Civil War 1864: A Virtual Reality Experience, The Union Hospital

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1. i didn't realize i could move the screen until halfway into the video. -_-

2. the fact that the confederate soldier actually gets along with the union soldier is a nice detail
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3. What they fought for is not what they wanted this country to be as it is today. I would have to say if either a 2020 republican or a democrat ran for office in 1864 the republicans would clean house.

4. Very interesting

5. These 3d type videos of battle or hospital scenes are a way of forcing people to face the reality of war the acting is brilliant and yes medical technology has improved enormously since the 1860's at the end of the day thousands either die or are left permanently injured for life.

6. Incredible work!

7. What a horrible sight to see for the family that owns that farm.

8. It’s Schrute farms

9. Who disliked this

10. Interesting how the Confederate soldier is included, and I like how the other guy objects at first but then realizes they are all in the same boat together rather than dwelling needlessly on their differences.

    My great-great grandfather was originally from the Vermont/New Hampshire border… a real hotbed of Abolitionist sentiment. He fought for the Union and was shot right through the body at Seven Pines but miraculously survived. According to a doctor's report I read, the bullet entered an inch or two below his left nipple, and exited lower down on his back, closer to the spine. After laying in a swamp for hours he was brought to a field hospital where they supposedly pulled a cloth soaked in turpentine right through his body. Aside from surviving such a wound in itself, the most interesting aspect of this story is that my ancestor somehow formed an unusual bond of friendship with a Confederate soldier… apparently while in the hospital. The exact circumstances of that can never be known. But after getting a medical discharge from one state, he crossed that Vermont/New Hampshire border and re-enlisted for the Union again! After the war he drifted around Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Upper Michigan, working in sawmills and starting a family along the way. Then sometime around 1889 the cold Northern winters got to bothering him, making him cough up blood sometimes, so he finally abandoned his wife and children (including my great grandfather) and went south to Louisiana and looked up that friend of his. He married the man's teenage daughter, and started a new family down there! You would not think that in 1890 Southerners would be particularly welcoming of some card-carrying Yankee coming down there and cozying up with a Southern girl way under half his age. Apparently the people actually involved in the war did not take things as personally or harbor resentment as tenaciously as some folks do nowadays. Or I guess maybe that bullet wound bought him some street creds. Anyway he spent the rest of his life down there, working in sawmills and raising another family. He did sort of leave our family up here in poverty, but I guess he had his reasons for what he did, and I don't dwell on the bad side of it. In fact I named my own son after the man.

11. Thank you and really great work! Incredible.

12. Superb.

13. Thank you!! I just with the lettering was alittle bigger as I couldn't read most of it.
    This was like you are right there with them. I hope one day the world will learn to live in peace.

14. That was amazing!

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