour all who have served, their hearts are in the right place.

@johnceglick8714

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General William Tecumseh Sherman succinctly said "War is Hell"! Lost my uncle in.NAM mid-3/68 , tail end of bloody TET, 10 days b-4 my 11 th bday. My grandpa was in WW2 in USSs 82nd A/B Div. , and fought through out The ETO . Some harrowing tales.

@johnceglick8714

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The American Civil War was a catastrophic event.

@Kickyourass484

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I'm a conscript, disabled, and Republic of Vietnam combat vet '68. War is absolutely hell. My wife suffered abuse in the Army and is disabled. My gg grandfather fought for Tennessee and survived Chickamauga. My other gg grandfather fought for the Michigan 23rd infantry and survived battles.

A really eye-opening documentary. Heart breaking and horrifying 😢😢😢 Thank you for sharing this ❤️

@johnceglick8714

Жыл бұрын

Choked me up !

Whatever their side, these men should have had a dignified burial. RIP my brothers!

My great, great, great grandfather from Kansas entered the Civil War and never returned. We don't know his fate, nor what side he fought with. My great grandfather came out west to Idaho as he didn't want to be a farmer. Both his parents died. His mom giving birth to twins, (twins lived) . Father died heading out to the barn to feed the pigs he was struck by lightening. That leaves his grandmother to raise her grandchildren, the two baby twins and George at age 10. He hops on a train and heads out West. He works in small logging, mining towns and ends up in Viola, Idaho . Gets married to a farm girl, and becomes a farmer himself.

Very Touching! Thanks a lot for posting this. I publish a monthly newsletter for my Civil War reenacting unit. I will definitely add a link to this video in next month's issue.

@josephf.wilson2747

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ron, where you located and what regiment do you represent?? Appreciate your adding the link to your newsletter. I also wrote and produced the 75 Minute documentary "Civil War Prisons - An American Tragedy " on pay per view. Joe Wilson

thoroughly enjoyed , I find this perfect in every way and appreciate your efforts . informative and moving thank you

Another 5 star film from the very talented Mr. Wilson. I appreciate the fact that he delves into the depths of the Civil War to make each of us understand the true hardship, cruelty and horror these soldiers endured on a daily basis. I am disappointed that KZread a recently decided to put a restriction on a film that has been up for a year or more. A film that shows historical facts. A film that is far less offensive that many of the computer games teens are playing every day. Kuddos to Mr. Wilson, keep up the good work! And a BIG thumbs down to KZread.

38:00 minute is not Lincoln Park but Grant Park. This was water until filled in after the great 1871 fire. The cemetary was 3 miles north near Lake Shore Drive. Which later had the bodies removed to make Lincoln Park.

Another great upload thank you very much

Excellent Film! I always wondered how the the dead were handled during the Civil War. Thanks for putting this together.

I had an ancestor in Andersonville which was an outdoor hell on earth of a prison. The records I could find indicated he either died in the prison or while being moved to another prison in Georgia. It also noted that they think his body was confused with a deceased soldier with a similar name and was buried in his grave in error. No record of where either grave is located. How awful to know nobody was able to go visit him.

@josephf.wilson2747

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Lisa, What's his name and regiment. Joe Wilson

@bogtrotter17

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He lies confused in a hell of his own making.

@johnedwards5334

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@@bogtrotter17 How did he make that hell?

I had family on both sides and several died. It is strange that North Carolina, being the last State to succeed, lost the most men. And everybody seems to forget that halfway through this war, both sides were using men who didn't want to fight, in other words, draftees. One of my relatives was imprisoned for being a deserter because he didn't was to succeed. Many people that are derided now as traitors were actually being forced to fight.

Well they had no transportation, refrigeration or embalming in large quantities

I lost a (however many) great uncle at Antietam (Sharpsburg) ... It's very likely his bones never returned home to North Carolina

My gggrandfather as killed at Ft. Gilmore in September 1864 stationed there in the final defense of Richmond. He is buried in Ann marked grave near the site he was killed. There were six boys in the family and all lost their lives except for the youngest who survived and signed his surrender at Appomattox. The war as so uncalled for from the beginning but it happened and those that want to erase this war from history is destroying our history….good or bad.

@johnceglick8714

Жыл бұрын

The war gave this Nation it's character at a desperate time.

You take a man send him to war destroy his life and body then think you have disrespected him only when you treat his lifeless corpse that can no longer feel pain in an unkind manner.

War is hell

@tempesttherapy

Жыл бұрын

You got that right

All those young American boys thier faces so fresh so full of life both confederate and union God bless them all hoping it wasn't for nothing, going by this rediculous government in 2023 ripping down thier sacred memorials and putting up hideous art pieces instead , shame, shame , shame .

@johnceglick8714

Жыл бұрын

Blasphemous !

What a gem.

Sadly what little I know our family lost ancestors on both side plus later at wounded knee.

My great great great uncle died at Gaines Mill in 1862, which is maybe a few miles away from where cold harbor was fought. His body was never found so I can only assume (and hope) that he's in the cold harbor cemetery.

As a veteran, I am shocked at this. I learned in school that their bodies were entombed in monuments to them. Whether they were northern or southern, to find out in was done decades after the fact is astonishing and sad. When a soldier dies now their body is treated with the utmost respect and returned to the family. It makes me wonder that millions of families went through this in all the countless wars and battles throughout history.

I visited Johnson's Island in NW Ohio, a small island in Lake Erie which was a Civil War prison. I expected to see all kinds of monuments and possibly buildings that were kept since the war. Instead I found newer houses and a cemetery which was all that was there about the prison.

@Hambone571

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Sad. Very sad, of seeing and hearing of forgotten history.

@johnceglick8714

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@@Hambone571 It,s an absolute disgrace .

@johnceglick8714

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@@Hambone571 Just to appease a idiotic non purpose .

My grandmother's dad or grandfather (can't remember) is related to Robert E Lee meaning I'm Also related to him( I'm a Yank btw)

@johnceglick8714

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Interesting indeed . Civil War is very fascinating to study .

@johnfairchild3421

Жыл бұрын

Robert R Lee s grandson was one of my Best Friend

Were Union soldiers who died of smallpox during the year 1864 buried separately in separate mass graves? And if so, were those soldiers exhumed and reinterred as others (not smallpox victims) in some cases were?

@josephf.wilson2747

Жыл бұрын

The smallpox victims were in most cases removed from the general population. They were later moved to National Cemeteries. Smallpox dead at Andersonville were eventually moved from original plots to the Andersonville National Cemetery.

@thyhandrevolve

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@Joseph F. Wilson Thank you so much for your reply and thanks also for the content truly superb work 👏 .I thank you for making it. Would you happen to know the fate of Union soldiers who died of smallpox (Also 1864) at Cumberland Gap, TN? I've not been able to find out if Union smallpox victims (from Cumberland Gap specifically) were included in Burnside's body retrieval & reinterment to Knoxville National Cemetery... (I'm looking for my 5th Great's final resting place) There's only this describing his death (Which makes me think there would be a marker for him there if he was among the removed and replaced, but there isn't) . "Private David Sprinkle died at Cumberland Gap of small pox contracted while in the service and line of duty.... exhibits of testimony provided by men assigned to David's unit (Co A, 2nd NC Mtd Inf.) state he was wounded (shot in arm)in the fight at Warm Springs, NC (now known as Hot Springs, NC) and afterwards died at Cumberland Gap, TN of small pox." Of course if he and other smallpox victims from that year (1864) were left buried in field hospital graves for fear of contagion... well, then I reckon then they're still up there somewhere. I'd like to pay my respects on site of his final. Which brings me to my last question (I apologize for going on about my personal quest... you just clearly put a great deal of a lot of research into making this documentary, so I have to ask) --- Would a certain officer or rank be in charge of recording where field hospitals were once placed? Perhaps with the assumption that those dead might later be retrieved 🤔 an "record keeper"? Thank you. (& thank you to anyone else who has any ideas here -- I've just run into a brick wall trying to do my own research)

Thank you so much for this video! What a sad sad sad thing it was huh still is war! Brought tears to my eyes for both sides because after all they were both Americans and they were both citizens of the United States of America prior to the Confederate States after the South broke off with the Union. I'm so glad that they're back in the fold of course but again this still is so sad all those people that lived once breathe in the same air we breathe in drank the same water lived on the same land that went to war thinking that they'd come home and that their families who sent them off and watch them go with they thought they would come home also no one thinks when they go to war they're definitely going to be the one together. I know that the God has watched over them and is watching over them and that their names might not be known to us but they're known to him and in the end definitely some comfort thank you sincerely Bob the blind bedroom guitars

The resurrection is going to be an interesting day with bodies coming up out of unlikely places.

I was working like a dog when I was young the first 10 dollars per hour and up north they were paying 20 dollars per hour and in Louisiana you couldn’t sue for injury at work

At this point in time in our history, this was and is god awful!!!!!!!!!!!!

All this is news to me, and it is something to meditate upon all of the blood shed for this country, it’s up to we who are living to give that sacrifice meaning.

Takes me back to my teens. You did well on that trade ! Wad cutters were used by police to finish off a dog or deer.

Gruesome.

Narrator almost sounds like Harry Smith from the glory days of the History Channel.

A catastrophic war Evan by today's standards .720000 died combined North and South deaths.

@teddyhaynes9876

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An absurd amount

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They farmed tobacco on rebel bodies

And turned around and sold the tobacco to Europe cause the south grew their own

recycling the propaganda about Grant. And; of course, generals who had little regard for preserve ing the lives of the soldier, would have little regard for their bodies...the sale of the bones from battlefields was a long, unbroken tradition., all over the world.

@josephf.wilson2747

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Propaganda?? It's well known that Grant ordered ill advised charges in his Overland Campaign. And he had little regard for the Federal prisoners down south. Grant refused to exchange prisoners for the sake of a numerical advantage which caused tremendous suffering and death among the Union prisoners. And to call grinding up the bones of dead soldiers for fertilizer a tradition is a bit odd. I eat turkey on Thanksgiving. That's what I would call a tradition. JW

@tempesttherapy

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@@josephf.wilson2747 yeah I live 5 mins from Cold Harbor Battlefield park and my home sits off the Chickohominy river. I can feel the energy coming off this land sometimes… very creepy on some dark quiet nights, there is often a fog that comes over the land in the wee hours, it’s all left a very unsettling energy here for sure. It’s pretty shocking for many to know everyone’s northern ‘hero’ Ulysses S. Grant was such a stubborn b*stard in wartimes. It was painfully obvious the north lost that battle in MASSIVE numbers YET he let THOUSANDS of his own men die and suffer in agony for 5 straight days and nights until he finally stubbornly admitted defeat… by then there were very little left alive to gather and try to save their lives. (As someone who has worked in healthcare, that’s just plain wrong and unethical… also painfully ironic as HE was the one who led them to their demise) RIP to everyone who died in this war, many wars, and the hopefully some peace will come to relatives of the dead… but I’m sure they will continue to desecrate the bodies of the dead for many more decades in the future. We fought very hard to preserve slave, black soldiers, and free African American burial grounds in Richmond VA and surrounding areas and still continue to do so. It’s nice to know there was SOME efforts of preservations made… but many were very too little and too late. It’s disgusting to see many wanted to profit off the fallen… however in times of desperation and hunger with torn apart families; I believe for some people they had no choice. I also believe there was much more focus on an attempt to rebuild the ashes LONG after the war and rebuild. It’s obvious everyone grew tired and sad of reminders of it… so it took the back burner for a VERY long time. Shocking to know there are still being bones unearthed. I was gifted a metal detector recently; however I am almost too scared to look for relics and accidentally disturb the remains of the fallen. My partner’s great grandfather was a coffin maker in Richmond, VA for dead soldiers in the civil war. And it kept him VERY busy. I just found out last December Abraham Lincoln and I are cousins. His great grandfather is my 7th great grandfather. Small world eh? Yet I was born in the south, I will likely die in the south. We are still all Americans, yet so many do not understand the horrors of war unless they have witnessed them or heard stories told by those who witnessed them. You did a very good job on this film. Thanks for sharing 👍

@johnceglick8714

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@@tempesttherapy Yeah , Grant was considered a butcher .

@johnceglick8714

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@@tempesttherapy The American Civil War was a harbinger of things to come nearly 50 yrs later in Europe.

It was All about money. Who made money after the war the industry did the industry owners

Right off the bat this has offended me. So much sarcasm. So much lack of understanding of the times. Very badly told.

@josephf.wilson2747

2 жыл бұрын

As a filmmaker,, I don't deal in sarcasm. Unfortunately, this straight forward film details exactly what happened to dead soldiers during the war. I understand the times very well, but "the times" is no excuse for the governments shirking their responsibility to their volunteer soldiers once they perished on the battlefield, in a hospital, or in a prison. Little effort or planning was exerted once the soldiers expired and were of no use to the army. Patriotic boys on both sides who came running when called to duty deserved better. And the grieving families who gave up their sons and husbands deserved to know what happened to their loved ones. So many marched off to war and vanished with no accounting from the government.

@claudeyaz

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@@josephf.wilson2747 this is why private organizations tried to right the wrongs.. Soldiers have always been dispensable.

@larryambrose2660

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@@claudeyaz, I'm afraid you are right. It is happening to Ukranians and Russians right now in Ukraine. It is like they don't matter. .

@jameseverett4976

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@@claudeyaz Soldiers...you mean men? And here we're endlessly reminded of how women were "oppressed". As if.

All Southern Soldiers in the Civil War should be remembered along with the Southern States should be remembered as Traitorous Treasonous Traitors!!

@candymike5045

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Almost none of the soldiers in a war are responsible for it - they are just pawns on the field.

@teddyhaynes9876

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Wrong , it was a war of northern aggression period

@michaelvaughn8864

Жыл бұрын

That's total bullshit, Mr. Montoya. Southerners were as much Americans as were Northerners. Ppl fight for their respective beliefs. The Civil War was a terrible tragedy in itself, regardless of its origins, sir.😔

Outstanding