Well, the distance between us and those who were there is certainly greater.
Certainly none of us knew any of the participants.
Although, some of us old fogies did know a few of the children of Civil War veterans, when they were very old, and we were very young.
I wish I knew more about my forbears. Both of my father’s parents had ancestor who emigrated to Oregon from the east. His father (my Grandfather) was born in Lacygne, Kansas in 1884. They moved west when my Grandfather was a youth. My father’s maternal grandfather was born in 1848 in Benton Co. Missouri. His maternal grandmother was born in Marion Co. Iowa in 1850. They didn’t move to Oregon until 1880. Besides those relatives there were dozens of aunts, uncles and cousins spread out from Pennsylvania to Alabama whose stories I don’t know. Surely some of them had interesting Civil War stories to tell.