Thanks G.W. That’s a great idea, I might take a look at that as I love Native American history as well. Thanks for the idea!

No, you’re seeing the exception, not the rule.

What an awesome post!! My great grandfather fought w the 55th Va & was captured after leaving Gettysburg while crossing the Potomac. He spent the rest of the war at the prison in Maryland. I’ve got little information on the prison bc I have no surviving letters. Your family suffered greatly and so far from home! My heart weeps. 🙏❤️🙏

My friend , I was an infantry officer in Vietnam and I can assure you that the young men I served with were as brave and selfless as those civil war Vets. PS - my regiment fought at Gettysburg (12th Inf.).

@@alexkalish8288 , that of i have no doubt ! These last 20yrs we've seen young men step up and serve and defend . As many of our young and grown men have done . I'd qualify that these letters from so long ago are just elegantly written that do true justice to they're personal feelings . That we have long forgotten . Thank you for serving our great nation

@@alexkalish8288 your the reason they sell them POW Mia hats and Vietnam vet hats at gas station everyone forgets it was chicken shit politics not men that lost that war or however you look at it thanks for your service sir I appreciate it

@@travisclack4734 "you're' the reason" ! Go back to English class, grade two !

@@richardswann5300 Why do you have correct someone you don't even know? I reckon you can walk on water, eh ?

I can only hope to do them some small degree of justice for there simply aren't men easily found of this caliber in todays world. I feel truly honored to share their stories, some of them largely lost or erased from history, I only wish more people cared to hear their stories. Alas, the modern world.

@@BirdDogg , You're doing an excellent job friend and deserve to be recognized for your work. I don't mind the modern world so much, it's just the people in it..... yuck. I'm not sure when victimhood and cowardice became virtues, but I'm sure communists had something to do with it 😉 If you have the time I suggest that on KZfaq you look up the White Oak a museum. This is where I am from. This museum was founded by my grandfather's cousin D.P. It really is a tremendous collection all found in Stafford and Spotsylvania County Virginia. This is the best offering I have for you in thanks for your tremendous efforts. (Most particularly because I'm broke) I hope you enjoy.

Ahh thanks so much Brian, I have actually had the privilege of visiting the the White Oak museum in days gone by. A truly amazing tribute to the war between the states and these brave men and women. I can’t thank you enough for the kind words of encouragement for they are more valuable than all the treasures of the world. Often times those with the most empty pockets have the most full hearts.

@@BirdDogg Fantastic job sir. I subbed today. The last bit in your comment here reminds me of the commies now in our government who just want money, power, and control. Reminds me of my Bible where it mentions about the uselessness of gaining the worlds riches, yet lossing one's soul. The United States will prevail in the end. Please what ever you do, do not take any covid so called 'testing' and no so called 'covid shots' they are bio-weapons. The puppetmasters Obama and buds control Biden/Harris. They have founded along with Bill Gates the bio threat/killer covid along with China, thr real killers are all the different 'shots'. Some change a person's DNA, by giving them a dead person's DNA Chromosome -16, it's an awful way to go. After the shot in 7 to ten days the tounge gets pointed and won't stop moving and your eyes bug out and your upper body slams into the legs over a short time the lungs fill up and death. Other shots cause fatal blood clots and many other medical problems as well. Other shots destory a persons emune system and so on. Big tech stole the video that showed China 1st trying out their covid on there on people, they'd spray the 'gem' in public places and you can guess the rest. I'm an Army Combat soldier and have seen some really nasty stuff but what China did to it's 'thrown away people', how they locked them up in buildings with bars on the windows and metal doors, no food, water, medical care, left to die, then they come back to get material for their DNA shots (plus way more, can't go into here) it all was beyond gross. The testing swabs are soaked in Ethaline Oxide which is used to clean medical equipment and causes all kinds of cancers and breathing problems and INFERTILITY and deaths. There are covid shots that produce glowing numbers inside the shot arms, can be see when the arm is scanned in a hospital. There are covid shots that contain Graphen Oxide which is used to make bullet proof vests and it distorys the lungs causeing deaths also with fatal bloodclots. I wasn't going to put the above in this comment but I'm not just some wackco type they call an 'antit vaxer'. My last jobs in the Army was ammo and explosives and taught bio-weapons and nuke warfare. There's another 'new thing' the clowns came up with...instolling the blue street lights all over our country they're popping up. The poor excues is they're 'defective lights', THOUSE LIGHTS ARE BEING PUT UP FOR A RESON. Do they scan a shot person's number, are they doseing folks with radiation? Sounds crazy? Well they all ready are doseing folks with deadly radiation with 5G towers. There was a You Tuber trying to warn folks of the 5G towers, how his meter would still be off the charts at 3 blocks away from the tower and his meter regs. the radiation couldn't be measured. Where the towers are a high cancer rate and deaths are recordered. His last video before You Tube took his channel down he was on some mountain where a huge 5G tower was, also a strange metal building was there. The vegetation was all dead, no sounds of animals, no birds, no nothing, just the loud humming of the tower. I'm sorry this is so long a comment but I thought it was important that this info got out. It's like we're all on a battlefield, with the commies in goverment BUT ! people are really starting to wake up ! There are 3 major dams in China, and the biggest one is above WoHan where the labs are and those dams are failing, they are no longer stright. Esp. if that biggest dam breaks then WoHan, the labs will be distoryed. BUT ! then what happens to all the bio--crap stored there?!🤔 I don't know. On a much lighter note, my great (whatever how many greats) grandfather Peleg Tilson was in the Civil War. He was courting a lady, exchanged his Army boots for dressshoes for some crazy reson. Before he could get into his other Army boots his company had to move out, in short they had to run through a freashly cut corn field, grandpa's feet got cut up and he and others were sent to Anderson Prison. If he haddn't made it I wouldn't be here. To honour him I joined the Army. I've had many encounters with ghosts on the Civil War battle fields, at the Jenny Wade house. What you are doing sir is very important and keeping alive what has gone down in our past history, be it Blue or Gay they fought for what they believed in and they ALL should be honnoured and not ever forgotten. Take a cammra, keep it with you, talk outloud to the folks that lived and fought and died there and while doing so please take a bunch of just ramdom pictures. You may think you're alone, but you just might find out that the fallen soldiers sprites are still around. Take day time, early evening and night time shots, that's how I get my ghost shots. Course it doesn't always 'work', but sometimes it does. Sorry for such a long comment but I thought I'd share some important covid info and such. The man in your video here, I like to think he and family are in heaven together again and happy. Maybe they are in another demention and are 'living' on their farm? One last thing in short : My friend had a birthday party, they lived in Gettysburg in a house from that time period, though the house had been inlarged at some time. We were upstairs and there was a Civil War looking soldier down the hall looking very sad. Music was playing it was on Halloween so we thought the soldier was a person in custume till he just faded way. The soldier had started to walk towards us, then stopped and looked very sad, then he faded. The way I figure it is that the soldier was standing in the older part of the house, and we were on the side of the house that had been built AFTER the Civil War. If we had walked toward him would we maybe then have been stuck in a time warp? Part of me wishes I'd have walked to him and part of me sadly is glad I didn't. I just hope that sprite and the others have found peace. Take care sir. I SALUTE you. 🤘👻💖

@@BirdDogg They certainly were a different breed

How awesome to know his history! Ransom’s brigade was in some of the thickest fighting in the war. Amazing to think any of them made it through. I appreciate all the encouragement and the support of the channel!!

@@BirdDogg yes we are grateful to have it. Both his brothers served as well one of them didn’t make it either died of disease. The family farm beside ours the Brown Family Farm sent five of their sons to the war (one of them was married to my great grandfathers x3 sister) 3 of the five died in the war so between the two farms that touched 8 men went to war and only 3 returned alive leaving many widows and orphans.. most of which are buried on our farm (Bailey Farm) and across the road on the Brown Farm. I have several copies of their letters as well speaking about watching their brothers die. What a terrible and fascinating war

One of my paternal grandfathers, Ambrose W. West, Co.F, 26th Va. Inf. Vols., Wise's Brigade, Bushrod Johnson's Div., was k.i.a., Petersburg, 11 July, 1864, buried in the mass grave at Blandford Church Cemetery. My other grandfathers survived and were paroled at Appomattox.

@@carolinadog8634 I wish I could go back and give a few of them some of ' my guns' an ur grandfather my AR 15 with all my rounds.

What a priceless piece of history you possess.

Letter stained with my blood. God that made a strong man cry

You are right. Both sides were comprised of some of the bravest men America has ever borne.

If that did not run tears down one's cheek, it likely betrayed an innate or instilled indifference to the reality of the situation. GOD, I pray, shall greet him as a good and faithful servant, and stars shall be added to his crown for knowing the odds, yet unhesitatingly resisting the Anti-CHRIST/communist takeover of the federal government, unto death. Rest easy, my Confederate fathers. This generation is worn down enough that they let white-leftist led race hustlers & bolshevik rabble rousers tear down some of the monuments to our CHRISTian heroes. In fact, the next generation may be the one that will have to flee to the appointed place in the wilderness. But, ultimately, we will be regrouped, rallied, and our SAVIOUR will drive out the heathen & return us to a place from which, HE says, we shall not be moved, forever. The heathen will beg to be spared from hell to chop our wood and tote our water.

I 'm a white and was born in Louisiana and if I knew back then that there were statues honoring the Confederacy I'd have been shocked and want them torn down. Some people don't deserve things built to honor them.

@@michaelflores9220 What does your physical race have do with monuments that a society erect & establish to honour their forefathers? You are correct, some people deserve no honor, and you are one of them. You ate a rootless, thankless, tumbleweed that takes all you enjoy, for-granted. You have no appreciation or regard for anyone's effort but your own. Go play your video game little boy.

@@jaydubbyuh2292 Confederate monuments are obvious ha tips to white supremacist ideology. John Singleton Mosby admitted the secession was all about slavery.

@@michaelflores9220 Can you cite what Mosby stated, & in honest context? I doubt you can, or will. As to your allusion about "white supremacist": who ought to be "supreme" at the Flores house? The Jones's? The Wang's? The Kaminsky's? Street thugs and dope gangs? NO.! The Flores family should be supreme. Supremacy does not mean cruelty. In fact, white christians, whose thought, blood, sweat, toil, tears, treasure, & lives settled and built the nations on the North American continent, & have EVERY Right to be the supreme society in the lands that they have bought a paid for, many times over. The problem is that we have been too kind, hospitable, & tolerant of strangers. Now the guests want to lay claim to the civilization my people have built. As with most "Unions', be they national, trade, or otherwise, they are a fine & noble idea, so long as they are honestly governed by those whom they represent. Sadly, they are most often highjacked by a small clique of scoundrels, thieves, or degenerates. Such is what happened to the Union of States in 1860. The far left wacko party of "Republicans" won the presidential race on a plurality. They were, in effect, soft communists - tax & spend, big government leftists. They wanted to double the tax rate, which would have bankrupted the revenue producing South, which is why the first seven Southern States, exercised their rights to secede. Lincoln's crafty perfidy in not departing federal installations in seceded State's boundaries, ,i.e. Fort Pickens Fort Sumter, & Ft.Monroe, and giving them Hobson's choice to be invaded or resist and then having the temerity to call on the rest of the States to provide troops to invade, capture, and force those States to submit to their delegate subordinate federal government is what drove the rest of the Southern States to secede. Maryland, Kentucky, & Missouri had the pro-secession / pro-Confedetate legislators incarcerated or exiled, and buffalo any of the northern States into submission, that dared oppose him. What we gained at Yorktown was lost at Appomattox.

Thanks so much Alex, I appreciate it. I’m trying to improve every time.

I'll have to give it a read, thanks for the tip!

What's it about? How sad it was that they couldn't keep their free labor and keep beating and enslaving them? How touching.

@@maryschetrompf4197 You should read it. Keep an open mind... You might learn something...

@@maryschetrompf4197 you really don't HAVE to be an irreverent bitch. Most southerners did not own slaves and actually there was more and more people that did not agree with slavery. This young man prob a my did not own slaves and I assure you he did not go to war for the purpose of extending or ensuring slavery. He and his companions went because their state called for them. Times were different then... people were loyal to their state (i.e. family, community) more so than a government so far away. Also, please do not lie to yourself by believing that business in the north did not find slavery advantageous.... they made a killing. I am not condoning the institution of slavery.... however.... I am not so disillusioned that I find myself understanding the times that they lived in. Also, sorry to break it to you.... but you aren't qualified to judge either.

@@stevestringer7351 Kid yourself all you want, laddy boy. And classy of you to use the b word on me - tells me all I need to know about you.

The resolve of these men and women is unimaginable... I only wish I could do them the justice they deserve but feel honored to be able to try and share their stories.

@@BirdDogg , as someone that just found your channel , let me say your doing outstanding ! From videos like this to the recordings of the veterans . I truly believe that your channel should be in schools history lessons . Maybe in depth US history in highschool

@@davidkreutzer4778 thanks so much David, you are too kind

@@BirdDogg , your very welcome ! And yes i think you should do diaries and letters , you put no spin , just the words of people that lived it and died for whatever side they stood for . It's history and it's our history . Again thanks

@@BirdDogg this what they should teach in school.not the crap there push crt ...gender ..thanks for what your doing ..

Thanks Mike, I appreciate it!

It’s way worse today than 2 years ago. Your words are correct. God save our souls & our country 🇺🇸

Thank you so much Randy, I appreciate the encouragement. I only hope to do them some small justice for they were men of absolute resolve whose stories deserve to be preserved and told.

Seems as though we are in a lost cause now. Liberals and Marxist have taken over our government and education system.

@@brucebostick2521 no, it's not ridiculous. Those who forget their history are bound to repeat it. We should remember our history, not sweep it under the rug. Remember it and learn from it....even the ugly parts, so we don't repeat it.

Thanks!

W = Waste (of) A = All R = Resources - of which the most precious is undoubtedly the lives of those who fight it and whose death robs the world of talent of incalculable value to Humanity. God bless and keep all those who fought, suffered and died during the desperately tragic fratricidal war which proved to be the birth pangs of a great nation.

Thanks so much, too kind!! If you get a chance to share them, I’d sure love for history to be getting shared more!! Thanks again for the words of encouragement, I am doing my best to do these valiant men justice!!

John Wilkes saw the future, and put a ball in the head of the snake.

Hard to imagine the hell they went through

The whole country is.

Thanks for pointing that out!! Things get jostled around sometimes, glad there are folks paying attention! Good eye

Too kind! I appreciate it, help me get as many subscribers so I can do it full time, share!! 😂

@@BirdDogg .. Book of Proverbs says'.. A Man's Gift Makes Room for Him'.. You have a Natch Vie Gift' on'a Sure True Summing Track'.. Do Catch My Bly Drift'.. For To You it's Coming Back' !! 👉🎁🙀🚂👈

The letter was in fact returned to the family and is actually featured in the video itself. If it were not for the existence of the letter there would be no narrative. The narrative was submitted as an article by the doctor after the war. The letter shown in the video is the very letter he is speaking of. These units from the south during the Civil War were made up of local militias, of men from the same regions. This particular unit, the University Greys were all intimately familiar with eachother and so it is logical that this doctor, or someone else in the unit would have not only ensured that this letter reached it's destination but very likely knew the soldiers family as well.

@@BirdDogg so many doubters and haters, thank you for posting the videos you post. We need to keep history alive.

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@chrislee2683 egrove.olemiss.edu/ciwar_corresp/440/

@@brucebostick2521 Why does history need to be told? So we do not repeat it. If you want to throw that term around, why stop there? The freedom of slaves was necessary and welcome. It was absolutely the right thing to do. However, it was done so quick and so haphazardly, it created a humanitarian crisis of people who could not read/write nor had the skills to find a decent job. This was yet another "pat ourselves on the back" moment for government that had no direction nor plan for success. These particular monuments were erected in 1906 to honor the student body and faculty who suffered at Gettysburg. It was not to intimidate, but to teach. Be glad you weren't placed into the moments of history where you were living the struggles of Gettysburg, Shiloh or Fredericksburg. Be glad you have the right of free speech.

@@brucebostick2521 You must not know about Auschwitz then. The Jewish people have embraced the history behind one of their darkest moments and preserved concentration camps. Why? So future generations do not have to endure that treatment ever again. Why should Civil War history be hidden from the public? Embrace it. It was a dark moment in US History. But we take it and learn from it.

The flaw in your argument is, I think, that as has been shown recently, many people have the arrogant presumption to believe something is true without any sort of concrete proof. This sort of arrogance, and it is arrogance, is akin to madness. In essence, the difference between science and religion. Should we allow the inmates to run the asylum in the name of freedom? Should we allow a few to infect many in the name of individual liberty? Spock had it right: "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one". Man is a social creature, not a solitary individual. Further, in the realm of economics, the need for the ability to acquire wealth to the exclusion of all other considerations is, in fact, a character flaw. Greed or, even more insidious, the need to prove oneself better in order to justify one's position in the community.

@@johndorch2333 Ultimately, an individual is not bound to be responsible to the collective, except by choice. Since you bring up the current science controversy, and I assume you are talking about Covid -19 vaccines, or refusals of many to get them, we should talk about the real science that everyone claims to want you follow, but only vaguely understand. The real science can not be definitively known, because we do not know how many of the 330 million persons in our society have had Covid-19 and either were asymptomatic or had minor symptoms and recovered quickly and have antigen immunity. I don't know this figure, you don't know this figure, Dr. Fauci doesn't know nor does the president of the United States. Some estimates have purported that as many as 35% of persons with Covid-19 infections were unaware they were infected. There has been 120 million confirmed infections in this country and just over 700,000 purported fatalities due to the illness. The rate of mortality thus is .00583 or 6 deaths per 1, 000 individuals with confirmed infection. Mortality it should be noted was mainly confined to persons age 65 or older, or to those immune compromised and/or with pre-existing conditions. Younger people in good health generally recover and with time achieve reasonable normalcy. Now, if we factor in the 35% (a conservative estimate it could be higher), or an additional 42,000,000 persons who have had Covid-19 and who were asymptomatic or didn't realize they had Covid-19, the rate of mortality falls to .004 or 4 out of 1000 infected individuals. As noted those four persons per one thousand are not the general public, not the young, not the healthy, but at risk persons that can get the vaccine if they feel at risk or can be protected in other ways with less intrusive medications, modalities and methodologies. I submit that our society is based on individual liberty and freedom. To be "social" in this society is to be respectful of others rights and right to choose what is best for their lives, more significantly to respect the choice of the individual to make his or her own healthcare decisions. .004% is not as significant a number that I would sacrifice a basic human right and set a precedent for continued state intrusion into the privacy and personal rights of the individual citizen. Some things are bigger than life and death. How we live before we die has greater importance. Is it not arrogance to claim empirical certainty about something or idea that allows state authority over the individual when no such certitude can be demonstrated or proven? Isn't that thesis then just a means to sublimate the individual and his God given rights to the self-defined authority of state or worse the "enlightened" despot that claims he or they know best? As for the greedy capitalists that you reference. I submit that the greatness of our economy only is possible by the creation of wealth. Our standard of living, our opportunities to better ourselves individually is a by-product of the profit motive. Investment, risk taking, innovation, inventiveness, the entrepreneurial spirit are responsible for our economic vitality and societal wealth that benefit us all. I don't envy the rich. They have as many problems as anyone else. How much better is their lives over the average persons? How much longer do they live? They have security above most persons, but it isn't perfect security. They can't spend all they have, they have to give away most of it. They are not immortal and they can't take their wealth with them when they die. They may have political influence and get things they want done over and above the average person, but what does that mean? Do they get to have advantages that limit the advantages of others? I dont think that is a major concern. Most seek to do good. Whether they do and how much good is done by whatever reasoning is open to scrutiny. But I have no doubt that is the motivation most wealthy people have when they achieve success. And in conclusion, the Marxian position that society is injured by way of class and position of capital holds no water. It is all part of a formula to divide one people on the basis of religion, class, race and wealth, and to invalidate a culture with selective references to historic and institutional wrongs, exaggerated to discredit it along those divisive delineations. It is a false premise, easily demonstrated to be false. But as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin once suggested, keep telling the lie until the people believe it to be true.

@@MrBobbybrus No one including you have the right to knowingly infect others with a deadly disease in the name of your liberty. This is why I think Trumpers should secede. If you do not believe in a commons then you do not belong in OUR society.

@@brucebostick2521 Yes, I know Alexander Stephen's Cornerstone speech, and I have commented on it. Perhaps you may have previously seen my comment in another thread about this speech having been the prime argument for and apology for the institution of race based enslavement of those of African descent.. it explains the real cause of the Civil war in that the South demanded that the institution of slavery should be accepted as a moral good, a natural state and its continuance and even expansion into the territories not be restricted, because to be against that premise was to invalidate the whole system. I have no argument with you on that score. I only suggest to you that you can not make the infamy of the era when involuntary servitude and racial superiority of one people over another right by tearing statues. It doesn't change anything. Nobody believes that one race is inferior to another and that slavery was a natural condition and moral good. Even if someone wanted to make that case that such thinking was reasonable, it wouldn't gain any hearing in our society. So whether or not you like the statues on the basis that they represent an appeal for latent feelings of longing for our racist and unjust past, they in reality do no harm. They do not engender any fond nostalgia for a long ago way of life. It's done. It's as much a part of our past as witch trials and the Inquistion, a faint flicker of a history that few quite consider or remember beyond their high school history class. But it is a history worth knowing and appreciating if simply to show us how far we have come from those days, gone with the wind. So if you destroy statues, you are not changing things for the better, you are not striking a blow against racism, Jim Crow or slavery. Slavery has existed since mankind has been around on this earth. It exists today, even more so than when three million of African descent were enslaved in our country. Will taking down statues of Confederates free anyone in our times? No. it will continue and people will be victimized. So what is the point of taking them down really? It doesn't change what was and won't change what is. It would be an empty gesture by those that do it. Virtue signaling without any substantive good coming from the act. But if you want to wipe away history and all vestiges of our ignoble past so you may feel better and if you can get local people to agree with you and purge their tortured souls, you have my permission to go about the effort. They are not my statues and if locals don't want them in their communities, I am all for it. Just understand we won't know where we are going if we have no clue where we have been.

It is disgraceful & totally disrespectful of the men, women & children who died for the Confederacy & what they believed in to destroy the monuments remembering their lives.

Unfathomable tragedy and resolve. The matter of fact acceptance, the doctors blunt and honest answers, the uncensored truth within the letter to his mother, it is more than modern "sensibilities" are equipped to process. It was such a different world and time, such different sentiment. They laid the truth of the matter bare and yet were somehow more compassionate in doing so.

@@BirdDogg well said

Good catch, think I got it fixed