Life on the Civil War Research Trail
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
"Life on the Civil War Research Trail" follows the daily adventures of Ron Coddington, a collector of Civil War period portrait photography. Ron has authored six books on the subject, and is editor and publisher of Military Images, a magazine with a mission to showcase, interpret and preserve Civil War photography. Learn more at ronaldscoddington.com and militaryimagesmagazine.com.
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Ironic.
Sounds like a war crime to me. Unarmed civilian killed by by Colored Calvary while fleeing. Hell, I'd have run too.
If he was an unarmed civilian he had no need to run!
NOTHING funny about this story - in today's world, this action would be considered a War crime. One thing that is historically correct, the yankee armies were very good at burning, stealing, destroying civilian property and causing the deaths of thousands of civilians both white and black. Again, by today's standards, War crimes. You yankee people like to dish it out, but you can't seem to digest the truth. Have a nice day - Roy
I doubt he recognized the irony of being betrayed by man’s best friend.
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As a bloodhound owner, civil war buff, and mississippi delta native, i think i can vouch for this story. I have a 130# bloodhound that is about 50% trained for tracking humans for search & rescue. His first training sessions involved him tracking me 100 yds, 300 yds, and then 1,000 yds. He could follow me blindfolded. Oddly enough, he is ferocious around strangers. I think if that were us, the Yankees would kill him because of the way he'd go after them.
I think the bloodhound did not betray his master, litterally!... He, simply, was looking for his master, to be united with him!... Well, that's my idea... Certainly, you know better!... I've never have had dogs in my life, but I love them, and I prefer their company to more than 99% of humanity!
Not recounted in the story, is who the dog's primary handler was. It is my understanding that a plantation owner would rarely handle a blood hound, this was usually a task of a slave, an overseer, or in many cases members of the slave patrol (unlikely here, as they would have had their own blood hounds). That handler may have been the one who set the dog to find the fugitive.
So a civilian gets shot for ? I don't care if its Slave owner or not you do not shoot unarmed civilians ! If this was done by southern force this comment section would be filled with how horror it was ! I want to be clear it matters not if this civilian was northern or southern slave owner or not ! Killing of a civilian is wrong ! History is being fair and equal and Impartial , period ! I think anyone in this civilian place that faces a enemy on there land would do as he done and run , No matter slave owner , a slave or whatever !
I really look forward to your videos, but this story of a plantation owner or resident trying to evade capture being summarily executed was a little disturbing. The act described does not seem particularly heroic or just. They released his dog, followed it as it went to him, and then shot the guy? The writer seems to have recollected it as an amusing incident in his later years. It doesn't sound like anything to be proud of in my humble opinion. It's similar to a story I heard as a child about my grandmother's great uncle who was murdered by Yankees while trying to prevent them from taking livestock from his farm in Virginia. Maybe someone found that funny as well.
Totally 100% agreed and don't think in this man case or your great-uncle what there thoughts were on any issue !
Wow, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that never happened to your grandmother's great uncle. The "rebel band" being sought is portrayed by the Major as consisting of local irregulars. If this saintly plantation owner was innocent of collusion with (or even being part of) the "rebel band", he had no need to run and hide, and then run again.
You ignore who he replaced. Mcllelan was a battle trainer who ran from every single battle trying to save his soldiers for another day. Worst general in the history of war. Grant was just slightly better, but a strategy is better than a tactic is what he would say to the haters. He had a strategy, while his enemies needed a constant tactical success to beat the simple strategy. They couldn't do it so he won going away. It was close folks. After the second year of the war, the south won nary a single confrontation. 😊
If Grant's position were different, I think you would have seen a different strategy. Shame people downplay simplicity as an overriding and consistently effective strategy. Numbers if you got em. Don't get pinned down and protect the supply chain. These strategic aims grant enacted to perfection. 😊
As a student of the Civil War history, your commentaries have become a staple of information and eloquently delivered. Thank you.
A great story of one of the count!see actions during the war.. As the saying goes...the bottom rail on top now.
Sounds like an Ambrose Bierce story: The Bloodhound of Skipworth's Landing.
Awesome to read this article! Just want to correct a few things! The last name is spelled Feild! My 5 times great grandfather moved to Texas from Giles county Tennessee! He was a doctor also, his name was Marcus Anderson Feild! I just recently retired and will be making a trip to the county courthouse to pull records on what Colonel Feild relationship to me
Could I be 1st! Awesome love your videos, thank you for all you do, researching and narrating this wonderful history.
Very moving Ron thanks for sharing with us
Rauche could be pronounced /rowsh/ . It’s hard to say how he pronounced it unless he had descendants.
Leaders like Grant and later Patton are winners and could give a rats a@@ about how people felt about them, especially among the generals who were just jealous.
Beautifully said.
The Confederates treated the Northerners well and then Sheridan burned the Shenandoah. Sheridan is my most hated figure during the War.
A much more romantic time in life. I’m kind of jealous I wasn’t 18 during that era. I do realize there were hardships then that I don’t even think about, but still feel the same.
Very moving.
Grant : "President Lincoln sir, I am a man who is a womanizer and a drunk". Lincoln: " Mr Grant. Show me a man of few vises and I will show you a man of few virtues".
Confederates, not former but confederates loved to romanticize themselves. They knew the odds going in. I read that when you tabulate Grant’s overall losses in percentage to ones like Bragg, Hood or Burnside and examine his campaigns like Vicksburg he comes out very savvy. He owned up to Cold Harbor and understood as Patton and Lee that being aggressive made the enemy respond to you and helped keep them off their balance
It's more like 1million
Very touching. Thank you for all you do so that we may learn about these heroes. ❤
It’s pretty easy to criticize a person that’s been dead for 120 years just to make a buck. I wonder if this “historian” ever spent a day in the military. I forgot he’s a you tube expert.
"Even among those who dwelt securely among the peaceful valleys of New England." This part of the essay stands out to me. I was stationed in Eastern Massachusetts for several years and travelled extensively in my off time. I was always shocked at the memorials in town centers, where the lists of Civil War dead exceeded the combined casualties of all other conflicts listed.
You mentioned 750,000 dead, but if I’m not mistaken, this number represents the total killed from both sides. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I believe that is the commonly accepted number of combined dead service members on both sides, including those who died from disease and non-combat events while in service.
There should have been a study of West Point to find out why so many graduates became traitors. Murdering fellow Americans with an education paid for by all should never be forgiven.
Ron, congratulations on 20K subscriptions. I hope your channel continues to grow. All the best.
We have been cautioned, that the fading memory between generations, means the increased probability of repeating bad history, particularly when it regards the social factors, the geo political conflictions, that escalate into more uninspired warring among the humans. Our world war 2 generation, has nearly disappeared, we no longer hear the messages we ought from those folks. World war 1, generation long gone, Korean and Vietnam participants are now the aging grandparents of the present younger generations, and do the youngest among us, have a clue, do they know how to read the signs, do they have any sense of history, from which to go forward, in the promotion of global peace and prosperity, or will old beleaguered human pitfalls repeat?
Thanks. :)
KNOWN BUT TO GOD; both the sleeper and the place of his last repose until Gabril’s trumpet calls them forth. Amen
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Unfortunately, a large number of union soldiers were killed on battle in southern farm lands. After the war, there were men who were going about looking for bones to sell to these mills that would convert them into fertilizer. This was a very profitable business in an economy largely ruined by the war. Farmers were very much hand to mouth at that time. The bones they were seeking were those of horses. Of which there were many hundreds of thousands if not millions. The Southern farmers and the troops there were very careful to mark and Remove from the battlefield any confederate soldiers for burial elsewhere. As for the yankee invaders.... An additional fact is that those who buried their Troops on the battlefield often buried them shallow. These bones were often plowed up as has happened from time immemorial. So if a guy swept all the bones out of his field, the farmer wasn't too upset. After all, that was that much more cash That would be available for him to do something to feed his family. This is a fact that was very well-known to certain quarters back then. But it is not what we remember today.
I'm sure there were such incidents, but doubt they were widespread. Mass graves at US Civil War battlefields were exigencies. There were commercial entities, and in some cases family members, who traveled to battlefields where they knew a loved one had fallen, to recover the remains and bring them home. There were also national cemeteries established, with one of them being established in Gettysburg, PA on Nov 19, 1863, where a guy in a top hat gave a speech. Of note, there is a large section of the Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, MS were Confederate and US war dead are buried, mostly from a hospital established in that city during the conflict, I'm sure there were others. The US Civil War is the first conflict where large numbers of soldiers carried identity tags, although these were purchased, not issued. They did so (or were provided them by their families), so if they fell their remains could be identified. I'm sure enterprising souls, who could identify remains, could have made an effort to re-patriate those remains for more than the cost of the weight of the bones.
@@owensomers8572 Certainly there were a lot of metal I d tags sold, but there were more commonly paper tags that people would simply pin to their uniforms. There are many stories of marching through old battlefield song after the scene had Been abandoned. A lot of bodies would have worked Their way to the surface and been set upon by foraging animals. Many if not most of the farmers in the south were not even literate at all. No, if you are plowing in your field. In suddenly a bunch of bones pops up getting in the way of your planting, the likely hood is you'll just throw them out of the field to the edge of the field. Gettysburg Was an exception. It was historically the first national battlefield memorial ever erected. It was the first one in Which any attempt was made to segregate and preserve the remains. The closest to this before this once the waterloo site, which showed no respect for the remains of the dead. Defact, at that time, they were dentist, famously tooling about the battlefield, pulling teeth out of the skulls they located.
He went to west and lost everything when mother nature gave him one of the worst winter that killed his dreams. If he would have waited a year we would not have had one of our greatest President.
Very beautiful. May our lord be pleased with all the sleeping patriots, especially those in unmarked or unknown graves. May they rest in peace. People often proclaim the gallant soldiers of World War 11 as the greatest generation; but I beg to differ. The patriots who fought and died in this great war; a war that shaped the nation so profoundly: they are the Greatest Generation.
Reminds me of a song from the American Civil war called "Bury the Brave"
It would have been interesting if they had described the wound. And it would be interesting if such a wound would have been survivable with modern medicine.
Lt. Gen. James "Pete" Longstreet, commander of the 1st Corp of the ANV, knew U.S. Grant well. They had been friends at West Point and "Pete" was a groomsman at Grant's wedding. Longstreet warned Lee that once Grant set his sights on something he would never stop. Pete told Lee that Grant would fight him everyday, 24 hours a day until either Grant won, or he died. He was right.
John Milton (April 20, 1807 - April 1, 1865) was governor of Florida through most of the American Civil War. A lawyer who served in the Florida Legislature, he supported the secession of Florida from the Union and became governor in October 1861. In that post, he turned the state into a major supplier of food for the Confederacy. In his final message to the state legislature as the war was ending, he declared that death would be preferable to reunion with the North. When he killed himself, his son Jefferson Davis Milton was a toddler. --- Wikipedia source Actually he said, I would rather die than live under a federal system of government but history books don't want to publish his actual words. He is referencing the total disregard of the national government to recognize states rights under the 10th Amendment and the fact that a federal system of government and democracy is unconstitutional/unlawful and does not exist in the US Constitution republican form of government. A federal democracy is unconstitutional and is not a republic.
Remeber the Dirty Rebs stole his horses. By the time Union soldiers entrred the South, the Confederate atrocities at Andersonville were well known.
If They Make as Good Citizens as They Have Soldiers No More Need Be Asked of Them from This Republic Too bad he did not understand that an unconstitutional Federal democracy is not a republic. After all, Union troops were called Federals.
It’s easy to talk s$&$ when you are against a beaten down weak force. How did Sheridan or union calvary do 1861-1863 ha ha
Do you know if the house still exists?
LONGSTREET was the Smartest Guy in the room. Period____
Lincoln wanted our resources. Damn Yankee
Very moving, the suffering of war knows no bounds.
Thanks for sharing some of my family history! Great info