@done 1 It's to help you identify when the pop-ups with text change. Makes sense for a 360 degree video, plus you can hear the direction. Helped me, wasn't too loud.
I’m an actor in this and there actually was no camera man probably 90% of the time. The camera was a large plexiglass sphere that would be placed in the middle of the scene. Crew would yell “CLEAR THE SPHERE” and find cover. Then after about a minute yell action. It was a wild experience as an actor.
E McK fear-mongering about ethnic groups and looking down on people who find success sounds like anti-American propaganda, the type of thing peddled by capitalism hating communists/fascists
It's an idea that will probably be done at some point, but the issue is allowing free movement of the camera goes against the whole idea of cinema. You would have to force the viewer to look at certain directions.
@@LordJagd It's supposed to be an experience most wars have people strategize for plans or counter positions on the enemies, you're literally the person overhearing most plans and going into war.
@@tyrranicalt-rad6164 the Federalists won, now you enjoy a govt controlled by bankers, bureaucrats and federal agendas! i dont think you should be thanking god for anything!
Lost 2 relatives in that war. Eleazer Moore and his son Lewis G. Moore. Both enlisted in Maine in late 1861. Both taken prisoner in 1864. Both died in captivity. Lewis, of the 1st Maine Cavalry, volunteered for Dahlgren's Raid on Richmond. Captured and died at Andersonville, his body is in an unmarked grave. Eleazer fought with the 30th Maine Infantry during the Red River Campaign in Louisiana. He probably walked across the dead line so he could die on the anniversary of his wife's death...June, 16. She died as a result of giving birth to Lewis, June 16, 1842.
There were more than the history books would like you to believe, there were even entire free black units with black officers. One such that I can think of was formed in Louisiana by black volunteers; can't remember the unit size but I think it was more in line with a regiment or division.
@@weirdsearchhistory5876 I know that if you were a black soldier in the Civil War if you were fighting alongside white soldier (which was already unlikely) you'd more than like be on the Union side. Ik it was more common than we were all taught I'm not disagreeing with you but you've got to put it into context
@@TauCu Do you not know what the civil war was about? (it was about the south being opposed to not being able to keep black people as slaves anymore. It was even in South Carolina's declaration of secession.) So that argument really doesn't apply here.
True, however this is the American Battlefield Trust. They preserve battlefields in the United States, so dont expect to see anything like the battle of Stalingrad here. If they make more they'll likely do more US Civil war, then some American Revolution, French and Indian War (7 Years War), War Of 1812, Mexican-American War, maybe Spanish American war and then possibly some indian wars. If they do cover anything outside of American Soil expect it to be only Battles and wars Americans or American/British Colonists participated in.
It is a good effort, but film quality sucks ! 60% of the film, or more, was out of focus and fuzzy. The reenactors I thought were high quality and authentically attired/uniformed. I did reenacting for 45 years, (1 1/2 years as a yankee 1861 US Marine Det.,U.S.S. "Hartford", and 43 1/2 years in seven different Confederate units). I got back from Vietnam and 4 years as a 0311 in June,1970, and in Sept., 1970 was in my first Civil War skirmish ~ went from a '69-'70 Nam Marine to an 1861 Marine in 3 months. From firing 5.56mm rounds from a M-16 at Communist VC & NVA, to firing (blank) rounds from a .58 caliber single shot "Zouave" Rifle Musket. Quite an experience ! LOVED IT !
This was a completely innovative way of showing those times. It really helped me feel that period in a more realistic and genuine way! good job whoever did this!
Yep, it's so nice of the camera man to risk his life just so we could see what was going on during the war. He even went through the trouble of using a 360° camera
Sadly they forgot to credit Democrats for the inspiration to bring us that beloved 600 K. death war, sadly all Dem's & Lib's get to kill is 70 million babies, but God bless em they do love killing! Best demonstrating, Romans 6:23, "Death is the wages of Sin". But who are we to judge death, Right? With all that death shouldn't Death & Democrats be synonym's?
i think its because teachers are more focused on the politics and the causes and effects of what happened during the war rather than any battlefield tactics or what life was like. well thats my how teacher is teaching us, and i dont know about other teachers though
I give respect to all those men who fought, along with all the women who helped. Although this tragic war was very deadly it helped the future of America. RIP to the many people who died in this tragic war.
Wow, this brings home some of the hard reality that doesn't always come through when reading books or visiting a battle field on a sunny summer afternoon. For the soldiers it wasn't about generals and flags and where this or that regiment stood. It was killing and death. They were trapped in a dirty, brutal horror story come to life.
Yea. More often then not some of the citizen soldiers ended up fighting due to the battle being brought to their families land. At that point is was no longer about political leanings or racial concerns, it was being told this or that army was on their way and your land (the only thing you had) was about to be forfeit. The politics are always taught in school. The human reality never is. Go to battle ground sites , read some of the recovered letters, read the markers of what actually happened.
@@dondavi5798 Most importantly read what the veterans themselves said of the carnage. The only real truth about war is that it's either *you or the other man* on the end of your rifle. You kill him before he kills you. And when the bullets stop flying we're all human again. Like at Sharpsburg at the "bloody lane" when a Confederate soldier who was wounded in his leg had a dead man laying on it. A passing Union soldier knocked the dead man off of his leg. Or at Gettysburg when a Union Soldier picked up a bird nest that had fallen out of a tree due to shell fire and put it back. Stories like this matter, videos like this matter.
@@JohnnyReb Yup,I know someone directly related to "The Angel of Marye's Heights" at the Battle of Fredricksburg. I've been to many a battle field. Have family in Fredricksburg, live in the Carolinas and spend a lot of time in Georgia. It's madening sometimes the very Cliff Noted version people are taught in school. Took my daughters in 2010 to the Bentonville Battlefield where the Jr Army was all that was left to face down the Real opposing army. Had them think on the idea of todays generations having that kind of conviction, courage, or maturity to stand against that kind of tide. The site that is the main hub is in fact a family farm turned hospital. A lot of skirmishes and fierce battles went on in that area.
I grew up near Petersburg, VA. The whole area around there was a battlefield. When I was a kid I heard about the war from the old timers who heard about it when they were kids from their grandparents who lived it. Many of the old farm houses in our neighborhood still bear the scars of that war. The old house on the farm across the road the road from our farm was a hospital. The floor in one of the front rooms was completely stained with blood. The old Slovak farmer who lived there rolled the carpet up once and showed it to me. He said the people his parents bought the place from in the 1890s when they came here from the old country said that room was where they did the amputations. The old farmer swore the place was haunted.
Basically all of Virginia is haunted like no other. I don’t really even think anywhere else but Gettysburg and New England can compete with the level of historical energy and sorrow present in those regions. Gettysburg is by far the most compelling place ever. If you don’t believe in ghosts, go to Gettysburg and around on a slow day. .
@Trevor N...what a story. My favorite Civil War photographer is A J Russell, who took the most publicized photo of the 19th century..."The Wedding of the Rails" at Promontory Summit, UT. AJ was also a war photographer....the only one in the Union Army. There are well-publicized works' of his available. Thanks for your well-written response. 🙂
@@Superbl0bby I met a 94 year old man at a reenactment who's grandfather fought for the south from Danville Virginia at a very young age survived the war and had children late into his life
No war as grim as a Civil War. This was really well done. I'm a Brit but the U.S Civil War remains my favourite period to study, I just find it endlessly fascinating. The first literate war, with all the letters written home providing an incredible record. The astonishing personalities involved, from 'Old Blue Light' Stonewall Jackson to the frankly bizarre Daniel Sickles. I had the honour and the pleasure of photographing over a year UK reenactors of the US Civil War (I was embedded :) in the Union lines with the 18th Missouri), and eventually of visiting the battlefields of Gettysburg and Perryville. So strange that Europe sent so many military observers, and learned absolutely nothing about the awful nature of industrialised warfare for when WWI rolled around. Thank you the American Battlefield Trust for keeping history alive.
Though, you could also argue that the US didn't learn anything from the Crimean War, where we had notable observers. The start of earthen fortifications to combat rifled artillery, first rapid fire weapons, trench warfare. I suppose there's always an earlier war we should've learned from, but the message tends to be more about how to kill more people faster than how to avoid the conflict all together...
At least two of my ancestors (that I know of) took part in the seige. Privates Benjamin F. West and James W. West Company E. 26th Virginia Infantry Regiment. James was KIA on September 11th 1864. Probably by a sharpshooter.
I lived in GA 29 years so of course i'm a civil war buff.In TX now.Stood in every trench imaginable.Even charged a bridge on a motorcycle in MS to get a feel for their actual charge by horse.But one thing always resonates.I'm glad as a man that i'm alive in a different era.The odds of me surviving that catastrophe couldnt have been very good.If i'm not outright killed than i'm injured.I'm not sure that's any better in those days.This is a great piece.And you can move the scenes around with your finger in order to spot that guy who a nanosecond later takes your shoulder off.
makes sense, traitors throwing away their lives for a doomed rebellion based on the interests of racist plantation owners would become the best at digging holes
@@magneto44 All I'm going to say is racism was an everywhere thing in those days. The men fighting for the union where as racist as their rebel counterparts. Even Lincoln himself.
Johnny Reb except one side expressly stated in their state constitutions that they were seceding to defend slavery, and the other side forced them to give up their slaves after the war. Doesn’t sound like the two sides were the same to me
@@IamtheNeptune In their state Constitutions? I believe you're talking about the "Declarations Of Causes" which interestingly enough weren't written by the state legislators of the states that did write an "Article of Secession/Declaration of Causes" but rather by a political minority who lost power after the events at Fort Sumter. Not all states that left the union by secession wrote one of those documents. Governor John W. Ellis. Governor of North Carolina had this to say. www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.13501200/ Also the United States government was not fighting to free the slaves as per the Crittenden-Johnson Resolutions. _________________________________ The Crittenden-Johnson Resolutions on the Objects of the War, 1861 (from Richardson (ed.), Messages and Addresses of Congress, Vol. 6:430) The Crittenden Resolutions [Passed by the House of Representatives] Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the country by the disunionists of the Southern States now in revolt against the constitutional Government and in arms around the capital; that in this national emergency Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged on our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease. The Johnson Resolutions [Passed by the Senate] Resolved, That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the country by the disunionists of the Southern States now in revolt against the constitutional Government and in arms around the capital; that in this national emergency Congress, banishing all feeling of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not prosecuted upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with rights or *established institutions of those States*, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and all laws made in pursuance thereof, and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and righs of the several States unimpaired; that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease." ______________________________ As a suggestion I think it'd be a good idea to grab yourself a copy of this book. www.amazon.com/Complicity-Promoted-Prolonged-Profited-Slavery/dp/0345467833/ref=asc_df_0345467833/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312174369544&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10815055356097898752&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9008428&hvtargid=pla-568647305947&psc=1 Or take a look at this site. slavenorth.com
4:01; lieutenants and captains are called company grade officers; majors, lieutenant colonels and (full) colonels are called field grade officers; brigadier, Major, lieutenant and general are all called flag officers. They get this moniker because they actually have flags.
I always found the story of the veteran Yankee soldier that had been shot in the leg, had it amputated, and was playing cards right after he'd awakened from the surgery like no big thing morbid, and funny in a way only veterans would understand. A hospital orderly went by pushing a wheelbarrow full of amputated arms and legs and the soldier stopped him, saying he'd like to see his leg one last time so he started rummaging through the grisly pile until he found his leg with a distinguishing bunion on it. He said his farewell to it and went right back to playing cards and smoking his pipe. After 4 years of war the survivors were a very hard set of men that could endure whatever was thrown at them. I couldn't imagine marching 30 miles a day in Southern heat wearing wool uniforms while living on coffee, tainted water and wormy hardtack.
@@JohnnyReb I've read many times the ordinary soldiers wished they could quit fighting and make the politicians that started the whole thing fight it out. Right after Lee's surrender a Union soldier visited a Rebel camp and said he was treated like a brother there-mutual respect.
@@tomservo5347 That war was very strange in many ways. I've read that at Cold Harbor in 1864 a Union color barer was advancing toward the rebel line so calmly as if he was on dress parade. When suddenly the Confederates started telling him "Go back! Go back!" Apparently he looked around and noticed his unit was all behind him cut to pieces, dead or wounded. The color barer halted in front of the Confederate earthworks made a hand salute with his flag before smartly turning on his heel and returning to his own lines. There are so many stories like this. I find the amount of respect they had for each other to be completely inspiring.
@@JohnnyReb Yea, that was a good story. They were really the same set of men-same country, religion, history. Confederate Sam Watkins wrote about how while foraging for food he ran into a Yankee-and they both decided shooting each other wouldn't change anything so they both raided an abandoned house together. Another time an old cabin was in between picket lines. Both sides used it as it was winter and they made an agreement to keep the firewood stocked and a nice fire going in the fireplace before they left and the other side took over. Another one was the Confederates that invited some Yankees over to a dance they were having and gave them their word they'd be safe. A Confederate officer showed up hearing the commotion, saw the Yankees and ordered them arrested-to which his men pleaded that they had given their word of honor to their 'guests' they'd be safe. The officer relented, gave them the 'don't do it again' speech and let them finish their dance.
Omg this reminds me of my 8th grade history teacher, when he tought the civil war he would legit get very emotional. Just something about him always had me engaged.
I had a teacher at FIU who had a relative fight for Confederacy at famous battle of the blowing up of the Confederate lines (The largest one up to that time in military history). Hi was the only member of the Louisiana regiment who was not there when the explosion
Wow!it's like i have travelled back in time wow wow wow very amazing codus to those who act here very proffesionals,director,producer i mean all who made this possible you are all guys amazing!!!,
It took me a few scenes to realize the viewpoint could be adjusted. This definitely compounds the depth of the experience with confusion if not panic as to what was going on all around in a situation over which you have little if any control.
@@kiktik2413 for the americans, it was much more bloody. 620,000 americans died in the civil war, which would include soldiers, civilians, and slaves. about 300,000 americans died in ww2, almost entirely soldiers
This is a fantastic idea. I could 100% see kids being more interested in learning history in a way like this, than out of a textbook or via lecture. My only notes are that the text to read was coming in pretty non stop and I wished I had more time to look around and take in all of the incredible detail you put into this. That and the guy getting shot at 8:00 who had bright colourful socks on lol. But seriously, you’re onto something here that could and should take off. Well done to all involved in this project.
As a teenager, I can confirm kids would be far more interested in learning this way. I mean like, I'm usually falling asleep in history class, yet I watched this voluntarily during my free time and enjoyed it.
This is extraordinary. Better than any Civil War motion picture from Hollywood. The actors in this were quite convincing as though camera's weren't even there.
That was absolutely fantastic. I can't commend you enough. It brings you onto the battlefield so you have the perspective of the combatants. Quite a rare glimpse. Simply marvelous.
As a Civil War Reenactor I've got to say this is amazing and really gives a better perspective in the modern era of what late-war battlefields had evolved into
What? Late-War battles? Robert E. Lee was called the King of Spades in 1862 because of how often he dug eathworks and trenches. Trench warfare didn't magically start towards the war's end. There were very extensive trenches while Gettysburg was going on, at Vicksburg.
@@SStupendous But these earlier trenches not part of almost static siege type war fair with trench lines on both side in contact constantly with the enemy. Especially different the siege guns employed. Vicksburg's defenses were not opposite a union line of defenses instead made ready for a union assault that finally came but that did not turn into months of stalemate like the late war. This was full on WWI style static lines against each other something the world had not really seen on this scale and the death of successful mass charges in many cases as cannons by this period fired often shells made of paper that worked like later metal clad shells with fragmentation material surrounding an explosive charge with a fuse to detonate or impact fuse. With the much greater accuracy of the rifle charges got way more deadly when combined with the much better late cannon use which also had sights carried by the gunner put on to aim then took off to fire.
@@RedRocket4000 I get what you're saying now. I thought you were doing what many do, say that trench warfare only started in the final campaigns of the war - which of course isn't correct.
@@RedRocket4000 What... "Shells made of paper".... give me one example of that? Shells from this period, elongated, iron, steel or brass-covered projectiles.
When I was growing up we lived on a vegetable farm. One property line was the top center of a line of earthworks with a crater at one end. The area there has been developed into Pamplin Park. My math tutor lived in the large white home. It was like going in a museum.
As a Brit I see remarkable similarities between the warfare of 1864 and that of the Western Front 50 years later. Trench warfare prevented tactical mobility, especially where the battlefield was dominated by either long-range rifle (1864) or machine-gun (1916). Obviously there are also huge differences, especially in the field of medicine where Lister, almost exactly contemporaneously to the US Civil War, was introducing initially anti but later aseptic surgery which would transform medicine.
This is so great. I just discovered this.Thank you for creating this. I've been reading Civil War books lately and explaining a lot as I learn to my 10 year son. He loves to learn about the Civil War and WW2. And we both love this.
Amputations back in them ol' days ain't so fun Gotta saw em up or sometimes chop em, rather than usin some sort of anesthetic There are time that even wounded soldiers even look at them limbs getting cut off. Not a pleasant experience, I tell you that I'm gettin r/wooshed am I?
Something else to add: They didn't know about germs or that dirty bandages could spread disease. Half of those deaths from amputations could very well be just from taking bandages from dead soldiers covering their wounds, and wrapping the next injured soldiers wounds with rags that had gang-green.
American surgery came of age during the Civil War. Germ Theory was yet a generation away, true, but doctors did their best to combat the "inflamation" that they knew to cause such widespread suffering and death. Rudimentary antiseptic practices were devised and taken up, much of the time through trial and error, with the horrendous number of casualties that the war produced functioning as a great laboratory. Iodine and Bromine was known to fight infection and both were liberally applied both to battle wounds and surgical operations, which although caustic and leaving chemical scars proved effective in fighting rampant infection. As well, bandages were re-used, but were not simply transfered from one patient to the next. They would be cleaned in boiling water (like a cloth diaper) and then hung to dry in sunlight. Actually, a bandage so cleaned might have been more sterile for the second patient than one put directly onto a wound after having spent however long travelling to the battlefield in a trunk somewhere. The death rate for all battlefield surgery in the Union Army at the beginning of the war was something like 20%; by the end of the war that had fallen to below 10%. In the Confederate Army, plagued though they were with equipment shortages of every type, the rate had fallen from around 25% to about 15% by the end, an incredible accomplishment.
Watching this on VR got me teared up. Beauty, amazement and heartbreaking. Tribute to soldiers worldwide facing all these and much more. Imagine all these bloodshed just for the generations today to live pampered, irresponsible and party all time.
My dad's friends grandpa fought in this war. He was wounded 6 times and fought many battles. He said it was crazy and he never got over watching his friends die. He never ever spoke about it
My eyes are open wide indeed. A vivid & terrifying video experience . Hearing the advancing men beg for water, or the hospital depiction really brings the experience to a personal level.
Just some constructive criticism. Finding the little tooltip messages was rather difficult. I don't think narration would ruin the immersion much and would allow us to continue focusing on whatever had caught our fancy before then. Beyond that though this was an incredible way to see a war that is much different from how we currently view conflict.
@@Drackleyrva Not sure why you wouldn't but alrighty. If I'm not mistaken his Regiment would've belonged to General Mahone's Division. If I could I'd thank him for his service.
0:45
Historical inaccuracy.
The Rebs always had their notifications muted.
Hello Dr. coomer, wouldn’t expect to see you here
@@drharoldpontiffcoomer I'm not even- okay whatever
@@drharoldpontiffcoomer wait-WAIT NONONO DONT TOUCH THOSE THEY ARENT ROPES
@@drharoldpontiffcoomer goddammit *shoots the alien barnacle thing*
Your PFP is horrifying
If you didn't know (I didn't) you can click on the screen and drag the perspective around
far out!
Just like a real battlefield!
Thank you
Oh my goodness
Thanks for the alert. Rewatched it, I had missed a lot.
My US History class loved watching this as an activity. This is truly an amazing tool to educate students
@@AnywhereMiami I always teach My Lai. It's a dark part of US History that has to be taught.
I’m an actor in this and that makes me incredibly happy to hear.
Our history teacher had us do some combat scenarios and would put is in charge of fictional armies against each other.
Same my teacher showed us this as a BS question of what we noticed, questions we had, and what we thought was happening it was fun
@@KevinMcGannon Hey man, awesome work. What was your role in this movie?
Man I really hope you guys make another one of these sometime soon y'all knocked it out of the park with the quality and accuracy.
07:52 "No! He's just a child, let him live!" -Unknown Soldier
*Respect*
best scene was them carrying him away while artillery was shelling them
They need to make one of these on the revolutionary war and the war of 1812, these are great
Pfff
He died instantly after saying it.
Nah hes a traitor.
Since when could UA-cam do this. This is the most innovative thing I have ever seen and its in 4k!
Been doing it for at least 4-5 years I think, it’s pretty cool.
It’s amazing isn’t it
Data mining
It's history
@Treqrs why not ? its very cool
Alright who's the guy who keeps getting Snapchat notifications on the battlefield.
@done 1 It's to help you identify when the pop-ups with text change. Makes sense for a 360 degree video, plus you can hear the direction. Helped me, wasn't too loud.
He took his phone to talk to his girl
Completely ruins the entire point of the scene. :(
lol
He gets all the ladies 💀
Bro Shoutout to the cameraman for filming the war bro we respect you 🫡
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Camera man has so many Snapchat notifications too turn it down 😭🙏
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I’m an actor in this and there actually was no camera man probably 90% of the time. The camera was a large plexiglass sphere that would be placed in the middle of the scene. Crew would yell “CLEAR THE SPHERE” and find cover. Then after about a minute yell action. It was a wild experience as an actor.
Better acting than most blockbusters lol
@E McK Yikes
E McK Hey, just to enlighten you, *facism was doomed to fail*
ummm, not really, though this was well done
E McK fear-mongering about ethnic groups and looking down on people who find success sounds like anti-American propaganda, the type of thing peddled by capitalism hating communists/fascists
@E McK Well the problem seems to be, Jewish parents learn their children to tie shoes. Follow the example...
This is the future of war movies... Truly immersive VR
just play video games lol
Chrisna 1311 graphics man
It's an idea that will probably be done at some point, but the issue is allowing free movement of the camera goes against the whole idea of cinema. You would have to force the viewer to look at certain directions.
@@roarrrist ok looser
@@roarrrist ok loner
its a good thing they had 360 degree cameras back in 1864, or else this history might have been lost forever!
XD thats just it how was this made ?
@@Weilyrox1 yes why else would there be soldiers there XD
Weebsters this is a re-enactment idiot
Weebsters how are you so dumb
@@marlinanenomeposeidonthdar4677 Wow really? I should’ve made a joke about that!
This is a great virtual tour/ experience, cant wait see how this is taken to the next level!
Whoever made that blurry affected when the soldier woke up. Nice job, Really Really good.
Museums of the future should have VR stations where you can get an experience of what it was like
I wouldn't be surprised if a museum had something like that now.
This is the future of movies.
ϟ not a black person ϟ I voted for Matt Gaetz as our congress men for my district so were safe for now lol
pforce9 And video games
@@notablackperson2126 Are you ok?
Bedankt
As someone who was personally there, I can confirm this's exactly how it looked. Technology & all.
thats awesome thank you for your service!!
@@RealWhore satire, right?
@@Bruh-bx9mh no hazel was actually there and we must congratulate them for serving!
Can confirm that he was there! Great to see you again my friend. Its been a long time :)
Same dude what regiment were you with
The dialogue is awesome. some nice headphones make this quite the experience.
I thought it was really distracting. This is supposed to be a VR experience, and yet these guys are talking like they're in a crappy Civil War movie.
This is cra cra
@@LordJagd It's supposed to be an experience most wars have people strategize for plans or counter positions on the enemies, you're literally the person overhearing most plans and going into war.
6:42 That's one advantage of the brown hues of their uniforms.
They somewhat blend in with the leaves.
Thank God they lost the war. Am I right ? 🇺🇸
@@tyrranicalt-rad6164 the Federalists won, now you enjoy a govt controlled by bankers, bureaucrats and federal agendas! i dont think you should be thanking god for anything!
Union soldiers were invisible when swimming tho xd
@@tyrranicalt-rad6164, no
Johnny Reb and the dirt.
My grandpa was astonished how realistic this is. He lived the moment again thanks to you guys
Your grandpa must be like 180 years old!
That’s so believable
@@paradox11111111 inhaling the trench dirt must be the secret to eternal life!
@@GreedyOrange you got a hookup??
@@paradox11111111 since i live in germany near the french border,i practically am the dirt!
Lost 2 relatives in that war. Eleazer Moore and his son Lewis G. Moore. Both enlisted in Maine in late 1861. Both taken prisoner in 1864. Both died in captivity. Lewis, of the 1st Maine Cavalry, volunteered for Dahlgren's Raid on Richmond. Captured and died at Andersonville, his body is in an unmarked grave. Eleazer fought with the 30th Maine Infantry during the Red River Campaign in Louisiana. He probably walked across the dead line so he could die on the anniversary of his wife's death...June, 16. She died as a result of giving birth to Lewis, June 16, 1842.
Thank you for sharing!
13th GA All the way baby
Rest In Peace.
Which side were they in lol
@@romanbellic2178 think of maine....where's maine....
Absolutely amazing, but you definitely need to set time aside in order to watch, so much going on
Yea I felt like I was always missing something when I was looking in the "wrong" direction.
Agreed. It is fantastic though.
Sean Dahl and make the words easier to read. Most of it was blurry but other than that I loved this version of the civil war
2:34 Not even there and it's enough to get my heart pounding.
Best keep your head down!
Me: Is black: Somehow dropped into the middle of the front lines of the Confederate army
The wonderful works of technology
There were more than the history books would like you to believe, there were even entire free black units with black officers. One such that I can think of was formed in Louisiana by black volunteers; can't remember the unit size but I think it was more in line with a regiment or division.
Bruh I'm Mexican, I'm not even supposed to be in US soil lmaoo
@@weirdsearchhistory5876 I know that if you were a black soldier in the Civil War if you were fighting alongside white soldier (which was already unlikely) you'd more than like be on the Union side. Ik it was more common than we were all taught I'm not disagreeing with you but you've got to put it into context
@@TauCu Do you not know what the civil war was about? (it was about the south being opposed to not being able to keep black people as slaves anymore. It was even in South Carolina's declaration of secession.) So that argument really doesn't apply here.
You've just revolutionized history storytelling, please make more of these! Be it from different wars and time periods and so on!
There needs to be more of these.
Denis Prašnički
I agree for like every thing
True, however this is the American Battlefield Trust. They preserve battlefields in the United States, so dont expect to see anything like the battle of Stalingrad here.
If they make more they'll likely do more US Civil war, then some American Revolution, French and Indian War (7 Years War), War Of 1812, Mexican-American War, maybe Spanish American war and then possibly some indian wars. If they do cover anything outside of American Soil expect it to be only Battles and wars Americans or American/British Colonists participated in.
@@harborseal1286 Creating an alternative channel and filming for the second channel could be low priority!
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The acting in this was much better than I would've expected!
Makes it easier to watch while sittin in a swivel chair. Pretty good video!
This is by far the coolest thing I've seen on UA-cam
Your picture is creepy man
@@Joanropo I guess idk it's from a computer game I barely remember
@@ihatedinonuggets imscared
It is a good effort, but film quality sucks ! 60% of the film, or more, was out of focus and fuzzy. The reenactors I thought were high quality and authentically attired/uniformed. I did reenacting for 45 years, (1 1/2 years as a yankee 1861 US Marine Det.,U.S.S. "Hartford", and 43 1/2 years in seven different Confederate units). I got back from Vietnam and 4 years as a 0311 in June,1970, and in Sept., 1970 was in my first Civil War skirmish ~ went from a '69-'70 Nam Marine to an 1861 Marine in 3 months. From firing 5.56mm rounds from a M-16 at Communist VC & NVA, to firing (blank) rounds from a .58 caliber single shot "Zouave" Rifle Musket. Quite an experience ! LOVED IT !
Can I have some.....wow outerspace
This was a completely innovative way of showing those times. It really helped me feel that period in a more realistic and genuine way! good job whoever did this!
Yep, it's so nice of the camera man to risk his life just so we could see what was going on during the war. He even went through the trouble of using a 360° camera
@@Mapspalo He did leave his notification sounds on, though. Kinda ruined the footage if you ask me.
Yes,but he needs to answer his snaps
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Man. I almost broke my neck trying to read those notifications.
Very good video. Very informative. Never seen 3D vids like this before
That was incredible. Well done.
Sadly they forgot to credit Democrats for the inspiration to bring us that beloved 600 K. death war, sadly all Dem's & Lib's get to kill is 70 million babies, but God bless em they do love killing! Best demonstrating, Romans 6:23, "Death is the wages of Sin". But who are we to judge death, Right? With all that death shouldn't Death & Democrats be synonym's?
In honor of No Nut November I'll have to settle for this kind of POV instead.
Slecker
Lmao
Stay strong
Loool
@Gappie Al Kebabi Bold of you to assume my gender in current year.
@Gappie Al KebabiI'm no mere man nor woman. I'm a gamer.
This was unexpectedly the coolest youtube video I’ve ever saw. Why isn’t all history taught this way?
i think its because teachers are more focused on the politics and the causes and effects of what happened during the war rather than any battlefield tactics or what life was like. well thats my how teacher is teaching us, and i dont know about other teachers though
Because this is a massive project
More than likely because this video cost thousands of dollars to make probably
I give respect to all those men who fought, along with all the women who helped. Although this tragic war was very deadly it helped the future of America. RIP to the many people who died in this tragic war.
Wow, this brings home some of the hard reality that doesn't always come through when reading books or visiting a battle field on a sunny summer afternoon. For the soldiers it wasn't about generals and flags and where this or that regiment stood. It was killing and death. They were trapped in a dirty, brutal horror story come to life.
Yea. More often then not some of the citizen soldiers ended up fighting due to the battle being brought to their families land. At that point is was no longer about political leanings or racial concerns, it was being told this or that army was on their way and your land (the only thing you had) was about to be forfeit. The politics are always taught in school. The human reality never is. Go to battle ground sites , read some of the recovered letters, read the markers of what actually happened.
@@dondavi5798 Most importantly read what the veterans themselves said of the carnage.
The only real truth about war is that it's either *you or the other man* on the end of your rifle.
You kill him before he kills you.
And when the bullets stop flying we're all human again.
Like at Sharpsburg at the "bloody lane" when a Confederate soldier who was wounded in his leg had a dead man laying on it.
A passing Union soldier knocked the dead man off of his leg.
Or at Gettysburg when a Union Soldier picked up a bird nest that had fallen out of a tree due to shell fire and put it back.
Stories like this matter, videos like this matter.
@@JohnnyReb Yup,I know someone directly related to "The Angel of Marye's Heights" at the Battle of Fredricksburg. I've been to many a battle field. Have family in Fredricksburg, live in the Carolinas and spend a lot of time in Georgia. It's madening sometimes the very Cliff Noted version people are taught in school.
Took my daughters in 2010 to the Bentonville Battlefield where the Jr Army was all that was left to face down the Real opposing army. Had them think on the idea of todays generations having that kind of conviction, courage, or maturity to stand against that kind of tide. The site that is the main hub is in fact a family farm turned hospital. A lot of skirmishes and fierce battles went on in that area.
Just wait until we get Star Trek Hollow decks are the games from sword art online
@@JohnnyReb "and when the bullets stop flying we're all humans again"
Except for, you know, the slaves.
When the 40 second attack segment feels like 3 minutes then you know it's realistic
Props to the guy who traveled back in time to the Civil War to capture this amazing footage.
@@stereomachine أي فلم هذا وشكرا
i guess he gets whacked at the end :/
@@stereomachine youtube trash keeps upvoting it. We are gonna keep seeing it
LOL so insightful, humor instead of anything to say.. NICE get them likes and improve your... life .... I guess ...
@@سامرالوادعي-د6ص
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Thank you for your service by bringing us this footage and risking your life in the name of media journalism Mr. Cameraman! :P
I grew up near Petersburg, VA. The whole area around there was a battlefield. When I was a kid I heard about the war from the old timers who heard about it when they were kids from their grandparents who lived it. Many of the old farm houses in our neighborhood still bear the scars of that war. The old house on the farm across the road the road from our farm was a hospital. The floor in one of the front rooms was completely stained with blood. The old Slovak farmer who lived there rolled the carpet up once and showed it to me. He said the people his parents bought the place from in the 1890s when they came here from the old country said that room was where they did the amputations. The old farmer swore the place was haunted.
Basically all of Virginia is haunted like no other. I don’t really even think anywhere else but Gettysburg and New England can compete with the level of historical energy and sorrow present in those regions. Gettysburg is by far the most compelling place ever. If you don’t believe in ghosts, go to Gettysburg and around on a slow day. .
We are only 3 well placed handshakes away from people who lived through the civil war
@Trevor N...what a story. My favorite Civil War photographer is A J Russell, who took the most publicized photo of the 19th century..."The Wedding of the Rails" at Promontory Summit, UT. AJ was also a war photographer....the only one in the Union Army. There are well-publicized works' of his available. Thanks for your well-written response. 🙂
I live a few minutes outside of Gettysburg, PA. A handful of times driving through the battlefield at night, I've seen things..
@@Superbl0bby I met a 94 year old man at a reenactment who's grandfather fought for the south from Danville Virginia at a very young age survived the war and had children late into his life
bravo to everyone involved keep the past alive!
Very interesting and very scary to have actually fought during those times.
You fought in the civil war?
@@zeetree5719 Yes. He did. I remember being in the trenches with him.
I’d argue it’s very scary to fight for your life in any time LOL 😂
You should read a book “Soldiers Heart” which describes the war in great detail, and is an easy short read. Really an eye opener book.
@@Baegitte nmnpnv videpnn
**gets all the way to the end**
**realizes he can move the camera**
... **sigh** ...
**re-starts video**
@ Kasper , 🤣🤣🤣
That sounds like me lol
Goddamn it...
I was wondering what the white line was for ??
@@thekhans2823 I'm glad I wasn't alone. I was about 4 minutes in before I found out, however. :)
Never watched a VR video before. That was EPIC. Well made thankyou for the experience!
No war as grim as a Civil War. This was really well done. I'm a Brit but the U.S Civil War remains my favourite period to study, I just find it endlessly fascinating. The first literate war, with all the letters written home providing an incredible record. The astonishing personalities involved, from 'Old Blue Light' Stonewall Jackson to the frankly bizarre Daniel Sickles. I had the honour and the pleasure of photographing over a year UK reenactors of the US Civil War (I was embedded :) in the Union lines with the 18th Missouri), and eventually of visiting the battlefields of Gettysburg and Perryville. So strange that Europe sent so many military observers, and learned absolutely nothing about the awful nature of industrialised warfare for when WWI rolled around. Thank you the American Battlefield Trust for keeping history alive.
Good point about the observers and WW I. Seems all they learned was how to take the carnage to the next level.
Though, you could also argue that the US didn't learn anything from the Crimean War, where we had notable observers. The start of earthen fortifications to combat rifled artillery, first rapid fire weapons, trench warfare. I suppose there's always an earlier war we should've learned from, but the message tends to be more about how to kill more people faster than how to avoid the conflict all together...
Nah, they didn't have mustard gas and agent orange back then so it wasn't the most grim.
This is how you teach the kids history!!!! One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen on you tube!
At least two of my ancestors (that I know of) took part in the seige.
Privates Benjamin F. West and James W. West Company E. 26th Virginia Infantry Regiment.
James was KIA on September 11th 1864.
Probably by a sharpshooter.
RIP them.
God Bless brother.
If you are related to your ancestors, why are their names different? I think you can understand?
I’m talking to you, Jim McCracken.
I lived in GA 29 years so of course i'm a civil war buff.In TX now.Stood in every trench imaginable.Even charged a bridge on a motorcycle in MS to get a feel for their actual charge by horse.But one thing always resonates.I'm glad as a man that i'm alive in a different era.The odds of me surviving that catastrophe couldnt have been very good.If i'm not outright killed than i'm injured.I'm not sure that's any better in those days.This is a great piece.And you can move the scenes around with your finger in order to spot that guy who a nanosecond later takes your shoulder off.
Such an amazing video of our history …
WAY cool, folks! Thanks so much for sharing this extraordinary technology.
Steve
At first i was wondering how amazing the graphics were until i realized it was actually a live film
The Confederates got so good at quickly digging trenches that one Union general exclaimed, "the rebels must pick them up and carry them with them."
makes sense, traitors throwing away their lives for a doomed rebellion based on the interests of racist plantation owners would become the best at digging holes
Now I've heard that quote somewhere before...
But for the life of me I can't remember where!
@@magneto44
All I'm going to say is racism was an everywhere thing in those days.
The men fighting for the union where as racist as their rebel counterparts.
Even Lincoln himself.
Johnny Reb except one side expressly stated in their state constitutions that they were seceding to defend slavery, and the other side forced them to give up their slaves after the war. Doesn’t sound like the two sides were the same to me
@@IamtheNeptune
In their state Constitutions?
I believe you're talking about the "Declarations Of Causes" which interestingly enough weren't written by the state legislators of the states that did write an "Article of Secession/Declaration of Causes" but rather by a political minority who lost power after the events at Fort Sumter.
Not all states that left the union by secession wrote one of those documents.
Governor John W. Ellis. Governor of North Carolina had this to say.
www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.13501200/
Also the United States government was not fighting to free the slaves as per the Crittenden-Johnson Resolutions.
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The Crittenden-Johnson Resolutions on the Objects of the War, 1861
(from Richardson (ed.), Messages and Addresses of Congress, Vol. 6:430)
The Crittenden Resolutions
[Passed by the House of Representatives]
Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the country by the disunionists of the Southern States now in revolt against the constitutional Government and in arms around the capital; that in this national emergency Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged on our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
The Johnson Resolutions
[Passed by the Senate]
Resolved, That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the country by the disunionists of the Southern States now in revolt against the constitutional Government and in arms around the capital; that in this national emergency Congress, banishing all feeling of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not prosecuted upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with rights or *established institutions of those States*, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and all laws made in pursuance thereof, and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and righs of the several States unimpaired; that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease."
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As a suggestion I think it'd be a good idea to grab yourself a copy of this book.
www.amazon.com/Complicity-Promoted-Prolonged-Profited-Slavery/dp/0345467833/ref=asc_df_0345467833/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312174369544&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10815055356097898752&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9008428&hvtargid=pla-568647305947&psc=1
Or take a look at this site.
slavenorth.com
4:01; lieutenants and captains are called company grade officers; majors, lieutenant colonels and (full) colonels are called field grade officers; brigadier, Major, lieutenant and general are all called flag officers. They get this moniker because they actually have flags.
I always found the story of the veteran Yankee soldier that had been shot in the leg, had it amputated, and was playing cards right after he'd awakened from the surgery like no big thing morbid, and funny in a way only veterans would understand. A hospital orderly went by pushing a wheelbarrow full of amputated arms and legs and the soldier stopped him, saying he'd like to see his leg one last time so he started rummaging through the grisly pile until he found his leg with a distinguishing bunion on it. He said his farewell to it and went right back to playing cards and smoking his pipe.
After 4 years of war the survivors were a very hard set of men that could endure whatever was thrown at them. I couldn't imagine marching 30 miles a day in Southern heat wearing wool uniforms while living on coffee, tainted water and wormy hardtack.
Glad I missed it.
Which is exactly why I have the upmost respect for both sides.
@@JohnnyReb I've read many times the ordinary soldiers wished they could quit fighting and make the politicians that started the whole thing fight it out. Right after Lee's surrender a Union soldier visited a Rebel camp and said he was treated like a brother there-mutual respect.
@@tomservo5347 That war was very strange in many ways.
I've read that at Cold Harbor in 1864 a Union color barer was advancing toward the rebel line so calmly as if he was on dress parade.
When suddenly the Confederates started telling him "Go back! Go back!"
Apparently he looked around and noticed his unit was all behind him cut to pieces, dead or wounded.
The color barer halted in front of the Confederate earthworks made a hand salute with his flag before smartly turning on his heel and returning to his own lines.
There are so many stories like this.
I find the amount of respect they had for each other to be completely inspiring.
@@JohnnyReb Yea, that was a good story. They were really the same set of men-same country, religion, history.
Confederate Sam Watkins wrote about how while foraging for food he ran into a Yankee-and they both decided shooting each other wouldn't change anything so they both raided an abandoned house together.
Another time an old cabin was in between picket lines. Both sides used it as it was winter and they made an agreement to keep the firewood stocked and a nice fire going in the fireplace before they left and the other side took over.
Another one was the Confederates that invited some Yankees over to a dance they were having and gave them their word they'd be safe. A Confederate officer showed up hearing the commotion, saw the Yankees and ordered them arrested-to which his men pleaded that they had given their word of honor to their 'guests' they'd be safe. The officer relented, gave them the 'don't do it again' speech and let them finish their dance.
Respectfully done. Sobering history, I hope we do not repeat.
Look about you, could well happen!
Laurence 'Titus' Oates stop it you barbarian, there is no true glory in warfare.
@@maiksmith4185 He's stating facts. We're arguably more divided now than we were then.
@@kingtrav how so
Sadly many are ready to die again for freedom that has been lost, I am armed and ready!
Amazing work to represent the toil of what north and south endured throughout horrific bloodshed... Bloodshed which is being ignored today...
Hahahah took me a while to figure how to watch this. Thanks for sharing
Nobody:
The camera guy:
Yo what’s up guys I’m coming back at you with another video and this one is a banger!
Ha
This is absolutely incredible! Big thanks from the UK!
Omg this reminds me of my 8th grade history teacher, when he tought the civil war he would legit get very emotional. Just something about him always had me engaged.
It's the most emotional and devisive war in America's history, God bless the Confederacy!
I had a teacher at FIU who had a relative fight for Confederacy at famous battle of the blowing up of the Confederate lines (The largest one up to that time in military history). Hi was the only member of the Louisiana regiment who was not there when the explosion
@@rebelsoul5980 God bless the union , you racist Democrat
Thanks for the this beautiful War footage, really impressive.
Also want to say, this is a great way to make history relevant to the youngest generation. Good work, guys.
This has to be one of the best videos I’ve ever seen on UA-cam.
just a great video as usual, nice production value and everything. keep up the great work!
Wow!it's like i have travelled back in time wow wow wow very amazing codus to those who act here very proffesionals,director,producer i mean all who made this possible you are all guys amazing!!!,
It took me a few scenes to realize the viewpoint could be adjusted. This definitely compounds the depth of the experience with confusion if not panic as to what was going on all around in a situation over which you have little if any control.
Wow this was intense! Greetings from Germany!
just wait for the ww2 360 video
@@kiktik2413 lmao
Even worse ww1 360 lmao
@G E T R E K T 905 wat? ww2 was more bloody than the civil war lol. A lot more bad things happend
@@kiktik2413 for the americans, it was much more bloody. 620,000 americans died in the civil war, which would include soldiers, civilians, and slaves. about 300,000 americans died in ww2, almost entirely soldiers
This is so cool, more please! Keep them coming!!!
well made. no war, only peace
This is a fantastic idea. I could 100% see kids being more interested in learning history in a way like this, than out of a textbook or via lecture. My only notes are that the text to read was coming in pretty non stop and I wished I had more time to look around and take in all of the incredible detail you put into this. That and the guy getting shot at 8:00 who had bright colourful socks on lol. But seriously, you’re onto something here that could and should take off. Well done to all involved in this project.
My elementary school we re-enacted the civil war!
As a teenager, I can confirm kids would be far more interested in learning this way. I mean like, I'm usually falling asleep in history class, yet I watched this voluntarily during my free time and enjoyed it.
This is extraordinary. Better than any Civil War motion picture from Hollywood. The actors in this were quite convincing as though camera's weren't even there.
I was actually thinking imagine if movies were vr one day
Acting like there aren't any cameras around is quite the literal job of actors, though. But I get what you mean.
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@@healingandgrowth-infp4677 Unless they find a way to get rid of the sweat and battery life then it would be very unpleasant lol.
Nah the actors are serious cringe, but the technology is incredible
That was absolutely fantastic. I can't commend you enough. It brings you onto the battlefield so you have the perspective of the combatants. Quite a rare glimpse. Simply marvelous.
Congratulations for this amazing VR video! Its stunning and very well detailed!
Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷
Who needs a time machine when you got this... ingenious! lol
As a Civil War Reenactor I've got to say this is amazing and really gives a better perspective in the modern era of what late-war battlefields had evolved into
war of rights has the most realistic civil war game by far check it out
What? Late-War battles? Robert E. Lee was called the King of Spades in 1862 because of how often he dug eathworks and trenches. Trench warfare didn't magically start towards the war's end. There were very extensive trenches while Gettysburg was going on, at Vicksburg.
@@SStupendous But these earlier trenches not part of almost static siege type war fair with trench lines on both side in contact constantly with the enemy. Especially different the siege guns employed. Vicksburg's defenses were not opposite a union line of defenses instead made ready for a union assault that finally came but that did not turn into months of stalemate like the late war.
This was full on WWI style static lines against each other something the world had not really seen on this scale and the death of successful mass charges in many cases as cannons by this period fired often shells made of paper that worked like later metal clad shells with fragmentation material surrounding an explosive charge with a fuse to detonate or impact fuse.
With the much greater accuracy of the rifle charges got way more deadly when combined with the much better late cannon use which also had sights carried by the gunner put on to aim then took off to fire.
@@RedRocket4000 I get what you're saying now. I thought you were doing what many do, say that trench warfare only started in the final campaigns of the war - which of course isn't correct.
@@RedRocket4000 What... "Shells made of paper".... give me one example of that? Shells from this period, elongated, iron, steel or brass-covered projectiles.
Very real as if it was happening and we were there as part of the action.
When I was growing up we lived on a vegetable farm. One property line was the top center of a line of earthworks with a crater at one end. The area there has been developed into Pamplin Park. My math tutor lived in the large white home. It was like going in a museum.
As a Brit I see remarkable similarities between the warfare of 1864 and that of the Western Front 50 years later. Trench warfare prevented tactical mobility, especially where the battlefield was dominated by either long-range rifle (1864) or machine-gun (1916). Obviously there are also huge differences, especially in the field of medicine where Lister, almost exactly contemporaneously to the US Civil War, was introducing initially anti but later aseptic surgery which would transform medicine.
This was amazing I loved every single second of it please keep these videos up
school made me watch this for an assingment, honestly, this is great content! lots better than the stuff they usually make us watch.
Nice VR video
This is so great. I just discovered this.Thank you for creating this. I've been reading Civil War books lately and explaining a lot as I learn to my 10 year son. He loves to learn about the Civil War and WW2. And we both love this.
I don’t know why but I felt the fear in his voice when he was carried away.
Can you post a timestamp?
Right at the end
10:34 the scene starts
Of course he's in fear, his leg is going to get amputated. Don't you hear others screaming inside.
Amputations back in them ol' days ain't so fun
Gotta saw em up or sometimes chop em, rather than usin some sort of anesthetic
There are time that even wounded soldiers even look at them limbs getting cut off. Not a pleasant experience, I tell you that
I'm gettin r/wooshed am I?
Keep up the good work Battlefield Trust! Preserve our history!
This was an incredible point of view on how the civil war looked like, I appreciate the effort and quality that was put into this!
just wow, how impressive these scenes were, and they gave you the option to look around for yourself, absolutely amazing well done!
Amazing. I was totally immersed in the experience. You really feel like you're peaking in on history. Well done!
Something else to add: They didn't know about germs or that dirty bandages could spread disease. Half of those deaths from amputations could very well be just from taking bandages from dead soldiers covering their wounds, and wrapping the next injured soldiers wounds with rags that had gang-green.
American surgery came of age during the Civil War. Germ Theory was yet a generation away, true, but doctors did their best to combat the "inflamation" that they knew to cause such widespread suffering and death. Rudimentary antiseptic practices were devised and taken up, much of the time through trial and error, with the horrendous number of casualties that the war produced functioning as a great laboratory. Iodine and Bromine was known to fight infection and both were liberally applied both to battle wounds and surgical operations, which although caustic and leaving chemical scars proved effective in fighting rampant infection. As well, bandages were re-used, but were not simply transfered from one patient to the next. They would be cleaned in boiling water (like a cloth diaper) and then hung to dry in sunlight. Actually, a bandage so cleaned might have been more sterile for the second patient than one put directly onto a wound after having spent however long travelling to the battlefield in a trunk somewhere.
The death rate for all battlefield surgery in the Union Army at the beginning of the war was something like 20%; by the end of the war that had fallen to below 10%. In the Confederate Army, plagued though they were with equipment shortages of every type, the rate had fallen from around 25% to about 15% by the end, an incredible accomplishment.
@@coryhall7074 thank you for that interesting comment sir.
@@coryhall7074 Thank you for your knowledge- all these "variables" lend to history of sorts.
Just now finding this.. but I have to say that this is awesome. Thanks for all creating this experience.
Watching this on VR got me teared up. Beauty, amazement and heartbreaking. Tribute to soldiers worldwide facing all these and much more. Imagine all these bloodshed just for the generations today to live pampered, irresponsible and party all time.
Hello 👋,, how are you doing today; how’s everything going over there; hope it was a blessed day Sally?
@@David-ze2yf ርስሶስ
My dad's friends grandpa fought in this war. He was wounded 6 times and fought many battles. He said it was crazy and he never got over watching his friends die. He never ever spoke about it
@@samuelharwood7835 satire my friend
Nobody:
The civil war vet: here give me a sec gotta check my Snapchat grant is texting me
I absolutely love this style of video! Awesome! 👍👍👍
My eyes are open wide indeed. A vivid & terrifying video experience . Hearing the advancing men beg for water, or the hospital depiction really brings the experience to a personal level.
You need to show better when and where the text comes up. And have them there for 3 seconds more. All in all great video
Stunning technology but even better way to use it. My compliments from Italy !!! Very instructive work.
Just some constructive criticism. Finding the little tooltip messages was rather difficult. I don't think narration would ruin the immersion much and would allow us to continue focusing on whatever had caught our fancy before then. Beyond that though this was an incredible way to see a war that is much different from how we currently view conflict.
Awesome video! One of my ancestors was killed on day 1 at the battle of Petersburg---he was only 19.
Union or Confederate sides?
He was a young confederate
Name, rank, and unit?
@@JohnnyReb I'd rather not mention his name, but he was a private in Co E, 16th regiment, VA infantry
@@Drackleyrva
Not sure why you wouldn't but alrighty.
If I'm not mistaken his Regiment would've belonged to General Mahone's Division.
If I could I'd thank him for his service.
Great video!
What I learned from watching this documentary: Lice was rampant.
I can’t belive this is actually vr interactive
Amazing, unbelievable recreation, felt as though I was there! Thank You to everyone that made this happen..More Please 🙂
Hello 👋,, how are you doing today; how’s everything going over there; hope it was a blessed day Jane?
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