1929 Civil War veterans interview in colour

[RGardener]

These Civil War veterans were born in the 1830s-1850s, remarkable footage.

https://youtu.be/g9P2fuqoFec

[Viktoria]

Yes ,thanks for the link.
There is some footage of ex Civil War soldiers ,and they are asked to do the famous yell that terrified and demoralised the opposing troops .
Sadly they were very old and it was a feeble shadow of what it must have been .
I am trying to find an actual recording of the song “Loreena” sung by both North and South but eventually banned as it made the men homesick ,many were within walking distance of their homes  before some famous battles and desertions were high .
I suppose recording was in its infancy when many veterans were very old , and no one thought to make one.
I have heard a modern recording .
 Thanks again.
Viktoria.

[RGardener]

I found the video you mentioned with  the soldiers doing the Rebel Yell, they’re very old but they give it their all. Brilliant!
https://youtu.be/gAnRTcB4NAg

It would be fascinating to hear an original version of Lorena. I was surprised to find the video footage so you never know.

[Viktoria]

I also found some other recordings where there seem to be three parts to the yell.
 High  scream, low bark and full scream ,but I think those veterans would know better than anyone else.
I have a full set of the recorded programmes,Ken Burns and Shelby Foote which were on TV quite a few years  ago .
My son on a trip to The States, for work visited some battle sites, round shot littering the fields ,just lying in the surface .
Abraham Lincoln sent a letter to the people of Manchester or maybe itvwas Lancashire as a whole ,thanking them for refusing to work with slave produced cotton ,thus depriving the Confederates of much needed funds,and shortening the war .
However the cost to the people of Lancashire was truly heavy.
Fascinating history.
Viktoria.

[still_looking]

A 1914 recording of Lorena
https://alexandria.ucsb.edu/lib/ark:/48907/f35b00tj

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[Viktoria]

Wow!
I will need my son’s  help with  that  but 1914,!
1914
1864
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     50 years on,  and some soldiers would be late teenagers ,early 20’s
so could have fought and would know the song Loreena .
In their 70’s when the recording was made .
  Thanks it is a lovely tune.
Viktoria.





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[Erato]

I can recall my grandparents talking about the Civil War in the 1950s  -  who sacrificed more, the Logans or the Ennises?  Of course, they were not alive themselves at the time [they were born in 1874 and 1881] but the war was very real and close to them.  In fact, their own fathers had not served in the Union Army, either  -  one was a bit too young and the other was chosen to remain in his community to look out for the women and children  -  but their uncles were drafted.  One died and the rest were left weakened by disease.  Their childhoods were shaped by the Civil War.

[Viktoria]

Margaret Mitchell wrote with some accuracy but with Southern bias .
Her father was president of a Civil War Society .
The South seemed very romantic but not when you learnt more about it!

Ihave mentioned this elsewhere,Abraham Lincoln’s wrote to  the cotton operatives of Lancashire - Manchester in particular ,thanking them for the great sacrifices they had made by refusing to work with cotton produced by slave labour ,many were starved to death.
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You must be very proud of your relatives and their historic connections Erato, thanks for sharing them.
Viktoria.

[Erato]

I am unmoved by the 'romance' of the South.  I'm glad to say that I have only one ancestor [a first cousin 4 times removed] who fought for the Confederacy.  How Frank Tarr wound up in Alabama is a mystery - wander lust, I suppose.  He was born in Maine and went south during the 1850s, getting employment as a clerk for the owner of a small plantation.  When the war came, he joined the Confederate Army alongside the plantation owner.  Frank Tarr survived but his boss did not.  He went back and married the boss's widow and took over the modest plantation.