Video and voices of people born in the early-to-mid 1800s !

[Sauk]

This is amazing stuff. Some of these guys were Civil War vets !

 

[MadSquabbles500]

So that is how Daniel Day Lewis learned his accent for Lincoln, and Bill the Butcher.

 

[IloveTHIS]

really cool to see

 

[JosephDredd]

I once heard some recordings of some elderly confederate soldiers performing their famous war whoop. If the technology to record sound had been invented just a few years later, the infamous rebel yell would only have existed in literary descriptions. So many fascinating interviews were produced from that time period.