Injured Yankee and Rebel Soldiers Suffer Together at Gettysburg
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- WARNING: Video contains graphic descriptions of battlefield injuries.
John Dooley, 1st Virginia, shot in both thighs during Pickett’s Charge, now suffers and sometimes argues, sometimes sympathizes, with injured Union soldiers after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Gettysburg's aftermath was a nightmare for the wounded for several days. Both armies left the area and in so doing left little in the way of logistics to care for the wounded who had little food, water, medicine, bandages, and just a handful of orderlies and surgeons to care for them. It wasn't until a Sanitary Commission agent visited and was absolutely horrified at what he saw that finally proper relief and care began after 2 weeks of hell on earth for the wounded man. Still, perhaps this was better than the 17 mile long wagon train of wounded Lee was carrying back, many of whom were in springless QM wagons bouncing over rutted and muddy roads. Wounded men were heard begging for a bullet or simply to be placed on the side of the road to die instead of constantly getting jostled. As Bruce Catton wrote 'It was a bad war for the wounded man.'
Remember the Fallen 🇺🇸🦅
After you really read about some of the WW1 and WW2 atrocities, then hear things like this, you realize that in war few individuals are really to blame for the suffering. War is hell and cannot be reformed.
Thanks, Sherman the Looter
13:00 a9i😮😮😮
This writer’s editorial post war is strong argument against Reconstruction.
Could be worse? Not really
1:25 Many of my Irish country men fought on both sides of the civil war. 🇮🇪🇺🇸
A shame they aligned with the south
@@ThatSB That’s not true. They were on both sides. Learn the history .
They fought on both sides, but most Irish fought for the North.
The Scotts-Irish also fought on both sides, but most for the South.
@@Enkidoo interesting, i wonder if it was for ideological reasons, or for where they came into America?
@edzo1121 Most Irish at that time were recent refugees from the potatoe famine, and had been treated horribly by the British for 150+ years. Many had been slaves in all but name. So they had plenty of ideological opposition to slavery, in addition to the fact that most Irish immigrated to the North.
The Scotts-Irish had been colonizers of Ireland before settling in the Appalachians and in the South. So most of them sided with the South... even though most were far too poor to own slaves.
This fellow harbors some anger against the North.
Our future is destined to repeat this cycle if our republic falls to be restored to the government.
No, it's not. Our government is doing fine.
This is either sarcasm or you’re really misinformed my friend. Nothing is ok right now especially in our government.
@@nickmalone1126 only that there are certain individuals who don’t believe in elections unless they win.
This an observation from a confederate soldier so it is going to to be more in favor of the South.
the suffering the south gives to this very day
This is either a very biased take, or a fake. The Union soldiers are mostly described poorly while the Confederates are described more heroically. Reads like a southern fiction novel about a soldier in the Confederacy.
Read the description. This was from the diary of John Dooly, of the 1st Virginia. So yes, he is likely a bit biased.
You can read an account from the opposite point of view - from a Union soldier in a Confederate hospital. He was not happy there. czcams.com/video/hpQ6OknFcqc/video.html
Why do you think a soldier wouldnt be biased towards his own side?
It's almost like it was written by an actual confederate soldier or something, numbnuts
How dare a Confederate talk more highly of the Confederacy?