hi everyone this is jared bruning with the daily bell ringer and uh this is a little bit different
video uh that i guess we kind of decided to make here i guess i'll introduce him this this
is my brother jason bruning older brother older brother yes who is kind of the inspiration for a
lot of why i'm into history and everything we're both just big history nerds kind of going back
to our dad taking us to historic sites which i guess it's fitting we're here on father's day
at a historic site kind of honoring the memory of our family but also in memory of our dad
taking us to a lot of historic sites but i i'm here actually i'm redoing our my shiloh
uh battle video and if you watch that video or learn know anything about shiloh you know that
uh when the battle of shiloh began on april 6 1862 confederates uh attacked union forces who
were heading for corinth mississippi uh and so um we're standing in a spot where
the battle kind of the early parts of the battle began and kind of an interesting thing we've just
recently learned is that actually we have family who served in in the battle itself at shiloh
did you want to add anything yeah yeah so so this where we're at is the the campground for
the 25th missouri and if you know the story of the battle of shiloh because the confederates
come up that morning again they they walked up from uh or marched up i should say from corinth
and it to them what three days because the rains and other stuff had slowed them down so a lot of
these guys hadn't eaten in three days so they show up the 25th missouri gotten up and started
making their breakfast the confederates show up and you know a lot of them run so now there's
uneaten food and it's fresh it's warm and so the confederates stop and eat here
and of course johnson gets mad at them but you'll notice in the background here the
peabody monument because this is where uh colonel everett peabody uh was shot and killed
in this area uh here at this camp uh when the confederates overran it but yes we did not know
that we had a relative that was in the union army even uh we knew growing up we had a a relative
a great ancestor in uh the confederate that fought in what battle fort hudson yeah and he was in an
artillery unit he was only in one battle and port hudson was a big siege yeah i believe the longest
siege in the u.s military that's right the longest siege in history and uh and so he gets he gets
captured and gets paroled so his war was over in one battle well it was can we mention ancestry.com
do we get no that's fine yeah do we get fees we get no no anyway with work through ancestry.com we
discovered that our grandfather on our father's side was the grandson of friedrich bruning who
signed up with the union army the 25th missouri in cape girardeau missouri in september of 1861.
and so i've been doing all sorts of research in fact i bought this off of amazon it's the official
what do they call the official records if somebody that was involved wrote this 30 years after
the the war was over it has the official record of the 25th missouri and our grandfather's name
or great great grandfather's name is mentioned in here uh in the index as being a participant
but we weren't quite sure yes was he here yeah so today we kind of came here and we're like okay
well we know he was part of the 25th missouri but we don't know for sure was he actually here
when the fighting took place because there's kind of some differing histories of the 25th missouri
and so we went to the visitor center of course and you know talked to the park ranger there and
it's kind of cool what the park ranger found for so i guess yeah yeah he printed up
and again the national park service is fantastic printed up all sorts of stuff here is uh friedrich
bruning's pension papers uh for him to collect his pension after after he was out of the military and
all sorts of information about the 25th missouri with frederick bruning's name attached and uh and
he was able to look up and you know because i had i had read different things that said possibly
he was in new madrid missouri at this time but he said nope your ancestor was here on april 6th and
7 1862. so again it's cool to stand in a place knowing hey somebody we're related to was here
you know imagine the fear they felt that morning when from that direction comes 9 000 confederates
uh you know that that would be terrifying and yeah and one thing you know you may have heard me
saying maybe some of my other videos or you know i visited a few classrooms and talked about this
if you have the opportunity to go to historic site go to historic sites if there's some in
your community or close by or if you can take a field trip with school hopefully
if there's just something about standing on the actual ground where these things happen because
for us right now we're looking around here and we're like hey we have a relative who literally
was probably standing in the same exact point or at least somewhere close by in this close vicinity
he slept on the ground in a tent somewhere close to where we're at right now and he was involved
in this you know historic event that took place in american history and i realize you know you
may look at yourself and be like oh i don't have relatives that were involved in american history
but i'm telling you if you go back and look you're going to find all kinds of amazing things that
your ancestors were involved in that maybe you had no idea about so i really encourage you you know
go look online there's all kinds of places where you can search i mean you could just get started
with a simple google search and search for you know maybe talk to some of your grandparents or
you know an aunt or an uncle and find out the names of some people who maybe you know you've
never heard of but that were you're some of your relatives and start looking them up and you'll
probably find some really cool stuff that they did and then hopefully you'll be able to visit
some of the sites where maybe they were involved in some you know big historic events jared and i
are also the descendants of william dawes who rode with paul revere in 1775 so we need to go
do another bell ringer in in massachusetts yeah yeah we i guess i didn't mention that yeah regards
you go back and you look at my my one about paul revere's right of course the video is titled paul
revere's ride but also yeah there was william dawes who was also in involved there so again
it's remarkable when you actually start doing a little bit of digging and figure out you know
that you have relatives that were involved in all these things so again you know i appreciate you
watching this video hopefully you know again this is just a little addition that we are adding here
but go back and check out the shiloh video go back and check out all the civil war videos go back and
check out the paul revere video uh if you'd like but again get if you get the chance check out some
of these historic sites and so i guess with that hopefully you learned something and thanks for
watching