Posted on 05/12/2018 9:21:35 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Of particular interest is the Confederate veteran who fought in Missouri against the enemy he calls the "Dutch." He is obviously referring to the German immigrant troops who fought overwhelmingly with the Union. Back then Germans were called "Dutch" by most people in this country.
Also interesting is the accent of that Confederate veteran. Not as deeply southern of an accent as you expect. I noticed this also in the talk by the 94 year old woman who described herself as a "North Georgia cracker." She had a kind of mild southern accent but not what we think of today as a southern accent. Perhaps early in the 20th century there was some sort of major vowel shift in the South. For example, the Tidewater accent used to be prominent in Virginia but is rare today.
Back then Germans were called “Dutch” by most people in this country.......That’s because they called themselves ‘Duetch’ derived from Deutchland, or Germany. We still call the inhabitants of Berks Co. Dutchies, although we know better. Pennsiwania is strange.
Even stranger is that the German Catholics of Nazareth-Bethlehem area of Pennsylvania call themselves Pennsylvania Dutch even though the latter are really German Protestants of a different culture. I asked around about that and basically the German Catholics sort of wanted to glom onto the more well known and colorful Pennsylvania Dutch ID.
That’s a fantastic and amazing video. Thank you for posting.
In N GA in the 1800’s a lot of people were first or 2nd generation scotch/irish. I can hear a tiny bit of Scottish burr in that confederate lady’s voice. The southern accent has thickened over time.
Fascinating video, thanks for posting.
BTW, that interview with the Confederate veterans was interesting to me because it took place just up the road from me in Lake Worth, Florida.
Correct. The Scots/Irish came to America in a later wave than the original English. They started coming over from around the 1750s into the early 19th century. It would have been interesting to hear what Daniel Boone and Davey Crockett sounded like.
Bump!
The Broadway producer had the most beautifully tailored clothing.
Interesting to see the black coal smoke belching out of the locomotive engine. Even when I was a kid post WWII, most cities were covered with black soot on all the buildings. My grandfather, born in the 1880s, worked in the rail yards and had emphysema in old age. The fact that he smoked hand-rolled, filterless cigarettes from the age of 7 (the year he started working on the railroads) until his 70s couldn’t have helped much, either; yet he lived until his 80s.
I think people had great enthusiasm for America then, and were witnesses to the nation being greatly developed and built up, alluded to by the old lady from Georgia, who mentioned “progress.” They also had naturally organic, non-engineered food all their lives. These things helped them live long in spite of pollution, smoking and lack of antibiotics before the 1900s.
The entire film was most enjoyable.
Thanks for this vid.
Very enjoyable ten minutes. Thanx PJ.
Ping for later
Fifty years ago the accent hereabouts was what one only finds in parts of Mississippi and Alabama today.
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Pretty cool. My grandparents were born 1881, 1894, 1896 and 1901.
My mother was born in 1925, is still alive. She traveled with her parents and her grandparents from NY state to SoCal in 1928. The men wore ties and sport coats while traveling across the country in their motorcar.
I remember all of my grandparents.
Thank you for this video. I could watch these all day.
I noticed that this video was uploaded by Guy Jones. I am a subscriber to his YouTube account because he posts an impressive number of similar historical videos to YouTube.
Lovely video. Back when people were people and talked to one another.
My grandmother was born in Newark in 1890 and so was 30 when women got the vote. I can still hear her and her sister talking and laughing at the kitchen table. She and her seven sisters all had the first name Mary but went by their middle name.
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