I was born in 1951. The end of the Civil War was as close -1865- to my birthdate as WW2's start -1939- is to our time now. Living memory. I met many people who were the children of CW vets.

@@hughbrennan9066 time is weird. it's not as long as it seems

​@@joeg5414yeah we just don't live that long it sucks.

How old are you sir that you grandfather served in civil war? WW2 era?

​@@hughbrennan9066Did you know that the soldiers and the children of the soldiers received some type of $ from government and there is still a woman collecting she's 90ish and her father was in late 70s when she was born. Look it up.She may of passed by now but there was a show about her a few years back on TV.

True James.

Actually, it wasn't. My grandfather was a young boy during that war.

Mine as well. He remembered the union soldiers coming home. He was five. I am 76. No, that war was not so long ago; its repercusions ripple to the present.

It wasn’t long ago, actually a blink! We living in a 24 hour society 😢

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Computer program takes white to black...then analyzes all the shades of gray to a specific color.

All nonsense you have zero artistic sense ability

@@mikeaugustbecause it makes history more relatable, which is the whole point of history.

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Yes, and they place you right into the battle fighting alongside your relatives.

Its emotional that familys killed each other all over replacing the Republic with a fraudulent govermntal body

That is one of the reasons I love history, but also a motivation to improve. Even if the improvement is not that noticeable at first. It would be cool to go back in time and really understand the consistency over time and any genuine human change over many generations. God Bless!

@@Look_At_Past_Present_Future Thank You and May God bless you as well!!! ...“that these dead shall not have died in vain- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth” President Abraham Lincoln

Mine too. I am 78 years old. More good men die than any other war put together. What a waste.

I'm only 31 and it tugged on mine too.. and to think we're headed right back in this direction

Too hot in the summer and not thick enough to be warm in the winter.

I live in Columbia, SC. Yankees came here, burned the place down and left. It was too hot for them here.

Most soldiers did not have uniforms

​@@timothymaxey2075Get over it you lost! Move on !

Union uniforms were wool. Most confederate uniforms were cotton.

Virginia enjoys the adulation of containing the most civil war battles and skirmishes than any other state, north OR south.

It's the same down here as well.

ADULATION ? CONDOLENSES SURELY ?@@MrChewbone69

You should get a metal detector, see what digs up

​@@46FreddieMercury91 I have quite a few artifacts, from a cannonball to buttons. I also have alot of spent Minie' balls from in and around the battlefield of Resaca Georgia. You can't swing a cat around this part of the nation without hittin' some place of historical significance.

Amazing fact! Thank you for that.

Home of the Orbit nightclub

Cloth, cotton, etc, made England want the South to win.

My, how time flies.

I am 74 yrs, I was raided in a house in N.C. that was built in 1843 (prior to the Civil War). There were/is evidence of the war remaining in that house. So for me I can relate a very small amount to my ancestors and their struggles. I have observed that it take about 80 to 100 years for history to start repeating it self, as humans we are very slow learners. We are approaching that time from WWII !! I fear greatly what is in our future.

Well said!

My great grandfather was born in VA in 1866. I was born in 1974 so I am not even fifty years old yet. You are so right, the Civil War was not very long ago at all.

Just found out my great great grandfather served in Company C 50th Illinois Infantry. Guess he always told stories about the march to the sea with Sherman and fought at battle of Reseca. Only 17 years old..just amazes me what him and other "kids" had to endure at such a young age

It wasn't but 160 years ago, i have trees in my yard older than that.

@@joshthemediocre7824 👍The people saying it was "so long ago" forget that 160 years is only 2 decent human lifetimes.

The people look miserable and they were miserable.

@@laurenurban3942 most dont look miserable and its war

@@laurenurban3942 No, I don’t find it. They have nice faces

Earlier too. There's a series of photos of Napoleonic veterans in their uniforms and half of them had baggier pants because they're made of wool and wool is a fairly baggy material.

Plus, despite lacking health/medical advantages we have today, they were in better shape...... no obesity from synthetic foods.

I doubt that.The average natural lifespan was way, way lower. Both for men and women Aside from diseases and filth common in the day, they ate lots of bad fatty food (tons of beef), and more, steady intakes of alcohol because of bad water - particularly in urban areas where resevoirs were contaminated, and fesces and urine were all over the place (tossed on the streets, all mixed with horse manure).@@michaelbrinkers1145

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(Wool)??

Some of your relatives or neighbors may have participated in the war. Lincoln needed massive amounts of cannon fodder to conquer the south. So what he did was force them into the union army so they could go and murder southerners and steal and/or burn their houses and property

I don't think there will be nuclear war as the consequences are too devastating. Having said that, I think we will see the end of wars of conquest. Putin is learning a hard lesson in Ukraine. We will still have conflicts due to terrorists and other things which may not know of until they appear in the future.

Not a confederate historian I see…

Neither are you@@westxranchin

they won't learn it in school, it will be up to us to pass it along. That's why books about history with photos are so very important

Our bloodiest conflict. Even far more impactful considering the population was around thirty million.

Sadly, those who forget or turn away from history are bound to repeat it 😢.

That's a so so Robert at best.

Whata an eye ball you have, nice...👍

Robert Downey Jr lol that's a funny great he lived long life so he could be iron man

And the Revolutionary War was another 80 years before the Civil War. Makes you wonder …. ?

don't even get me going on how the 2nd pelloponesian war will be the reverse of the coming WW3 vs china that kills 2.5 billion.

Read a while back that more than a few historians consider the Civil War to be the last Napoleonic war and the first modern war. Sort of makes a certain amount of sense.

People would go to have picnics to observe the battles and take photographs, this was the first 'all in' war, trenches, unrelenting civil bombardment, serious propaganda and photojournalism were born.

no, its because we still use the same stuff we did in ww2. planes, battleships, carriers, long range artillery. They used single shot flintlock rifles in the civil war.

Actually, it's his son Custis on his left and on his right, Col. Walter Taylor.

@@yannschonfeld5847-- Perhaps the caption of the photo I saw in a book was inaccurate.

Parker was on Grants Staff..Was in Appomattox Court House day Lee surrendered.

There was also a Cherokee Indian general in the Confederate army who was the only Indian to obtain rank of general on both sides and was the very last Confederate general to surrender I believe, wanting to continue to fight..his name was Stand Watie...one of the lesser knowns about slavery is how many slaves the Cherokees owned and brought with them to Oklahoma..they were 1 of the largest slave holders in country

Should also be 1864, not 1964…

Potomac not Potomic

To say the least. Look where we are at now.

@@johnny.3693 Nonsense versus common sense.

Thanks, Tina - I agree! Even though there’s no way to know how accurate the colorization is, it still makes everything seem more “real” and present. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

I saw that photo before in black and white. The caption then claimed they were men killed at Chancellorsville in May of 1863 and were recovered for burial after the Wilderness battle of May 1864. I cannot know which description is correct.

and just 3 years ago, trump killed twice as many as the entire war...

Some 3000 lives lost in 9/11 Trade Center. We didn't get out of Iraq until another 3000 were dead. Untold number of disabled casualties. Battlefield injuries are often 2-3 per death. Then we've got later casualties with cancer and deformed babies from breathing spent uranium dust that is everywhere there, combined with a huge number of vaccines given in rapid succession. Guess we showed them who's who, huh?

These photos are from the 3rd American Civil War! Horrible! And very soon the fourth one will be far worse!

More Americans have been killed BY Americans in AMERICA than ALL the foreign wars combined that Americans have fought in , mainly thanks to the second amendment .....

There are always politicians out there who are more than willing to sacrifice the lives of the innocent ones to achieve whatever goal they want to achieve. History will always repeat. It is only a matter of place and time.

Unfortunately@@trumplostlol3007

As the old saying goes, HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF!

@@bobstone8667 Some say it rhymes rather than repeats.

​@@kaninma7237heard that said this morning

I’ve been there and it felt very present because the battlefield was relatively small and the landscape probably hadn’t changed much since then.

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And no photo of JFK's funeral after he was shot by rebels.

The owner of this channel must have been dropped on his cranium as a child.

@@thierrydesu 😅😅😅

The photographic process, lenses, film and natural light all combined to create an image that can be enlarged almost infinitely and not loose focus or be disturbed by pixels. More detail is evident in civil war era photography than most happening today.

You grandfather's name was Phil McCracken?

@@Mondegreen2020 Yep, and some of his other relatives include: Ben Dover Hugh Janus Mike Rotch Buster Highman Harry Pecker Seymour Hiney

Great point. I think the same thing when I see so many of these old faces.

The 18th century was the 1700s.

@@gregb6469 You know what I mean... Poindexter.

@@amaree9732-- Then why didn't you type what you meant?

​@@gregb6469 Because I knew it would smoke out the Poindexters.

Wow - that's crazy to imagine. 1959 just doesn't seem that long ago!

Thank you very much!

No he really wasn’t. His stubborn Virginia centric mindset cost the south control of the Mississippi. He refused to send troops to help them say Vicksburg and many other times. Also, his show boat tactics were not actually good strategy, and got a lot of his men killed, which was problematic because he did not have the men to spare. He was never a great general and this bullshit lost cause rewrite of history needs to stop.

No, not even close. History proved he lost

@@Mr.Byrnes That isnt the nature of being a great leader, losing or winning doesn't define. The loss was due to the inability of the south to continue manufacturing the goods, munitions, and food, not to mention the men needed to continue the war effort. If Lee had the forces and the supplies he needed he would have no doubt more than likely won the war. This was a war of attrition and unfortunately the south didn't have the numbers the north did. If you actually studied history you would understand this but you clearly do not based on your instant lack of information reply. I am replying to your comment not for you but for others that read it.

@@Mr.Byrnes Lee won nearly every battle. Even the countless times he was vastly outnumbered, he kicked the North's ass - the North used foreign fighters (Germans and Irish slaves basically) to win b/c they were beat so bad. The Civil War was David vs Goliath and David kicked Goliath's ass all the way from the beginning until the very, very end. It was the North/Federal governments advantage to have a pool of endless fighters. The South just had Americans fighting. Lincoln and the Queen of England conspired to starve my ancestors in Ireland and ship us over here to fight their disgusting war that they provoked and initiated. The North still refused to abolish African slavery even after the War until they were forced to. They never fought this war to "end slavery". If that were the case, they woulnd't have fought so hard to refuse after the damn war ended. The North was too busy genociding the Indians after the Civil War (Shermans "Final Solution" - yes he called it that and yes Hitler got this phrase from the Northern General - 1865-1910, years after Civil War last Inidians were sent to concentration camps to die) and enslaving the Chinese to build Lincoln's railway system.

@@timeouthumanity2067 Lee was fighting incompetence personified, and no he lost at Antietam to McClellan. Which is also pretty embarrassing

Thanks for your comments, @robinkom. I agree... While the colorization is not perfect, I believe seeing these images "in color" really adds a perspective to these old photos that I've never seen before.

@@TheHistoryLounge Restoring them as they were meant to be seen would be better but younger generation can't process B&W

​@@tonymoto1188I doubt if they were MEANT to be seen in black and white, they just didn't have the technology for colour photographs. I also think people of all ages can relate better to colour photos, simply because real life isn't black and white. I'm not young and it brings them to life for me.

@@tonymoto1188 I believe you are correct on both points. Unfortunately, the time to fully restore each photo would be time-prohibitive. Thanks again for your comments.

Thank you for watching and commenting!

Thank you !!!

That was Gen O.O. Howard.

Sherman's tactics of burning and destroying everything was dreadful -- but became an effective effort in bringing horrible war to an end... Never could understand WHY dirt-poor families in South sent their sons as Cannon Fodder for the RICH? ...kinda like how cannot understand WHY ruSSian Peasant SERFS sending sons to DIE for POOH-STAL-IN?

I think that one was my favorite too. The look on Sherman’s face says not to be fucked with.

Nah. General Smedley Butler said it better, "War is a racket".

Same with Gettysburg. That place is HAUNTED

How are men fighting to preserve slavery heroes?

​@@terrymcmaster2787the men of the Confederacy were fighting in defense of their families, homes , and constitutional rights infringed upon by the u.s.govt

The use of horses and animals in the thousands of years of war was the most severe form of animal abuse imaginable Millions and millions of animals endured unimaginable suffering and death for the sake of human insanity and for the ones who survived they were often killed and eaten when they could no longer be " useful"

They are part of Homeland Security now.

Thank you - I agree on the Irish sounding part.

I like that banjo tune, Russ plays that a lot on RVer TV.

Agreed. It’s perfect for this.

You’re very welcome - I’m glad you liked them!

Hi, @Historyteacheraz - Thanks for your comments. I know when I see these photos in color, it does make these scenes seem more realistic (for lack of a better word.) Thanks also for adding the info about the book!

I noticed that too !!

maybe put colorizations instead of colonizations ok?

​@@juandt1234 A bit petty.

who cares about those traitors? they were literally the enemies of america.

Lmfaoooo haha

Agreed. Quite biased with some inaccuracies.

Who cares? They were traitors

I'd say they had only black and white film back then

They're dirty and worn looking from what the soldiers called 'seeing the elephant' and nearly everything including food and water trying to kill them. The combat was horrific and very bloody but worse yet was the disease that killed more than battle deaths. It wasn't unusual for 15 percent of manpower to be on sick call in any Civil War army and this was considered normal. The 'healthiest' was Sherman's army during it's March to the Sea at 7 percent, mainly because they didn't stay in one area long enough to pollute drinking water.

Not a smile amongst any of them -- Poor bastards

​@@tomservo5347 you forgot to mention the long marches from one battlefield to another plus the manual labor , gathering firewood, fetching water etc