Almost makes you feel like your there…such a well written song!

"The heroes and the cowards look the same when they have fallen by the gun." Wow.

This sure is a piece of artwork. Knowing the history of the civil war. I had an ancestor who fought in the confederacy. I hope this history still lives on. I love history so much I would love to keep it alive myself

A very powerful song. Still one of the most powerful experiences ever. I have a ton of respect for both sides as I had family members who fought in the civil war.

I've lived in the South my whole life and before I even knew what the war was about I liked the south. When I grew up I still liked them but not slavery. Though Lee was one of the best commanders this country had ever seen. He could have been born at any time and fight like he did.

"The day the sun stood still" sung by Travis Tritt.

@dakotabeshears5586

3 жыл бұрын

Great singer great song

@chubgaming3217

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@chubgaming3217

3 жыл бұрын

Nice

From Tennessee....proud Ancestors of both Union and Confederate troops!

Thanks everyone for all the great comments over the years. I would remind people (however futile) to try and keep comments civil. But thank you to all who have watched this and your kind words

@gabrielrekt905

5 жыл бұрын

Lyrics please

i think he chose this modern song because it relates to what soldiers of the time where thinking when in battle " the day the sun stood still" is soposed to be the battle they are in

Beautiful song. So haunting, sends chills down your spine.

"Bless Travis Tritt for this song!!!" -Me: CW Reenactor Pvt. 6th Wisc. Co. C: "Iron Brigade" or "Black Hats" and of the 49th Ohio Co. E.

I salute these men, hardest war of all... America vs. America. My great uncles fought for opposite sides and even at Gettysburg. May all of these brave Americans' souls rest in peace.

THANK YOU to ALL our veterans past and present for your honored service. Especially those who paid the ultimate price for freedom. Excellent Video.

*Sigh* never the less, Brothers fought against Brothers. The bloodiest battle in the american History, R.I.P fallen soilders and hope they have peace in heaven.

I remember listening to this song as a kid and just thinking it was a song Travis sang but I’ve just figured out it’s part of a Civil war Album! Not only that but another great song I’ve known “Brother my Brother” is also apart of it!!. I’m so glad I found this song. War is Hell and the soldiers fighting it know more about that than any of us.

The Hymn of Civil War Reenactors

This song gives me chills I have seen with my minds eyes the fields of green turn to a sea of blue and gray and I stand in awe of the sights and sounds of those battles.

What an awesome and truly touching video! God Bless all of the people who served in the American Civil War!

My great great great grandfather fought w/ the 83rd NY and was shot and captured at the wilderness, and died of scurvy at andersonville. And my other one was with the Irish Birgade at Maryes Heights Fedreicksburg VA. He was killed in the charge. Look what those rebs did to my family!

War is hell no matter what people think or say

This was my favorite video ever

Nicely made! As a Civil War reenactor I kept thinking back over past battles and events. Thanks for a good video.

I love this music, you did a great job, a fitting tribute to those who died in this war, both blue and gray. Props man you did an awesome job!!!

all the hours in a lifetime don't add up to one whole minute in that sun. I wrote my masters thesis on Soldiers at Shiloh. The experience of battle as they wrote about it. That seems like a good description.

I know a lot of people say this song is about Gettysburg, but I think Antietam is a better description of the song. In the beginning he speaks as a confederate soldier anxious to bring the fight to the Union. The battle of Antietam was Robert E Lee’s first invasion of the north. The song then proceeds to describe a bloody day. The battle of Antietam was and still remains the single bloodiest day in American history.

I reenact the civil war. And that was really good

@ethangreen2007

9 жыл бұрын

What unit are you part of I do 153rd pavi

@rebsarge

5 жыл бұрын

30 years in The Gray. Seen things most folks can't grasp, and I'm not sure I really do, either. And that was just in reenactments. If I learned anything, it's how little I know. Keep hearing the guns, Brothers.

@rc59191

3 жыл бұрын

@Hope To The Weak its actually the cheapest and easiest to get into out of all of the reenactment communities from my experience. I just started myself but you can get uniforms and equipment relatively cheap on Facebook and C&C Sutlery online. If you want a custom uniform checkout the Maryland Sutler they did my 3rd great grandpas bucktail brigade uniform for me and it turned out beautifully and well priced since they let you split payments

Its brother fighting brother in a war that should never have been fought god bless America

This was amazing. Thank you for posting it. Wow....

Sorry to bother everyone again but just wanted to say great job galen107 few homemade music videos on youtube are as good as this, its a great tribute to many Americans. Thank you.

Watching this makes me say I LOVE BEING A CW REENACTOR!!!! to the 150th!!! 2011-2015!!!

I showed this to my 5th grade SS classes recently. They LOVE it, and ask me to replay it again for them. Thank you! Ohio 5th gr. teacher

Wow it took forever to find this , I must have tried at least 10 till I found one that was not blocked .

one of the best videos ive seen on youtube

As a reenactor...still a great song...STILL great to be a living historian of the largest, most tragic, and most country altering war in US history, THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR!!!!

Very nice! My husband is a cavalry reenactor and this beautiful to watch.

Good job on this. I really enjoyed it.

4:41 Enemies in life, friends in death...in the end in any war, it is in death that both find the end of their earthly plagues such as...Their differences.

This is a great video and the perfect song. Thank you for posting.

Very appropriate viewing for this early July 147 years after Gettysburg. Thanks!

@AntagonisticEnemy i had relatives on both sides, yes ft. sumpter was attacked by johnnies, but when most captured southern troops were asked why they were fighting they said, " i'm fighting cause' your down here". the federals were actually the agressors

May what was already fought over and settled and what was left over except the interest in this tragic rest in peace so we may move on and let things take its coarse undisturbed.

I went to Defuniak last week and placed a flag on my great-great grandfathers grave. Lewis H. Miller fought for the 4th Florida Infantry. God bless all who fought for what they believed in!

Amazing song, i have tears in my eyes.

Awesome Video mate, awesome song as well.

this put chills down my spine!

My 7 yo son wanted to know what the Civil War looked like. This was perfect! Thanks for posting it.

We were fighting our self

The song is "The day the sun still" by Travis Tritt

This is a brilliant video with a great and moving song. Who ever put this together should get a special award. I've watched it 4 times and emailed it to friends. "War is hell!" Gen. Sherman said as he burned his way from Atlanta to the sea. But we all agree that Slavery was worse. Ironically three months before the guns spoke at Fort Sumter a survey of the 1860 census showed it was dieing a natural death and would have been gone by 1890 because the cost of keeping slaves was getting to costly.

That is a great video.. I am a re-enactor and that was unbelievable!

Sehr gutes Video, genau die Stimmung auf den Punkt gebracht! - Very good video, exactly brought the atmosphere to the point! Well done! *thumbs up*

God bless all no matter which side they fought for

... It could be so awesome to have a paintball game in that scale..

Beautiful video

beautiful video

I love how you can hear Dixie in the guitar.

@haleyludolph861

4 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh! How on earth did I miss that??❤

@brettanymichellelawson-top5197

4 жыл бұрын

@@haleyludolph861 I couldn't miss it I'm a confederate true and sad to say that my dad passed away recently

@walters1489

3 жыл бұрын

@@haleyludolph861 +aq!q 13th¹

"Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. (continued)

I think the song is powerful. Good video clips.

god i love this vid.

wow i love this video

the day the sun stood still i love this song

Very good video I really enjoyed it.

All wars are civil, because we are all brothers

great song

I'm a Texan. Hurrah for Sam Houston, and hurrah for the Yanks who died to keep us in the Union!

@gabrielrekt905

3 жыл бұрын

Hurrah for both sides I think both sides have pretty sound reasons to fight for what they did and yeah today we see the South as evil but really apart from the slavery thing they were mostly the same and if you think of it they saw having slaves as the freedom to have slavery which isn't wrong but morally isn't been look down upon and it is bad I'm not condoning slavery at all but I'm really trying to be unbias and respectful to all points of view and why it is chosen you or was. so Yeah Hurrah for all those who have died and God bless yall.

Then you should know John Bell Hood, was born in Owingsville, Kentucky, June 1 1831 and graduated from West Point in the class of 1853, had by all odds the most spectacular advance in rank of any officer in the Confederate service.Her died in New Orleans of Yellow Fever along with his wife and one child on Aug 30, 1879 and is buried in Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans. Hood lead the famous "Texas" Brigades, during the war in which he lost a leg and the use of his arm before the war ended.

@AntagonisticEnemy good point, bull run was very close to washington

Even though it's scenes from re-enactments it makes the song even stronger. Its sad they put Brother against Brother, but they fought for what they believed in, that strong American spirit we all have in us no matter what side you are on. I'm glad the north won, but I love the south

@mastermind0501 Excellent explanation, I agree completely. Yes the southern soldiers were mostly NOT slave-whipping, pipe-smoking, rich plantation owners-- but their commanding officers, and southern politicians were.

Actually around 625,000 people died in the Civil War, but none the less there we're MANY more in WW2.

haha nice all of the video parts are from sid mieres Gettysburg...this takes me back to playing that game for hours on end....such a fun game!!!

Amazing work!

OH, and btw... great editing!

well some brothes did pick opisite sides but it was very rare that they would fight FACT they also sometimes shot peaople on there side because they couldent tell it was the union or cs

@asconicgoogle8468

9 жыл бұрын

I remember these two cool journals. They were diaries of Civil War soldiers from the Union and Confederacy. They were brothers and their armies ended up fighting each other. I don't remember the rest. That must of been horrible.

The weirdest thing of all, is that the north at the end could have fielded two million men. A supply line, and tactics that could have done what empire builders could never have achieved. Both north and south were on a war footage and had been for four years. The veterans were made of steal on both sides. Yet they never looked beyond America. The colonial powers must have been concerned. That kind of fire power and might. America could have picked it's country, and won easily. However it is so sad that the events happened.

This is a great song Love it 🤟👍💖

The Day the Sun Stood Still, sung by Travis Tritt

The fighting men's motives are usually very different from the powers that control them's motives. No side is fully right. No side is perfect. The point is, that no matter how long ago, whether 143 years or 2000 years ago, we still need to look for truth, and see: if the victor is really as riteous as he claims

It may be very late but your welcome, and "it is", Reenacting is an experience like not much else, one should if they think they can and think they can put forth the effort try it because once your hooked you just can't get enough!!!

love it

Good job! I like it.

So much for you being an AllAmericangirl....

Yeah, we should'nt be biased about whether you're northern or southern, however, I still have a truck-load of pride for my Southern "Born n' raised" self.

very good video

Holy shit thats a lot of men I reenact and have yet been to a reenactment that big

Very good song, I wish the musical was still running!

without war, there is no peace

Don't sell yourself short. I think you did a great job with the video.

"on the 2d july,longstreets corps, with the exception of one division, having arrived, we attempted to dislodge the enemy,and, thoughwe gained some ground,we were unable to get possession of his position. -Robert E. Lee July 4th,1863 to the CSA president Jefferson Davis

@Kaeladino the war was about preserving the union in the north and yes i'm a military historian, sure slavery had a little to do with the war, but only rich landowners could own slaves and the majority of the confederate army were poor farm boys defending their state and home from blue clad invaders (i love both north and south)

very good!

Wooow!! Great song!

Thanks

Good job on the video.

GOOD SONG!!

A civil War Buff's song

It's Travis Tritt on a Civil War tribute album called "The Nashville Sessions"

this is nice video

My many great granpa's fought in this war for the Union.This was my Families first GREAT act for this country because his So many grandpa's came from Germany :) (I say first because my family later activated in many american wars) I also give thanks to those soldiers that made it possible for me to have friends up in the North

The song is "The day the sun still" by Travis Tritt - thank you wardywardy1234