The Springfield trapdoor was manufactured in the 1870s (1871 iirc). The Spencer carbine (the one he has) was manufactured from 1860 to 1869. So it's entirely period accurate to the Civil War.
it seems more likely that what he suffer from is antrograde amnesia. it's a condition that stop the victim from being able to form new memory so it would explain why he always say the same date. also fun fact about the condition: while someone suffering from antrograde amnesia cannot make new memory they can still learn skills or improve on those that they allreaady have.
This is actually sad this dude has been at his post for like 20+ years thinking the civil war is still ongoing but the saddest part is that his comrades and superiors probably forgot about him after taking Saint Denise from the rebels and winning the war
I don't think they forget him, it seems that he is forgetting new information further the day he think it is, kinda like a memory disability of some kind
The general has probably been dead for twenty years tbh. It's safe to assume that this man was in his twenties when he enlisted... Although his weaponry is rather strange. It would most likely have the Springfield or Litchfield as the union mostly moved away from black powder guns and flintlocks, but didn't use a later spencer gun/carbines
My assumption is the man suffers from dementia. He doesn't remember your character.. ever. He probably participated in the fight for Saint Denis, went home. His wife died.. and he ended up just going back to his old post as its the only thing he could remember. It would explain his new kit.
Did you ever even wander on your own or did you just play through the single player mindlessly? Bc I've found almost every encounter and that was because I fuckin just roamed the countryside
@@pyrotechnick420 bullshit some encounters are scripted to certain acts or conditions like the lady in the swamp or the female fortune teller. i roamed a lot and tried to explore every corner possible or point of interest on the map. but in this massive game you are bound to miss something. impossible to find everything just by roaming without having some prior knowledge of some specific conditions
@@tripleh327 whoa chill, you don't know just how long he spent on his first playthrough - he might have got 95% of encounters, where you got 50% - he also could have seen all of the interactions through multiple playthroughs Apparently you don't know how chance works You'd rather just call BuLlShIt and tell someone they're wrong
@@rambo-cambo3581 i am chill i am just reacting to someone accusing me of playing the game mindlessly and assuming i haven't done a vast search even after specifying i spent 300 on a gameplay i call bullshit on somepne accussing others of play the game in a superficial way and taunting to have found nearly everything there was to find on the first try i simply stated that this particular encounter was unknown to me and yet some mighty know all arrived on his white high horse to judge others and i am the villain? yes sure good day to you
Maybe I'm wrong but : Is he the husband of the dead skeleton woman in the cabin up North where you can find a pocket mirror for Molly O'shea ??? There was a letter on her, I think the name " Muriel " was in it. That feller wrote to her, never got back and she died alone !
I'm surprised that there isn't a final encounter that has one of the characters say that they are part of the Army and have come to relieve him, tell him the war is over and that the South surrendered.
But to be fair, we don't know if that'll even help. What if the next day he wakes up and the war is still going on in his mind? He'll probably forget that we told him the war is over. He just needs someone to take care of him, like a nursing home or something
He has anterograde amnesia - he can't form any new memories. Even if you somehow convinced him the war is over and he can go home, you'd come back the next day and he'd still be standing there waiting for orders like nothing ever happened
@@BradyRamaker Yeah, you just endulge in their musings because telling aunt Hilda her husband is dead when she asks again would just cause her pain, you just tell her he's gone to the shop and allow her to remain happy.
@@BradyRamaker he is not really senile though. he is simply suffering from antrograde amnesia. it's a condition that prevent the victim from making new memory.
Intresting fact that the guy isn't even a captain sure. You could argue it's a developer oversight, but RDR2's attention to detail was on point. Look at his arm he has two chevrons. The guy is a corporal, possibly suffered a traumatic experience like saw all his guy's get wiped out, including his CO, now he's assumed the identity of his CO and stuck in a Groundhog Day loop the same day all his buddies died.
Wrong a CPL has one blue chevron on his arm not his shoulder he has the Mark of a sergeant PVTs have no mark and officers have the rank on their shoulder
I have a relative who has onset alzheimers and they just don't remember things even if you tell them over and over and show them proof. Depending on how bad it is, they might know they have problems or be completely oblivious. The human mind is defined by the persistence of memory, and when the memories don't persist, don't find purchase in the mind, the victim of the condition can become locked in the same moments. Their body continues to age and deteriorate, but their mental world stays the same, just slowly becoming less acute. It's really sad.
@@John_Kramer6 I have been playing RDR2 ever since it came out, went out of my way to check every cabin, etc. that I saw on the map, and didn't know about this encounter at all lmao
no he isn't. the lemoyne raiders are intentional, aware pieces of shit fighting for racism and slavery. hayden russel is an innocent man suffering from, i would imagine, some combination of senility and PTSD, fighting for his country. their similarities are shallow and few.
@@sydssolanumsamsys The difference is The Lemoyne Raiders are still fighting against actual people. Captain Hayden Russell is camping without moving anywhere forward in front of the same shack for almost 40 years. I think Russell never actually fought in the war. I think he wears the uniform of his dead son who died on the battlefield, most likely.
@@Resident_Legal what does the difference in action matter? if anything, it proves you're wrong to call them exactly the same. and why don't you think he fought in the war? its completely plausible
@@sydssolanumsamsys I'm calling them the same in a satiric manner, on account of them suffering from the same delusion despite being on the opposite sides. Because both Russell and the Raiders still act like the war is ongoing - just to clarify to you because you seem triggered about it. You think just because Russell is wearing a uniform proves that he fought in the war? He could have been a deserter who is trying to convince himself that he is not a deserter anymore on account of being so delusional and wanting to atone for his cowardice, perhaps?! It's just speculations, I'm not saying it's a fact. But we'll never know because Rockstar wants him to remain a mystery in terms of his past.
I'm sure the man is mentally sick, there would be no point. Arthur and John both realize something is wrong when he says 1862, he didn't just lose track of the time.
If they did not waste so many resources on the completely empty and useless New Austin, maybe they could had fleshed out encounters like these and give them their conclusions
What is there to flesh out ? It is clear he has a neurodegenerative disease and can't remember most of the stuff. They live day by day without an idea what they did a few hours ago and repeat stuff. yet in their head all seems fine. They remember long term memory and important parts of their life, which we have seen here by his dialogue regarding family, younger pre-draft years and a few wartime instances. There is no resolution to be had. His brain can't comprehend it. It is done for. We hospitalize or institutionalize people with such advanced Alzheimer's or Schizophrenia in today's society either in a hospital or a nursing home. You can't fix their head when they reach this stage and you can't reverse it. You can only lower the progression in some cases and mitigate risks of contracting it. Things they had no idea about during that time.
@@deanrazor9023That and I think they wanted to include the whole segment of John building his house on Beecher’s Hope to set the stage for the events of RDR1, but then couldn’t/didn’t want to leave out the rest of the game. I imagine it’d be a bummer to go to Blackwater and try to ride further down south just to get hit with a sudden 40 foot mountain that magically erodes in a few years or a “you can’t go here” message on the top of your screen.
when I came back to see this guy as John I expected to find a skeleton sitting in that chair, still holding the rifle. I feel like it would have been appropriate to the tone of the game, and the constant themes of death and despair in most of the shacks and cabins and NPC stories.
Maybe I'm wrong but : Is he the husband of the dead skeleton woman in the cabin up North where you can find a pocket mirror for Molly O'shea ??? There was a letter on her, I think the name " Muriel " was in it. That feller wrote to her, never got back and she died alone !
@@jemlesvideo no, but her husband is in the game. Her name was Martha, the cabin is called Martha's Swain and her husband was called Garfield, and he's dead and stuck to a tree at Bolger's Glade with a bayonet right through him and a sign around his neck that says coward or traitor or something like that. if you loot his corpse you get a letter from Martha begging him to desert and not fight in the upcoming battle. so it looks like he tried to do as she asked but was caught and his ex-comrades impaled him to a tree in retribution. He's in the little copse of trees immediately north of the ruined church if you want to find him.
there are two things i was really hoping to see here 1: one of the characters, after the second visit to the guy, lying about rank or identity and saying that the old man is finally free or allowing you to ride him back to town where he gives comments on how the world has "so suddenly changed" 2: SOMEONE PLEASE JUST TELL THE POOR OLD MAN HOW LONG HE'S BEEN OUT THERE
There actually are real life cases of head trauma that caused the victims to be stuck in a form of limbo, where their minds believe it’s the same day over and over.
If I know Rockstar right, and I do, something very marking happened in 14th April, 1862, but in real life. This veteran is totally stuck on this date, even years later. Something really bad probably happened in the war at this day and this man is stuck into it.
Quick google search of the date leads to Battle of Peralta which was a minor battle in New Mexico which the Union won. Then again you could probably google any random day in the American Civil War and find a minor battle or skirmish somewhere as a lot of the battles were small scale guerilla raids especially in areas like Missouri and Kansas.
@@maiqtheliar789 Yeah, but these small battles are always traumatic to any soldier. Nothing makes you ready for a war. He probably lost his memory, hit his head in the battle or something like that.
Battle of Peralta, 14th of April, 1862, New Mexico. A Union victory only a few dozen combatants injured or killed in the battle however the entire town was reduced to ruble perhaps he was their and witnessed the destruction of the town.
@@williambeisel5686 Then he left to the middle of nowhere awaiting orders to find and attack the enemies. It makes sense, but he's an old man, so he probably has some memory problems and is living the moment constantly. Maybe a bit of trauma too.
Bring one of the Lemoyne Raiders up with you or wear a confederate hat and he’ll fire on you. What I haven’t tried yet, bringing him to the Lemoyne Raiders camp. Though I don’t see how that would turn out much different.
I was hoping you could go and find Muriel and she could try and talk him out of it. Sad that he’s been stuck out there and feels he needs to stay there.
Maybe I'm wrong but : Is he the husband of the dead skeleton woman in the cabin up North where you can find a pocket mirror for Molly O'shea ??? There was a letter on her, I think the name " Muriel " was in it. That feller wrote to her, never got back and she died alone !
Or he could have been in his mid 30’s-50. Remember back then you didn’t have to be 18 to join the military chances are with him wearing a holistic uniform instead of an officer uniform he was a younger guy when he joined out. Could’ve been a 16 year old teenager. Making him like 40.
What if there was a twilight-zone style ripple in time that actually caused him to travel over 30 years into the future but to him it's only felt like a week?
Arthur & John can't possibly have been the only guys to ask him what year it is Also, it's obvious that Captain Russell has Dementia, He says that the day is "April 14th, 1862" to Arthur then again the John 8 years later in 1907
The guy probably has some problem with his memory. Whenever Arthur comes by he forgets him and most notably is that he still thinks the war is happening. Someone has probably told him already that the war is over but he forgot.
I have nearly 500 hours on this game. Got every single trophy on the ps4 and I still find loads of content that I’ve missed like this on UA-cam 4 years later. Insane detail.
It seems like he has some form of anterograde amnesia. He can't form new memories so every day to him is April 14th 1862 because that is the last time his brain could recall any long term memories. Not sure what could have caused it though, save for head trauma.
It seems to me his life is pretty good compared to the VDL gang. It's funny how Arthur keeps finding places that he would consider paradise, but refuses to go AWOL. I always thought he should take over Hamish's cabin, or shack up with Charlotte, he could even have joined/taken Black and White's treehouse. He finds so many abandoned homes with nearby water and food hunting, yet keeps crawling back to Dutch and the deadbeats. Pm At least he got a nice grave - better than Hosea.
My very first playthrough I abandoned the game in chapter 4 things in the story got so bad that after the trolley incident I decided to head to the grizzlies the only place I didn't have a bounty and live off the land there. I made a separate save file and that was the ending in my head. By the point you've massacred four small towns and a big city and so many people close to you have been killed off it doesn't make sense to stay. Especially people like Charles or Mary Beth who had only been with the gang a few months before the story started. And witnessed all these massacres. It's why I'm not a big fan of high honor playthroughs and save non story missions for the end of the game.
They all bought Dutch's manipulations. Arthur's diary mentions that they at one point had a chance to buy a plot of land from somewhere, but one way or another they couldn't, as a result of Dutch's war against civilization. Even if they somehow made it to Tahiti, Dutch would've found a way to screw them over and join some pirate gang because his only purpose was to fight.
How is this guy even alive after nearly 40 years after The Civil War? He would have been gunned down a long time ago asking random people those questions.
Battle of Peralta, 14th of April, 1862, New Mexico. A Union victory only a few dozen combatants injured or killed in the battle however the entire town was reduced to ruble perhaps he was their and witnessed the destruction of the town.
Couldn't anyone just tell him exactly who he is, who he's waiting orders from, and what they're going to do the 2nd or 3rd time they meet him, and prove they know him? Or just fake the orders from his general and tell him to go home?
I’d say this guy has a medical condition. If you’ve seen 50 first dates then it’s like that. Basically this guy had a head injury and can’t store memories from the day before the injury.
I wonder how he was able to survive all those years isolated without getting any food or the like. Doesn't seem like he has someone doing shopping for him...
they should have made a stranger mission in this where he doesn’t realise the war is over and arthur/john decides to bring him to Saint Denis only to find that there is no rebels then he can finally go back to his wife
He’s so crazy he doesn’t realize the rifle he has was made after the civil war.
Dude you're starting to be everywhere
That's the funniest thing about that man
For real. He should have been given a Springfield trap door rifle.
The Springfield trapdoor was manufactured in the 1870s (1871 iirc). The Spencer carbine (the one he has) was manufactured from 1860 to 1869. So it's entirely period accurate to the Civil War.
@@imahoare4742 the Spencer carbine was not very wide spread in the United States military during the Civil war
I love how they ask him what he thinks the year is but never correct him, always wanted to see his reaction to that information
@Optimus Primus oh nah I didn't thanks for that
@Optimus Primus but the man thought he was just exaggerating and he still just didn’t outright say the year
@Optimus Primus Yeah, but the guy thought it was just a figure of speech, not literally 40 years. It's honestly annoying to watch.
The reaction would be the same. I wish you never know this first hand, but no logic, evidence and arguments may break a crazy person's resolve.
Me too
This reminds me of a true story where a Japanese solider still thought it was WW2 after many years while stuck on a island.
Hiroo Onoda is the man you’re referring too.
@@unoriginalhazard Thx
That was a episode from archer
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30 years he thought war was still going
he seems to be suffering some kinda Alzheimer's or dementia, would explain why he doesn't recognize Arthur despite multiple visits.
Just a burning memory...
Or maybe the fact he thinks it’s always 1862. Just a thought.
no shit sherlock
it seems more likely that what he suffer from is antrograde amnesia. it's a condition that stop the victim from being able to form new memory so it would explain why he always say the same date. also fun fact about the condition: while someone suffering from antrograde amnesia cannot make new memory they can still learn skills or improve on those that they allreaady have.
How old must he have been that they assigned him to this outpost all by himself?
This is actually sad this dude has been at his post for like 20+ years thinking the civil war is still ongoing but the saddest part is that his comrades and superiors probably forgot about him after taking Saint Denise from the rebels and winning the war
I don't think they forget him, it seems that he is forgetting new information further the day he think it is, kinda like a memory disability of some kind
Well what do you expect from rapist and murderous invaders
Alzheimers or dementia can do this to anyone, for all you know you could end up in a very similar position once your old
@@donaldtrumplover2254 I'd rather just die honestly than live the same day over and over in my mind.
Or they all died in the battle or got captured and couldn't come for him
I wish there was a way to meet General Scollick and bring him to this man and tell him the war is over.
The general has probably been dead for twenty years tbh. It's safe to assume that this man was in his twenties when he enlisted... Although his weaponry is rather strange. It would most likely have the Springfield or Litchfield as the union mostly moved away from black powder guns and flintlocks, but didn't use a later spencer gun/carbines
@@gageowo9527 True...
@@gageowo9527 might have killed a passerby and taken a functioning rifle if his original broke
@@gageowo9527 I was about to comment that. Would make more sense for him to have a Springfield
My assumption is the man suffers from dementia. He doesn't remember your character.. ever. He probably participated in the fight for Saint Denis, went home. His wife died.. and he ended up just going back to his old post as its the only thing he could remember. It would explain his new kit.
300 Hours of gameplay and still never known of this encounter
Truly a masterpiece of game
Did you ever even wander on your own or did you just play through the single player mindlessly? Bc I've found almost every encounter and that was because I fuckin just roamed the countryside
@@pyrotechnick420 bullshit some encounters are scripted to certain acts or conditions like the lady in the swamp or the female fortune teller. i roamed a lot and tried to explore every corner possible or point of interest on the map. but in this massive game you are bound to miss something. impossible to find everything just by roaming without having some prior knowledge of some specific conditions
@@tripleh327 whoa chill, you don't know just how long he spent on his first playthrough - he might have got 95% of encounters, where you got 50% - he also could have seen all of the interactions through multiple playthroughs
Apparently you don't know how chance works
You'd rather just call BuLlShIt and tell someone they're wrong
@@rambo-cambo3581 i am chill
i am just reacting to someone accusing me of playing the game mindlessly and assuming i haven't done a vast search even after specifying i spent 300 on a gameplay
i call bullshit on somepne accussing others of play the game in a superficial way and taunting to have found nearly everything there was to find on the first try
i simply stated that this particular encounter was unknown to me
and yet some mighty know all arrived on his white high horse to judge others
and i am the villain? yes sure good day to you
@@pyrotechnick420 don’t care didn’t ask loser
"Good soldiers follow orders."
-Captain Hayden Russell, 29th Ambarino Volunteer Infantry.
Maybe I'm wrong but : Is he the husband of the dead skeleton woman in the cabin up North where you can find a pocket mirror for Molly O'shea ???
There was a letter on her, I think the name " Muriel " was in it. That feller wrote to her, never got back and she died alone !
You’re on one there
When he’s 100 years old he’ll probably say “Huh, must be stress.”
Ok Crosshair calm down 😂
I'm surprised that there isn't a final encounter that has one of the characters say that they are part of the Army and have come to relieve him, tell him the war is over and that the South surrendered.
But to be fair, we don't know if that'll even help. What if the next day he wakes up and the war is still going on in his mind? He'll probably forget that we told him the war is over. He just needs someone to take care of him, like a nursing home or something
He's just going to relive the same day again after that.
He has anterograde amnesia - he can't form any new memories. Even if you somehow convinced him the war is over and he can go home, you'd come back the next day and he'd still be standing there waiting for orders like nothing ever happened
.... they do tell him the war is over.... and that it's been 40 years....
But the characters would probrably be asked what regiment their apart of and they wouldn't be able to answer that.
Not that it would have mattered much but it would have been a nice detail to bring him a current newspaper to try convince him times have moved on.
“What is this?! I will not be deceived by Southern propaganda. I’d advise you to move along sir.”
You don't convince a person of anything when they've gone this senile. It's just a game but it really sucks when it happens to someone you know.
@@BradyRamaker Yeah, you just endulge in their musings because telling aunt Hilda her husband is dead when she asks again would just cause her pain, you just tell her he's gone to the shop and allow her to remain happy.
@@BradyRamaker he is not really senile though. he is simply suffering from antrograde amnesia. it's a condition that prevent the victim from making new memory.
Intresting fact that the guy isn't even a captain sure. You could argue it's a developer oversight, but RDR2's attention to detail was on point.
Look at his arm he has two chevrons. The guy is a corporal, possibly suffered a traumatic experience like saw all his guy's get wiped out, including his CO, now he's assumed the identity of his CO and stuck in a Groundhog Day loop the same day all his buddies died.
Wrong a CPL has one blue chevron on his arm not his shoulder he has the Mark of a sergeant PVTs have no mark and officers have the rank on their shoulder
@@mid1429The army now is different from the army over 150 years ago.
@@mid1429bros forgetting this takes place 170 years ago (1860s)
I have a relative who has onset alzheimers and they just don't remember things even if you tell them over and over and show them proof. Depending on how bad it is, they might know they have problems or be completely oblivious. The human mind is defined by the persistence of memory, and when the memories don't persist, don't find purchase in the mind, the victim of the condition can become locked in the same moments. Their body continues to age and deteriorate, but their mental world stays the same, just slowly becoming less acute. It's really sad.
Imagine we can write a letter saying that the war is over and he can return now and sign it as general scollac
How the hell did I miss this encounter
Tryhard I guess
@@John_Kramer6 I have been playing RDR2 ever since it came out, went out of my way to check every cabin, etc. that I saw on the map, and didn't know about this encounter at all lmao
have you seen the ghost train or the whispering woods? hehe
@@TheGingusa Yep
It’s pretty hard to find
Arthur: *Speaks in the thickest texan accent ever*
Also Arthur: I ain't no Southerner
The VA of John is from Indiana
@BradynLee 1. This was in the late 1800s, so modern accents are irrelevant.
2. What are you even talking about with a thick British accent?
He doesn’t sound texan
@@mid1429original poster probably is using texan as a blanket term for "Southern accent"
Actually Arthur has Arkansas accent.
His common dialogues are sometime saying at the end "i think".
He's at least somewhat aware of the passage of time, calling John "my boy" though John is clearly older than Captain Russell was in 1862.
Captain Hayden Russell is ironically exactly like the Lemoyne Raiders :) Still fighting the Civil War in his mind long after the actual war ended LOL
no he isn't. the lemoyne raiders are intentional, aware pieces of shit fighting for racism and slavery. hayden russel is an innocent man suffering from, i would imagine, some combination of senility and PTSD, fighting for his country. their similarities are shallow and few.
@@sydssolanumsamsys The difference is The Lemoyne Raiders are still fighting against actual people. Captain Hayden Russell is camping without moving anywhere forward in front of the same shack for almost 40 years. I think Russell never actually fought in the war. I think he wears the uniform of his dead son who died on the battlefield, most likely.
@@Resident_Legal what does the difference in action matter? if anything, it proves you're wrong to call them exactly the same. and why don't you think he fought in the war? its completely plausible
@@sydssolanumsamsys I'm calling them the same in a satiric manner, on account of them suffering from the same delusion despite being on the opposite sides. Because both Russell and the Raiders still act like the war is ongoing - just to clarify to you because you seem triggered about it. You think just because Russell is wearing a uniform proves that he fought in the war? He could have been a deserter who is trying to convince himself that he is not a deserter anymore on account of being so delusional and wanting to atone for his cowardice, perhaps?! It's just speculations, I'm not saying it's a fact. But we'll never know because Rockstar wants him to remain a mystery in terms of his past.
@Marko Stevanovic he could also be Arthur's son Isaac but it's not very fucking likely is it
We are able to buy all these newspapers in the game, why can’t we give him one to show him??
I'm not sure he will accept the truth.
I'm sure the man is mentally sick, there would be no point. Arthur and John both realize something is wrong when he says 1862, he didn't just lose track of the time.
@@alpy0 Even if you did, the dude clearly has memory loss.
Keep your Confederate propaganda away!
This guy'll probably read them, and forget all about it the next day, and be back doing the same thing.
He was probably lagging until his connection got better, so he is on his own trip lol
Why does this game still surprise me with events? Such a master piece
It’s the best game ever made until now imo
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I wish you get a special dialog wearing that union hat
Mabye he will salute to you and call you he's commander or something
@@TheIrishLad06 i could tell that you aren't from the US hehe
@@cream_pieluver and I can tell you like fnaf lol
@@crazy922blade and I can tell you like the Undertale/Deltarune series
@@Rosenblins and I can tell you are a businesslike skeleton
@@Rosenblins touché lol
If they did not waste so many resources on the completely empty and useless New Austin, maybe they could had fleshed out encounters like these and give them their conclusions
What is there to flesh out ? It is clear he has a neurodegenerative disease and can't remember most of the stuff. They live day by day without an idea what they did a few hours ago and repeat stuff. yet in their head all seems fine. They remember long term memory and important parts of their life, which we have seen here by his dialogue regarding family, younger pre-draft years and a few wartime instances. There is no resolution to be had. His brain can't comprehend it. It is done for. We hospitalize or institutionalize people with such advanced Alzheimer's or Schizophrenia in today's society either in a hospital or a nursing home. You can't fix their head when they reach this stage and you can't reverse it. You can only lower the progression in some cases and mitigate risks of contracting it. Things they had no idea about during that time.
pretty sure the new austin area was mostly made for RDO
@@deanrazor9023 Still, not very useful I suppose.
@@deanrazor9023That and I think they wanted to include the whole segment of John building his house on Beecher’s Hope to set the stage for the events of RDR1, but then couldn’t/didn’t want to leave out the rest of the game. I imagine it’d be a bummer to go to Blackwater and try to ride further down south just to get hit with a sudden 40 foot mountain that magically erodes in a few years or a “you can’t go here” message on the top of your screen.
when I came back to see this guy as John I expected to find a skeleton sitting in that chair, still holding the rifle. I feel like it would have been appropriate to the tone of the game, and the constant themes of death and despair in most of the shacks and cabins and NPC stories.
Maybe I'm wrong but : Is he the husband of the dead skeleton woman in the cabin up North where you can find a pocket mirror for Molly O'shea ???
There was a letter on her, I think the name " Muriel " was in it. That feller wrote to her, never got back and she died alone !
@@jemlesvideo no, but her husband is in the game. Her name was Martha, the cabin is called Martha's Swain and her husband was called Garfield, and he's dead and stuck to a tree at Bolger's Glade with a bayonet right through him and a sign around his neck that says coward or traitor or something like that. if you loot his corpse you get a letter from Martha begging him to desert and not fight in the upcoming battle. so it looks like he tried to do as she asked but was caught and his ex-comrades impaled him to a tree in retribution. He's in the little copse of trees immediately north of the ruined church if you want to find him.
@@-yeme- Oh okay, it is clear now ! Thanks.
I wish this little side story had some sort of real ending.
now that i know of this guy, i will tie the poor captain up and bring him to the alligators...
Huh. I've never actually met him and my first and only playthrough took 200 something hours. What a big game RDR2 is.
there are two things i was really hoping to see here
1: one of the characters, after the second visit to the guy, lying about rank or identity and saying that the old man is finally free or allowing you to ride him back to town where he gives comments on how the world has "so suddenly changed"
2: SOMEONE PLEASE JUST TELL THE POOR OLD MAN HOW LONG HE'S BEEN OUT THERE
Legends have it that he still thinks it’s 1862 161 years later
5 years later and I've never encountered this.
I've been riding through that game for dozens of hours, thought I've seen everything. How did I never meet that man?? He is in so obvious place
Even if someone did bring him a newspaper or something, he probably would've forgotten it the next day.
itd be great if arthur or john would just tell him what year it is
john told him it'd been 40 years but he didn't believe him.
I met this guy but never thought to return to his post.
5:22 John is like, "Oh my god, this maaaaaan!"
I finally did those 2 goddamn gambler challenges
after doing those challenges many times now i actlly enjoy them, quite therapeutic.
@@jpiny4854 I believe that is called a gambling addiction
There actually are real life cases of head trauma that caused the victims to be stuck in a form of limbo, where their minds believe it’s the same day over and over.
I appreciate you fast forwarding the lines that were the same between scenes, made it more seamless to watch
If I know Rockstar right, and I do, something very marking happened in 14th April, 1862, but in real life. This veteran is totally stuck on this date, even years later. Something really bad probably happened in the war at this day and this man is stuck into it.
Quick google search of the date leads to Battle of Peralta which was a minor battle in New Mexico which the Union won. Then again you could probably google any random day in the American Civil War and find a minor battle or skirmish somewhere as a lot of the battles were small scale guerilla raids especially in areas like Missouri and Kansas.
@@maiqtheliar789 Yeah, but these small battles are always traumatic to any soldier. Nothing makes you ready for a war. He probably lost his memory, hit his head in the battle or something like that.
Battle of Peralta, 14th of April, 1862, New Mexico. A Union victory only a few dozen combatants injured or killed in the battle however the entire town was reduced to ruble perhaps he was their and witnessed the destruction of the town.
@@williambeisel5686 Then he left to the middle of nowhere awaiting orders to find and attack the enemies. It makes sense, but he's an old man, so he probably has some memory problems and is living the moment constantly. Maybe a bit of trauma too.
If they do RDR2 and it's a prequel again I feel like we'll meet a younger version of Russel and General Scolik
it’s actually really sad if you think about it
It is indeed. Poor guy... 😢
I wish you could lie and say “the war is over commands from general sir!”
Bring one of the Lemoyne Raiders up with you or wear a confederate hat and he’ll fire on you.
What I haven’t tried yet, bringing him to the Lemoyne Raiders camp. Though I don’t see how that would turn out much different.
He tells you all you need to know why he's "stuck". A farm boy, no train, straight to the front lines . That poor man lost his mind a long time ago.
I was hoping you could go and find Muriel and she could try and talk him out of it. Sad that he’s been stuck out there and feels he needs to stay there.
Maybe I'm wrong but : Is he the husband of the dead skeleton woman in the cabin up North where you can find a pocket mirror for Molly O'shea ???
There was a letter on her, I think the name " Muriel " was in it. That feller wrote to her, never got back and she died alone !
@@jemlesvideo the name was Martha, and you can find her husband dead and stuck to a tree in Bolger's Blade.
I'm mad you can't tell him the war is over.
One of the most severe cases of ptsd I’ve ever seen
Wasn't Muriel the corpse in the cabin north of Emerald Ranch? The one with the letter to a Civil War soldier who was her sweetheart or something.
no, her name is Martha and the letter is from a Confederate named Garfield
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Only stumbled into this guy today, four years after buying the game lol
He’s not a captain he’s actually a corporal. Seems like he’s forgot his rank also
So this is basically the cowboy version of that one Drew Barrymore movie with memory loss
Wow I had no idea this was in the game! Also ur horse is beautiful!
the war was 30 years he would have to bee in his late 60s-70s
Or he could have been in his mid 30’s-50.
Remember back then you didn’t have to be 18 to join the military chances are with him wearing a holistic uniform instead of an officer uniform he was a younger guy when he joined out. Could’ve been a 16 year old teenager. Making him like 40.
It’s sad because the chance that this happened isn’t that unlikely.
What if there was a twilight-zone style ripple in time that actually caused him to travel over 30 years into the future but to him it's only felt like a week?
If that were true he wouldn't be so old.
@@drachenpanzer5622 there was a Twilight zone episode where a pioneer from the 1840s ended up in a 1950s road stop. He never aged.
how the hell did I never run into this guy... I have over 250 hours in this game and somehow I missed this encounter.
I know where do u find him ?
I have hundreds of hours in-game and probably hundreds of hours watching Red Dead 2 videos and this is the very first time I heard of this. WTF
I can understand the guy, he's probably guarding the entire army's worth of shoe polish, can't just abandon such an important war-resource.
Arthur & John can't possibly have been the only guys to ask him what year it is
Also, it's obvious that Captain Russell has Dementia, He says that the day is "April 14th, 1862" to Arthur then again the John 8 years later in 1907
How did this guy out live athur😢
Glad to see Captain Russel finally moving on Lemoyne after receiving a rope wire from General Marston.
The guy probably has some problem with his memory. Whenever Arthur comes by he forgets him and most notably is that he still thinks the war is happening. Someone has probably told him already that the war is over but he forgot.
I have nearly 500 hours on this game. Got every single trophy on the ps4 and I still find loads of content that I’ve missed like this on UA-cam 4 years later.
Insane detail.
Should try and bring micky to him
I will try
Wonder how he would feel if he had a run in with the Lemoyne Raiders
Someone should hogtie one and throw them at him
I'd imagine he'd "fill" them with lead on sight
It seems like he has some form of anterograde amnesia. He can't form new memories so every day to him is April 14th 1862 because that is the last time his brain could recall any long term memories. Not sure what could have caused it though, save for head trauma.
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He think this is 1862, but have winchester who was invented after war.
he's intensely delusional
It’s a Sharps rifle made around 1862, it’s not far fetched that he has it and thinks the war’s still going on
@@thegreatrobin2329 and he's intensly delusional. he's been here for 40 winters and still thinks it's 1862- his fuckin' rifle isn't the biggest issue
@@thegreatrobin2329 Sharps rifle? Sharps rifle is one shot break load gun.
Gun this old man have lever like winchester.
Love how they (re)introductions are fast-forwarded. 😀
It seems to me his life is pretty good compared to the VDL gang.
It's funny how Arthur keeps finding places that he would consider paradise, but refuses to go AWOL. I always thought he should take over Hamish's cabin, or shack up with Charlotte, he could even have joined/taken Black and White's treehouse. He finds so many abandoned homes with nearby water and food hunting, yet keeps crawling back to Dutch and the deadbeats. Pm At least he got a nice grave - better than Hosea.
My very first playthrough I abandoned the game in chapter 4 things in the story got so bad that after the trolley incident I decided to head to the grizzlies the only place I didn't have a bounty and live off the land there. I made a separate save file and that was the ending in my head. By the point you've massacred four small towns and a big city and so many people close to you have been killed off it doesn't make sense to stay. Especially people like Charles or Mary Beth who had only been with the gang a few months before the story started. And witnessed all these massacres. It's why I'm not a big fan of high honor playthroughs and save non story missions for the end of the game.
@@bodhi6769 I like it. Make your own happy ending.
They all bought Dutch's manipulations.
Arthur's diary mentions that they at one point had a chance to buy a plot of land from somewhere, but one way or another they couldn't, as a result of Dutch's war against civilization. Even if they somehow made it to Tahiti, Dutch would've found a way to screw them over and join some pirate gang because his only purpose was to fight.
would be cool if rd2 took place around this time period
How is this guy even alive after nearly 40 years after The Civil War? He would have been gunned down a long time ago asking random people those questions.
the game has a slight duality of realism, and this guy resides on the more realistic side. ie, people didnt shoot strangers for irritating them
I mean crazier shit has happened in real life
Hell even post WW2 with soldiers stuck on Islands still fighting
Battle of Peralta, 14th of April, 1862, New Mexico. A Union victory only a few dozen combatants injured or killed in the battle however the entire town was reduced to ruble perhaps he was their and witnessed the destruction of the town.
Couldn't anyone just tell him exactly who he is, who he's waiting orders from, and what they're going to do the 2nd or 3rd time they meet him, and prove they know him? Or just fake the orders from his general and tell him to go home?
Imagine this is just a ruse so he can live there alone, without having to pay for taxes or anything
I don’t understand why neither of them told him the war is over should have been able to bring him a newspaper or something
I wonder if he would open fire if you approach him with a Lemoyne Raider hat
He wont
Captain Hayden Russell, 29th Ambarino Volunteer Infantry.
What would be cool is if this encounter was the only way to get a muzzle loader rifle
Sure, it's only a buck, but if you think about it, it's a buck everytime
As with any good Red Dead 2 clip, the video ends with the cool, thoughtful, unique character being brutalized by Arthur.
damn they used to larp in 1899?
1:14 Alvin and the Chipmunk’s distant ancestor.
I do find it odd that he think it's 1862. Like, I understand he doesn't realize it's over, but holdouts doesn't mean they don't lose track of time.
First time I ran into this guy was on a moonlit night, with nothing but his dark silhouette visible. Legit thought he was a ghost.
Scene 3 what horse was that ? Never seen it before, it was so cool
Mft
Missouri Fox Trotter
If he thinks that there is a civil war why he doesn’t have a musket then?
I’d say this guy has a medical condition. If you’ve seen 50 first dates then it’s like that. Basically this guy had a head injury and can’t store memories from the day before the injury.
I'm annoyed that you can't give him a newspaper and show him the year
he wouldn't believe it
This reminds me of when my grandmother first came down with Alzheimer’s, honestly. She thought my mom was still in school when 9/11 happened.
i met someone in the woods like this in real life guys he thought he was still fighting in the civil
I wonder how he was able to survive all those years isolated without getting any food or the like. Doesn't seem like he has someone doing shopping for him...
I think he’s the only Union Vet in the game
they should have made a stranger mission in this where he doesn’t realise the war is over and arthur/john decides to bring him to Saint Denis only to find that there is no rebels then he can finally go back to his wife
So what does he eat, if he's there from years and doesn't leave his post? Lol
Reminds me of Crazy Cooper from the Paper Brigade.
As one neighbor put it, "He step on one too many landmine!"
I met Captain Russell after Arthur's death while playing as John. I instantly killed this Ahole... got a -1, but hey... Got to do what you got to do.
Surely outposts like these will at least get a notification that they've won and will send in other men to occupy the place or something?
Crazy how he thinks it’s the exact same day and year
What if you sneak in Saint-Denis at night and drop him at the cop station
It's clear he has memory loss, a common side effect of lumbago.