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What did we learn? Well, in Richmond, over the decades following the war various statues were erected to honor, those men that the residents deemed to be heroes: Lee, Jackson, and others. These statues gave the iconic Richmond street its name: Monument Avenue. But in 2020 and 2021, amidst racial unrest over the death of George Floyd, these statues were removed. The most beautiful street in Richmond, Monument Avenue is now devoid of its namesake statues save one situated toward the far western end of the street. A more recent statue of tennis star and Richmond native, Arthur Ashe.

He really didn't

They won't tell you that old honest Abe and the yankee 👮 officers & politicians of the day...drove the American Indians out of the North and South out West to reservations. There was alot to the Civil War not only slavery. Just like today the big cities and politicians up north have always controlled or wanted to control the south & west. Like Ronnie Van Zant sang... stick to yourself you'll be much less abused.... I know a little

Generals who should have made the list: Union: Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, Mead; Confederate: Joe Johnston, Lee, Jackson, Stuart.

1. James Longstreet. 2. Nathan Bedford Forrest. 3. Stonewall. 4. Patrick Cleburne. 5. Jubal Early.

The south would have never won the war. It was a foolish endeavor egged on by southern politicians, lobbied by wealthy pro-slavery advocates. These pro-slavery advocates included wealthy land owners and others that profited from the slave industry. But most of those that fought and died were the poor and less educated. There were educated men in the officer's corp, but the rank and file were uneducated peasants.

I believe Grant saved our country with his liberal conditions of surrender. As a long time OTR driver I have learned and been amazed at the noticeable differences between the people of each state and their politics. Some are nice and some not, just to give an example. I guess it shows the enormous size of our United States.

3:26 This map is inaccurate if you are describing what led up to the war. Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware were also slave states. Also, Virginia at that time included what is now West Virginia.

General Robert E. Lee stood taller in defeat than Grant or any other general did in victory.

Regardless what we say today about Lee today. Lee was a slave holder and rebelled against the United States. General Lee was a traitor and commanded the Confederate Army to keep it alive. There is no honor in Lee's actions. Soldiers died on both sides due to his and other rebels/traitors decisions to leave the union.

Well, where do I start? If you are comparing men with the same command responsibilities, i. e. corps commanders, then fair enough, but the CSA and USV had different ranking systems. US corps commanders were major generals - Hancock was never Lt. Gen, but was a very good corps commander - so comparing them by rank alone is pointless. Grant never commanded a corps in battle being elevated to army command before the corps system was formalised. How anyone can include Ewell but ignore Jackson beggars belief but hey, it's about opinions. Incidentally, the picture purporting to be Hancock at 13.45 is a photo of Joshua Chamberlain. I do however find the videos interesting and entertaining and look forward to them.

Stonewall Jackson

The South Got Off Easy ! They Were All Traitors !

Hood!?!? Are you daft? He was a terrible General...

The entire premise of this video in applying current day standards to the actions of people living over 150 years in the past is totally irrelevant. By your measure the US and UK committed "war crimes" in bombing German and Japanese cities and civilians purposely. The bombing of Berlin, Tokyo by the UK with night bombing of Berlin and the US firebombing of Tokyo were no different than Sherman's tactics. They were all designed to destroy the will of the enemy civilians to continue support for their dictators and war effort. All I can say to the person(s) behind these absurd, unrealistic videos and any "historical analysis" is to give it a rest and get some education into the realities and purposes of historical scholarship. Also you had best hope people 150+ years in the future don't apply their hopefully more enlightened standards to you.

Hood should not be on this list. As a Division commander, he was brilliant . After he was severely wounded 2x --not so much. His actions destroyed his own army.(Battles of Franklin and Nashville)

American history full of lies,theft, murder!!!💯😎

Apparently, a bunch of union soldiers with red boots killed a man’s wife and son. That man never surrendered and he got them union soldiers good.

Sherman

A lot of things possible here as food for thought. Perhaps the US should tone down it's hubris on the world stage. What a bunch of criminal thugs and bullies we've become since the days of Grant's wisdom. Constant wars, color revolutions, interventions, ambitions to control the whole world, drastic financial punishment of peoples over who's destinies we have no moral rights what so ever, abusing our luck and our gifts of prosperity from God to self-righteously diminish and hurt other peoples that are not to our liking.. all those gifts may end in the blink of an eye. A second topic is that most obvious - what is US unity about anyway, what is it founded on, what is it's firm foundation, and is there even one?? Is the shared theoretical ability to accumulate wealth enough to build a truly unified nation on? We have only been a united nation for less than 2 centuries since that bloody civil war .. and yet we love to ignite and promote civil wars and conflicts in any place in the world where it will benefit our so called 'interests'. And we have only recently come into the real, true, deep challenges to our own unity and don't see ourselves as we are. Will this experiment of a country built on the unity only around diversity and material opportunity prove really viable in the long term? It is still a very open question, as 200 years is nothing in the perpective of history, and should give us reason for humility, not belligerence such as we have been practicing. Currently the country is split in half and it is not at all clear that these differences are reconcilable. There is no really deep and immovable foundation for our unity, and has not been for a while. Financial prosperity does not seem like one, and the superficial and idealogically shallow (in our case) slogans of democracy and freedom have all been shown to be fake and also simply tools for greed and self-interest of the most clever and powerful. Everything is about trajectories. What have been our trajectories over the past half century or so? Are they ones for which we deserve any kind of unity well into the future? Or a future at all for that matter? Maybe the world would have been better off had the continent been broken up into two? Not at all a trivial question.

General Lee ❤

Lee did not surrender to Grant. He thought Grant was a blacksmith, and he just handed him his sword to sharpen it.

Hood got all of his men slaughtered in Franklin and Nashville. He was not a good general by his actions. He should have never been a core commander

General U.S.Grant is the greatest

Hood famously destroyed an army, the one he commanded. This pod cast is worthless. GOODBY!

Lee asked Ewell to attack Culp's Hill, not Cemetery Hill.

Sherman

Sherman

Is anybody going to mention that Lincoln was an admirer of and corresponded with Karl Marx? The history they teach is absolute nonsense.

Should we even be discussing this? Racists and leftists destroyed the monuments in Virginia and other places. Haven't they outlawed remembrance of the past?

Hood was a drug addict who slaughtered the Army of Tennessee at Franklin

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Actually, Custer probably does NOT belong here. But Burnside belongs here, why did you not put him here. Also, those two flakes Floyd and Pillow should be on this list.

Yeah, Sherman would have been Hung for war crimes Today He He waged war against civilians. That's a war crime Today. He was a piece of shit criminal.

My great grandfather Fredrick Bertram served in the GAR . People forget how the men in the field were most often fighting for local political perceptions and allegiances then for a national cause . Political thought was limited to the local press and local business interest . The telegraph was the state of the art national communication . Most lived and worked in their own back yard . Sad that people are still fighting over this very costly war . Grant was one of the sane leaders who saved countless lives and tried to unify the country , Sherman caused much vindictive destruction .

It wasn’t a civil war. The war was between two separate countries. The states of the confederacy had the constitutional right to secede. Beware, there was alot of US propaganda!!

My 2x Paternal Great Grandfather Mounterville Woodard was with the Army of N Va. and present at the surrender. He was a Ferrier/ Blacksmith and after the war lived out his life in North Central Arkansas.

It has been said that C.S. Shenandoah was still attacking and sinking U.S. whaling ships near Alaska as late as June, '65...

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I enjoy studying history as well as my family's history. My great-great-grandfather, William Bob story fought in the 48th Alabama under Long Street. He fought the duration of the war and laws brigade which was part of long streets army. Had it not been for Long Street as Lee surrendering at Appomattox, I likely would not be here. Bob Story was listed as a prisoner of war at Appomattox Virginia. He was paroled with the rest of Lee's army. He walked all the way back to Alabama. Family history says he suffered from what is now called. PTSD, was not a very good provider for his family. However, my ancestors survived and here I am. To really look at what all of our ancestors went through, both North and South, which by the way I had ancestors that fought on both sides, if we leave politics out of it, we can really see what great people we descended from. Resourceful people, people who overcome great hardships. In those days there was no government assistance. All these men on both sides went home and lived their lives, and many were the grandfathers of the world war II soldiers.

Yup, peeps of the south remember Shermans march which tried to actually spare civilians, not always successfully, but these same sothrens seem to forget Andersonville prisoner of war camp and the thousands that died there. IN GEORGIA! Yeah, let's forget that there was lots of wood available for cooking and heating but the prisoners weren't allowed to get it, lets forget that there was actually a lot of food in the area but the prisoners starved to death, let's forget that the prisoners were beaten unmercifully, let's forget that the place was a forerunner of nazi death camps. Yeah, we don't need to be reminded of Andersonville. Please forget that I mentioned it.

What a "crock" of "minimizing" BULL++++!!

war is a playground for monsters

South LOST. Grow up rednecks.

trust me bro history

Lee was known for his way of fighting, no matter the cost of lives. His soldiers, were not a consideration for Lee.