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The Choctaw people hold a very special place (as do all of the First Nation people) in the hearts of the people over here in Ireland. When word spread around the world of the plight of the Irish during the Great Famine of the 1840s the Choctaw people sent us $170 ( around $12,000 today ) to help alleviate the hunger. Coming from a place where discrimination and rampant land theft by an aggressive foreign power was a regular occurrence, the Choctaw people recognised our plight as theirs. We never forgot what they did for us ( In our eyes ALL First Nation people are our kindred spirits ) so when the pandemic hit America, and we saw how the Navajo people were suffering the most an appeal was set up here in Ireland for our historic brothers and sisters which raised over 2.5 million Euros ( around 3 million dollars ) to help. We were all so grateful to finally be able to return the love and kindness shown to us in our darkest hour all those years ago. Peace to all Greetings from rainy Ireland ;-)

Fun fact: The last Confederate General to surrender was a Cherokee named Stand Waite.

As a descendent of Confederate Veterans and Choctaw people, this was a real treat to hear. My Great Grandfather married a Choctaw woman and after the war lived on Nation land in Oklahoma then in Northern Mississippi. Thank you for telling this story.

I’m a Muskogee Creek (Mvskoke), it’s well known in OK that a lot of tribes sided with the Confederacy, and if they didn’t it’s because they had an enemy tribe they wanted to fight so they joined the Union. Not so fun fact; a Cherokee force enacted a racial purge of black people from Wagoner, Oklahoma. Many were killed or arrested.

This channel’s content is always a gift.

Listening while working and tuned out for a second... The first thing I heard after refocusing was "I'm not sure if we had the strength to strangle these men to death." Definitely went back to see what I missed.

What an interesting diary of a well spoken man observing and reporting the events about him with a clarity seldom found. Thank you.

Literally joined because people made fun of him for not fighting. Guess that explains why Lee didn't just refuse to fight, pacifism wasn't a respectable position to take.

I was about to watch something different, but Voices of the Past uploading a video from such fascinating perspective has priority. Also, I love the style of this relation.

I'm ashamed to admit that I was unaware that the southern Indians involvement in the war was so extensive. That's a gap in my education that I will soon rectify. Thank you.

Grayson's book isnt very large, but its fascinating. Ironically, there are no muster rolls that show Grayson ever served, even though he definitely did. William Holland Thomas, that is pictured was a member of the Eastern Band of the Cherokees in NC, neither he or the unit he lead served in the Indian Territory. The photograph at 21:00 are members of Thomas' Legion -aka 69th NC Inf. The photo at 15:06 is Pleasant Porter as young man.

that intro gave me chills. to put life and limb just to prove the haters wrong sounds so badass and romantic

My Cherokee Great-grandfather is is on the Dawes Roll. His grandfather fought on both sides of the civil war

GW certainly had a unique literary style.Loved it ,thanks for bringing it to us all.

I am so glad you used Alfred Waud’s art and even image, but I am sad he is not credited.

You have a rare narrating voice, no matter where these stories were lived, it's always easy for me to become immersed in their world

Some of the best history content on KZfaq. You are keeping the past alive, keep up the fantastic work.

This man was an incredibly talented writer. This reads more like a novel than an historical account.

I had to look at that thumbnail twice, the font made me think it was a Greek warrior in the civil war o0

Not gonna lie thought the thumbnail said A Greek Warrior at first and was very confused for the first two minutes of the video

This page and Toldinstone, have to be the best two channels on KZfaq. Thank ya for your hard work and awesome content!

I appreciate how back then people would also take daft picture of themselves too. -They probably had to stand there for a little while though for the picture to be taken, which really shows their commitment to the bit _🙏_

Its always makes History so real to hear what the people were thinking

I am absolutely so excited to watch this video - I know how high quality all of your works are.

I always look forward to this series, excellent stuff.

Always excited when I see you upload

One of my favourite channels. Thank you for all that you do.

It's great to get these sorts of perspectives. Thank you so much for uploading this!

Always happy to see a new video from you.

This is awesome! I'm part Creek and the native perspective of the American Civil War is usually looked over. Keep up the good work!

U needa post more my guy🫡💯

Awesome content, thanks for all of these first hand perspectives

I’m so glad you’re still making videos. So many history channels that’s haven’t uploaded in over a year

As always, an amazing a unique sliver of history. I learn so much from these videos.

thanks for retelling another wonderful account.

Love your content as always!

Supporting the algorithm! May this go viral

This is such a great channel. Thank you for your inspiring hard work

Favorite channel by far.

Always enlightening. Thank you.

This is fascinating! I never really thought about the role of Native Americans in the Civil War. Hearing them fight for the Confederacy is intriguing, and while the first-hand account is great, I really want to know what the larger political motivations were. Did they view themselves as part of the South? Did the Confederates view them as citizens? Or were they perhaps offered a better treaty than the Union government gave them? Did they own slaves? I'll have to do some more reading into it.

Oh shit, more absolutely gold content!

Always a top end post when its voices of the path

The artistic renderings are exquisite - they really depict the horrors of war on the men and their horses.

Just another supportive comment. Very happy KZfaq recommended this to me. Your channel is a lucky find. Thanks for the work in the detail. Very entertaining. 🤙🏼🙏🏼

Yass so happy to find another channel of this story telling voice

This channel makes 💯 great content

Love this stuff! Thanks

I am so very appreciative of your content offering. Voices of the past is what was missing in my public education that made me thirsty for what history is really made of of. Thank you so much😎

I'm from northeastern Oklahoma and have visited most of the battle sites mentioned on multiple occasions; the skirmishes in what was then Indian Territory were frequent and bloody affairs.

Another great video! Thank you!

"Endeavour to persevere! And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union" - Lone Watie

Good stuff. Keep it coming

Very cool. Thanks for uploading.

Thank you for this compelling account

Glad to see this thanks for the story keep up the good content

Great content, as always.

Best KZfaq channel ever

excellent choice of source material

More than top notch content once again.

This is a wonderful channel, and so revealing. All the suffering throughout history, and yet, we never seem to learn. All of these historical documents to remind us, and yet we don’t read them, in schools. It would be easy to fix. But there aren’t enough people, who comprehend this, sadly, for the human species to evolve past the need for war.

Jeez, I really liked this one. A pinhole to the history of the beautiful land we now occupy.

Please do more ❤

I love this channel.

There's something about this people's perspective take on history that I enjoy very much.

Should do the Camarão Indians' letters someday, recently there came a new translation. It's the only piece of written old tupi, and about the Dutch - Brazillian colonial conflict from tupi perspective

Love these videos

Love these

Excellent narration.

Well done ❤

Thank you for having a rich taste in music, the song in the beginning is beautiful. For anyone searching it’s blood in the bayou by river lume and spearfish.

Love these videos. I feel like a time traveler listening to them🤯

This was amazing

Something I never even knew I needed.

Love this

Awesome as always! Will you do any serbian or south slavic sources?

Took ten days to find this memoir what a time capsule.

Already one of my favorite accounts and I found it yesterday

Great premise for a channel

It’s worth noting that most of the photographs and prints seen here are from the eastern theater; mainly in and around Virginia. For instance, the photograph at 10:30 is a photograph taken in Fredericksburg, Virginia sometime between 1862 and 1863. It’s a rare example of a photograph taken by a confederate photography team as the south had very few photography teams. Many of the others were taken either within the Army of the Potomac or the Army of the James between 1862 and 1865.

What a great story!

Good work!

I was literally thinking about this.

Another great video, I don’t know where you source these accounts but they are fantastic! P.S. I hope your cat is doing well!

Love this account

Extremely interesting!

I like that you put Dixie in the background!

Now this is something I have never thought about, interesting.

Very interesting perspective

Very interesting video.

I wish that guy with the cool hat knew people were still hearing about it lol.

Your channel is amazing. I would support a patreon if you ever made one

Excellent

I love the eloquent and elliptic Victorian prose.

Change some of the details and wording and I'd believe this could be a modern war diary. I find history most engaging when it's personal accounts like this, every history class should open with a personal account about an event before giving the boring stats and big events.

I recognize that acoustic music at the end can you advise what it is? It's driving me nuts! Great video as always.

17:45 is the absolute most badass thing that I've ever heard.

As a complete outsider, it was fascinating to hear this story of the Civil War in the native people who displaced to Oklahoma during Andrew Jackson’s time and its Trail of Tears. It’s interesting to hear that many of the Creek and Choctaw people had both Indian and Christian names. Many these young men still retained their warrior spirit and fought not so much for the Confederacy as for the idea that they were protecting their homeland and way of life. As mentioned in one of the comments below, some Indian tribes and groups joined the Union forces to fight for the north. It was definitely a very confusing time as far as loyalty goes. Many of the Indian groups had mixed ethnicities due to the fact that they welcomed escaped slaves and other outsiders into their societies. We should remember that this was less than sixty years after the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803. For almost 200 years before the Civil War, Frenchmen intermarried with various Native American tribes. In many tribes, French was spoken by at least a few people for trade purposes and was more widely spoken than English.

W videos. I love history