Thanks David!
As a gift check this out!
This is a recording of Confederate veteran Julius Howell in the 1940's at the library of Congress.
https://youtu.be/uHDfC-z9YaE
Julius Howell enlisted at 16 to fight for the Confederacy in 1862. In this 1947 recording in DC, Howell at age 101, recalls his Civil War exploits as a cavalryman at Petersburg and Richmond and his memory of the assassination of President Lincoln from a Union POW camp.