This gives you an idea of how young our nation really is. That a man living today shook hands with Civil War veterans who, when they were young children, could have shaken the hands of veterans of the American Revolution.

@leod-sigefast

6 жыл бұрын

That is the mind blowing thing about this. There were certainly Revolutionary veterans alive at the time of the civil war (there are some photos of some of the oldest). Just two steps and you have this gentleman alive to tell the tale! As you say, these civil war veterans might have shook hands with a revolutionary veteran and this man shook hands with the civil war veterans, quite mind blowing!

@itrthho

6 жыл бұрын

A 1812 war veteran fought in Gettysburg Battle in the local Gettysburg militia.

@inlovewithi

6 жыл бұрын

Well, there's still is a daughter of a civil war veteran who is alive today, and receiving his monthly pension.

@stubs1227

5 жыл бұрын

RetroGuy76 there are two children left one lives in Wisconsin his father fought for the union. The other is a woman that lives in my State Florida. He was in a Florida regiment. Both I believe are ninety three now. Their fathers were in there seventies when they were born.

@marbleman52

5 жыл бұрын

Wow...the Fathers were over 70 yrs. old when they had children...wow...I wonder how old the wives were ? I guess that proves that even old people can still have fun..!!

Take your children and grandchildren to meet a WWII veteran. Time is running out.

@supererdoc

6 жыл бұрын

Even the youngest WW2 veteran is 90 so not many years as these men in their 90s will be gone in a few years based on time and nature.

@smittywerbenjagermanjensen3648

6 жыл бұрын

I actually knew one personally, an older man from church, and he was among those who raided Hitler's private aboad in the very last part of the war. He died when I was 12, at the age of 98. I suppose years from now when the last of them are long dead it will be interesting to say I got to meet one, just like this man got to see Civil War vets.

@germanshepherd13

5 жыл бұрын

Less than half a million out of 16 million left and about 1k did each day and that grows more and more each day as they get older

@2steelshells

5 жыл бұрын

My dad 92, great memory still,tells me new stuff all the time,I have his souvanier Jap type 99 rifle,and sword.he got on board his ship uss St paul.he was AA Gunner mate quad 40.shot at kamakazis,and came ashore after surrender.the civilians angrily pointed out the damage to Tokyo,they thought we started war.captain of ship ok'ed rifles after firing pin was broken off.

@flowerpower6216

5 жыл бұрын

the vetereans weren't the (only) heroes during the war..the civilians also fought the good fight..in the underground resistance, helping jews..my grandfather, afraid of blood, father of 13 children saw an english soldier shot outside his house, by a german soldier...my grandfather went outside to help hide the soldier in one of the ice bunkers. his neighbours risking their lives also helped him..just in time because the jerry's approached..the soldier was nursed and taken care of until he was well enough to move on...the grandson of the soldier contacted my father in the 80s to thank him...

I am 60 now, and knew a veteran of the Spanish American war.

@sackitt16

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome, sir! My Great-grandfather was a WWI vet and my favorite president is Theodore Roosevelt! As a Texan who loves to study the gilded age and progressive era, I have nothing but the highest respect for those men of those times. Faith in God, chivalry, horses, and trains, they lived in an exciting era. God bless them all.

@nunyabiznez6381

4 жыл бұрын

I am 60 as well and have also known vets of the Spanish American War and I have also met a former slave when I was five.

@hellenicboi14

4 жыл бұрын

@@nunyabiznez6381 The last confirmed slave died in 1951, so possibly.

@christinmarshall7267

4 жыл бұрын

I would've loved to listen to them! Sooo lucky you are

@andystuckey2561

4 жыл бұрын

I’m 63. My grandfather was in the Spanish American War. My Ggrandfather fought at Gettysburg.

There is just something about watching old people interact with very young people....that little salute, and the old man saluting back....warms my heart.

@michaelargenta3856

2 жыл бұрын

2021 -- law says we have to ask to salute a vet ? Shit...

@georgeprendergast8305

Жыл бұрын

Once a man twice a child..

Today WWII vets are about the same age as these men in this film.

@alohalivin556

4 жыл бұрын

Not to be disagreeable, but most wwii vets are gone, these men were younger than the wwii vets today (there are virtually none now)

@Chief-Solarize

4 жыл бұрын

My grandfather was 19 when he was sent to North Africa. Fought for 350 some odd days without being relieved. The most consecutive days of combat in American history for a unit. Atleast it was still that way a few yrs ago. He was artillery for a SCNG unit in Sumter. The 108th FA I believe.

@r.french4415

4 жыл бұрын

Bumper776 I’m 60 my dad on the bar when I was a little kid and so many of the guys that used to come in the bar war world war two veterans and all those guys are gone now I won’t be long they’ll all be gone

@jcstides

4 жыл бұрын

AlohaLivin not true. There are still about 200,000 of them left

@r.french4415

4 жыл бұрын

StupidEditsGuy We lose about 300 World War II veterans a day there were 389,000 left in 2019 each day that goes by we lose more it won’t be that long they’ll go the same way as the Civil War and World War I veterans

I'm proud to have known and met soldiers of WW1. All have gone now.

@chrisj197438

5 жыл бұрын

henerymag When I was young my neighbor was a WWI veteran. He was in his 80’s then but I still remember him inviting my dad and I in to show us the things he still had from his time at war. I wish I had hung with him more.

@henerymag

5 жыл бұрын

The good thing is you had the honor to have met him.

@christinakaur8766

5 жыл бұрын

Same here

@noifurze6397

5 жыл бұрын

yes a couple of nieghbours I knew when I was young were w1 veterans

@Kube_Dog

5 жыл бұрын

Bill O'Reilly is still around.

To reach your hand across the gulf of time and shake hands with a living civil war vet , beyond amazing

"I'm thrilled to say I shook hands with men who fought in the civil war." Mind blown 🤯. What a snapshot of history!

@MYTMIC

4 жыл бұрын

And have the video to prove it....

At this reunion in 1938, a lot of the Civil War veterans are in their 80's or 90's but during the Civil War they were only around 17 or 18. Amazing.

@bowlofrice8

4 жыл бұрын

Jason Smedley people age over time who would have thought

@Ganpignanus

4 жыл бұрын

all slim, well dressed and polite. as is everyone in the video.

@neinnein9306

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine some of them still lived when jet fighters were introduced into war or maybe even the atomic bomb :O

@Gablesman888

4 жыл бұрын

Some a little younger than that, especially on the confederate side.

@iamgeorge376

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ganpignanus wouldn't be that way today

"Shaking hands with history", I couldn't have summed it up better myself.

RIP Ron Crimm; 3/11/35 - 8/25/22. We share a birthday, different years. I am sorry to have never met the man who shook the hands of CW veterans. What a moving video; a national treasure.

@clintwalls5217

Жыл бұрын

this is Great!!

A wonderful bit of film. As the generations fade away its always the case of "If only I'd asked them questions about their youth". I was brought up by my grandfather - a WW1 veteran, who passed away when I was 16 (1976). When he very rarely mentioned the war I just wasn't at all interested - I didn't care, then a few years later, after he'd gone, I tried to find out things about his time in the trenches....and it was too damn late. If you are now an old timer and want your life to be remembered, try talking to kids, and if they're not bothered then just write it all down. There will be a time when they are interested but you won't be around to tell them.

@frankrobinson6841

3 жыл бұрын

Its same story every generation You didn't ask l got photos Of my great uncles who died In first German war some Bits of boys l could cry looking at their young faces germans Have a lot to answer for

@Betterifitsfree

2 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing that a lot of the horrors he saw in WWI he didn't want to talk about.

@robgnisir4672

2 жыл бұрын

I had a great uncle who was a ww1 veteran and when he was old he moved into our basement that was finished like an apartment. Id go down and visit but didn't know what to talk about. I wish he had told me about his days in ww1, but if it wasnt for my mom telling me i wouldnt even know he was in it.

The veteran at 4:11 is wearing a deer tail on his hat indicating he was a member of the Pennsylvania Bucktail Brigade that consisted of the 143, 149 and 150th PVI. My grandfather served with the 149th Pennsylvania Bucktails and fought at Gettysburg and possibly knew this gentleman...

5 жыл бұрын

RetiredGuy Adventures : An absolute hero....today, it's always the Confederates that get the recognition!...The Union forever!

@chrisj197438

5 жыл бұрын

Small world isn’t it?

@GawgaCracka

5 жыл бұрын

Very cool..

@chadwickmacarthur4760

5 жыл бұрын

My great great grandfather fought with the 5th Confederat Calvary in Gettysburg.. lol maybe our families paths crossed my friend

@mikedee1286

5 жыл бұрын

Hero!! I have nothing but respect for American soldiers. Traitors (or "confederates" as they are called) don't deserve a shred of recognition. They were either white supremacists or too stupid to realize they were being pawns for white supremacy. So happy the scraps of metal that bare the traitors' resemblance were removed :)

I recently buried my father he's a World War II veteran. He was 14 years old when he went to war everybody lied about it their age in those days to get off the farm. He told me so many stories about the old Civil War veterans living in the streets begging for food or shelter. So many of these Brave Lads froze to death in the winter in their final years.

@Lovememore231

10 ай бұрын

That's awful. They didn't get pensions?

No matter what his father did, from that day forward, he was a great dad! What a gift to leave for your child.

@Rustebadge

2 жыл бұрын

What his father did? Sir, fighting for the Confederacy was not a shameful not racist act as it is portrayed today.

@859hunter

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rustebadge his father didn't fight in the civil war whatsoever?

@kdm187

Жыл бұрын

@@Rustebadge you don't know how to read, I wish I could have a first grade education like you.

This gentleman has recently passed but what an amazing video! So glad he shared it. Rip Ron

This was awesome! One day in the near future some 85 year old man will say "I shook the hand of a man who fought in WW2"

@brandonbentley4677

4 жыл бұрын

I played music with men wounded in ww 2

@janedoe5829

4 жыл бұрын

FIVEOFEVER you could do this (not saying you're 85). Go out and meet them before they're all gone.

@country928

4 жыл бұрын

My uncle Wint POW of WWII died ten years ago. Loved him and he told me many stories about his life. I can tell you some if you are Interested.

@Ganpignanus

4 жыл бұрын

we had a relative, now deceased, who fought in WW2. he told us stories and had pictures of his fellow soliders, many of whom never survived the war, and some who died right in front of him, all young men. one of the nicest relatives we had, very special man. sadly missed. and his wife also, gone but not forgotten.

@chuckufarley8513

4 жыл бұрын

most of the men in my family of my grandfather's generation, including both my grandfathers, served in WWII … they were giants to me … & I'm immensely proud of them all

Wow. Shaking hands of a Civil War Veteran🇺🇸is amazing to hear in 2018.

@ziblot1235

3 жыл бұрын

ink they are wrong tho. In the 60s there were still confederate vets around. I think they were drummer boys and flag carriers. I had 5 members of my family that fought with the CSA, my direct grandfather, was a Warrant officer in the NAvy when he was invalided out in Portsmouth NH. He wastoo old to join the southern forces even if he had wanted to. When he came home after the war, his neighbors were glad that. they had a friend from up North who would vouch for them, and he had a pension.! Good for him. But Im proud of all of them. I was a member of "Sons of Confederate Vets". We no longer get a license plate. It is so easy to pass judgemnt, when you werent there.

I'm so glad when I was a kid I spent so much time hanging out at the VFW post with my grandfather. Got to meet great WW2, Korea and being this was 25ish years ago, even a few WW1 veterans. They saw so much and gave so much. God bless them

I wonder what those men would say about how the country seems to be dividing all over again? Probably could offer some useful advise.

@davidb2206

3 жыл бұрын

They didn't waste time on "advice" and words. They took up a musket. The put their LIFE on the line, for their state and family and future. My great-great-grandfather died in 1863 at Chancellorsville just a few feet from General Stonewall Jackson. Though he left his home in Georgia, he is buried there. He never owned any slaves.

@frankielin2

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidb2206, my point was, those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. We seem to be heading in that direction. Its a dead issue.

@thesailjunkie

3 жыл бұрын

@@frankielin2 And what makes you think that those left wing nutjobs would listen? They would just shout them down.

@frankielin2

3 жыл бұрын

@@thesailjunkie It was a hypothetical question. Just like, what if the leftwing nut jobs would listen to what they had to say 🤔

@bonkersmcgee4356

3 жыл бұрын

Soldiers on both sides saw each other as brothers in the years after the war. They'd all probably tell people who have co-opted their war into their 21st century political squabbles to shut the fuck up.

My great great grandfather was with Pickett's division and went up the hill at Gettysburg. Being only five feet saved his life. He always said the damn Yankees were shooting to high. He had thirteen daughters, all married to Confederate soldiers and all widows at the end of the war. As was common at the time, he married a young woman in his old age. There were simply no men left in the South and a Confederate Army pension was a gold mine for a young woman. My great aunt tracked her down in 1959 she was still collecting his pension.

@williamsteele1296

5 жыл бұрын

thing is back then 5 foot would not look to out of place average was 5 foot to 5 foot 5

@williamsteele1296

5 жыл бұрын

you were banned from the cavalry if you were tall

@JokahFACE

5 жыл бұрын

Even today, most special forces soldiers are actually relatively short (or at least of average height).

@JokahFACE

5 жыл бұрын

Although I don't know about men being "banned" from being cavalry troops if they were of above average height. Being tall was actually a prerequisite for entrance into things like Grenadier units in the Napoleonic wars. And there were mounted grenadiers too.

@alpha-omega2362

5 жыл бұрын

that's interesting but what is the history of a confederate army pension? where did the money come from? since it was a defeated enemy and confederate money was no good... maybe I'll do a search and get back to you... initially the individual states provided the pension , and if they served in the union army prior or after than the federal govt would provide... then apparently in the 1930's the federal govt completely took over paying the pensions...so your ancestor was a very kind gentleman to provide that far after his death....

Beautiful footage. That a living man has actually shook hands with soldiers from 155 years ago is mind blowing. It really highlights the connectivity idea of history. I wish my grandparents were alive longer so that I could have asked them about their lives and about their grandparents, and what they might have told them about their grandparents, and on and on..

@nunyabiznez6381

4 жыл бұрын

I have hugged a former slave. Top that.

@pauleypavillion6088

2 жыл бұрын

@@nunyabiznez6381 and that slave was sold by other Africans decades prior.

@nunyabiznez6381

2 жыл бұрын

@@pauleypavillion6088 No that particular slave was owned by a white plantation owner in the south, I can't remember the state though she did say that she had lived in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Virginia before moving to Boston in the 1920's. She only told me about her parents and grandparents all born slaves. Presumably it was her ancestors some time before that who were sold into slavery though it is difficult to tell how far back that actually happened. If your point is that at some point it was an African who sold them all into slavery, that is about half correct. The exact numbers are not known but probably about half to two thirds of all slaves imported to America from Africa had been sold to Europeans by Africans. A smaller portion had been captured by Europeans who found it more economical to send armed men into villages to capture slaves. Another common practice was to make deals with local tribal leaders. They would assist them by capturing their enemies. Unfortunately that sometimes backfired and they would end up also being captured. Roughly half of the Africans who did sell slaves to Europeans were north African Muslims genetically related to Egyptians and/or Arabs who had set up slaving businesses along the north and west coast of Africa. The issue of slavery was not as simple as most people believe. Within Africa, everyone was either buying or selling slaves or they were slaves.

@roslyncrane4213

2 жыл бұрын

It does blow your mind away, I have a photo copy of a letter my great uncle wrote while he was in the trenches on the Western Front in WW1. He was only 23 and died few days later. I wish I could sit down and here what it was like back then.

@Lovememore231

10 ай бұрын

It's funny, so many older people I know wish they would have asked more qestions when young.

I feel honored to say that when I was a tiny boy there were still a few Civil War vets alive on this earth with me. It's wild to think about.

@richardt875

2 жыл бұрын

What year was you born?

@thankyoucaptainobvious7707

2 жыл бұрын

@@richardt875 you’re too late

@vintagepipesnightmares

Жыл бұрын

I don’t see the appeal. This were young men killing each other. I don’t see the honor in that. Why are you all so honored by this. It’s a nice document but ..

@telesniper2

Жыл бұрын

@@vintagepipesnightmares wow you are a colossally ignorant coward

@TheNightWatcher1385

Жыл бұрын

@@vintagepipesnightmares It an honor to be able to have that connection to such a momentous point in history. No one is saying they love war.

My name is also Ron & I'm 77 & have had my own Kodak 8mm camera since age 13! My grandfather was a Spanish- American War, Naval veteran (1898-1904), who served with a few Civil War veterans, still on active duty, then! I have home movies of him in the late 50's & watched him march in the Armistice Day Parade, in 1953, with dozens of his fellow "Span-Am" vets, still alive! This video shows how relatively a short time ago, these Wars were! R.I.P. to them!

The sadest thing for me is that the civil war isn't being taught in schools like it was even in thr 1980s or even 1990s.

@nedaCFilms

5 жыл бұрын

Tessie i agree totally, but schools don't cover the civil war like they did when I was in school through the 70s and 80s.

@steveberlack

5 жыл бұрын

What kind of BS Civil War era statement was THAT? Are you a Christian? Is that what Jesus taught us? Let's move FORWARD, shall we?

@steveberlack

5 жыл бұрын

What are your thoughts on how the pedagogy has changed regarding the Civil War?

@nunyabiihz8922

5 жыл бұрын

Steve Berlack Leave this conversation

@steveberlack

5 жыл бұрын

Andrew Klenk No. Now what? Why are you so scared?

I'm 36 years old. My Grandmother passed away in 2013 at the age of 99. She was born and raised in the same working class neighborhood of Boston her whole life. I loved listening to her stories. Her first memory was being taken by a horse drawn ambulance from her house during the Spanish Flu Pandemic. She remembered going over a wood and straw planked bridge that spanned the Charles River in Waltham Mass to get to the Hospital. Sadly, her future husbands father, my great grandfather died that same year from the Spanish Flu. About 5 years before she passed I began driving her to run errands during the day, because her eyesight deteriorated enough to keep her from having a license. On one occasion in the supermarket she bumped into a lifelong friend of hers. While driving home she told me about her friends little brother. He died in a B-17 over Germany and was not known to be dead or alive till wars end. The most intriguing of them all was about her paternal grandfather, Coleman Connolly. Coleman left Ireland in the wake of the Great Hunger and settled in Boston Massachusetts. Upon the outbreak of war Coleman enlisted into the Union Army at a camp in Sommerville Massachusetts. Somehow and I've been trying to find out why, he ended up in a Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment, I forget the number off the top of my head. His Regiment fought at Fort Donelson and a multitude of actions as part of Grants Push down the Mississippi. At Shiloh, his regiment along with other Iowa Regiments, dug in and made a stand in what became known as The Hornets Nest. The bravery and courage those Union Soldiers displayed, foiled the Confederate momentum on the first day at Shiloh. Coleman was taken prisoner along with the survivng veterans of the Hornets Nest. He was paroled 6 months later. He returned to Boston, became a teamster and started a family. My sister just moved to Mississippi due to her husbands career in law enforcement. We are both looking forward to visiting Shiloh and walk the ground my Grandmother revealed to us to be hallowed.

@dianestafford6968

5 жыл бұрын

therascalking Thank you so much for sharing. I love history!

@garyfuiten5126

5 жыл бұрын

Two years ago I visited TN from WI and after seeing Buford Pussers place and Jack Daniels Distillery I thought why not check out Shiloh. I've never toured a Battlefield before and didn't expect much but I was in awe of what I saw and learned. I walked through the cemetary, walked along the river near the landing and drove what I couldn't walk. Read as many plaques as I could. Unbelievable what they have there. It was free and I spent hours there and I'd love to go down there again. I was there in November and it was so peaceful at that time. But the monuments and cannons and informational signs all over really bring back what took place in the fields, woods and swamps in and around that area.

@basshuntet1455

5 жыл бұрын

@@garyfuiten5126 hello gary,one thing you can say about southerners,as much as the Hollywood liberals love to insult, denigrate and demean them,they have a love for their land and heritage that is incredibly powerful

@virginiaoflaherty2983

4 жыл бұрын

@@garyfuiten5126 I feel the same. I am lucky and live in Maryland and my daughter lives in Georgia. So I have had the opportunity to visit almost all the battlefields in VA, MD, Pa, some in TN, and many in GA. I have spent a lot of time at Civil War battlefields and have read much history. One of the important lessons I learned is to respect the soldiers of both sides. My ancestors were from the north and the south. One of my fathers side starved to death at Andersonville, it is hard to visit his grave there. Two of my southern ancestors (brothers) were rich slave owners and were able to pay other men to fight for them, not one time but two! Two others from NC fought on 5 or 6 of the same battlefields as my fathers ancestor.

@garyfuiten5126

4 жыл бұрын

@@virginiaoflaherty2983 You've got an interesting story Virginia. The 1st time I learned, and you mentioned it, that if you were a rich person back in the day you could PAY SOMEONE ELSE to take your place in a War. That still blows my mind.

3:07 "I was shaking hands with history." What an awesome thing to be able to say...

My dad was born in 1931, passed away a few years ago. He told me as a child he remembers seeing Civil War veterans in the Philadelphia Veterans Day Parade. Some missing limbs.

And now the Boy Scouts are gone also. Seeing the pride those young boys had in being a Scout and being involved in such a grand celebration of history and meeting the actual soldiers themselves must have been a lifetime highlight. Too many good things about America have been changed.

@matthewjones1119

5 жыл бұрын

Ken Clements I wonder if they were selling popcorn to the vets back then? 🤔

@zang9147

5 жыл бұрын

The Boy Scouts are still thriving in some towns, like mine. I think you're just seeing a cycle. They'll come back nationally.

@bigd9260

5 жыл бұрын

The real truth is the young are now being taught liberal ideals in school. The county is changing into the very thing our forefathers did not want. A carbon copy of post feudalistic Europe. Its where all the liberal ideals will take us. Most of them are to brain washed, angry, low IQ, or young to see any other way. They also come off like the type of people who like the smell of there own farts.... hollywierd types. They want everybody to be equal.... which will never ever, ever, ever happen. At least in capitalism there is a chance to move up.

@henryosborne7052

5 жыл бұрын

Clem Cornpone Man, are you disillusioned. You really need some help,

@billweldon2434

5 жыл бұрын

@Clem Cornpone your a fool

My dad said he had a great aunt that sent 13 son's off to fight for the south an none returned. I think what a horrible thing for a mother to go threw . Great video thank u very much .

@libertygiveme1987

4 жыл бұрын

Ben - That's NOT ALLOWED now! And yes, it's UNTHINKABLE that a mother could endure something like that!!!!

@brandonbentley4677

4 жыл бұрын

God bless them they fit on the right side

@shanghunter7697

4 жыл бұрын

@@brandonbentley4677 And due to the fact that the south lost the war, HATRED HAS been passed down from each southern generation until this very time. As you said :they fit ?? Good Lord.

@mariohall8357

4 жыл бұрын

I remember looking at a picture of about 50 confederate from the same area, all 50 died. I was glad they did.

@westpointsnell4167

4 жыл бұрын

Goes to show how deadly that war really was...

Wonderful video ! My uncle was a WWII vet; he passed 5 years ago at age 92. My dad is a Korean War vet, age 87 and still with us. Not very many from both wars left.

Dad was born in 33 and remembered many civil war veterans in the VA hospital .

Wow amazing to see , I love how the young boy is saluting the civil war vets

@frankrobinson6841

3 жыл бұрын

Yes old men and children have Something lam old man now His just come from heaven and You are going there

I’ve had the fortune of being able to visit Gettysburg, it’s absolutely unreal how many men risked their lives and how much blood has been shed upon that land. My ancestors fought on both sides if only I could have a few conversations with those great people that are no longer with us.

Right, wrong, or indifferent. Always respect your history, never forget it. You will never know where You're going. Unless you know where you've been. And my up most respect to these men. No matter the side they fought for.

@JustPlainSteve5372

6 ай бұрын

Tell that to the liberals & progressives of today!

I've seen this film several times over the years, but always wondered who filmed it. Priceless.

The one thing that this delightful video proclaims is respect! Respect of the former enemies for each other, blue and grey, respect for the generations the old to the young and vice versa. How long before the hissing and spitting starts in the comments and spoils everything this video stands for. Respect from the UK, and thank you for the privilege of seeing your home movie.

@pwnyou2295

6 жыл бұрын

Wow this derailed fast. I'm glad to see someone outside the US acknowledging a very important chapter of our history that should be remembered forever. If the men who fought the war themselves can make peace, surely their descendants can. If we choose to reignite the conflict, in a sense, did it ever really end? Not very well known is that many men from the UK also fought in the Civil War, so in a sense, it's part of your guys' history too.

@briteness

5 жыл бұрын

T8Hants Gee. For somebody advocating respect, ya don't seem to have much of it for Americans of the present day.

@flowerpower6216

5 жыл бұрын

+calihartley2010 where do you see jews fucking?

@vemmaguy1977

5 жыл бұрын

I am a proud Sons of Confederate Veterans member and I respect certain Northern Leaders, Joshua Chamberlain from Maine comes to mind and then there were scumbags like Sherman and Custer along with the criminal politician Lincoln who cared nothing of the slaves and fought this war over taxes and tariffs!

@blackiechong4344

5 жыл бұрын

Lets start it now. Fuck the civil war who cares anymore as the Democraps are causing another one. Hillary needs to be laid who will do it?

can't even imagine what those veterans went through

@davidb2206

3 жыл бұрын

So get out in the woods and join some patriot militia and start to learn what they went through.

Absolutely one of the greatest things I’ve ever watched....period!....🇺🇸🤙🏼

Took my family to Gettysburg just last weekend and it was truly something marvelous that we all loved & learned from & have every intention on going again so we can see & learn more about it . Its about 4 hours from us and part of all our history and it is something that everyone especially Pennsylvanians should see and experience , I for one can't express how meaningful it was for me . Was left speechless and in complete aw !!!! Can't imagine being 3 years old and being as grown at 3 as this man was !!!

Those boy scouts at 2:27 hope things went well for them during WW2.

@JohnDoe-fu6zt

4 жыл бұрын

My father was one of the many boy scouts who helped out at the reunion, as I posted elsewhere. He did serve in WWII of course, guarding German POWs at Camp Forrest in Tennessee, as well as on harvest crews up and down the Great Plains.

@perfection4749

4 жыл бұрын

I think most were still too young for the war since this was 1938, some served I imagine, the older of the group.

@doesnotexist305

4 жыл бұрын

World War II broke out only a year later. America got involved 3 years after this. Those boys would hardly be any older

@doesnotexist305

4 жыл бұрын

World War II broke out only a year later. America got involved 3 years after this. Those boys would hardly be any older

4 жыл бұрын

@@perfection4749 well, Korea then.

This deserves soo many more views. My Great-Great Grandpa was a Union Soldier. My Daddy, a WW2 Veteran, U.S. Army Air Corp. recently passed away. As others have posted, please shake a hand or Thank a WW2 Vet soon. 165 WW2 Vets pass away every day. 💕🙏💕

Average age of 94, wow they were able to survive the war and then live up to that age

@Johnkoth

3 жыл бұрын

They most likely lived out in the country and farmed. They did not get meat from city markets that was usually spoiled and that spoiled meat caused stomach cancer and killed people.

WOW! He actually and literally shook hands with history. And to get it on film is beyond belief. His father was awesome to do this for him.

@opensprings

4 жыл бұрын

Robert E. Lee's father fought in the American Revolution. If any of these vets in the home reel shook hands with Mr. Lee, this living man would essentially be shaking the hand of a person who actually shook hands with the son of an American Revolutionary war vet. Imagine that!

That is an AWSOME film. THANK you for sharing this!

God bless them all...

@TOMDHARLEYJKD

4 жыл бұрын

Jeff Smith well the north non-traitor half anyway

@henryosborne7052

4 жыл бұрын

NOOKEY69 Hard!! Aw, go wave a rainbow flag somewhere

@frankrobinson6841

3 жыл бұрын

Well said Jeff god bless them Everyone said tiny tim christmas Carol

"We can try to make things different, but we can't change the history itself"

@Memeposting

3 жыл бұрын

poignant

I remember a few years back being at a rare book auction that displayed a book with a daguerreotype of grizzled and toothless Revolutionary War veterans. Ordinarily, we competitive booksellers would avoid attracting attention to a book being auctioned, lest our brethren noticed and figured out that it was something unusual and valuable. Not then: five or six of us stood around the book marveling at seeing an actual image of people who fought back in the 1770's. I don't know who won the book, but we envied him.

I had the privilege to meet a few men in their Late 90s who were Born at the end of the Civil war. I also knew a few Grandchildren of men who were in the Civil war who had met their Grandparents.

@jerrysullivan8424

5 жыл бұрын

If I remember correctly I was between the age of age 6-7 in 1962-63 living next door to an old man who was 100 years old, I would talk to him on his porch swing and he would tell me stories of his boyhood living on the MO. river on a farm across from the State of Kansas. The only story that I remember, He would tell me that the Mo. river would freeze up in the winter and that his Father would have him walk across it to KS. to get moonshine and that his Father was a mean man. He did not like his Dad.

that was one of the coolest things I have ever seen history is awesome

@shannonwittman950

4 жыл бұрын

Well said, Angel Bou. I only wish that current generations paid it more attention. I mean, real history. Not the revisionist versions that the American tries to foist upon Americans who don't have the time to pay attention.

If they could only see today what the country is like wow

@johnnysins8353

4 жыл бұрын

I’m sure the northern boys would’ve sided with Johnny reb

@davidb2206

3 жыл бұрын

Cry or commit suicide? "We wasted it all, on that lying bastard Lincoln."

No words can do justice to the sight of those men coming together. God bless them all.

Those brave,patriotic men are our greatest generation of our country. God bless all of our nations warriors and heroes. Never forget

@kvarnerinfoTV

4 жыл бұрын

Patriotism is responsible for wars, deaths, murders, crimes... Do you think God loves warriors? The same God that said: Thou shalt not kill. Turn the other cheek Love your enemies Etc. You are all hypocrites who will cry for forgiveness of your crimes. Well, don't do it in the first fucking place. You all deserved your place in warm, hot place. Modern Roman Empire asking blessing from the God hahahaha...you are insane!

@MountainGyspy

4 жыл бұрын

@@kvarnerinfoTV it's, thou shalt not murder. There's a difference.

@MountainGyspy

4 жыл бұрын

@@kvarnerinfoTV judge ye not yet ye be judged.

@rayzas4885

4 жыл бұрын

Linus Magnus God also allowed his chosen people to kill the inhabitants of Israel before they established the kingdom of Judah. Clearly you need to take a more in-depth look at the Bible.

@TOMDHARLEYJKD

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Fiore never forget the south fought solely to preserve slavery as they were too lazy to work the stolen land on which they had squatted. Conservative WHITE makes...today we call them MAGATARDS

My girlfriend was born and raised in Georgia and she always referred to the American Civil War as the "War of Northern Aggression". I thought she was simply kidding around, but the reality is she was telling the truth. 'Civil war' is when two groups vie for control of government. This was not such a war. The southern states fought to be free of control by the wealthy northern states. It had nothing to do with slavery, but much to do with state sovereignty. And in retrospect, they were within their constitutional rights to do so. However, Washington would have nothing to do with a vassal state breaking off on their own. We also witness the same in how powerless the states are to confront Washington's corruption. For the truth about slavery and US history, I recommend Paul Craig Robert's 'A Conversation on Race'.

@yosemite735

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I always found it odd that someone wanted me to believe that all those men were willing to die so that some men could have cheap labor. Most men are not willing to lose their limbs or life so that you can outdo them in the market place.

@orbs1062

3 жыл бұрын

That's what we've always called it. "The war if northern aggression." And I'm only 60.

@yashjoseph3544

3 жыл бұрын

All of you guys are so wrong. It wasn't a "War of Northern Aggression"; it was a War of Southern Sedition for them to preserve their slaves. It seems you all have been fooled by the Lost Cause.

this was so uplifting..to be able to greet and meet survivors of such a era...wow...kudos to you..pass this on to your kids and grandkids..amazing slice of history..

I've heard the story that when they staged a recreation of the original battle of Gettysburg at that time, both sides charged at each other but then embraced and shed tears for those who fell.

A stunning composition and beautiful window into history. So glad to have watched this one. 😊👍

@frankrobinson6841

3 жыл бұрын

I love that song okie from muskogee you did your Duty

@KimberlySays...

3 жыл бұрын

@@frankrobinson6841 ????

Thank-You for sharing this footage!!!! Just INCREDIBLE to have lived to have been in the same company as these BRAVE MEN, and President Lincoln!!!! ABSOLUTELY ASTOUNDING!!!!

This is the coolest! To think those guys began to witness automobiles and moving pictures, telephones etc. after growing up with just horseback & carriage is amazing! 😎 To actually see civil war veterans on film is awesome too!

This is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. I'm trying to collect my jaw off the floor

Thank you for posting this video. It was a pleasure to watch.

God bless all the veterans! To have Civil War veterans on film is just wonderful! May they all rest in peace! 🌹 thanks for sharing this amazing film and ill be looking forward to more! 😀

That was beautiful to be living and say you shook hands with civil war veterans! What an honor. That is why I always take the time to speak with WW2 veterans. The history the stories. Can't get that from a book or a film no matter how hard you try. I could sit all day and listen to the history they lived but I have only read about. I wonder how many WW2 veterans talked to Civil War veterans

Thank you for sharing your two minutes of living history from 1938. I was eight years old in 1956, when the last Civil War veteran passed on. Now I am watching the last 400,000 thousand American vets. of WWII, pass away very quickly. I am a Viet Nam vet, 71 years old and my time is not too far away on the horizon.

Much respect, SALUTE to you all !

Amazing that he got to meet them and has video of it.

I have chills watching this video this is absolutely amazing. Here I am in the year 2022 watching civil war veterans I wish that I could hear what they were talking about.

We need to remember our history, not erase it, as heartbreaking as it is to remember how many died and the grief this must have caused.

Wonderful, so glad his father was such a visionary!

We can't change history, but hopefully we can learn from it. An amazing video.

@jamescasement6635

Жыл бұрын

We never learn from history it repeats it self shame

I remember drinking a beer in the American Legion with a WW 1 vet the day before leaving for the gulf in 1990. The stories from that man are still fresh in my mind.

@Lovememore231

10 ай бұрын

That is awesome that you for sharing that 😀

5 stars all the way. I slowed this KZread video (3 dots) down to 0.75% to absorb the audio narrative details and to study the historical images of the faces and emotions in the old photos. Also imagine a 3 year old in this 8mm video meeting and shaking hands with the 90+ year old, surviving Civil War soldiers during the 1930’s. You did an excellent job on this and I commend you for what you have put together. Thank you.

Teach your Children about our Nations History! No matter how Dark and Ugly it has been at Times. This is how we grow as a People, this is Who and most importantly Why We Are! May God Continue to Bless our Nation! May not be perfect but it is still Ours!!!

@JokahFACE

5 жыл бұрын

It's getting progressively more dark and ugly all the time. Our culture is corrupted, materialistic, and decrepit. Infected with degenerate shit and Marxism. Not to mention the average American is getting progressively worse from a genetic standpoint.

@freddyflintstoned913

5 жыл бұрын

Which history? The Yanks have spun the history in their favor with lies. Ask yourself this, why did the Emancipation Proclamation come 18 months after Lincoln invaded?

@nunyabiznez6381

4 жыл бұрын

Our country has a horrible dark evil past and occasionally present. Unfortunately all the other countries are worse. So the best thing to do is make do with what we have and try to learn from the past. I had amazing history teachers in school grade 7 to 12. Today they don't teach history any more, only very one sided social commentary that demonizes every historical figure that does not conform to their modern enlightened ideal.

@grantkoncul4386

4 жыл бұрын

What's so dark and ugly about it

@g.immanuel3151

2 жыл бұрын

@@nunyabiznez6381 You really need to study the true history of this nation. This country was formed as the first nation on earth that would be governed by the people and for the people. Every other nation at that time was either a monarchy or dictatorship. Start there. As for this horrible dark evil past you emphasize -- context, context, context -- please study the total picture.

I shook hands with a German wwll vet. Listened to his storrys from the war, and tho he had been a nazi, he was the sweetest guy you could imagine. May he rest in peace..

@JokahFACE

5 жыл бұрын

If he was in the Wehrmacht, he probably wasn't a party member. Not every German soldier in WWII was a "Nazi" (a Jewish slur word for "National Socialist"). NSDAP members themselves only had what they thought was best for their country in mind. This Hollywood caricature of the callous goose-stepping fiend with no historical or cultural context given whatsoever is really quite cruel to the Germans of that generation.

@freddyflintstoned913

5 жыл бұрын

My moms dad was a German vet from both war. He was a great man. He passed in 1972.

@Tonyx.yt.

5 жыл бұрын

kung puk you must be american... There was conscription in germany, or you join the army or they shoot you, no much choice, large majority of soldiers didnt know anything of politic, they fight because was mandatory and for the fatherland.

@flyestnihilist0297

5 жыл бұрын

Not every German in the military during WW2 was a Nazi.

I feel privileged to have seen this footage. It must be preserved and shared.

my grandmother was moving several years back, and the family and I were clearing out her belongs. As we sifted through nine decades of her life, we found a small medal with a red, white, and blue ribbion, it was a souvenir medal that commemorated the 75th anniversary, in 1938, of the Battle of Gettysburg. The Last Great Reunion of Blue and Grey.

@Lovememore231

10 ай бұрын

Incredible!

Irrespective of politics, you can see how tough the men were by the fact that at ninety they don't bat an eyelid at being put up in tents. How many men at 90 could do that today?

Fascinating, particular the film made of the event. His dad was a wise man. I once read that when Franklin Roosevelt was very young he met some elderly aunts of his who, when they were very young, had met George Washington. I just ran the numbers. Washington died in 1799 and FDR was born in 1882, so the historical gap between the two is 83 years, so that's certainly possible.

The young Ron had a smart salute for the Veterans. Bravo!

See and talk to them WW2 Vets now. I grew up working with a man in the 1970s He was in the 106th. He went to St Vith & The Siegfried line & fought in the battle of the bulge. I heard his stories what seemed like hundreds of times. Working & talking to him now as I look back was one of the most important times in my life. Time is running out now talk to these Heros

just amazing living history to meet civil war vets.!!! alive!!

@suzietrecallion1042

5 жыл бұрын

rafael rodriguez agreed,I do ACW reenactment but how mind blowing would it hv been to hv met some of those guys.My son said it was more than awesome when he went to France with The Air Cadets n met WWII Vets.

It's kinda sad to know that when I was born in '56 they were no longer around. I guess if I live long enough I could be one of the last Vietnam Era vets, since I joined young and at the tail end of it...

@jimmymags6516

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service .

@jimmymags6516

2 жыл бұрын

@@tjbouxjohnson4287 Wrong and wrong , Charleston was the largest slave port in the US .

just imagine it all... Dad buys rare 1930's video camera > documents the event > entrusts the USPS to ship the film to Rochester > Develops the film > Sends back the film via USPS > film is forgotten through time until it's rediscovered in storage about 80 years later > film is still in good enough condition to format it to a modern state (DVD or VHS or whatever) > now it's preserved forever on the internet So many opportunities this film could have been lost forever but truly an amazing 80 year journey... I hope the original film is stored in the Library of Congress or at the very least the Smithsonian institute.

How amazing. He really looked like a happy little biy in the video.

"We can't change history itself". Thank you for everything.

And those men who fought in the Civil War, at one point or another in their life, shook hands with a Revolutionary War Veteran.

@davidb2206

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. And don't think any of that is over, yet, either. You better start thinking how YOU are going to survive with little food ... in the snow.

It's crazy that those men were in their 90s and looked so healthy. They were walking without any assistance and seemed to all be "there" mentally. Today, people can barely walk and talk in their 70s

Thank you so so much for sharing. I’m glad I got to see this

So amazing....Thank you for sharing your memories🌺

During the 1939 Academy Awards, the movie "Gone With The Wind" was nominated for an Best Picture Oscar. Since this movie setting was during the Civil War, the members of the Academy decided to invite all living Civil War veterans to the actual Academy Awards event. Many show up and this reunion was also captured on film.

@suzietrecallion1042

5 жыл бұрын

Curly Q. Link would love to see that!I once found a vid,soz,film, from the 30s showing a reb vet.reunion.The soldiers were asked if they could still do the reb yell,n they proved they surely could.I kept that story on my old phone but hv got new phone n so lost the film.Would love to find it again n wonder if u or anyone else has seen the clip,or got it on their devise.Dixie for ever!!

@berzerker1100

5 жыл бұрын

Suzie Trecallion You might be able to find it on KZread SERIOUSLY !

@mrdiplomat9018

5 жыл бұрын

Suzie Trecallion YES, I’ve seen that on the internet

@everforward8651

5 жыл бұрын

Here, Suzie: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lZlpudKGXa2zico.html

@henryosborne7052

5 жыл бұрын

Clem Cornpone You Are the most brainwashed ignorant fuck commenting on here. Your parents probably home schooled you and they need a hard kick in the ass If so.

wow how amazing to have that captured on film! thank you for sharing!!

That is something very special to have witnessed .what a memory to have, and also film of the occasion as well thank you for showing it to us

7 people who watch The Kardashians voted thumbs down I don’t like this.

@stemtostern7611

5 жыл бұрын

Brainwashed Commies!

@pauls.3400

4 жыл бұрын

And Kapernek the flag hater

@oveidasinclair982

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that stupid ignorant number went up to 136 now, just goes to show how moronic some people are.

@mini14head

4 жыл бұрын

Guarantee their Bernie supporters.

@pauls.3400

4 жыл бұрын

@@mini14head Biden and Bernie were at Gettysburg Address

Wow, what an honor to be able to see, talk & shake the hands of these legend's of historical importance to are country. 👍✌

Oh wow!! This was truly an amazing thing to see. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing this moving video tribute .

My great-grandfather, (known to the family, as Captain Billy), b 1841 - d 1934. Was a Confederate cavalryman (as researchers have told me, he was a partisan), never wounded, and like I say, died in 1934.

@ColinStuart

5 жыл бұрын

2nd Reg. Kentucky Cavalry.

@ColinStuart

5 жыл бұрын

Researchers have told me that they cannot find him in the records, but the id number I gave them was paid to. They said "he may have been in a "partisan" unit".

@ColinStuart

5 жыл бұрын

William Harrison Harrell, #14992 Boone County Arkansas

@ColinStuart

5 жыл бұрын

I have no records of him in the Mexican War. My aunt even told me, "Capt. Billy was too young to fight in the Civil War, do you want to see his saber? He was born 01-18 1843, Boone County Kentucky (I was wrong thinking it was Arkansas). I DO have papers from Sons Of Confederate Veterans, but was turned off at being asked to give a fee! I am having trouble writing to the email address given.

@freddyflintstoned913

5 жыл бұрын

Be Proud that he stood up to the corrupt Federals.

So many have lost respect for our history and we're a lesser people for it...Save the Confederate Statues and Memorials!

@heru-deshet359

3 жыл бұрын

Save American History!!

@yashjoseph3544

3 жыл бұрын

Confederate statues aren't history; they're political propaganda that reinforces the Lost Cause myth.

@briancalifornia1

2 жыл бұрын

These people who vandalize these monuments and disrespect these vets need a big severe ass beating

@MGTOWPaladin

2 жыл бұрын

@@yashjoseph3544 Unlike the four "False Causes" the Lincolnistas have spewed for 160 years, right?

@yashjoseph3544

2 жыл бұрын

@@MGTOWPaladin Four false causes? What? There was only one cause of the war. SLAVERY. The Confederates admitted it in their secession ordinances and speeches, and there are decades of history building up to the war proving it too.

What a wonderful film!! And to see soldiers who fought in the Civil War!! Thank you so much for sharing it!!

Fascinating! Thank you for posting!