Man Describes Surviving an Indian Battle in 1868 - Wild West - Enhanced Audio - Interview in 1930

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  @Lifeinthe1800s · 3 years ago · pinned

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  @oldschool1993 · 4 years ago

  My great grandmother was born in 1858 and her father-my great great grandfather fought in the Civil War. &nbsp;I still have his enlistment papers for the Kentucky Volunteers. &nbsp;When I was 5 years old in 1951 I sat with my mother beside my great grandmother&apos;s death bed. It was a tradition then that the women of the family would stay by the bedside in shifts so that the person would never die alone. &nbsp;So here I am in 2022 at age 75 and knew a person who was alive during the Civil War.

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  @katherinelehman4412 · 4 years ago

  This man is buried in a local cemetery near me. Amazing to hear his voice! I wonder if town historians know this video exists!

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  @Thatguy01984 · 4 years ago

  So a guy who’s fighting weapon was an airplane with mounted machine guns is interviewing a guy who defended cover wagons against Kiowa warriors….what an interesting time in our country. So cool.

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  @thomasklugh4345 · 4 years ago

  I can also say I remember 62 years ago. &nbsp;Even 65 years. &nbsp;Even 70. &nbsp;I remember one of my earliest experiences being out in front of our house in Pennsylvania riding my tricycle, hearing a plane flying overhead and looking up into the clear blue sky trying see the plane. &nbsp;<br>I remember we had a small Black &amp; White TV and it was a cabinet floor model. &nbsp;<br>I remember it had only one (yes, just one) station at the time, and after the evening news at 11:30pm, the station would shut down. &nbsp;It would then play the U.S. national anthem while showing the U.S. flag waving, and at the end of the anthem the channel would just stop. &nbsp;No movies, no Cable, nothing, accept the X-ray radiation logo and a dial tone until 6:30 am the next morning, at which time the morning news would begin. &nbsp;<br>I remember on Friday and Saturday evenings there would be a late movie, The Late Show after the news, but then, too, the TV would be shut off the way I described above.<br>I remember having two mail deliveries each day - one in the morning, and one in mid afternoon.<br>I remember saying the pledge-of-allegiance to the American flag every morning at our public school. &nbsp;We would place our right hand across our heart while saying it. &nbsp;It was a requirement, and we were proud to do it.<br>I remember paying only 25 cents to go see a movie on Saturdays. &nbsp;Sometimes it was 35 cents but then it was a double feature. &nbsp;Imagine spending all day at the movie theater, sitting in the ground floor seats, then maybe going up to the balcony, then down again. &nbsp;You could stay all day if you wanted to. &nbsp;You didn&apos;t have to leave when the movie ended. &nbsp;You could stay and watch the movie again, if you wished. &nbsp;<br>And, I remember a movie theater back then was palatial in design.<br>I remember being out with my friends all day on a Saturday, wandering, sometimes hiking &nbsp;as much as 3 miles in one direction, sometimes up in the woods; sometimes just following RR tracks, and then walking the 3 miles back, AND making it back home in time for dinner - and the amazing thing about it was that none of us had a watch. &nbsp;We just knew when to start back by the sun in the sky, or by the light in the air. &nbsp;We just knew.<br>I remember so many things, so many... and I do miss it so.

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  @heeroyuy298 · 4 years ago

  It&apos;s worth noting that he is being interviewed by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, America&apos;s highest scoring ace in ww1, who himself won the medal of honor.

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  @jeffdaniel1000 · 4 years ago

  Listening to this reminds me that our country really isn&apos;t that old.

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  @jamesstewart4175 · 4 years ago

  I am so thankful for this interview. My great great grandmother was one of those Box girls. This is the first time I have heard a first hand account of her rescue. Thank you so much for this!

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  @laserbeam002 · 4 years ago

  It truly is amazong that here we are in 2022 and can listen to a man tell about his life in the old west during the indian wars only three years after the civil war.

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  @kimberH1005 · 3 years ago

  Listening to a man born in 1845 is surreal.

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  @MsTugg · 4 years ago

  imagine being a dude famous for flying a plane and shooting down other planes with a machine gun and interviewing another dude who faced archers with a muzzleloader in a wagon.

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  @frankwinter3895 · 4 years ago

  My great grandfather was building a house in north central Minnesota in 1868 which they had a &nbsp;Indian up rising then. The Indians only stoled their horses but did not attacked them. It was in the history that there was a Indian up rising until the union soldiers showed up. My Great Grand Father also father also fought in the Civil War and my dad got to see him before my Great Grandfather died in 1904. My dad was born in 1895 died in 1996. He was 52 when I was born.

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