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My great grandmother was born in 1858 and her father-my great great grandfather fought in the Civil War. I still have his enlistment papers for the Kentucky Volunteers. When I was 5 years old in 1951 I sat with my mother beside my great grandmother's death bed. It was a tradition then that the women of the family would stay by the bedside in shifts so that the person would never die alone. So here I am in 2022 at age 75 and knew a person who was alive during the Civil War.

love how he starts off..."back in the 60s..." first time I've heard anyone say "the 60s" and not mean the 1960s

This man is buried in a local cemetery near me. Amazing to hear his voice! I wonder if town historians know this video exists!

So a guy who’s fighting weapon was an airplane with mounted machine guns is interviewing a guy who defended cover wagons against Kiowa warriors….what an interesting time in our country. So cool.

Great stuff! Let's not overlook the interesting fact that the interviewer is Eddie Rickenbacker, WWI fighter ace and MoH winner.

I can also say I remember 62 years ago. Even 65 years. Even 70. I remember one of my earliest experiences being out in front of our house in Pennsylvania riding my tricycle, hearing a plane flying overhead and looking up into the clear blue sky trying see the plane. I remember we had a small Black & White TV and it was a cabinet floor model. I remember it had only one (yes, just one) station at the time, and after the evening news at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="690">11:30</a>pm, the station would shut down. It would then play the U.S. national anthem while showing the U.S. flag waving, and at the end of the anthem the channel would just stop. No movies, no Cable, nothing, accept the X-ray radiation logo and a dial tone until <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="390">6:30</a> am the next morning, at which time the morning news would begin. I remember on Friday and Saturday evenings there would be a late movie, The Late Show after the news, but then, too, the TV would be shut off the way I described above. I remember having two mail deliveries each day - one in the morning, and one in mid afternoon. I remember saying the pledge-of-allegiance to the American flag every morning at our public school. We would place our right hand across our heart while saying it. It was a requirement, and we were proud to do it. I remember paying only 25 cents to go see a movie on Saturdays. Sometimes it was 35 cents but then it was a double feature. Imagine spending all day at the movie theater, sitting in the ground floor seats, then maybe going up to the balcony, then down again. You could stay all day if you wanted to. You didn't have to leave when the movie ended. You could stay and watch the movie again, if you wished. And, I remember a movie theater back then was palatial in design. I remember being out with my friends all day on a Saturday, wandering, sometimes hiking as much as 3 miles in one direction, sometimes up in the woods; sometimes just following RR tracks, and then walking the 3 miles back, AND making it back home in time for dinner - and the amazing thing about it was that none of us had a watch. We just knew when to start back by the sun in the sky, or by the light in the air. We just knew. I remember so many things, so many... and I do miss it so.

It's worth noting that he is being interviewed by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, America's highest scoring ace in ww1, who himself won the medal of honor.

It truly is amazong that here we are in 2022 and can listen to a man tell about his life in the old west during the indian wars only three years after the civil war.

I am so thankful for this interview. My great great grandmother was one of those Box girls. This is the first time I have heard a first hand account of her rescue. Thank you so much for this!

This is literally a 100 year old podcast between two war heros....

Listening to this reminds me that our country really isn't that old.

My great grandfather was building a house in north central Minnesota in 1868 which they had a Indian up rising then. The Indians only stoled their horses but did not attacked them. It was in the history that there was a Indian up rising until the union soldiers showed up. My Great Grand Father also father also fought in the Civil War and my dad got to see him before my Great Grandfather died in 1904. My dad was born in 1895 died in 1996. He was 52 when I was born.

And to just think that this was not that long ago in time. Amazing how things have changed

That's him in the photo from <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="80">1:20</a> to <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="120">2:00</a>? That is a very famous photo. That shot was taken in May of 64. It's US Grant meeting with his Corps and Division commanders. They were planning the overland campaign, I believe it was after the battle of the Wilderness but they were on the march to the next battle against Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Spotsylvania Courthouse. Grant is the guy sitting on the bench facing the camera with his legs crossed. This gentleman was right in the middle of a real slice of American history there. Pretty awesome when you think about it.

It's chilling to hear the voice of a man who lived in the 1800s. Not just a store clerk or accountant, but a man of heroic deeds Amazing!

Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I flying ace, was the one asking the questions. The whole interview was just amazing to me. Listening to people that lived 100 years ago and talking about 150 years ago.

Thank God for these recorded historical interviews. What a gift from days gone by.

The two men speaking are national treasures

Today's date, March 26, 2023. I am 71 years and 6 months old. This is such an amazing interview! Most fellas my age are so familiar with Capt. Rickenbacher's exploits, and Civil War history! My wife thinks it is humorous to poke fun at these historical facts so many of us grew up with. But then, she's 18 years my junior! Thank you very much for making this available to us! 🇺🇲❤️👍

I watch mostly movies before the 1960s. I've watched over 150 silent films, all of them on youtube. Really helps to see people more in a level-headed way because the values I think had been very similar for thousands of years up until recently.

I love how when he talks about the 60s he means the 1860s. If someone talked about the 60s today they would think 1960s. I was born in the 70s and I always heard about the turn of the century meaning 1900 and today turn of the century would make you think of 2000. How time flies. Great video.

I’m from the UK but I’m fascinated by US history and in particular the Indian Wars. I’ve read widely on the subject but this interview is incredible! Thank you so much for sharing.

65 year’s he prepared that moment, countless telling’s, countless dramatic pauses. Nailed it!

As I have commented elsewhere, the most interesting 100 years in the history of life on earth just may be from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. For instance, if you were born in 1870 and lived until 1970, you were born in a time when people traveled by train to man traveling to the moon. From horse and buggy to personally owned cars & world travel by airplanes. A world with no computers to a world with computers. A world with no radio or TV or movies to a world with all of those things. The world you were born into literally changed like no other time in history that I can think of.

So glad someone thought to interview these people and record it!

Wow! This guy is very sharp! Has perfect recollection of the battle and the other details. I’ll say it again we are blessed to have gotten this on record before he passed away! This should be required listening for all high school history classes!

I find it so very interesting that this man was at Ft Dodge just a handful of years before my great grandpa was. His name was Peter Walter Beamer. He had been a First Sgt. in Sherman's army during the Civil War. He was in Dodge City in the '70's and early '80's as a black smith. He was also sheriff for a very short period of time. He met Wyatt Earp while there too. I am a trucker by trade. A few years ago, I worked on a wind farm project south of town for several months and during a big ice storm, found the local historical society and found out so much about my great grandpa. I figure this man speaking was born about 1844. Peter Walter in 1842. He died about 1923, right about when my dad was born. Such a big wide world and yet so small at times. Very nice to hear this. Thanks!

I’m surprised by how polite and kind they were. I guess from movies or even imagination I had thought a frontier soldier would be a rougher person. That’s really cool.

Amazing! Two incredibly famous heroes in American history from over 100+ years ago. So cool!

My Grandfather fought in World War I. He was British and was in Australia when the war broke out, and enlisted there. He was wounded in Turkey and France, earning a commission. He survived the war, thankfully. When I mention that my Grandparents were born in the 19th century, people are usually surprised. 🇬🇧❤️

What a treat! To hear actual living history. I am grateful.

This was recorded in 1930 and both men talk about WWI. Little do they know that a few short years later there would be WWII. :(

What a wonderful surprise to run across this amazing interview.

Metal detecting the Santa Fe trail here in Kansas is my life's obsession. Thank you so much for your videos! 🤘

When I was 7 or 8, I met Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker on Key Biscayne, Miami Fl. We sat on a bench as house keeping cleaned his bungalow. They booted him out and told him to go sit on the bench that I was sent to by my Grandmother, the head of Housekeeping. I recall telling him the causeway was named after him (as if he didn't know) and I remember shanking his hand when he was told he could go back inside.

imagine being a dude famous for flying a plane and shooting down other planes with a machine gun and interviewing another dude who faced archers with a muzzleloader in a wagon.

Just a blink of the eye in time measurement. Not long ago in the great scheme of things. Great stuff. Rickenbacker! Another great American! This is a treasure.

I’m amazed at just how crazy life is in general for some. 85 years old at time of interview. Lived through Indians battles and civil war to retire in Nebraska.

Mr Herron is wearing the 1904 Gillespie model MOH in his portrait. He may have been awarded his MOH around that time (which was not uncommon back then). All past MOH winners were always allowed to update their medals when a new style was issued....Thanks for posting this audio!

Imagine both your combat deployments were within the United States, and you receive the Medal of Honor in a battle that took place within our borders. Unreal and amazing at the same time

A true American hero in spite of the modern day disbelief.

Absolutely marvellous . He even mentoned Custer 's wife was still living in New York as late as 1930 .

What a priceless piece of audio, thanks for sharing it.

Wonderful piece of history. Thanks for sharing it.

Awesome interview. Thank you.

Man I can't help but love and respect the souls of these men, great stuff to listen too.

Just an amazing and awesome interview by a WW1 legend of a Indian War legend.

Great clip! I have to remark on how funny it is to hear an interviewee saying a line like “back in the 60s” and he actually means the 1860s!!!

like reaching back in time to get to know this man, amazing

Thanks for sharing!

Amazing. Thank you for these.

Incredible thanks!

My great great grandfather was a wagon freighter back in the Wild West days up through Idaho, Montana and into Canada. He was born in 1857 in the back of a wagon and was on the road during the 1876 Nez Perce war. I read that they had to “circle the wagons” quite a few times. Once they got stuck in Idaho for the winter and that had to camp out in a cave they dug in to the bank of the Snake River. I also read about one story when he was a young boy and was fishing by a river. A Native crept up behind him and grabbed his hair and was about to kill him when he stopped and said, “I know you, your mother gave me food. I will not kill you.” And so he lived. So the story goes…

I love your channel ! Who ever you are thank you for blessing us with such beautiful memories and knowledge of the past

I’m speechless, this is beyond fascinating

I remember as a kid watching the TV show "What's My Line" when the guest was an old man who had witnessed, as a young boy, President Lincoln getting assassinated at Ford's Theater. Talk about living history.

THIS IS AWESOME!!!!

This was amazing to hear a piece of history first hand!

A hard life was had by all.

Absolutely fascinating

Unbelievable! Thx

This is really neat! A connection, audio, to the Civil War, completion of Manifest Destiny, thru building of Transcon RR., at Promontory Summit, UT. Thank you.

My sincere Thank You to the producers of this outstanding video. Both the interviewer, and the guest are remarkable men that helped form and shape America to be the great Nation it has become. It was my distinct pleasure to meet the great WW1 American Ace Pilot, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker. Capt. Rickenbacker was the #1 American Ace Pilot of WW1. Later in his life, Capt. Rickenbacker founded the International Airline Company, "EASTERN AIRLINES". I found Capt Rickenbacker to be a kind and gracious gentleman. I was a young US Army 82nd Airborne Division Staff Sergeant (E-6). I had read Capt. Rickenbacker's amazing Autobiography. This volume left a deep impression on me. In the last chapter Capt. Rickenbacker describes how at the very last moments of the "Great War", he actually flew over a large section of the Front Line trenches. He wanted to see what would take place at the, 11th Day, of the 11th Month, at the 11th Hour. This was the agreed upon time ALL sides would cease fire, and this Horrendous War would finally come to its END. As his military watch struck 11AM, Capt. Rickenbacker observed literally thousands of Troops slowly come out of their Trenches, stand up, and slowly approach each other. The British in their Brown combat uniforms. The Germans wearing their dark Green uniforms, the French wearing their Blue uniforms, the Americans were not within Capt. Rickenbackers view, but for sure they were wearing their Brown combat uniforms. As Capt. Rickenbacker viewed this Huge mass of Military Men and Women (There were Military medical units on All sides up at the front ready to transport wounded troops to Field Hospitals in the rear. Hundreds of brave female Nurses were among them.). Capt. Rickenbacker's tears streamed down his war weathered face as he watched these courageous Soldiers from All sides shake hands, embrace one another, share cigarettes, show each other family photos, and those that had a bottle of Gin, or Wine, or any kind of spirits used it to toast to each other. Capt. Rickenbacker was deeply moved be this display of Military courtesy, but even more moved by the knowledge that just several minutes before 11AM, these disciplined, courageous, and galant Troops would very likely kill each other. How profoundly Sad. These moving moments had stayed in Capt. Rickenbackers mind for the rest of his life. He was haunted by these few minutes of Human Beings being caught up in an event that is like non other in the Human experience, WAR. WAR changes everybody's Life it touches, whether they are a combatant or not. Being a Vietnam (1968) combat Veteran, I can vouch for Capt. Rickenbackers words. Though I am proud to have served, at the same time I pray that someday there will be an end to War of any kind. Some will call me naive or uninformed, but I believe that some blessed Day, we will find another Way.

Keep in mind this man was born almost 20 years before the Civil War he was born in 1846.

Thank you for posting

Thanks!

Folks, you don't win the Medal of honor; you earn it. It's not a competition. As an aside, my Dad once met Eddie Rickenbacker and when he asked him how old he was, he replied, "I am 74 years young."

I have seen Lee's grave countless times, and growing up I had heard about this man. He was certainly a brave man.

Nice and clear interview. Thanks!!

An absolute hero this man is. Brave men like him are rare in America today.

An invaluable time-capsule that brings the past to life.

This man was truly courageous and received the MOH. Tough as they come, glad to hear his story.

Thank God recordings like this were made. So interesting to hear them. Even this recoeding was old. Around the 1920's.

Great stuff

Our history isn't that far behind us. When my grandmother was a girl they moved to Nebraska in a covered wagon. She said the grass was as tall as wheat and would juat about make you sea sick when the wind blew. Now, the grass is short and the buffalo no longer roam free.I don't know what year that was. But in my mind's eye I can still see the sturdy stock of people my grandparents and great aunts and uncles were. Not like us today. Great presentation, thank you.

Can you imagine a small boy in the 1930s listening to this on the radio? Guess what he and his buddies will be playing out in the yard? :)

Thank you for your service.

Great video. Thanks for sharing these recordings. Really neat.

Wow! That was fantastic. That story should have been made into a movie. For that matter, it still should. This sounds like an episode of an old radio show. Man, I'd like to hear more.

...and it is even more worthwhile for Americans of today's generations to pause and consider the hardships of the soldiers, pioneers and Indian scouts, who within a single lifetime have doubled the size of our country through winning of the West. 🤝🇺🇲

Love the Courageous Pioneers !

Amazing

Outstanding! You can not place a price on retrained history such as this.

I have read the wonderful autobiography of Eddie Richenbacker but this is the first time hearing his voice. Salute to these hero's.

Wow, real old WildWest history. Thank you

Awesome.. 👍

Just hearing him talk about the history in real detail about the past is absolutely incredible

A cool inter view of what happened in 1868

love the story Thanks

What a fascinating window into the past. Also fascinating, and a few times pretty funny, was the closed captions brave attempt a translating language from the last century. It tried so hard.

Back in the ‘60s That’s the 1860’s. Crazy

Great historical interview. It would have been really interesting to hear of his re encounter with Mrs. Gen. Custer!

Wonderful!

AMAZING

Incredible that he was recorded for future generations

Listening to a man born in 1845 is surreal.

Thanks

It's crazy how in just a little bit of time the audio quality of recording equipment increased so far. The late 1880s had recording equipment that you could almost understand basically nothing. The 1920s had audio equipment that with a little bit of enhancement sounds just fine

My buddy’s family’s house, in Pennsylvania, had the famous story of an Indian on the run having climbed through the window and ran straight out the front door. Presumably running from soldiers. More than likely the Indian would have undoubtedly been of either Blackhawk, or Mohawk, since both occupied the region, and almost every farmer has some sort of arrowhead collection and many people still tend to find them by the creeks. Anyway, sometime around 1999, when they re-insulated the house, they discovered the place had originally been insulated using pre-Civil War era newspapers lol.