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Really injoyed all this history wish I had of listened more in school. I live just below the Chickamauga Battlefield. My son lives in Chickamauga which is a very interesting town
I live in Lafayette Georgia 23 miles from Chattanooga and I have been to the National Cemetery alot and attended several funeral services there. I am always amazed the way the cemetery is laid out. My ex husband will be buried there.
The changing of the guard is so interesting. I have watched them. I was there when President Kennedy was buried I was 13. Also so the Vietnam Wall and traced my 1st love name.
@@wandacarrgreen336 My great grand father's farm was near Pond Spring or from what I can tell, part of the battle field. He was with the 39th Georgia and would have been fighting in his home town.
Actually the supposed bloodiest battlefield was Gettysburhg. Besides, there is proof that the majority of the battles during the Civil War were actually staged. There weren't that many dead on these battlefields.
I'm actually very surprised you did not mention Clara Barton. She took on the largest task of identifying soldiers and contacting families She created and spearheaded the entire process. in Civil War history to identify fallen soldiers. She petitioned President Lincoln and he assigned her. Later on, Clara Barton became the founder of the American Red Cross. Here's an excerpt from the National Parks archives: During the Civil War there was no official system in place to document missing or dead soldiers. As the war ended Clara Barton, the "Angel of the Battlefield" who had achieved fame as a nurse during the war, took it upon herself to fill this void. She began to receive letters from family members trying to find out the fate of their loved ones who had not returned home. Each of these letters led to a painstaking process of researching the whereabouts of these missing soldiers and responding to the family members' inquiries. Women need to be honored for their contributions and place in history.
EXACTLY! Lots of men like to leave out the contributions of women line Clara Barton . What many people do not know is the 8 Women, dressed as soldiers fought at Antietam ! 7 fought for the UNION , two as young as 15 years of age . S dead Confederate woman was found in the Cornfield by a Massachusetts Burial party! Hidden history you NEVER learned about!
Great video JD. I've been told by people before that the confederate dead didn't deserve to be buried. I feel it doesn't matter which side, the dead deserves respect. I'm sure I'll get hammered for saying that but that's how I personally feel. May God shelter them now. 🙏 🙏 🙏
In 1866 the US Army went through the Wilderness Battlefield collecting the remains that had been left on the battlefield in May 1864. Their orders were to only retrieve Union remains. I doubt after almost 2 years they could really tell the difference.
They were still Americans who believed in the cause they were fighting for. The average Confederate probably didn't have slaves because of the cost but they were fighting for their homes and families against what they may have perceived as an invader.
@@BigLisaFan My family fought for the confederacy but never owned or believed in slavery. They were just protecting their home. The majority of people today just refuse to accept that.
As a mom of an only son who serves and has been deployed before, this absolutely breaks my heart. I can't imagine the grief of never knowing where his body was. I just can't 💔😭
That dog story got to me. I do hope when re-interred they were together. The Confederate burials without headstones is saddening. Thank you for this video!
@@Thomas-dp2mf - “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds;”
@Thomas glad that you are well educated at the school of ignorance. Maybe you should actually step out of the fog that your teachers stuck you in and search out the actual truth about the Civil War.
@@Thomas-dp2mf Even the Southern families that didn't own slaves..... and obviously there were many families that DID NOT own or use slaves. Thousands of Southerners that had nothing to do with slavery died trying to stave off an invasion of their homeland.
My great great uncle was one of the original members of Wheat's Louisiana Tiger Battalion. By the time of Antietam Wheat was dead and what was left of the Battalion had been merged with Coppens Louisiana Zouaves. He was listed as missing after the battle and assumed to have been killed during the fighting in and around The Cornfield. No body was ever identified. I often wonder if he is in an unmarked grave somewhere or if he was even buried at all.
Who fought and died defending their homes, lands, and dear ones from an illegal and unconstutional Federal invasion led by Constitution trampling tyrant.
Not so sad as many others. It’s a nice space, within one of the best cemeteries, and despite the official narrative, there were plenty of southerners in Western MD then even. They would take care of them. Even one of our locals rides by Rose Hill a lot checking on it. After the BLM endless mass riots you have to watch out. In Frederick the destroyed monument and individual KNOWN graves in Mt. Olivet. Problem with Rose Hill is the Confed is literally along a main road, so easy access to vandalize.
@@bkras483Some were Confederate but most were Union ! Western Marylander here! MD was a border state during the Civil War! So was Kentucky and Missouri!
@@InnocentPotato-pd7wi my grandmother grew up in LaVale/Cumberland and her son my uncle ended up there as a doctor on the Mason-Dixon Line for some 50 years now, I practically grew up there in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Also have a very Confederate, very active friend in Cumberland whose organization finds plenty of sympathizers in the town and honors a local family graveyard which included Southern spy. Maryland may have been 2 to 1 Federal sympathy, but that 1/3 is a significant minority. Having been heavily involved in graveyard preservation and general history a very long time and a native of central MD, it’s not as overwhelming “Union” as pushed.
Washington Confederate Cemetery with all its Unknown Soldiers is indeed sad, and very much like the Confederate Mound at Oak Woods Cemetery on the South Side of Chicago. This is where over 4000 Confederate POWs, who died at Camp Douglas, are buried. Camp Douglas was located nearby in Cottage Grove. Lots written about the awful conditions at Andersonville in Georgia, and rightfully so, but many northern POW camps weren't much better.
They were as bad, and intentional. Quartermaster General Montgomery Meigs returned the money to the Treasury that he'd been given to care for Southern POWs, bragging that he'd killed more rebels than anyone.
Exactly well Andersonville gets all the pub because it's was confederate camp but don't hear the same crap about union camps even farther/colder up north but you know e everything gotta be played in the (for the country's sake) union side
It is unfortunate that people on both sides of this conflict as well as those who have given lives for their nation are generally forgotten by the general population. I remember as a child when Decoration Day aka Memorial Day was a big deal to remember then later barbeque. Now the memeory part is left to cable news and advertising.
I make it a point to do nothing of partying, vacationing or any frivolous sort. Too many dead from all our wars to act anything but solemn about the day.
It's disheartening how American commercialism has taken a solemn and sacred day and turned it into an opportunity to celebrate with outdoor feasts and major retail sales.
The fact that they kept such good records about the burials and where they were from is fascinating. I am glad they honored the soldiers in such a way. The story about the dog was touching. My Belgian Mal would be the same, he would not leave me.
Of all the videos I've seen from JD, he will never get a 👎 from me. They are all so informative and well put together. He will always get a thumbs up from me. Always 👍👍 👍.
Whatever you believe, these men died for the cause they believed and should have been given the same respect as the Union Soldiers. They were human beings too! I had Family that fought for both sides. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
If RU-vid didn't exist and these videos were not available I would have never heard nor seen any of this......... Thank You for all the effort you put into these videos.👍👍👍
RU-vid has been good, but their censorship is getting worse. There are a lot of good historical and other documentaries shown on other sites like Bitchute, though they seem to be starting in with the woke nonsense. I hope to see more competition for RU-vid as they seem to think they have a monopoly on video content. They don't.
Out standing JD! I have taken an interest in the burial of the dead after a stint in the Army as a Combat Engineer. We had a soldier die of natural causes in Africa, where I was asked to escort his remains home. Our journey back to the states exposed me to what the Quartermaster, specifically what Mortuary Affairs is all about. When I was in Frankfort at the US Army Mortuary Affairs Center, I had opportunity to talk to them and go through the photographic record of what they had accomplished over the years with retrieval of our dead and missing from two wars. My personal experience has given me an interest in what happens to the dead and the treatment of their remains. We should all be grateful for people like Elliot, Goode, and Gill, for leading the research that went into identifying the dead. It is important that we don’t forget the names of the individuals who died on those fateful days be it one side or the other.
Dear Sir, Would it be possible to include the date/s of the battles and the city and state. Also, the different names for the same battle. Those of us who love and know history have to share as much as we can, as often as we can, to as many as we can. Thank you!
I haven't been to Antietam, but I've been to Gettysburg. We were there right after sunrise. The hair on my neck went straight up, as did the hair on my arms. There were no other live people where we were. We were being watched the whole time we were there. It wasn't the first time I've had paranormal experiences, but the feeling of extreme sadness and melancholy stayed with me for a long time. There wS was a thick fog over the area even though it was broad daylight. I've never been to a sadder place.
I live approximately 20 minutes from Antietam. My late husband, a former Marine, was a Civil War history buff. We visited the battlefield countless times. I' ve also tagged along my son's investigation paranormal team. The feeling of that battlefield is heavy, heart-burdened.😢 A sadness that's hard to describe. It can also feel peaceful at times. It is most definitely sacred land.
Think about all those families who never knew the fate of their loved ones. No body to bury. Just the assumption that they died in battle. That causes trauma for generations.
It actually isn't 'trauma', but the fact that those that respect their ancestors and their history would like to know what happened to them, and where they are, just to be able to visit a grave and give some remembrance and honor to them.
@@lindasimons691 You mean like all those folks yelling for reparations for their slave ancestors, for the 'trauma' they claim they suffer now, even though they've never been a slave and never met a slave?
I agree. A great great grandfather took leave to go home from Chattanooga in Jan 1864. Never officially seen afterward. Where his wife is buried had the headstone originally with his name and space for burial next to her for many years. I recently revisited and her old gravestone was replaced with a stone only for her. Empty space now beside her. The story is he was killed while riding his horse on the way back home to AL, when he ran into a tree limb and died in the fall. Two men later reported it when they were found walking his horse. I later found a report that had him as a deserter, and I think was later changed, but haven't seen the revision. The other story is he died while horse racing and knocked off the horse by a tree limb. Why I mention this is because his widow died many years later falling off her horse riding under a tree limb. There have been rumors, but so far his remains haven't been found.
Years ago my family and I were the first ones there on a misty morning. We walked down The Sunken Road at Antietam, and we could feel the presence of those men who died there. It was quite moving.
Can never know.. they re-buried em but what if.. somebody need a body get rid of like a murder & evidence they do call a friend who works at cemetery.. dump em in there.. without a properly respect! 😵💫
My heart breaks for the soldier who gave his life but also for his dog who loved him. Its sad to see the Confederate soldiers not given proper burial at some locations. Despite the tragedy of war these men were soldiers.
For more information on the process of burying the fallen, I recommend a book by Meg Groeling; The Aftermath of Battle: The Burial of the Civil War Dead. It's part of the Emerging Civil War Series and is available at most National Battlefield bookstores. I picked up my copy at Stones River.
It's not about Antietam, rather Gettysburg, but the book A Strange and Blighted Land by Gregory A. Coco is also excellent on the subject. One of the most interesting books I've ever read about the Civil War, and I've read a LOT of Civil War books.
It’s a shame how the Confederate dead. I know, at the time, these men were considered traitors and such but it would’ve been nice that in death, they were treated as human beings, deserving of a decent burial.
@@mnpd3 You obviously have no clue as to the definition of treason. Treason The crime of betraying one’s country, especially by trying to kill the sovereign or overthrow one’s government. 1. This action of betraying someone or something. 2. The crime of murdering someone to whom the murderer owed allegiance such as a master or husband. By definition, the confederates were guilty of treason. Notice how the definition doesn’t include giving aid or comfort to the enemy specifically.
@@gregdiamond6023 The Constitution allows for secession. The northern states were brutalizing and punishing the southern states in an effort to get their cotton/money. The southern states NEVER raised arms against the northern states, they merely created their own country. It was the Northern states that started it and then sent an army to attack the south to FORCE them to stay in the union. Why would they do that? It wasn't for anything virtuous having to do with slaves.
Great video. Regardless of which side they fought for or which side a person believes was right, all the soldiers fought for what they believed in and deserve respect!
Could you imagine trying to live near a battle ground after the battle was over? The stench must have been unbearable. Neither side would care for the dead. It was left to the locals to bury the bodies.
I did ground week in Farmville Virginia Appomattox. We spent the week cleaning Civil War graveyards. Upon learning that we had entered a Confederate graveyard. No one wanted to touch a thing. A Black NCO made a statement. I will try to remember what he said. "Gentlemen. Here lies young men who many Today would be applying to attend famous as well as not so famous colleges and universities. A few would apply and fewer selected for Airborne/Ranger School. Buds. Force Recon Marines. Air Force PJ's. (I am going to refrain from mentioning another organization that may or may not exist. Think Helen Reddy. Delta Dawn. The airline out of Atlanta.) Perhaps the Coastguard. Some may have grabbed a bat and glove learning that they would playing Minor League A or Double AA Baseball. Some perhaps had played in the semi pro Baseball league and were invited to Spring Training in Florida or Arizona. A few perhaps were on their way to the NBA. Or the NFL. Perhaps NASCAR. Musicians? Traveling troubadours. Rock or Movie Stars. Truck drivers. Drs. Attorneys. Dad's. Some here were. Some either didn't know it simply because they had gained a 3 day pass just a few weeks before. Perhaps they would have been members of The 82nd Airborne Division. The 101st Airborne Division. A State Trooper. In another lifetime... perhaps. But the facts are they most likely would have been farmers. Blacksmiths. Miners. Masons or carpenters with a few entrepreneurs in the mix. But no matter what; They were Soldiers. Many found out that they were in something way bigger than themselves. Countless numbers were fighting as Virginians. Georgians. Tar Heels. Infact not many had ever owned a slave. And yet a bullet found it's mark. These men paid for the sins of a few. For the lash. For having twisted how slavery is depicted in The Holy Bible. We are going to clean All of our Nation's graves. This afternoon just a few dozen miles from here we will be attending to Union graveyards. I want you men to mark and remember how later this week we will be in the Carolinas and Georgia. Mark and remember so that should the day come that people start chewing on the idea of a civil conflict amongst neighbors and friends and yes, if you can believe it. Families. That you hold hold these truths to be mother fuckin to y'all. And say 'Be careful for what your dumbasses are askin for. For all of you young men have seen the cost and price of this kind of warfare. That Interstate and Intrastate commerce was born out from the ashes, and tears, and loss, and lifetime disability all in order to stop America from becoming Balkanized. With 48 individual countries. Or groups of States turning into a bloody mess. Today I stand before you not as an NCO, not as a Black man, but as a man. As your fellow American Citizen. Trying to get my own head around THIS! Appomattox looks so sterile when comparing it to Antietam. Antioch. Gettysburg. Knowing that some 78 years before this day ended our for Father's met in Philadelphia. And just some 89 years before this day had ended; The Declaration of Independence was issued to The British Garrison in King of Prussia. I think about the fact that it was a Black man who was felled by a British Soldier's Ball. Do White People care about People Black. They sure as hell did that day once the smoke had cleared after the Boston Massacre. I think about General Burgoyne handing his sword over to General Phillip Schuyler in what is now known as Schuylerville near Gansevoort and Wilton NY. Which just happened to be where a summer home owned by General Ulysses S. Grant. AKA Grant's cottage. Bunker Hill. The Boston Tea Party. Nathan Hale. Be careful for what ask for. The British obliged Nathan at a tree in Connecticut. Thomas Paine. His pamphlet "Common Sense" had told The Colonists that Britain had long since forgotten about the fact that the Colonists were British subjects. Were Citizens of England. Only with open warrants. The taking of homes for the purpose of sleeping quarters that sometimes came with wives and daughters. Whether you agreed or not. It is when he said"You may think that you are not at war with Great Britain. But Great Britain I thinks it is at war with you. Atlanta's howl has long since disappeared. Gentlemen, we are a nation today because of what happened yesterday. By this time next week y'all will have long since forgotten today. And that's ok. For my today are for when you are all grey. It's a pleasure being your NCO. Your Cadre. Your Black hat. My Wife has already left for Fayetteville NC. That's right. I am returning home to Fort Bragg NC. Let's get to work."
The shot at 16:00 is absolutely amazing. Great bit of videography on your part. The music, myst, etc., nice touch. I was also moved by the story about the New Foundland dog. I knew somebody who had one, it was solid black, very unusual and proud looking, and HUGE! Anyone that has seen one in person before knows exactly what I’m talking about. These videos are quite captivating JD, excellent work man, thanks.
You made it sound like Rachills dog was alive when Rachill died. So did the dog die of wounds to ? I mean they may have buried them together so I'm just wondering how the dog died.
JD you are such an excellent story teller. My great-great grandfather, Reuben Maurer of Co I 49th Reg of PA from much research and family stories was wounded in the battle and spent the night in/next to Antietam Creek. He never fully recovered from the “cold” he caught there. He died in Feb of 1880. A document I just found is the 1880 mortality schedule. In the column titled were did his sickness start, it says Maryland. He didn’t die in the battle, but eventually died of the battle. When you showed the line of PA soldiers, makes me wonder how many he knew. Thanks again.
Thank you for this video. I have only recently delved into my family history and have, to my surprise, found over 30 Confederate soldiers on both sides. My parents and grandparents new very little of their own history and I can understand the pervasive grief and loss that was never discussed after their families came west. One great grandfather fought with the 8th Florida, survived the war but not the peace. His father with the 11th Florida, died of disease and is probably in an unmarked grave in So. Carolina, no trace, like so many I fear in unmarked graves from Manassas to Murfreesboro, Chickamauga to Union prison camps in Missouri. Their bones lost but living in my DNA.
I can’t even imagine being a resident of Antietam and be faced with burying dead soldiers in their fields. I’m sure the sights, sounds and smell haunted them forever.
I don’t know if my 5th great grandfather fought in this battle but he did fight months later in Gettysburg, that’s where he died and is buried somewhere in the confederate graves. I feel like there are many others like myself that are glad their descendants had children before they left to fight if they died in battle
Antietam is one of the saddest places I've ever visited. It brought tears to my eyes to know what happened there. You can sense the fear, pain and death that took place on the fields. The cemeteries in the area are a real eye opener.
I've been to most every battlefield from Gettysburg to Petersburg. Grew up in Hanover county. Used to skip school in High School and swim in the North Anna at Lee's apex of the inverted V long before I knew what happened there. Sharpsburg had the most tangible "feel" to it. I could almost "feel" the battle happening at the Bloody Lane. Gettysburg was close but not like Sharpsburg. As far as how they treated the dead, I guess it's a good thing the South didn't treat the Yankee dead in such a manner. Just goes to show the difference in quality of people.
Yet another great video as always. Thanks JD. I've heard somewhere, someone has said, " so go the victory in war, so go the spoils " If your side won that battle, they get buried nearby. The other has to be buried elsewhere. Not sure if that was the case, but I do remember that from somewhere. Me and a friend made the trip up to Gettysburg for the 150th in the summer of 2013 from Florida. Antietam, Harper's Ferry, DC, Baltimore, Charleston, and Savannah were done in our 2 week adventure. I wouldn't change a thing. I've learned so much in a short amount of time. Your videos are greatly appreciated.
The Washington Confederate Cemetery is just heartbreaking, and shameful!! To see an empty area, where so many fallen men are buried as literally “Unknown”. The small town of Excelsior Springs, Missouri - I believe it is Pisgah Cemetery, near Wood Heights - they found all the names of the Union unknowns from Colorado and there is a monument dedicated to them with their names listed. It took many years, but it was the right thing to do! Do BETTER Maryland. God bless ALL the fallen and ALL veterans of this land.
It’s just sad that they all weren’t buried together in the same cemetery. They could have had a section for each side. To wait so long bury some of the Confederates that they couldn’t even identify them and to bury them in a mass grave is so sad for the families who never knew where their soldiers were. Great but very sad video. Again thank you for sharing 👍😢
I think they are buried in the same area at other battlefields. I was told the markers for union soldiers were smooth on top, while Confederates were arched. People could not sit on their markers
@@TheHistoryUnderground In the future, people will stop playing head games and acknowledge telepathy is real. War will end. Unrefined men are abusive towards women, not guardians of “lessor” men, women, or children. Love is strong. People share in a collective lie, but each individual has accountability (attraction).
The citizen-soldiers who fought for the Confederacy personified the best qualities of America. The preservation of liberty and freedom was the motivating factor in the South’s decision to fight the Second American Revolution. The tenacity with which Confederate soldiers fought underscored their belief in the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. These attributes are the underpinning of our democratic society and represent the foundation on which this nation was built. As heirs to Confederate veterans, we will defend them as vigorously as our ancestors defended their causes. As a national federation of Confederate women's organizations, the group brought together numerous women's associations working to memorialize the Confederacy. May the Lord bless every defense of freedom, the constitution, and the Confederate flag. May the Lord bless the states that are: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina. Kentucky and Missouri
The neat rows of white tombstones on the Antietam battlefield belie the sheer horror of the gruesome slaughter, stench, and cries for help from wounded and dying soldiers on these hallowed grounds. For days after the battle was concluded, the agony of the surviving soldiers could be heard over these fields as they laid or in some cases writhed on the ground during their death throes without medical care as their life drained out of them. Witnesses stated that the fetid smell of death lingered over this area for months. Some accounts state that the bones of dead soldiers could be easily found for decades after this horrific battle took place. These white tombstones represent the manicured, cultivated, staged monuments to war. Let us hope that we never have to experience the firsthand reality of war.
The fact that the Confederate dead were unidentified is not uncommon. The winner of the battle was usually left in control of the field and had to deal with the dead. It wasn't necessarily that the Federals didn't care about the Confederates, but they didn't have the resources to identify them. Neither army issued dogtags. Frequently the men would buy or make their own name tags in case they died, but identication was hit or miss.
This was very interesting. My husband's 4th great uncle, Thomas Jefferson Ivey, is buried in Mt Olivet on Confederate Row. He turned 18 in February 1864. He enlisted in May and made his way north to join the 31st GA and his 3 brothers in time for Monocacy (I believe one of the brothers was temporarily assigned elsewhere). He was fatally wounded in his one and only battle. The young man died on Sept 10, 1864 in a field hospital in Frederick, which is how he ended up with a marked grave.
He was one of the lucky ones. Not in war, but in death, as he is known and in a marked grave. My deepest respect to him and all who gave their lives in this tragic struggle.
@@alan30189 What I've always said. But the South, much like Japan in WW2 after their Midway and Guadalcanal defeats, thought that by continuing to fight, they would be able to sue for surrender terms that'd be more to their advantage. Obviously didn't work.
The differences in these cemeteries is so striking and so melancholy. Thank you for visiting these sites. The Confederate Row is just so sad but I think they would be glad they were buried together, brothers in arms.
Did you know that Thomas Paine, author of COMMON SENSE wanted to free the slaves and give women the right to vote in 1776? Too bad the Founding Fathers didn't listen to him ! The Southern colonies refused to sign the Declaration of Independence if those two things were accomplished! They preferred to start a bloody 4 year war that killed over 750,000 soldiers! So "Pro-Life " of those Southern states! It is 2024 , and we are still having problems with these Southern states! Sad but true!
This was a extreemly well done video. 24 minutes went by like a flash, because you held my attention. Plus..I learned more things than i expected. Thanks
It’s interesting we have this somewhat romantic view of the treatment of the dead in war. In fact it’s often as barbaric as the battles themselves. Whomever is victorious and remains (pun intended) on the field often determines how your poor bag of bones will be treated.
Sorry to say so, but in Vietnam we couldn't care less who the enemy dead were, and we cared even less what became of their remains. Humanity has a very serious problem being separated from God because of our sinful hearts and is the very reason why each person needs to be saved. And there is no other name {Jesus who is the Christ} under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.
My dad did body recovery and grave’s registration in the Bataan area after WW2. He had a lot of interesting stories. Paid GI insurance benefits to PA troops families on his weekends in cash. Wild times.
Great video.👏👏👏 I've recently subscribed to your site. I always love learning more abt the Civil War. My parents were history buffs. They passed to us. I've been to almost all the CW battlefields. What was hard for me when I was young was seeing that the boys and men who fought for the South were thrown into mass graves and not buried individually as the Union soldiers were and are. There are very few names that are known for the Confederate boys and men for instance, who are buried in a mass graves in the Vicksburg, MS battlefield. I have the photo slides from each one that the gift shops used to sell. My kids teachers used to borrow them each yr to teach their American CW classes. I'm glad I have them now because they aren't sold anymore.. My mothers ancestors and our family members now have been in every war this country has ever been in including Afghanistan.. My 3 x great grandfathers, their brothers and a couple of their sons all fought in the CW. They were from MO which was a split state. Both grandfathers had farms not far from one another and they were friends but had different opinions. My paternal 3 x great -grandfather fought for the N and my maternal for the S. Both survived. My 3x G uncle was from TN but fought for the Union. He was taken prisoner and sent to that hell hole, Andersonville. He was treated worse than most because he was from TN but fought for the Union. When Sherman was going to burn Andersonville, he was then taken as a prisoner, near Charleston, and died in that camp, at age 32.. Its a war can never be repeated in this country. It truly was a war about brother fighting brother. Can you visit Franklin, TN as well as Vicksburg, MS and do a piece on them? Both are also very incredibly interesting.The battle of Franklin had more deaths and in 4 short hrs than all the major battles (in 4 hours) Thank you again, for bringing us great videos on American history.. thumbs up! Blessings ~ Victoria
I remember reading somewhere about a soldier who put his name on a piece of paper and pinned it to his jacket and it read “June 3rd cold harbor I was killed.”
I visited the Antietam Battlefield back during the 140th anniversary. I always take time to visit whatever National Cemetery is associated with the battle to pay my respects to those fallen veterans. Antietam's cemetery is awesome!
Thank you for what you do! My generation is completely lost as to these events and how they shaped our country. I truly believe that we still feel affects of the Civil War to this day. It's good that we have people like JD who are willing to share these things and have experts like Gary Adelman come in to open our eyes to those who have gone before us and the sacrifices they made.
Thank you for this awsome Video. I have a book in German. The Title is "Germans in the american civil war". In this book is written, that 10% of the Soldiers are german immigrants.
I've just started watching your videos. I've always found The Civil War to be a very interesting topic. The scale of death and destruction on our own home turf was unprecedented and should never be forgotten. Thank you for honoring these brave men and helping to preserve the memory of all that happened here.
Yes. Because of DNA technology, the lists of MIA's from WW II, Korea, and Vietnam grow smaller every year. There are teams that are still digging up the remains of the dead on the Eastern Front from WW II. But with them, if they can ID them from their ID tags, fine. If not, too bad. They do zero DNA testing. It's going to get harder as siblings age and die as the technique they use involves mitochondrial DNA. Not sure how accurate that process would be with only the mtDNA of non-sibling relatives?
Well Done JD! Thank you for keeping History Alive and professionally done. Thanks for making my eyes leak talking about the loyal dog! I love the personal stories you come up with, it really puts the personal touch on what happened, what anyone there was feeling. Love your work, thank you for doing this!
I’m sure it’s the same but I’ve heard more than once about bodies being exposed at Gettysburg also. I’m thinking it was probably a close friend who had buried them but had to do it rapidly. Time and weather exposed the body. I heard it took close to two years after the battle to recover and bury the ones found.
Absolutely fantastic presentation of a very somber, but critical, time in our country's history. You manage to carefully walk the line between entertaining content and reverence for those who fought and died in this epic battle. My wish would be that all high school students be required to view your videos; then ask questions, discuss and dig further into all of your history presentations. This is a much better way to learn these important facts of our history. I would ask the same of all immigrants who are working to become U.S. citizens.
I wish that these videos were around when I was in high school. Back then, these were just places that I had to imagine in my head what they looked like, etc. while studying from a textbook. To actually SEE them is something else entirely…
I had over 40 ancestors who fought for the Confederacy and it just crushes my soul to know that Southern men wasn't given the same decent burial . one of my particular ancestors that was killed at Beans Mill, was buried on the battle field and is now covered in water due to the near by river being damed.
So sad that so many of the Confederate soldiers were unidentified. Also extremely sad that so many brave horses died, so very cruelly, being faithful to their duties.
@@idapullen8782 I TOTALLY agree with you.....on both subjects. To know that these Southern men, as well as many boys, died defending their homeland. Obviously, any war is horrible. But many wars that were fought in history of God's creation of the planet Earth were nessessary... tyrannical governments and tyrannical men being the cause of most wars. But the War Between The States, or, as most true Southerners call it, The War Of Northern Aggression, was fought for basically nothing..... nearly three quarters of a million American soldiers dead. And for what? And the loss of livestock....hogs, chickens, turkeys, ginnys, cattle, and other animals that were a food source. But particularly the loss of thousands, if not millions, of horses was devasting to not only the southern states, but to the north as well. Thank God for his great gift of the horse...... where would man be without that wonderful gift.
Early in the war, many times, bodies were just left where they fell. I recall reading as some federals were marching to the fight at Sharpsburg MD (IIRC,) they crossed over the old battlefield at 2nd Manassas, and were dismayed to see bones of the fallen poking out of the ground as they passed.
Its really sad that so many died, and yet the truth has never been told. I grew up in the mid west, and spent about 6 years in the south. There are always 3 sides to a story. I've heard both sides, but I have never heard the actual truth. History books are written buy the winner.."His-Story"
My great great uncle James Robertson 2nd sgt co.C 27th Va. Infantry was killed at Fraziers farm in 1864 and is buried somewhere there. The family never recovered him or knew where he was buried.
A quick look at Fold 3 showed no Raisin Pitts in the 6th Alabama, but it did show a 2nd Lieutenant Drayton Pitts of Co. F, 6th Alabama mortally wounded and captured by the enemy at Boonsboro, MD on September 14, 1862.
My 3x great grandfather, William Goudy, was an Ulster immigrant who volunteered to fight in a Union Minnesota regiment. The military sent his regiment to fight in the Sioux Wars instead. After a while the whole regiment protested and demanded that they be sent to fight the South. They then went on to fight some of the last battles of the war.
I had 2 relatives who fought at Antietam. One, John Maguire of the 12 Mass was previously wounded and never heard from again. I went to Antietam and researched the records at Natick, Mass, but could find no more into. I wonder if he is buried there.
My 1st cousin 4x removed, John William Callaham fought for the Confederacy, he was from South Carolina. He was killed at the battle of the crater in Petersburg Virginia on July 31 1864. This was a Huge explosive charge that was tunneled under the lines and detonated. He actually survived the initial explosion and died the next day. A survivor stated that he saw John Callaham looking at a small mirror while coming his hair when the charge was set off. He was buried there in Petersburg VA. about two months later his brother in law went to bring his body back to South Carolina for burial in the family cemetery. On the way back home a severe snow storm caused the party to abandon the wagon so they buried John W. Callaham there at the side of the road, planning to return when possible and continue the journey home. He was never found. I often wonder what state is was in. We'll never know. His name is on a bronze plaque at a church there at Petersburg VA. This video makes me think of this. I hope you do a story about the battle of the crater.
I have been to Gettysburg many times, now thanks to your videos I'll be going to Antietam for a week or so. Thanks for keeping our history alive, freedom isn't free. Thanks for posting.....
Every time I watch another video I think - This. This is the best yet. Every single time. Thank you for every one of them. Hoping all is well with you right now - and looking forward to seeing more soon. Thank you.
There is a photo, I can't remember where it was taken, but it's two men with a wagon full of body parts and skeletons taken. The look on their faces says it all.
