I love your series for its genuine feel and the quality content.…will be great if you can travel to Vietnam and cover some of the battles … Tet offensive, Hamburger hill, la Drang valley… the siege at Khe Sanh. Just an idea. There are so many stories just waiting to be told…

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I absolutely love these videos!!! TY🤗❤️

I was born and breed in Mississippi and I appreciate your information!!! I'm very proud of My heritage and My state and ancestors who fought for States Rights against unfair taxes and for their family and friends!!!!

Where abouts in Scotland and how old do you think the grave site was? So cool that you found The Sword too!!! : )

That was old Mc Donald's grave Head of the Mc Donald clan known fer there hamburgers and French fries. Ronald Mc Donald is the last known decedent living in America.

@@mrliberty8468 Ronald MacDonald invented the "Fillet O'Fish at Glen Coe.. And fought like Hell at Cauldon in 1746 to save the Big Mac from Flora MacDonald at Inverness after Bonny Price Charlie took the Field. Aye!!! ; )

That's seriously cool!!

I’m a Scottish American. McWilliams Clan.

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I believe the 69th NY regiment was part of the Irish Brigade. Makes sense.

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Besides John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama who are the 18 others with links to Northern Ireland?

We're all Irish in the USA. Plenty of us drinking adult beverages too. Best to you.

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IF Lee is to be hailed as a great commander, what possessed him to attempt to strike meade in the centre that day after what he's viewed at fredricksburg some months earlier?

@@davec8730 If you look at Lee for the man he really was the right way. Lee was coerced into his position and he could not imagine what he had agreed to after he done that. General Lee was my grandmothers father. Margurite Lee Laub was his daughter and of all people my grandmother was adamant at how he had talked about ending the war to her older sister Anita. The only reasons Lee agreed to being the commander he was is because he was afraid of losing his farm and family to the Union as well as their rights to their own freedoms. He had somewhat the same view every southerner at the time had. They would be sort of enslaved by the north as well as cheated out of their existence by excessive taxes on their property. He would say what kind of man would I be if I leave someone from the north running our lives. Not all the facts are stated about General Lee nor his REAL personal beliefs. There is a lot written on the man and a few times my grandmother called out yelled bullshit when she was reading books written by people that never even knew the man or conjecture by people that allegedly knew or served with the man. She said the man as a different person altogether on the farm. I read a book myself that said Robert E Lee used to quote scripture to justify his actions which is totally false to what my grandmother said most of the time their religion was left to dinner prayer which even we do in my household to this very day. I have one actual photo of my grandmother with Robert E Lee she was about 3 years old at the time of the picture. Her sister Anita was 6-7 years old. The media and tabloids did not even have the correct names of most his family members. Robert E Leee sent my grandmother and her sister to live friends that had gone to California in the months before the war actually started part of the reasons there is only meager mention of her and Anita one semi factual book.

@@thekingsilverado3266 what on earth has your family history to do with the fact that i posted a question asking why would lee try a mass attack against fixed positions when he's seen the slaughter of burnside's troops doing exactly the same at fredricksburg? lee's juniors (up to longstreet) could see it was a disastrous folly, why couldn't lee?

@@davec8730 Being as polite as I can be to sensitive little tykes like you the man is a relative of mine in the family. He was one of thee most misunderstood world figures of his time. But with you being brain dead it does figure you would miss a well made point since the man had the same concerns 1875 that we all have right here and now.

@@thekingsilverado3266 i very much doubt anyone hasn't seen your continuing insistence on telling us he was a relative of yours. how was 'he one of the most misunderstood figures of his time'? i haven't insulted you, even though you're an attention seeking wannabee. what made one the highest rated generals of his time take the decision to advance uphill into a fortified union position when all could see it was the wrong decision bar HIM?

Traitors who tore up the Constitution so they could kill their fellow Americans and keep their slaves should not be honored or remembered as heroic with a statue

nor their deeds. may those who defended their homelands in the face of the invader dine forever in the Halls of Valhalla?

@@davec8730 ceaseless mayhem and eating - not for me

You can add my GG Grandfather’s too Steve~ Levi Webster Harrelson Co G 42nd Miss ANV captured: Falling Waters MD July 1863 cheers. John-Valley Forge PA 🇬🇧

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Yes, it should be that way all the time. And, they were Americans... Not " enemy" soldiers. Coming from a life long Northerner.

All were Americans in the 1860s They just represented two sides of the same coin, that's all. When it came time to flip the coin to decide which vision of America was going to predominate, it took a war to do it.

Traitors who tore up the Constitution so they could kill their fellow Americans and keep their slaves should not be honored or remembered as heroic with a statue

@Southern Storm Who seceded? Who fired the first shot? Fort Sumter, anyone? You don't have to shred the Declaration to tell the truth about the Confederacy. Talk about disingenuous. What difference if he "owned the slaves" he was willing to fight and die so his superiors could keep them. None of your examples come close to the traitorous acts of the murdering slaveholders who tore up the Constitution so they could kill their fellow Americans. There were no other motivating factors but slavery and slaveholding and the continuation of it. All other reasons were fabricated by Southern apologist historians 100 years after the war. You believe whatever you want, and honor whomever you wish. Just tell the truth about it and accept that you love and support a decadent and cruel culture that should have stayed in the trash but persists today in the south.

@Southern Storm Thank you for your thoughtful response, but more importantly, for your service to our country. My grandfather was an ensign in WWII. He told me he saw the flag go up at Iwo Jima from the deck of a battleship. I did not serve. Your perspective is that of a sailor/soldier. As I understand it, more than anything, soldiers fight for each other as brothers would. I respect and admire that greatly.

The rate of casualty was so great, just going off to the war was almost an automatic death sentence as very few came back alive. If you were wounded,, there was poor medical available to help you. I can't imagine how horrible of the times it was for everyone back then.

Find the cost of freedom Buried in the ground Mother earth will swallow you Lay your body down

Very well said...

I had 3 great-uncles with the Pennsylvania volunteers who died at Gettysburg. Two died the first day and were buried in a mass grave. The third was mortally wounded and died days later. His grave is marked with his name, at least. He had a note in his pocket he had written to tell his family of his brothers’ deaths.

I doubt there were all that many families who lacked information on where their loved one gave the ultimate sacrifice. Unlike today, most of these soldiers in the Civil War formed units together consisting of men from the same community. Often times, they were relatives. Take my ancestors for example. My 2nd Great Grandfather was in the same regiment along with two of his brothers, a brother-in-law (who married their sister), and a cousin. It also appears that one grand uncle's and my grandfather's wife's brothers were in it also, but I haven't researched their trees (they just have the same names). So, when one of my grand uncles fell on July 3rd, in Pickett's Charge, his relatives were alongside him and likely saw it happen. Perhaps, if he didn't expire instantly, one of them may have been able to console him somewhat.

Thank you for your service Sir!🇺🇸

Thanks for your service Gunny, especially involving two tours in 'Nam! Semper Fi!

I saw here on KZfaq a video from the old TV Show I've Got a secret and was probably the same man you're referring to.

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Traitors who tore up the Constitution so they could kill their fellow Americans and keep their slaves should not be honored or remembered as heroic with a statue.

"People should not take down statues over there because that's trying to erase the past " No it isn't trying to erase the past. When communism fell in the Eastern block what is the first thing many of these countries did? Yeah, tore down the statues honoring people that oppressed, tortured and murdered them for decades. None of these confederate statues were erected while the confederacy actually existed. They were a reactionary measure. The erection of confederate statues often coincided with growing african american civil rights movements where the white southerners wanted to remind them what land they lived in.

@@tsdobbi well said - i'll pitch in for that Sherman statue too

Please share your great grandfather's account of Appomattox.

I would love to hear more about it because you have first hand knowledge of the actual events.

I'd love to hear it

Wow thanks for sharing that bit of history

@@michaeldeloach6610 So here's what I have- a first hand account of someone from our town that was a young boy when Grandpa Jake told him his account of the surrender. This record was written down by Spencer Knapp, a prominent businessman on Palmyra, NY that was a customer of the bank where I got my first job in 1974. Spencer came in one day and said he had something I would be interested in, knowing I was Jacob's great grandson. The next day Spencer who was in his 90's at the time came back to the bank and handed me a two page typewritten account of the surrender as told to him by Jacob. I would guess I received this in 1975 or 1976. Here it is: Jacob Ziegler was a young immigrant, outstanding enlisted cavalryman, exemplary citizen. Among the original contributors for the erection of the Methodist Church building; likely the first person to know of the possibility of the termination of the war of the Rebellion; furrier and blacksmith for many years on Market Street, grandfather of our townman, Karl Ziegler. As related in my presence at dinner in my father's home about the year 1903. Jake, as he was affectionally called came out of Germany to evade the intrigue and martial inclinations of the "Potsdam Gang". He had observed the rigorous tactics of the military clique and believed that sooner or later Europe would be engulfed in a military conquest of the continent. With that thought in mind, he sailed for America. He fell in love with his newly sought land and within a few monthes enlisted in the 8th Cavalry, Co. C. at Rochester, N.Y. September 10, 1861. the record shows that he participated in forty two (42) battles. His outfit fired the opening shot of hostilities at Gettysburg and that he was severely wounded there on the 1st day of the battle. But his particular pride was in telling how it came about that he was likely the first man to guess that the war would end. His Cavalry under Sheridan had chased the "Johnnies" all the way from Petersburg, VA to Appomattox Courthouse. Here is the story related as near as the writer can recall. On the morning of April 9, 1865, very early as officer of the day, I was changing the guard at the skirmish line. I remember we had gone southerly down a cow lane to relieve the night guard. It was cold and the grass wet with dew. The sun was just beginning to appear. The night guard was drawn up facing North. The exchange was being readied when I noticed a stir far to the south.Thru the haze, I could see mounted men approaching. As they advanced nearer to us, I could see the mounted officers clearly and one bore a white flag. Instantly I knew of the possibility of surrender and the end of four years of bloody conflict. I immediately suspended the guard changing and advanced to meet the half dozen on horseback.. I gave the challenge, "Who comes here?" The answer: "General John B. Gordon, Confederate Officer under a flag of truce, seeking audience with Lieutenant General Grant to arrange terms for an interview by General Lee". Ziegler: You may pass through the line". Hurriedly Jacob changed the guard and with the relieved, escorted General Gordon and his officer in the direction of his superiors post, who would make further and necessary arrangement for the desired interview". Later in the day this incident became the happy prologue to the meeting of the two Supreme Commanders in the McLean parlor where the "unconditional surrender" was effected. This General Gordon was the hero of the Gordon-Barlow incident at Gettysburg two years before. He was afterward a Congressman and Govenor of the State of Georgia. So ended this incident which Jacob seldom told, being a modest man. No yankee soldier was better disciplined, or fought with greater courage than the blacksmith from Palmyra. Note: In the newspaper account of his passing on March 30, 1915, the newspaper article mentions he accepted the surrender flag at Appomattox Courthouse. I have other first hand accounts of Jacob's war experience that are not battle related but every day life in the Cavalry that were recorded as short stories by my Great Uncle, George Tuttle. All very interesting glimpses into the day in the life of a soldier.

All replys are delightedly read. I have not been fortunate to have visited these interesting sites. Not long till i will be 80!

@@junewarren4378 Then you need to make the trip. It’s worth it.

My earliest proven relative in the US WAS Cpl Jacob Kempner of the 67th

Well, I am a former art teacher and age 72; and five years ago I FINALLY got to Paris and saw so many of the artworks I taught middle schoolers and high schoolers about. I was thrilled as were you! We crossed some items off our bucket list I guess.

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Me too! And so interesting.😊

How sad.

Need to piss on the remains of the racist traitors. Fuck the confederates, traitors deserve no honor.

I couldn't agree more.

Monumental SHAME of American history. You don't see Germany trying to preserve Nazi history.

I know what you're talking about, I'm from North Carolina & we visited Gettysburg 6 yrs ago, You just get a feeling that you're on holy ground, I got cold chills when our tour guide showed us the NC monument & the stories about their part in Pickett's Charge. Amazing experience in Gettysburg! We also visited Harrisburg, Hershey & York, where my old Harley was build. This was our first time in Pennsylvania & you always hear about southern hospitality, but you couldn't ask to meet nicer people than the ones we talked to. I can't wait to go back!

I know the feeling as I experienced it at the Battle of Bighorn in Montana where George Custer’s men died.

I am PA German, now living in Florida for the past few decades. PA Germans are generally very nice, talkative, will give you directions, like to be helpful, have a talent for telling funny stories that elicit great guffaws! Thrifty, do it yourself. Clannish though. Family means a lot. Being from PA we went to Gettysburg and when I was small, it was the CW centennial in 1961 and my folks took us on a family vacay to visit many of the VA battlefields, including Appomattox. Why do people go to amusement parks like Disneyworld when there is so much history to share with kids, whether it be Revolutionary war sites like Valley Forge or Ft. Ticonderoga, Civil War, homes of the famous like Lincoln's, Jefferson's or Jimmy Carter's, on and on? Williamsburg is ideal! You never know what will stick with a child that will become a career or lifelong hobby. Yes, battlefields are sacred ground, and this teaches children love of country and the sacrifices our ppl have made to create a free and just society. All the museums in Washington, DC are important to visit too once the kids are older elementary school age and up. Including the Holocaust Museum to beat back all this anti-Semitism so rife these days.

I just finished reading it! Yeah, it is especially good about what the generals and other leaders were thinking about during the battle, how they thought they could win, etc. As far as Lee having his army charge with Pickett, I think something was said about him verbalizing, "well, we are here -- this is where we are, and we have to win or lose HERE." Meh! He could have skedaddled as the CSA did after the battle and Lincoln was pissed that Meade didn't chase them down and kill them off while they were headed back to VA, but I don't think Lee thought his soldiers would support fleeing to fight another day.

Imagine being shot there 125 years later I was shot during pickets charge during reenactment of battle

Great book.makes you feel you were right there fighting

Traitors who tore up the Constitution so they could kill their fellow Americans and keep their slaves should not be honored or remembered as heroic with a statue

Have a wonderful experience and a fruitful time in Gettysburg, Mr. Bruce👍 There's so much territory to cover just for the battleground scenery alone. East Reynolds Avenue by McPherson's Ridge is an incredible sight

I was in Jamestown on the "Behind the ropes with Dr. Kelso" tour and one of the archeologists had just dug up a musket ball from the 1600s and put it in my hand!!!! It was amazing!!!!! I was the 2nd person to hold that musket ball in 400 years after it was held by the colonist!!

That is what i love the most! Seeing the actual battle sites, hearing the stories of the soldiers who fought there and if possible see real artifacts.

@@punkin01ful oh my gosh! How exciting! That is something very special. That’s why I love history.

@@Mist3rData me too Stefan! I never get tired of watching these stories, the Gettysburg series I’ve watched a couple of times.

I never do either, hun🙂 It's something I've been fascinated in since I was a grade schooler bc my late uncle was a re-enactor for years as both Union & Confederate troops

True to the confederacy means true to the death of more Americans than killed by Hitler. You're proud of that. Traitor.

This is raycist and need to be destroy

I bet more than can be counted. I hope to visit there someday!

I go there at least once a year always stop by to see Erik

I never tire of learning about the history of the Battle of Gettysburg. There is something quite poignant about walking the battlefields, envisioning the sheer enormity of troops and the horrific bloodshed. Each time I visit Gettysburg, I find myself deeply reflecting on the sacrifices that were made by those soldiers.

There's probably thousands of forgotten graves scattered everywhere. It was July and the bodies were rapidly decaying, plus doctors believed the 'miasmic vapors' from the dead would potentially create a plague so they were buried rapidly where they fell in shallow graves. It's why keeping developers' greedy hands off of these sacred American sites is so important.

What you mean get back to Gettysburg. I really doubt that you ever went there,another KZfaq B.S'er!...

If this is verifiable, and I’m guessing it is, part of me thinks this should be corrected out of respect for both sides. Just a thought.

@@ChiefMiddleFinger Does it really matter at this point?

@@POOKIE5592 yes it does. Considering that neither side would've ever been caught dead with the other!

@@johnf8064 They are Americans.

@@POOKIE5592 Yes, but one a traitor,and the other a patriot.

Near Gettysburg College, at the “railroad cut,” skeletal remains of a soldier were unearthed by erosion there, I believe around the late 1970’s or 1980’s (have to kook it up) so yes, there are definitely most likely unmarked remains still at Gettysburg…

@@ChannelOutScotia - I did read that. If I recall correctly I was thinking the remains were found in the 90s. But I may have a faulty recollection. Either way, that's fascinating stuff...

I'd be very interested in hearing his account Paul. Please do share!

@@michaeldeloach6610 I’m posting another comment on this video today with a little more information. I have much more first hand account information from our family archives.

I’m traveling for the next 3 weeks with limited access to a computer. I’ll try to post something in the comments on this video. Thanks

I would love to hear more about the surrender at Appomattox because you have firsthand knowledge through your journal of what actually happened.

I just replied to michaeldeloach- I'm not good with the technical things but I think you can read it. let me know if not, and sorry it took so long.

Have continued success on every one of your ventures, Mr. Greenway

@@michaelvaughn8864 Thanks Terry.

@@terrygreennway9655 You're welcome, sir🙂 My cousin, Timmy, found a mini ball at Gettysburg years ago with a pal's metal detector along the Emmitsburg Road fence on the Confederate Seminary Ridge side of it

@@terrygreennway9655 He still has it 31 years later

@@michaelvaughn8864 That's great. Terry.

You don't see Germany trying to preserve Nazi history. It's a National Shame that these traitors even have monuments.

Several years ago, I was in northern Maryland for corporate job training. The company I worked for always made us bunk with a roommate. On the weekend, I was close enough to Gettysburg that I wanted to go. Asked around and not a soul was interested. My roommate, who was black, made a smart-ass comment of why anyone would want to waste their time off by "going to a place where a bunch of dead people were at." I wish I could say I was surprised by his comment wasn't. Wanting to keep my job, I left the room for a couple of hours until I knew he had left with another black to party the weekend away in Baltimore. Not wanting to make the trek by myself, I sat in the room and watched TV all weekend. I regret it to this day. Also, changed my perspective on many black people forever.

Wreckdiver59 Back in the late Victorian age people were closer to death than we are today. Most people were waked at home ( deceased were kept in the parlor at home in their casket until burial ), little family cemeteries existed in remote areas and often some family member or friend dug a grave out of necessity or respect. So, in the Gettysburg, PA area it was not uncommon, as the 19th century wore on, for farmers and others to accidentally disturb the resting place of a soldier or soldiers who had been killed in the great battle, and hastily buried. The respectful thing to do afterwards was to rebury those who had been dug up. I live in Washington Co. Maryland close to where the great Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862. This date is often referred to as America's 'bloodiest day' as there were 23,000 killed or wounded in an 8 - 10 hour period. The same thing occurred here as in Gettysburg - many were hastily buried on the field of battle ( bear in mind that the heat of July and September required that ). Some were missed when bodies were later disinterred for reburial, and are even found today, 160 years after the fact.

Indeed friend. 😊

You never see people celebrating their Nazi family members in Germany

So the people they tried to keep enslaved sang their funeral songs?

@@Lobosank Isn't it interesting how complicated and poignant that war was.

@@NCAdventuress I find nothing interesting, complicated or poignant when it comes to traitors like the ones that attacked our capitol on Jan 6. All they want is to satisfy their Greed and the expense of the working class. So common to hear people that want slavery back. Well ya'll gonna have your hands full

@@Lobosank "People that want slavery back." What on earth are you talking about? The Civil War WAS complicated and tragic that no other way besides war could end slavery. I doubt that you know much about The Civil War at all. You're a typical Yankee who understands nothing about The South. I was born in NYC and spent my adult life working in big NE Corridor cities. Then I moved to Western NC, a region I knew and got interested in Southern history. Blue Ridge Mountains are beautiful, safe, sane and the people are great. We don't need to lock our houses or cars. You couldn't pay me to live in another big NE Corridor city! They have become total shitholes.

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Wow! That is super interesting. Out of curiosity, how do you know of they’re hitting on a human bone and not a deer bone or do they just alert on anything?

Training. You use both in training, and they are only rewarded for alerting on the "correct" scent source. It takes a year and a half to two years of training to get certified, but the training never ends. At that same training in Williamsburg they had a room that had two containers on the floor. One contained human cremains, the other animal cremains. Prior to that trip my dog had never been exposed to cremains - as you can imagine, source material is not easy to find! Despite that, my dog went in, sniffed each can, went to the human cremains and alerted! Dogs can be trained to find victims of drownings. They work from the front of the boat and pick up the scent of the victim as it leaves the water and gets picked up by the wind. It is a very tough discipline but very doable with a lot of work. -Dave Polmon Connecticut Canine Search And Rescue.

He really did. If he only had of known the impact he would of had on him.

That was right decent of him. Farming’s hard work already without having to exhume and re-inter actual *bodies* one has accidentally plowed up!

One of his cannoners shot me in the side of the head was during 125 recreation of pickets charge im the last wounded survivor of the charge its a trip to think about sometimes

Congratulations on your son's graduation from West Point. My cousins have always lived across The River in Garrison NY and have a great view of it. When the cadets march, we can hear the drumbeat wafting across The River. GO ARMY!

Having been a student at the Seminary at Gettysburg , while the film was being made, we got to see how detailed they had to be to capture the ethos... covering the concrete sidewalks, blocking highway traffic, watching for air crossings, etc. But years before, I hosted a reenactment group, who were on their way to an event there, and so I went to see them 'in action!' Dressed in period costume myself, I didn't figure to stand out as a tourist while walking across a stream ravine but found myself in ankle-deep water between some trees following the sounds of some activity over the rise. Suddenly, a calvary charge (with swords thrust over the horses' heads erupted on either side of me (fortunately still behind a streamside tree!) as this galloping, leaping force passed me (within an arm's-reach!!) Yet in that split second, I believe they never me as they disappeared over the opposite bank? Talk about realism... the hair rises when I think about that moment 50 years ago!!!

I 100% agree! I've taken to clicking the link when I see a new video drop, hitting the "like" button and THEN watching the video. Never once have I regretted hitting the "like" button first. Because I KNOW I'm going to love the content! My favorite YT channel.

Easily my favorite channel

Absolutely agree.

Same thing