A Teenager's First Three Months as a Soldier
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- In 1861, 17-year-old Caleb Henry Barney (1844-1904) joined the 5th Rhode Island Battalion and participated in Brig. Gen. Ambrose Burnside's successful expedition to North Carolina early the following year. In 1880, he wrote about his adventures in "A Country Boy's First Three Months in the Army." Here's a few selected passages.
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As a lover of Civil War history these videos are fantastic. So many details I had no idea about, and photos of the people involved. Well done.
Thank you for doing these! I’ve been fascinated with Civil War history since I was a kid. Very vivid.
I really appreciate your readings it helps to hear first person accounts of life during the war years
This is very interesting. Again, I love the perspective offered by your videos and the magazine! It makes the civil war more understandable and clear. Thanks!!
Wouldn't you love to know what transpired in that conversation between his dad and the officer?
The teens living at that time period were more mature than the teens of today so they seem.
Nice channel. Thanks for making it available.
Amazing content - so appreciated
Speaking of young men compelled to fight, have you ever heard the story of the massacre of the Texas Germans by the Confederate Army? They were a group of 40 or so, primarily young men and boys, attempting to escape to Mexico to avoid the Confederate draft. They were tracked down by Confederate cavalry and attacked in their camp. By the outbreak of war, Texas had a sizable population of Germans, and they were typically opposed to slavery and thus had no enthusiasm for going to war against their adopted country to preserve it.
Is there any way to find out if any pictures of one of my relatives from the Confederate army are in existence? They were from Tennessee and served in the same regiment as Todd Carter who famously died at his farm during the battle of Franklin
Yes!
Public institutions to check:
Tennessee State Archives (tslaindexes.tn.gov/)
Library of Congress' Liljenquist Collection:
(www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/civil-war-soldiers-portraits-the-liljenquist-family-collection/)
I also recommend you search:
Civil War Photo Sleuth:
www.civilwarphotosleuth.com/
Spreadsheet of identified soldiers in the Military Images Archives (docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rOzMzEc2A6nCJc_4ATWOhpkkQE-gsAnjHHMRJTQrLX8/edit?usp=sharing)
Lastly, you can inquiry in the Facebook groups that specialize in Civil War portrait photography. They include:
Civil War Faces:
facebook.com/groups/132514006891858
The Image Collector:
facebook.com/groups/1393739420754633
@@chairmanofthebored8684 I recommend civilwarphotosleuth.com, a free site that uses face recognition technology, research and community to identify Civil War portrait photographs.
The Marines got many guys for Vietnam with the nice uniforms............... then they got true hell in Nam.
I joined in 1969, age 19, most of the recruitment was 18 and many 17 and some 16 year old young men. I like to think most were discovered in boot camp, but some ended up in Vietnam. You grow up very fast, and you're treated the same as men much older.
The Civil war is one that I would not love to get wounded in........... nor to see the horrors of thousands of bodies in one battle.
Agreed. The brutality and horror of this war stayed with those who served for the remainder of their lives-if they survived it.