i remember my grandad was agitated when he was in hospital for a serious infection when he was elderly. My mom couldn't initially figure it out but he was put in a bed near the door and this upset him because apparently when he was in the hospital during WW1 they used to place the people who were least likely to make it by the door.
That was certainly one reason for this practice...the other was more positive though: placing a seriously ill patient near the door allowed care givers quick access to tend to them with as little disruption to the others as possible. God Bless them all...
Sad but makes sense. The reason why is that if the dying died to death at the far end of the room, everyone would get stressed out from that. When I had my stroke, I was taken to the stroke unit. I was the first one in that morning and within an hr or so the room was filled and a man who was beside me died to death. It was truly frightening because I had the same thing.
Wow that’s incredible. The 14th saw heavy action all throughout the war. Did you great grandfather go back in after he healed or was he done after Gettysburg? Amazing family history
How far we have descended in our humanity since that terrible time. No one speaks like that anymore - no one hears it as ordinary. No enemy, no hatreds, just the care of one American for another. History's lessons are not always hard to learn.
Great story, thank you sir! My 3rd Great Grand Uncle, Lieutenant Milton T. Hutchison served with Co I, 14th Regiment SC Volunteers. “McCalla Rifles” He was wounded at Second Manassas and then at Deep Bottom VA was captured and eventually exchanged. He survived and was present at Appomattox. Good book called “GALLANT SOLDIERS , Four Years With McCalla Rifles” by E. Wayne Wilson.
Thank you for bringing this to all of us. It makes Lincoln's Gettysburg Address all that more poignant. It is such a shame that events like these are needed to remind us of our humanity.
Touching story. I will read the whole piece. One thing that was revisited in my mind was, though my brother was not a casualty of war.... the time I spent with his body was precious and important to me and the process of closure. Thanks Ron.
Great episode. All of my great great paternal grand uncles fought in the Civil War. Some for the North, some for the South. Out of 11 who served, two died. One died in battle and the other at a field hospital of pneumonia. I have read many historical accounts of battles and skirmishes by historians but when letters or journals are published, it is simply sobering. I am not a “Peace-nick” but War is Hell and we should try to avoid being in one unless it is the last resort.
Thank you for providing a look into a very sensitive look into the painful occurrence, of two brothers, far from home, and family. Well done, thank you!
Great story as always. People today forget that back then, home, State, family were your duty. The Civil War was not about slavery for the southern men who fought and died. But about home and family.
Yes the whole slavery narrative was propaganda by the North after the War, Lincoln never ran on freeing slaves when he ran for President both times and said if he could end the war with slavery intact he would.
And to think that every soldier in every war, and every soul, has a story like this, or should have. Our angels sit waiting with each of us as we slowly make our way back to where we came from, some with more faith and wisdom than we started, and some with less.
People had the character and the class to actually be THANKFUL decades ago, as well as vocalizing it! How we've degenerated as a modern culture. So proud of oursleves and of all we have. We've really earned nothing but judgment.......
Excellent. They were real people. It seems very few folks these days actually stop and think that they were real people and not some grainy black and white pictures.
Abraham Lincoln once said There is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us That we shouldn't judge the rest of us. Paraphrased.
Rauch means 'smoke' in German and the German pronounciation would be something like 'R ow huh' with a scratching noise on the first h and nearly silent on the second one.
What’s with all the negative comments? Why are you watching? It takes more energy to write a critical comment than to just close the video or skip forward.
What most do not understand is there was little real hatred between a good percentage of the combatants. Banter, trading, and conversations between the lines was quite common. The hatred for many came from the reconstruction years.
Hard to imagine that all of these Americans on both sides paid the price for freedom that we have. I wish people were as thankful as the patriotic South Carolinian lieutenant.
Powerful emotions. Tears in this old Texan’s eyes. You are becoming, to me, a fount of civil war stories. Now 87, I had two great grandfathers fight ,unwisely in my eyes, for the CSA, Alabama and Mississippi, the Mississippian taken at Vicksburg. You are a learned man and I am ignorant of most things, but can I correct your English, just this once? Instead of “her and her Mother” I believe-but could certainly be wrong- that it should be “she and her Mother.” I’m still dealing with loving my ancestors while reconciling what they did to the United States, I’m a Marine Corps veteran, as southern rebels fighting so one human being can own another human being. That is certainly not a great cause. Perhaps they had to fight or be in trouble with those stay at home “regulators”. Thanks again.
Rauch, German for “smoke”. The “au” is pronounced the same as the “ou” in “ouch”. The “ch” has no parallel in English but is produced by raising the back of the tongue to the soft pallet and expelling a little air past the restriction.
Thank you for this story. It’s easy to say, 10, 000 died in this or that battle…but not as easy to tell the individual stories. I believe the name is pronounced: Rowsh…as in a row/argument. I have a friend with the last name Roush.
This story is so weird. It's part personal memoir that i find fascinating and beautiful, but also part war propaganda that i find somewhat repugnant. Such a strange sensation this warring in my brain, that such a touching story was intended to manipulate the public. It's simultaneously sweet and grotesque--weird!!
America.. you'll fight for your whole country's freedom then you fight each other and have never stopped! Very sad 😢 Lose these bs 'states' ~ One land, one country, one people!!
This upload reminds me of the very poignant words once spoken by the self proclaimed once "most popular President" regarding the battle of Gettysburg."It was so much and so interesting.and so vicious and horrible and so beautiful in so many different ways". spoken like the true elder statesman you are not Donald.
It was a different time. I live in Alabama and I remember times of my youth when some people still had different views. I am sure someday people will look at us with a similar disdain. This poor soul dying in Gettysburg was a person of his time and it is easy to judge him by our current standard but be careful because someday you may also be judged by a standard of which you are today unaware.
@@frankfowlkes7872 But slavery was already a highly contested issue of the time. Alternative views existed and were available. Saying that it was impossible for southerners at the time to realize slavery is wrong denies personal agency and responsibility.
@@royhammett3572 The south did fight for slavery. The session documents said so. Some of the generals and soldiers of the South declared for slavery, or stated a willingness to resist abolition as a greater evil than slavery itself.
@@debbieroberts5866 I watched 5 minutes - it's all I could take. I had no plans to come back until I received your message. See you in the funny papers.
I’m sure he was thinking very much about the moralizing opinions of randoms such as yourself 200 years in the future, like all young men who have fought for their imperfect countries over the centuries 🙄
@@elainebrown3739 Why don’t you STHU. My comment was directed at the poor speaking style of the narrator. They might as well have been snapping gum or blowing bubblegum bubbles while speaking. It is, like you incredibly annoying to hear.
