There was no plan for the dead during the American Civil War. Mass graves or leaving them where they fell would only go so far. Discover the heartbreaking fate of the fallen soldiers of the Civil War, and the journey to bring them home.
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Mass casualties | 0:00
Delayed burials | 1:09
Mass graves | 2:15
Difficulties in identification | 3:08
Unreliable or nonexistent family notification | 4:18
The new art of embalming | 5:21
The persistence of class | 6:24
Battlefield photography | 7:36
National cemeteries | 8:59
Arlington National Cemetery | 9:55
Dead but still enemies | 10:58
Voiceover by: Tim Bensch
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19 responses to “What Happened To The Bodies Of Fallen Civil War Soldiers?”
Indeed heartbreaking 😱
Honestly, the should have just let the south secede. The place would be third world shithole by now.
That was your reparations
Enjoyed the vid! Thanks!
And now just about all of those statues are gone because of scumbags that destroyed or took them all down! BULLSHIT! HISTORY JUST WHIPPED AWAY BECAUSE OF CRYBABIES AND MOST DIDN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT MOST OF THEM EVEN STOOD FOR! ITS HISTORY PEOPLE!
That's the movie Glory with Matthew Broderick! Great movie if ya havnt seen it! One of the 1st movies that i remember seeing Denzel Washington in as well!
Hell the way they did it all the way up to the Vietnam War wasnt much better! Paying taxi drivers to drop off a bunch of letters from the government! Still a dick move!
Let's not pretend people. If the unionists of March 1861 could view the USA of June 2023 they would be horrified – and no civil war would have occurred
May the Union army soldiers rest in peace
After just driving past Galena I remembered Mary Todd Lincoln’s criticism, “Grant is a butcher. I could command an army better myself.” Remarked after the carnage of Cold Harbor. And just think: some people are clamouring for reparations. Wasn’t a million soldiers dead a sufficient sacrifice? My direct ancestor was Simon Cameron, Lincoln’s first secretary of war, who made a massive fortune during and after the Civil War. His corruption was so breathtaking that Lincoln said of him, “the only thing he wouldn’t steal was a red hot stove” and sent him to Russia as minister to the court of St Petersburg, where he helped Seward to purchase Alyeska from Russia.
And people dont even appreciate this free country so many died for.
Why the electronic dance music in the background? This is a somber subject.
I've owned Matthew Brady's book of Civil War era photographs since I was very young. I still sit and slowly look at each page. It is remarkable.
Nothing.. the chickens had served their only purpose
Love these videos
Yeah, I remember 25 years ago, my elderly Southern aunt trying to tell me the Daughters of the Confederacy could pay for my college. I told her I’d rather stab myself in the eye. All these years later, even with student loans looming over my head, it was still the right choice.
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May they rest in peace. It’s no wonder the land is filled with anguish with Americas bloody and sinful past, and present.