Children of U.S. Civil War Vets Reminisce About Fathers | National Geographic
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- Two children of U.S. Civil War veterans reminisce about their fathers' war experience for this Veterans Day, 2014. Ninety-two-year-old Iris Lee Gay Jordan and 93-year-old Fred Upham were born very late in their fathers' lives, but both have vivid memories of stories about the war. Fred's father even met Abraham Lincoln after his release from a POW facility and bared his battle wounds for the president to see.
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The children of U.S. Civil War veterans still walk among us. Read more here:
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SENIOR VIDEO PRODUCER: Hans Weise
INTERVIEWER: David A. Lande
ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS: Getty Images and The Library of Congress
SPECIAL THANKS: Iris Lee Gay Jordan and Fred Upham
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Both of them have since died. Iris died on August 20, 2017. Fred died on December 30, 2018. Irene Triplett is the last person still receiving a Civil War pension, and very likely the last one in general
Thank you for that information. This whole UA-cam video was incredible! How shocking to know that the children of Civil War veterans were until recently still on this earth. Simply amazing!
xaime glez Irene Tripplet also passed away recently. She died on June 3 of this year at the age of 90.
xaime glez Another fun fact: Former President John Tyler, who was born in 1790, served as president from 1843 until 1845, and died in 1862, still has a living grandson. His name is Harrison Ruffin Tyler and he is 91 or 92 (depending on when his birthday is this year). John Tyler also had another grandson, Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr., who just passed away a few weeks ago at the age of 95.
@@terminallumbago6465 are you kidding me? That's pretty cool, I'll have to look that up! I'm just wondering if anyone is going to say that Adam and Eve was their grandparents! Hey, once again thank you for sharing this. I've always had a fascination with this great country's history, God bless our nation!
@@terminallumbago6465 yeah Harrison Tyler even still lives in his grandfathers house and also had uncle's that fought in the civil war.
these folks a looking great for 90+ yrs old
Not sure what you expect them to look like.
Yeah they do
@@AmazingStoryDewd Egyptian mummies
They have less plastic and burgers in their diet
These two lovely people look really really young for 92 and 93.
No kidding!
Some healthy folk there!!
Aint you know the phrase " A person will be born as an infant, very beautiful, cheerful and lovely, He/she will again become young, cheerful, and lovely during a very senior age." This two peoples were very adorable and lovely like a very young child.
It's amazing these guys made children late in life to carry their stories. God bless them all both sides
This is unbelievable. I mean it really doesn't even sound real, it's so incredible. I have chills. We need to TREASURE them and get as many interviews as we can! This is unbelievable history!!!
gumbo the grandchildren of the 10th president are still alive, president john Tyler took office in 1841 and his grandsons are still kicking.
Best president of all time.
+Jon3830 To think 3 generations lived to see all the President of the United States 1789-2016 amazing.
you sound like you really like history, i don't blame you
That's crazy!!!!!!!
What's really more amazing is Harrison Ruffin Tyler. He's alive and well. He is the Grandson of President John Tyler who was born in 1790! That is almost 230 years ago.
This video reminded me of the very person you speak of. A couple of years ago, I read about the grandson of a president in the 1700's still alive, but couldn't remember which president. I was just about to look it up, until I came across your comment. Thank you Angela for sharing such a wonderful nugget of history!
Well, it's a rare situation to have men in two successive generations of old men having children with women half their age: one in his mid-60s and his son in his mid-_70s._ John Tyler was born in 1790, but his son Lyon was born when he was 63 in 1853, and Lyon's son Harrison was born when he was _75_ in 1928. His dad was older than most people's grandparents are when they're born. What's kind of sad about it is he obviously had no chance of meeting his grandfather since he was born 138 years earlier, and barely got to know his own dad, since he died when he was just 7 in 1935.
@@JET7C0 thank you for sharing that!!! Simply amazing!
As of June 1, 2024, he is still alive. Extraordinary!
I’m a descendant of 6 Confederate veterans, and one Federal veteran. I have a great great aunt who remembers in great detail one of my gggg grandfathers who passed away just shy of his 98th birthday in 1945. She’s told me so many stories about him. It’s amazing to me that I’ve been able to hear them from her. It was almost as if he was talking through her.
I have ancestral loved ones buried in Confederate graves in Arkansas. I have been there once and left with pictures of their graves. I hope to return there again one day.
My ggg yankee grandpa wrote a letter to his confederate brother saying he better watch out. Brothers killed brothers back then in the name or morality. I’m sure I might have had a confederate but I have found so many revolutionary and civil war people it’s hard to keep track. They all just went to war..
Would love to hear some of those stories
im 65. my great grandfather,1845-1927 fought in the civil war.
I'm 58 and so did mine. Kind of blows my mind. He was 20 in 1863 and 50 when my grandpa was born. My grandpa was in his 70s when I was born. Weird to be so close in generations to the war.
It's touching that Iris still gets emotional about her father dying more than 80 years later. You can see her as a little girl at that moment, with all the love and sorrow she had then and now. You know she really wanted to be a good girl for her Daddy.
Her dad died right in between WWI and WWII... what an incredible span of history right there.
I'm 70, and I had met some civil war people as a young boy. And
My father was raised by them.
What I find amazing is how little
They had, and had to live on.
Rock hard country people. And
They flat out dislike city people.
I meet and talk to World War II veterans and their experiences. I would have loved to have talked to a civil war veteran.
@really sore knee It's centennial, not centurion, and its not impossible although still very unlikely.
@@juan6326 No the last one died the in the late 1950s
I am sure those peoples are very generous in welcoming any one for tea than those greedy rich peoples who has every thing. Because that's the way they are raised and lived....their childs will learn the same.
I was in a war a century later. I hate cities too. If you live in one, there has to be something wrong with you.
When Iris talked about her dad dying and his last words were be a good girl I cried a little
I knew one son of a Confederate veteran, Mr. Jim Ed Bobo of Gunnison, Mississippi. He was over 80 when I knew him in the 1980s.He was a nice man. He'd do anything for his neighbors.
"He never felt any animosity to the confederate people after the war"
Man if only that stayed true to today
ShaddyCrunchum yeah because in the end uncle sam prevailed
Cap America anddddd you proved his point
Liberals hate southerners.
We're so stuck and focused on ourselves and our political views that we don't even stop and think that we all have families and friends. Despite our differences we shouldn't have any animosity towards each other. We're so divided today.
@@jdm2626 good
Incredible. I wish more young people would get interested in American history. Thank God they were interviewed or their stories would be lost to history.
+S. Palmer Well put. Couldn't agree more.
I feel insulted because I actually ADD facts to my teachers talks in Social Studies.
I do the same thing.
I too wish people would take the time to educate themselves on these matters instead of reacting violently and tearing down Confederate war relics. A lot of the people who fought weren't even fighting to keep slavery, in fact a good majority of them didn't even have a say in the matter and were drafted. As she said, the Northerners were the same as the Southerners, no animosity, they were all the same, they were all away from home.
I'm 17 and I love history! I am hoping to eventually get a degree for history in university.
In 2011, when I was in high school, I went and visited my grandfather’s cousin to find out more about our family. She was 10 years old when my third great grandfather passed away. He was a Confederate veteran. I was so amazed that I was talking to someone who personally knew a Civil War veteran. Not many people my age could say they’ve had that experience.
@adamkpetty That is so undescribably cool!
My great-grandmother was born in 1892. She died in 1993, and i was 12 yro in her passing. I remember the night she died that aurora borealis was in the night sky, and everyone in the family thought it was her soul passing into heaven. I will never forget that.
This should be required viewing for students.
+Patricia Coburn Sadly, schools and society is whitewashing the war and trying to remove traces of it.
+gumbo They would rather talk about gender equality and social media related bull shit instead of useful things like this.
@@aisthpaoitht The information controllers want to tell the story on their terms. Facts are just a stumbling block.
*You're never too old to have kids.* History thanks you.
This video is a national treasure. Thank you for sharing it. 🙌🏻🙏🏻❤️
Miss Iris is one of nine living Real Daughters. I met Miss Iris in May 2015. She is an amazing lady and dearly loved by her friends and family.
My father served in WWII and lots of old Confederate were around in his chidhood. Hi great grandfather was in Picketts division and went up the hill at Gettysburg. He had 13 daughters all married to Confederate soldiers and all widowed at the end of the war. His widow was still collecting his Confederate Army pension in the late
1950's.
Al Swann pp
Wow. Amazing....how interesting to try to imagine getting to sit down and hear some of these stories. Thank you for sharing!!!
There was no confederate pension cause they were traitors.
Many Different Things good comment
@@josecarranza7555 you don't know what you're talking about.
This is one of the reasons why I help to preserve battlefields.
My dad was born in ‘26 and told me his earliest memory was seeing civil war vets… and their poverty and missing limbs.
Yeah, the government always claims they take care of veterans. I'm here to tell you they didn't and still don't.
Did he tell you about his racism and hatred for non whites?
I always get choked up at the description of a bedside good-bye. It is the right and proper way to end a life well lived, surrounded by loved ones but it still hurts.
My grandpa was a Marine who stood at the end of the last CSA veteran's casket.
I didn't know our military supported terrorists and traitors. Makes no sense.
@@ebogar42 you must not know about Saudi Arabia then
Eric Bogar they werent terrorists or traitors. Bugger off.
You missed the entire point.
@@ebogar42 the military was originally full of traitors. the founding fathers and revolutionists.
@@frigglebiscuit7484 A militia isn't the military
Over 800,000 lives we're lost, so tragically in a war that was monumental.
What lovely, down-to-earth people. Very few left like that.
My great grandfather fought for Iowa in this war. I own letters he wrote during the war to his wife....this gives me chills.
When I was a child in 1970, I knew an old Mississippi man who was born in 1879. His father had fought in the Civil War, and his father's two brothers died in the war: one killed in the Battle of Malvern Hill, and one died in a hospital. I asked him questions about the war, and he said that his sister had inherited their father's war memorabilia. He died a few years later.
Rest in peace to these fine men, womenand children of a terrible war.
You look at the faces of these people and there you have the faces of their fathers
I wish people my age cared about history.
This was eye opening.
Go to any history department at a respectable university...Filled with young minds...
@@samstiglitz8008 yeah, but that’s hit and miss. A large portion of university history departments serve modern narratives rather than history. The balance between historicism and presentism is rare these days.
@@Stevie8654 - no, it’s really not.
My great uncle just passed away a few years ago, his father was Col. W.H.H. Cowles of the 1st NC Cavalry who rode with Jeb Stuart. It was crazy to just know someone who's father fought in the Civil War.
I have third great uncles who fought for NC as well
My family was originally from Rockingham NC and fought in the Revolutionary War, and then the family moved to Georgia, and they fought in the Civil War. My great grandfather left Georgia for Texas because he was going to jail for bootlegging. American history is facinating.
Wow...I'm in awe. The children of Lee Gay Jordan and the children of Fred Upham can say their Grandfather fought in the civil war...astounding!
I can say my Great Grandfather was a marine at Pearl Harbor. I can also say another Great Grandfather was at Pearl Harbor.
My son can say his paternal grandfather fought at the Battle of Milne Bay. He can also say his maternal great grandfather fought at Stalingrad. I hope he can never tell his children about any wars he fought in.
whatever my daughter can say she's descended from Aaron Burr. My grandmother's maiden name is Burr and we settled in Roxbury around 1630. The Burr family were noted abolitionists. Burr tied Jefferson in the popular vote and congress decided who would be president. Imagine if they had chosen an abolitionist over a man who fornicated with his slaves as our third president. That would have pissed the south off and maybe we could have fought the war a generation sooner. Oh, well. Plus he capped the daddy of all Evil Banksters, Hamilton.
shiprek2011 Using "whatever" to kick your comment off suggested that you were trying to one-up someone. How petty. My grandfather was the inventor of the modern automobile and also discovered penicillin just for fun. His wife broke the glass ceiling while simultaneously blowing up the first nuclear device known to man. I'm just a UN embassador but... Whatever
The comment was for me. Everyone here is having a nice dialog about the video above...except for you.
I had the most amazing history teacher at Roxana high school in Illinois. My teachers name was Jeff Welker and he's gone now but his whole teaching career was about the Civil War but also brought in gold star mothers from Vietnam. He made teaching wonderful and I will always respect Mr Welker and love him very much. There should be more teachers that make learning exciting. I respect you and miss you and now that I'm 53 and not 16 I can still see your loving enjoyment in life for teaching. Sure wish there were more like him to change the world for kids with the truth.
1985. There weren't a lot of people who cared about the Vietnam war or the veterans by then. He probably couldn't find veterans who were willing to talk about it. People wouldn't believe what we had to say. They should have. It would have saved the country a lot of pain.
This absolutely broke my heart.
@@ORGANICsoulJAZZ you must be at peace with your life
My great great grandfather fought for the Union army in Tennessee when he was just a teenager, and no family records mentioned him even once, it took some serious research to find the only piece of info I could, which was his obituary from 1910, he was the last Union veteran in Potomac county, Oklahoma (he moved there after the war), my grandfather (his grandson) moved to Kansas, and then California after that, and my father moved to Idaho. To think that my ancestor fought in that war and I could barely find a shred of information, and yet these people’s parents fought in it and they have firsthand stories from them, it’s truly something to behold
I don't think it would have been easy being a Union Veteran and living in the South. They are bitter to this day.
God bless these two and there fathers living history
Looking at them I would have thought they were mid 70’s they look great
I loved listening to my great grandmother tell stories of her grandparents. Some of them born in the early 1800s.
My great, great grandfather fought in the 44th Tennessee infantry. He survived the war and passed away in 1909. Rest in peace, Jesse.
I want to know how that man stayed healthy enough to possibly father a child in is mid eighties.. thats amazing. Wonder what his diet was..
Cody McCullin - And corn dodgers.
Sex. A diet of sex.
food without additives
1800's census records show male ancestors of mine commonly having children well into their 50s. People were sturdy back then!
They didn't have TV, so what else were you going to do at night?
I'm just 13 and ill remember this video and tell everybody my story and other storys. In history
God bless the men on both sides.
All surviving children of these veterans need to be recorded. Actual living history
I'm so honored to have watched this, Thank you very much for sharing...👍
I agree! I kept picturing getting to sit down with these folks and just listening to their stories. Amazing.
Seeing old ladies cry tears my heart apart every time.
RIP Frederick M. Upham. December 30, 2018 - aged 97.
I know a fellow that is 100 years old. He told me about his grand father who fought with the 2nd Wisconsin. His stories are wonderful. Because of his age he often repeats himself. The stories are always the same though.
Not sure what I was more amazed by, the stories about their father's or how healthy 2 people in their 90's were.
Iris' dad had 13 children and fathered the last of them at 82. People were tougher back then.
Wow! Incredible when you think about it: People alive today personally knew someone who had fought in the American Civil War.......didn't think any of them would still be alive.
+Mary The last confirmed US Civil War Veteran died August 2, 1956. Not really that long ago
+Iafiv Iv My father knew people who remembered the revolutionary war. I remember a relative born before the War Between the States.
Amazing!
+bd C how old are you?
I have touched the hand of a woman who was alive at the Battle of Vicksburg when I was 12 years old in Vicksburg. The battlefield was eerily quiet. God rest those souls on both sides. Most were young men who should never have had to fight that war....and I'll be damned if it doesn't look like we might have to do it again.
Rest in peace and thank you for your service on both sides.
My great great great grandfather, Charles R. Rankin, fought in the Confederacy. He was a private Co. H 6th MS Infantry. He raised my great grandmother, who was born in 1910 and he would tell her stories of the war which she would pass on to me.
How many degrees of separation is between that man and Lincoln? One, two? Absolutely insane. Just completely amazing. I am speechless
My great great great grandfather was John angel Hopper captain in the Confederate army.
It's mind-boggling that the children of American Civil War veterans are still alive today. I never would have expected that. Wow, is all that I can say.
What a treasure. Thank goodness these oral histories exist.
Utterly remarkable.
I'm astounded to see this.
This man's father was in the 2d Wisconsin fighting under Sherman at Bull Run. The 2d Wisconsin ended up being brigaded with the 6th and 7th Wisconsin along with the 19th Indiana. They became the Iron Brigade, the best fighting unit in the AoP. That's incredible.
I had two great grandfathers who fought in the civil war and lived through it. I watch many of these civil war documentaries and read the blogs and it appears to me that to days generations have more animosity toward each other, north and south than these old vegetarians who fought it had after the war was just over.
Wars are between politicians who are never in danger. The guy you're shooting at is more like you than they are.
Fredrick upham is my great grandfather, I love the fact there is a video that shows his legacy
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼…It’s so important to remember, to show respect, and to be grateful to the people who came before us.
Its 2019 and we can still get war stories from the civil war. This is amazing!
Just an amazing story I’m speechless how amazing
I'm 75 my great grandfather , Thomas Carpenter , and my great uncle his brother Milton fought with General Sherman , on his March to the
sea . They also fought at Chickamauga , Lookout mountain
and a number of other battles ..They both were wounded , and my uncle was a pow for several months , at Johnsonville NC . I just returned yesterday from another visit to Gettysburg , battle
field . History is so
Important to , all of
us let us never forget the price that was paid by the veterans
Truly amazing Godbless that Great Country
What a great story. Imagine the stories you could've heard from these two people!! May they RIP!
This is especially amazing for me, as I worked at and volunteered at Fort Delaware for a while. It’s incredible to me how much the older woman’s story puts things into perspective; it really was not all that long ago.
Amazing. I had one great grandfather who enlisted during WW1 and any stories he shared were always fascinating to me as a 5-8year old boy. On the other side of the family, we have had relatives involved from the revolutionary war up to Vietnam. Luckily, I was in the US Marines during peace time and not called into combat. Much respect for anyone who served and fought for our country.
Omg this is amazing! I just want to hear every story they have to tell about their parents and life.
yep
Seeing this doesn't make the Civil War seem so long ago does it?
Jeffrey Dotson exactly
+Jeffrey Dotson it really wasn't but look at all in the world that has changed since then wow.
This is amazing to see.☺ My Great Grandfather Frederick Gilhousen fought and was wounded at Gettysburg and later died from his injuries.
Gosh This is like time traveling! wish I could meet one of them.. incredible..
Bless both sides. And the men and there family. May we learn from our pass good to hear from the kids.
When my father was born, the civil war had just ended 39 years before. I am now 58 years old. My father was born in 1904, and my mother was born in 1911. Both of my Grandfathers were alive during the civil war. In fact when my paternal grandparents were married, James Wallingford was 40. My grandmother, Stella, was 13. She was 15 when she had my father in 1904. i was very young, but i remember Grandma Stella, very well. i am glad for videos like this. It jolts the reality of the connection of time, in all our lives.
The Civil War is only 2 or 3 long generations back. The Revolutionary War is only 3 or 4.
Holy shit his father got to talk Lincoln wow 😳
Andrew Taylor Lincoln was a war criminal, I would spit in his face
Alex Swaim Alex. Wrong. The south fired on Sumter. The Southern leaders and politicans were traitors.
Blue-laser that's false. Lincolns war was illegal. Succession was legal by the declaration and the constitution. Lee fought for his state of Virginia, he would've been a traitor if he commanded the union army. In the 1860s your state was over the country
Alex Swaim The Constitution gave Lincoln war powers in case of domestic rebellion. Why call it Lincoln's war. The South started the war by by firing on Fort Sumter. I would call it the war of Southern Agression. Secession was not legal.The revolution that resulted in the war for Independence was not an act of secession. The British empire and the colonies were not on an equal level. The colonies were more an asset/part of the empire, while the south was part of the same country and had the same rights as the North. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say secession was legal. The union was to be perpetual. The supreme Court and most scholors view Southern secession as illegal. Some individuals had more devotion to their state than to their country but this was not the rule. Many people from either region felt that their duty to the Northern/Southern cause was greater than what their state decided. If Robert Lee fought for the Union he might have been considered a traitor by Virginia but since secession by Virginia was illegal he wouldn't have been by his country which was what mattered. I find it funny some people think that a state leaving the Union was not traitorous by an individual not standing by his state is. It is the same thing but on a smaller scale.
Blue-laser false, I'm not gonna waste my time typing but there isn't a single valid point in that.
The stories these children of Civil War Vets could tell us is incredible. A whole different period in time. Awsome!
beautiful stories. What an honor to find and watch this.
This is fascinating! Ms Iris choking up remaining her father💕. It is so poignant that they both said their dads harbored no animosity.
my grandmother was born June 1910. Her father fought with the Confederacy in the Cavalry, Gambling's Command, Mississippi State Cavalry. PVT James Andrew Jackson Shoemaker, CSA.
While my classmates in the 70s/80s talked about their Grandfathers who grew up in the Great Depression and Served in World War Two, I had amazed them with the same stories of my Father. A Dad is a Dad, no matter their age.
Ohhh... how wonderful!!
My ancestors arrived in , what was to become The United States, around 1750 from Scotland.
My Great Great Grandfather had 12 children. Most were male and several fought in The War of Norther Aggression.
Two died in the war. One on the first day of Gettysburg, and the other in a Yankee prison camp of dysentery and malnutrition.
The rest came home to rebuild The South, and their lives.
During the war the old man made shoes for the Confederate troops.
I have seen many wills, and other documents, along with stories passed down through my family, and to the best of my determination, not even one of these folks owned a single slave.
+Dwight Currie Refresh my memory of what I read in history books. Which army was the Aggressor and started the war ? DUH ! Pretend all you want to, but the article of secession in South Carolina stated in part that maintaining slavery was one of the reasons for their action to secede. It doesn't matter if any of your ancestors had slaves or not, they followed the lead of their respective state governments, and the economy of the southern states relied heavily on slave labor. All men are created equal buddy. Amen
History Project pretty hateful of you to say that considering that it's pretty much known that the majority of white American citizens, North and South, were racist as shit. The only reason the North didn't use slaves (although they did 50 something years earlier...) is because they industrialized, and the reason they attacked the institution of slavery is because of the 3/5th's compromise.
The South attacked first, it wasn’t the war of Northern Agression.
@@RafProductions3 I think I read that somewhere.
Always figured it was just Yankee Propaganda
The War of Northern Aggression - I had forgotten about that. It really was but you don't read that in history books, do you? The winners write the histories...
This history should never be forgotten and the monuments to these Americans should never be desecrated or torn down. They are all heroes and honorable men. God bless them all.
Nah some are racist pos
The men who fought for slavery do not deserve any remembrance nor honour. They were traitors.
Civil wars are always the worst.
PBS did a great documentary on the civil war. Most importantly, it depicted the decade prior to the war and what actually lead to the war. It will freak you out because a lot of that stuff is going on today with violent protests and riots. We are reliving history
wow... this was indeed mind-blowing.
For this to be true, their fathers had to be in the 80s when they fathered this lady. Born in the late 1830s early 1840s. Fascinating
Two generations of Americans that have captured most of our country's incredible history!!!!
Woo of you can have children at the age of 82? Jesus that's weird.
That's funny!
Yeah, pretty weird though.
John Smith Hope I can still hit at 82!
You starting the see pictures ain't ya? Lol
SHE was only 41 though
This is great. A perspective on Veteran's Day that I never would have thought about. Well done.
Lovely people.
as a historian...i really enjoyed this video. 💻
Adolf Hitler update your profile picture.
i knew a woman whose father fought in the civil war on the union side this was back in the eighties in cork city Ireland i remember she had a photo of him in his blue uniform he was about 18 or 19 at the time of the war she would have been in her seventies then never gave it much thought back then as a young lad but since then i love all that period in American history so i reckon a lot of Irish came back home again
He was Irish and went back to Ireland
Great additions to the historical record...fascinating and informative! Thanks for posting!
Well, this is the most amazing thing I've seen lately.
These people should be remembered on both sides ...they say a person who looks to the passed is blind in one eye ...but a man that only looks to the future is blind in both eyes ...!
I think that it is safe to say that Iris listened to her father... She was a good girl. God Bless. sincerely, Dean O. :-I
I think their stories really personalize the people of the war between the states. They were real people living and breathing. Young men fighting in a war trying to do the right thing and going through so much in life. People really don't change ya know? War Veterans experience the same feelings experiences and emotions and trauma only difference is today the war machines are just more sophisticated but the human heart stays the same! Thanks for sharing what lovely people!.
I have the theory that if I met a Sumerian soldier from 4,000 years ago, we would have a lot in common starting with griping about the young officers and the bad chow. Human nature never changes.
I cry a lot watching these
This is remarkable, I loved every second of it. I feel honored to hear these personal stories.
Amazing that they're still here! This was very well done.
What a fantastic video and what great testimonies of their fathers. Just like the comments the other people have written, who would have thought there would be people alive who were 2d generation from the Civil War. This was truly amazing.
What an extraordinary insight into a long past history. Beautiful.
my god. To think that these two had parents who lived in a time when the car was not invented... and the telephone didnt exist. and now they live in a time where jets fly and you can access any information with a smartphone.
well the telegraph existed.
I'm 65. My grandparents had no running water for most of my childhood. My dad lived in a dirt floor house, ploughed with mules, and neither parent had electricity growing up. They ate what they grew and wore shoes only in winter. This modern lifestyle is still very new.
My great grandmother came to Oklahoma from the south after the war when she was like 10 in a covered wagon and then when she was in her 80’s flew a plane from Oklahoma to California
@@jcatcatcatcat26 that's awesome
Ryan Farver isn’t it! The 20th century was an amazing time to have been alive too bad I was born in 85