I was just at the Rock Island Arsenal for burial of a loved one. There is a Confederate cemetery there with 1,964 graves. The POW camp was known as “The Andersonville of The North”. 😢
Yeah, Lincoln was responsible for a lot of murders. Hundreds of thousands, of white Christians. A lot of northern heathens died in the looting expedition, too.
3 of my family members passed in the Confederate prison in Chicago, the same one Washington Duke was at of Duke University, if you like Civil War relics im starting to share my collection on my channel
Yeah, and we should look to the antebellum south for how to educate citizens. I'm from Chicago, and I can express myself as well as any hillbilly, and better than pretty much better than almost all, at least. Maybe the lack of inbreeding has something to do with it.
I do enjoy the readings of those letters written during the Victorian era. The lexicon of that period was elegant. Those who were educated enough to read and write, demonstrated that style of writing. And that style is recognizable in much of the literature of the period. I doubt the youth of today could even understand the style enough to appreciate it.
I just discovered this channel in my recommended. I've been listening to these as I work on Homework for the past hour. Wonderful stuff! Do you plan on uploading more accounts? It could be interesting to hear stories from the Western Theater, Illinois Soldiers perhaps? :)
Glad you like these. It's a pleasure to share historical interests with others. I do plan to upload more accounts as time and material permits. Of course, most soldiers didn't leave behind a journal that still exists today so I have to work with whatever is available.
The first part, about how he "took cover" and "attempted to reload but couldn't" is merely the common lying soldiers who have been captured do. And they always name some comrades that ACTUAL "ran, you know, but not me, they all ran but I stayed and tried to fight, but my gun broke ! ! !" It is a terrible blow to the psyche, after all the training and bragging and talk they have done for months, to find that when it comes down to standing up and fighting and taking the chance that the enemy will shoot straight, they failed to do it. The vast majority of men can't do it once they are taken by surprise, or turn to see half their own side running. Fights are decided in seconds, and come down to experience, always. 20 salted troops will rout a hundred, because half the hundred are looking around and asking "Is this really happening?". And WHEN they are routed, and have had time to process it, they start to lie to themselves. "I yelled out that we had to stand and fight, but the other fellows ran ! I didn't . . . and poor old Simmions, and Bill Ongley, they were cut down like dogs . . . and I was the last ! I ran last ! but they just got cut down, and I had them enemies RIGHT ON MY TAIL ! ! !".
I love commandant Wirz and Andersonville. And that boat after the war transporting the prisoners which sank. The wrong side won that war. All the confederates are in heaven. But none from the north.
Seelence instead of silence, too. These robo-voices are getting better, but I still don't like the fact that they could have let a man earn some money.
These are all read directly from either books of published journals or publicly available journals. . This one is from the book "Private Rebel: Memoirs of a Confederate Rebel" by William Andrew Fletcher.
