Subdeacon Joe Posted December 20, 2011 Posted December 20, 2011 http://www.schooltube.com/video/a088eb35599e46dd5552/Civil%20war%20veteran%20soldier%20footage,%20captured%20between%201913%20and%201938
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted December 20, 2011 Posted December 20, 2011 Very cool.... good find!!
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted December 20, 2011 Posted December 20, 2011 As a follow-up... Blood-chilling...!
Utah Bob #35998 Posted December 20, 2011 Posted December 20, 2011 And before any of you smart-alecks jump in here....NO I am not in any of those clips.
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted December 20, 2011 Posted December 20, 2011 Just imagine if they were shooting .58 caliber mini balls at you while they were yelling. No thanks.
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 20, 2011 Author Posted December 20, 2011 And before any of you smart-alecks jump in here....NO I am not in any of those clips. Of course you weren't, Bob. Those were CIVIL WAR vets, not War of 1812.
Utah Bob #35998 Posted December 20, 2011 Posted December 20, 2011 Of course you weren't, Bob. Those were CIVIL WAR vets, not War of 1812. dadgummit!
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted December 20, 2011 Posted December 20, 2011 But in another film clip, there was one fellow waving the flag and a running acorss.......... Maybe it was just a coincidence. I coulda sworn that it was..... nevermind.
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 20, 2011 Author Posted December 20, 2011 dadgummit! Now, now, Bob. You knew that your denial would bring some sort of comment from the goober gallery. Thought about going with Span Am war, but, nah! If yer gonna jerk a chain, might as well jerk it hard.
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 20, 2011 Author Posted December 20, 2011 As a follow-up... Blood-chilling...! Thanks! I had run across that once before, but lost the link.
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted December 20, 2011 Posted December 20, 2011 Thanks! I had run across that once before, but lost the link. Yeah... I had also, several years ago - your topic sparked the memory!
Utah Bob #35998 Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 But in another film clip, there was one fellow waving the flag and a running acorss.......... Maybe it was just a coincidence. I coulda sworn that it was..... nevermind. Yer right. It was Forty.
Tom Foolery U.S.M. #2348 Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 I have thought of this before, but I'd be interested in knowing the percentage of combat deaths to population. With a MUCH lower population during the CW, those casualty percentages have to be terrible TF
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 21, 2011 Author Posted December 21, 2011 I have thought of this before, but I'd be interested in knowing the percentage of combat deaths to population. With a MUCH lower population during the CW, those casualty percentages have to be terrible TF It was roughly 2%. 1860 census puts the population at about 31,500,000. Call it about 625,000 combat deaths*. But also consider that estimates range as high as 1,250,000 "excess deaths" in the civilian population** during that period, many from starvation or diseases caused or exacerbated by malnutrition. So close to two MILLION total deaths caused by that war. *some suggest as high as 850,000 but most fall around the 625,000 to 650,000 range. **some are as low as 50,000 but since several states estimate 20,000 to 30,000 excess deaths, that seems very low. From what I have been able to find online, more reliable numbers suggest somewhere between 750,000 and the 1,250,000 I used above. I found that in a work from the 1890s which cited a Surgeon Generals report. Unfortunately, my source for that is gone with a hard drive crash.
Tom Foolery U.S.M. #2348 Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 With those numbers and the other statistics from the following wars, the percentage numbers must have fallen greatly TF
Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 Yup - beautiful stuff....God bless America and it's struggles that have allowed us to be the best country this world has ever seen. Ken Burns' presentation is excellent and I still have the videos my incle gave me as a present 20 years ago... GG ~
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