This Confederate Soldier Never Went Home. (The Civil War Diaries S1E05) 

The gentleman was a fine written man, he obviously had a decent education for the times,..and a well read fellow, and a well raised one too...Especially compared to the pityful excuse for an "education" received in the current time and climate of the United States of America...🙄..ie: the Dumbing Down of America...the sadly..💩 (shit) for Brain's philosophy...of Modern American "education"..🤪

I believe most from that generation wrote like that. They didnt have passive entertainment like tv but read & played instruments instead including learning latin in kindergarden

The Civil War was an obscenity. Didn't free a single slave.

Ditto

His spelling was lousy although his handwriting was extraordinary.

Yes that’s what impressed me as well. This young “uneducated” man is many times more eloquent and literate than most “educated” people these days.

It is amazing. I saw a video about a soldier in Napolean's army. They really were taught how to write.

I have read callous letters from Confederate soldiers riding home. They all had once in common they written Butte brilliantly, it's beautiful, really? They have dumb down the school system

Well the same people who claim to hate the Confederacy because of slavery don't see baby's as human beings. History doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme 🤔 History is just His Story that is agreed upon by the winners. God bless

That's a serious charge I don't understand. What cartel and why? I'm not repudiating your statement I just think it's an awfully serious charge to make without supporting documentation.

@@gnolan4281 As always, if you follow the money - it's not hard to figure out. The same folks that brought about the Russian Revolution and the rise of Nazi Germany. I suggest you start reading Antony Sutton's work if you're really serious.

@@jnucleo I’m not following your statement. The Russian Revolution was brought about by communists and Nazis are National Socialists (the opposite and enemies of communists). Nazi Germany is the epitome of anti-globalism, so I don’t get how Nazi Germany was brought about by an “international cartel”.

Nonsense, nutbag. They've been lost in tine... photos were new then. Old papers decay. We have sone of their writings left still, thank God. If this happened now the bet us permanent. It was a different world . Btw I d have ridden wuth Sherman. He's my her in that bloody quagmire. End it. Look what was happening to people...losing that stupid stupid war was the best thing ever ti awoken to the south. By far. Their evil would've ended same as ut did in Haiti. With farm tools.

@@gnolan4281 If you cannot manage to figure out your question for yourself, surly no one else can,...you subjected yourself to a total non-issue question...it appears to be a silly attempt for a stupid confrontation over a Dumbing down of of the pityful excuse called "American History" education in this matter...perhaps you should learn to Read first,..THEN learn to UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE READING,..AND THE PERIOD IN TIME IN WHICH IT IS WRITTEN,.. SIR....OBVIOUSLY YOU NEVER SPENT A SINGLE DAY, IN THE AMERICAN MILITARY...IN YOUR LIFE...THUS YOUR IGNORANCE OF THE QUESTION YOU ASKED PERHAPS...

That's one of the saddest accounts I've ever heard

I am curious as to how your ancestor was "forced" to be a Confederate soldier. Was he drafted? Only about 12% of Confederate soldiers were drafted.

Union able to grab immigrants arriving and draft them, or offer $$ to enlist. The Confederates conscripted the poor farmers to fight. They took possession of livestock and crops, leaving families with no means to survive the winters, after all their hard work (they did so simply because they could). Meanwhile, sons of wealthy slave owners were exempt! Watch Matthew McConaughey in The State of Jones. Reconstruction under Pres Andrew Johnson was NOTHING like Lincoln had hoped for or promised.

Forced to be a confederate soldier? I hate to break it to you but most Texans or sympathetic for the South.

There will be no replies from Mary on this post. She passed away in January.

@@chrisbelvedere6653 there was a draft. With that said it’s hard to say. Union soldiers were drafted as well. Most of these union volunteer regiments were just that. Volunteers. By 1862 63 everyone knew the end game and how deadly it was. They began drafting.

Long live the 10th Alabama.

@@keithdaniels5918 my kin fought in the Old Ragged First. The 1st Texas Infantry Regiment. They fought at Gettysburg

Pack watch

@@andrewgardner1702 one of the hardest fighting regiments in the war. Did your relative survive?

Happy it took a war for the rich to resolve slavery?

I guess it goes to show what the internet and media does to folks...

Despite practice my writing never rose above the level of a paranoid schizophrenic

Beautiful, who said these men were ignorant and back woods.

People were actually better educated back then than we have been for some time......the southern universities were the best in the land , you can research all this. Basically what we have been told / taught is all lies.....and that goes for many many things not just the so called civil war

@@greg7129 So true ! More like everything. Sadly

@@lamontpearce170 Amen and thanks for your your reply brother ! !

Ehh haters gotta hate, they pushed play thats the important part, lol. Thanks so much for all of the support Aggie, I am glad that folks are enjoying coming along to spend a few moments back in time.

BirdDogg I heard a statistic that 5% of the people who view a video are going to press dislike no matter what. It’s just so disheartening, given the subject matter and the amount of time you put into making such quality videos. I am thoroughly enjoying this series myself.

Just another day on the internet 😂 I appreciate it Aggie!!

No southern soldier fought for slavery or very very few. They fought against the exact same things that their forefathers fought for only a few decades before. Most of the northern mercenaries ( soldiers) other than the USCT would fight you if you told them that they were fighting against slavery at least until after the strategic political move by Lincoln to announce the emancipation proclamation. There are many records of northern soldiers who when interviewed stating that they would desert or leave if they thought that they were fighting to end slavery. Around the end of 1863 or the beginning of 1864 many began to acquiesce to the to idea probably in order to rationalize and attempt to " justify" murder , arson and theft of and from their southern neighbors any way they could. Even the vandal Sherman openly declared several times and recorded in a letter as he was burning Columbia SC that he was " not fighting against slavery but for the union" as Lincoln repeatedly stated until the contrived emancipation proclamation which he obviously had to support and stick by from them on. Things are definitely not what northern revisionists and apologists concocted and force fed the people band subsequent generations to justify their unconstitutional atrocities

After reading some of the comments of this and other videos, I have come up on some who state they had ancestors fight in the war. However, they've also stated that their ancestors didn't really know about slavery and other political issues--'they were just poor farmers who were told to enlist or were just taken'...

Thanks Hunter!

Loved it!

So you actually think the north freeing a enslaved human being was inhuman wasn't real reason they fought...if it was white being enslave by another non white race how would you feel. You seem to glorify this life style of slavery making another race work for the murderers, rapist, satanic bastards.of a race God himself acclaim equal as all men or by the eyes and wisdom of the god of all mankind if races and cultures.

Thanks!

Reading through so many diaries now, it’s honestly been a surprise just how many southern troops were well read and educated. But then I recall that even myself as a child of the 70’s read a lot more 30 years ago than I do today. Everything has to be reduced to 200 characters, glossed over in 60 seconds or less with little to no nuance or deep descriptors to speak of. It’s hard to say if we are evolving or devolving at this point, although I am leaning towards the latter.

Thanks Ray I appreciate you always taking the time to watch and be so kind to the channel and I. Hope I can continue to keep folks interest in preserving history alive!

@@BirdDogg I always will Chris! I've been subscribed too you the longest and always watch them. I've been watching you since you had about 300 subscribers when you were with the other person and your other house! You take deep pride what you accomplish!

Lol! Northern agression? South attacked fought sumpter and started war. They were insurrectionist and seditionists in the cause of enslavement of other human beings. Those who didn’t own slaves fought so others could Some of them wrote well.

@@cgpcgp3239 May I remind you the blockade of South Carolina ports were an act of war,and the first act of war.

@@hubertwalters4300 No darling south firing on fort Sumter was the first act of war. But keep busy writing civil war fan fiction for civil war apologists.

Thanks Larry!

I believe this one was Spotsylvania

Both the Gauley and Kanawha Rivers are in West Virginia.

Just a little digging. A lot of them are held at the library of Congress and at universities

The story & the writing is a stylized & fictionalized/ account of civil war life & battle....just YT entertainment ...not an actual historical account.....

Thanks Bird dog

No worries, glad you found it, sorry it was an ol' reb this time lol...

BirdDogg Haha

I try and do the best I can with what I have. Honestly with these read diaries I try and make them in more of an audiobook format as if we were there listening to them tell the story and the visuals are just used as a representation of the words being spoken to help further their narrative. I'd like to think the entirety of the story could be told however without the benefit of being able to see the video itself as I know I personally often just listen to videos almost like an old time radio show. At any rate, I try my best to make reference to as much of the material as possible in the amount of time I am able to devote to these. I will try and keep it in mind though, thanks!

Hope ya see something ya like

@@BirdDogg bro I literally was captivated by this.

@@katkloxproductions6339 Thanks Kat. I’m hoping to do another season soon, just been working myself to death trying to afford getting my house built. Soon

Deep South Virginia

Please provide a link to support your argument

@@djquinn11 There is no link. I don't have sufficient confidence that our lauded establishment "historians" points of view on certain aspects of the post Civ War era are factual, so I do my own research. I was researching Reconstruction, since I felt my knowledge of the period was thin. My finer question soon became whether food assistance was provided for the winter, (of 1865) to former slaves after Gen Sherman confiscated or destroyed all foodstuffs, farm animals live and stored on his return from Atlanta. Every horse, cow, pig fowl, were killed. Vegetable gardens destroyed by dragging a chain between two cavelrymen up and down fields, using animals to trample gardens before shooting them. It seems they wanted everyone to starve to death, including freed slaves. I believe the next avenue I pursued was Census Bureau stats, which are available to all. I was searching for a number that would show the percentage of former slaves who chose to remain on the land. The number was lower than I had guessed. While I never found reliable accounts of food being provided by the Union for the ppl they'd fought so hard to free, I found several other avenues of interest. I made notes to share with others studying the period from 1855-1875 and probably wrote a short summary, but that was ten yrs ago. As I said in the previous comment, I was stunned to have been so misled. I seek facts, abhor politicization of every topic related to the war North and South both foolishly succumbed to. The USA owed France a fortune after the Rev War. I believe we'd been paying 20% of GDP on our debt since the 1780s + or -. The Civ war cost the nation half our economy, killed and disabled close to a million men/boys, ppl with dark skin were "freed"- only to be reenslaved when the Organic Act of 1871 made slaves of all of us. So many ifs were on the horizon that could have contributed to a better outcome for all.. if only the steam tractor had been exported here from England 5 yrs earlier we might have avoided the atrocities of war. Many more ifs can be found. Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia's countryside still show the scars of war for those who dare to look. I now believe most if not all of these machinations were choreographed by the same globalist aristocracy who are all up in our grill right now.

@@djquinn11 provide a link that refutes his point.

@@rt3box6tx74 My dad had a Master's in American and World History. I have studied the Civil War as a Adult for 45 years. I was blessed to go to a Private School in the Seventies.. Between my dad and School I learned a more truthful History.. My dad was raised in the North but he was a Intellectually honest man. He was in WWII. He was hired by the Maryland Department of Education after the War. When he received his Teachers Book for History he said while we were busy with war much of our History has been charged and into twisting facts. Two days ago I worked hard reply to a person that stated so much false History form the Church of Lincoln. U Tube refused to let me post my long reply that only contained Historically Accurate Facts. You see they hate it when people can rebuff their lying narrative that Lincoln and the North were Morally Correct to invade the South. That is BS. I had 3 Ancestors fight at Shiloh and many other Engagements. Two for the South and one from the North. I have my Federal Ancestors release from the Federal Army after the war. I guess I was blessed that all three lived after so many Battles. You were teaching just some of the terrible things that the Union Army did. My Union Ancestor was under Grant and Grant was not a murder of the Defenseless sparing Memphis and Grant refused to shell Vicksburg because of the Civilians. What the Union Army did to the so called freed slaves was monstrous. Like you said they forced slaves from their homes and separated families. They destroyed the Food Supplies and murdered their White Family which were defenseless Elderly, Women and Children. Many black family members died defending their White Family and black family who were made folly of by the Blue Thugs. They had no choice but to follow the Union Army for food. They slowed the March and they were already being out Marched by a Tiny, starving and barefooted Army. They pulled the Pontoon Bridges to keep the slaves from following them. Many of the slaves died trying to swim the rivers to keep up with the Federal Army. Lincoln was going to Colonize the blacks out of the country. He was in negotiations with Britain to Colonize the blacks to Belize, Liberia and other places up to the day Booth Shot Lincoln. Lincoln lived by the Sword and died by the Sword. So they started putting the not free slaves into Detention Camps where 25% or more died from disease and starvation. History that is being destroyed is not History. I was so happy to read your comments. History should teach the two times Lincoln was willing to sell the slaves out for Revenue. History says the South started the war and that is not true. Blockades are a attack. Lincoln sent a Fleet of Warships led by the U.S.S Harriet Lane into Charleston Harbor firing over the Bow of the Nashville which didn't have a Flag. They tried to resupply the Fort. The Federal Fleet had no Authority to fire at any ship in Charleston Harbor. Beauregard and Captain Anderson who was the Union Officer at Ft. Sumter were best friends. How do you think 34 hours of Shelling each other that not one Union Soldier got a scratch. Lincoln said it worked out like he hoped. This is a question that they hate: Do you think a bloodless Battle between best friends was a good reason for according to new studies 850,000 Americans Deaths including thousands of slaves? Of course not. Do you think one State joined the Union Voluntarily knowing if things went bad for their State and wanted to leave their State would be invaded by a Federal Army that raped, murdered, tortured, burned and pillaged? Of course not.

@@kurtsherrick2066 Every time I receive a reply like yours, and I'm sure you know they are few and far between, I find the fortitude to continue to speak out to an audience that refuses to listen no matter how ridiculously juvenile the prevailing narrative is. Your reply is much appreciated. I have some hair-raising family history that I learned not from family members (they never spoke of the CW) but I stumbled onto while doing a word search on my father's grandfather's name. In the Texas Slave Narratives there was an account of a (forced march) trip to TX in Sept 1865 that is quite politically incorrect in today's climate. My forebears were wonderful ppl who had a close relationship with their freed slaves for no less than 130 yrs. As a very curious 9 y.o. child I met a few of them when we visited my 2 ole maid great aunts in Waco. They knew things about my little brother and I that weren't picked up in casual conversation. Wonderful gracious ppl (who happened to be black) stopped by for afternoon tea and a visit. If only I'd have known who they were. And to think 55 yrs later one from among their family gave me the most precious gift I could ever receive. The knowledge that my forebears weren't savage monsters as is regularly depicted in "historical" materials. Are you familiar with the work of Mr H.K. Edgerton?

The North owned their slaves until the end of the war before they gave them their freedom and they said they were fighting for the slaves freedom. The last slaves were freed in New Jersey 1865 a Northern State. I see it as a mixed message.