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Ok I grew up in Mobile. Why didn’t we learn about all of this in school. I learned more from your video about the battles around Mobile than I did in the entirety of my educational career. What an amazing campaign it truly was. I’ve never heard of the fort in the middle of some neighborhood in Spanish Fort and I’ve lived here all except for 6 years in Tuscaloosa for college and work. I will be finding it ASAP.

Great video. My ancestor was a trooper with the 1st Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Regiment Co. D. on this raid and helped capture Jeff Davis.

Very enjoyable presentation.

The racial hierarchy was no different in the north than it was in the south The entire country believed that blacks were not equal to whites. Lincoln wanted to colonize all blacks out of the country get it straight

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totally different situation of a desert against broken countryside

I recently ended up with his Bible

Good presentation. Zooming even further into the narrator and the screen would of done much toward assisting other viewers who might have some trouble seeing it as there is no clear reason to observe the people in the seats.

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Britain was hardly neutral. They supported the assassination of Lincoln & were part of the Golden Circle to create, with the South, and reclaim their US colony.

Watched a movie about this staring Van Heflin on yt. Watching this to check how accurate the movie portrays the raid. TY

Bennett Young, like Napoleon, is pictured with the masonic hidden hand.

I love it that Jacobson has taken the time and effort to learn the details about this significant battle, and still be able to communicate it with clarity & the art of a storyteller. Children in the government school system of today have no idea whatsoever of what was so important in the future of our nation. What a shame.

Thank you for sharing! I was able to visit Fort Macon recently.

Hood would have ran into the 6th corp, furthermore he wouldnt have gotten there until 6pm and had no support, rommel had tanks

Excellent information. Thanks

Longstreet was ahead of his time. He knew the south couldn't sustain the number of casualties they were experiencing and win the war. He wanted to be on the tactical defensive, as much as possible and to use maneuver instead of just massing forces against entrenched positions. Both sides were still doing that too much and the casualties were terrible.

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James, "Pete", Longstreet was the best field Corps commander of the war, North or South. He was vilified for becoming a Republican after the war. His political views conflicted with those of lesser generals such as Jubal Early. He lost "the battle of the pen" after the war. But had the South had 3 more like him, they might have won the war.

That last on massing troops to punch through reminds me of Upton's attack on the mule shoe.

Amazing overview. Particularly the Brotherton connection

Very interesting and nuanced presentation. I appreciate that you don't let your appreciation for Kearny blind you to his faults. Rather, you seem to have given a fairly even-handed assessment of him. :)

Swinton Barber from company I Washington rifles is my grandpappy the drinking is somewhat of a family tradition

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Mr. Jacobson, thank you for creating/sharing this first rate presentation. I agree with others that adding a few maps would have made the presentation even better (or even more outstanding). Not too big of an issue -- I just paused the video on TV and pulled up maps on my laptop.

Hood was not capable and destroyed The Army of Tennessee, do you disagree? Please do not compare John Bell Hood to General Robert E. Lee

Just found this channel and I am very happy I did!

Wayne is promoted to Colonel and Chief of Scouts. And it is Rider who mentioned Lee.

After Mo. Was secured and Helena Ark. Fell the North had no need to fight here. The bulk is the keeping Indian Territory war from spilling into Kansas.

There was a strategic objective to the campaign- namely, to remove pressure from the Confederate defenders at Vicksburg. Reagan made clear in his work that the primary objective of the political leaders in Richmond was to bring relief to Vicksburg, and that the retention of forces in Lee's army- and his advance north- were predicated on this. Lee was fully well aware of this. He met with these leaders in the first half of 1863 to discuss the situation at Vicksburg, and he told Secretary of War Seddon on 9 April that: "Should Hooker's army assume the defensive, the readiest method of relieving the pressure upon General Johnston and General Beauregard would be for this army to cross into Maryland". Lee believed that the AoNV could influence events from almost 1,000 miles away.

The scope of the war had changed and Confederates were deserting in droves and the United States Colored Troops enlisting in the Union armies insured the survival and victory of the USA.

Isn't Spring Hill, Tenn. where the "Mississippi Diaper Sniper" Confederate General Earl Van Dorn was shot and killed by a Confederate doctor who alleged Van Dorn, had an extramarital affair with the doctor's wife? 1863.

definitely cost the Union an opportunity later in the campaign. Had his division redeployed to Harper's Ferry as ordered, the VIII Corps would have been in excellent position to move up from Harper's Ferry and block the fords at Williamsport and the Bridges at Falling Waters during Lee's retreat from Gettysburg. Add in a couple of divisions from other areas in Virginia and Lee's Army could have been forced to surrender.

Bless all the men who fought for Dixie in the war of northern agression...

Absolutely brilliant. My favourite part is your comparisons with WW1 and WW2 strategy’s/tactics. Agree that Longstreet was ahead of his time but also the fire power was limited compared to WW1 thus allowing Longstreet and others maneuvering that will prove impossible during WW1 because of improved artillery and machine guns and only possible again with the arrival of armored units. Again thank you!!

My di-rect ancestors turned Commissary Banks back 3 miles South of Mansfield,La. Skint their asses up! Turned into a running fight from Pleasant Hill the day after Mansfield to Alexandria. Then fighting around Alex after Sherman's Firebug A.J.Smith's Brigade lit the town ablaze on down to Simmesport on the Ataflachalia River.

Very good presentation! Thanks for posting.

Simply outstanding. The perspective here offers the most believable explanation of what happened that I've ever encountered. It certainly increased my estimation of Schofield and shows that even an otherwise brilliant officer like Forrest can make cataclysmic errors. Jacobson is correct that this was the final grand campaign as Franklin and Nashville together make the last truly large set piece battles. Jacobson's depiction of what living through 1864 was like psychologically and spiritually ring true and, I think, fully explains why the confederate retreat turned into a rout with the army literally disintegrating as individual southern soldiers deciding the war was done and they were finished with it.

I think the evidence in the aftermath of Franklin is overwhelming against Hood. You never attack and enemy head on when they were entrenched as they were. JBH sent those men to their death and it didn't have to happen. 7-7500 Confederate dead and 1500-1700 Union dead. The man was a lunatic at this point so swelled up in pride.

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At least two of my ancestors were in Longstreet’s Corps. He is buried in Gainesville Georgia where he was the US Marshall and Postmaster.

Excellent talk. I've always thought Forrest got off quite lightly- but as with all these things, as you rightly say, it's easy to judge people sitting here now.

i have been on morphine it makes you more off what u are if hood was a go get hem commander he would only be happy do so even more it only takes pain away and makes u happy person and doesn,t make u think differently before u were on it just u feel no pain and u feel very ok

love the heart felt talk love the confederates but if the these heroes men won their it was only another 1 or 2 battles to the end of them the north was to much in man power seemingly eating 4000 calouries a man every day to about 700 to a thousand for the southern soldier the war could not be won unless they where supported very quickly with a large army at least half million strong from an other nation with endless food supplies for them and the southern army and all other supplies also a navy to take back all ports allso by end off war 1865 ther was about 200 .000 thousand black troops alone and over 2 million enlisted men and around 7 hundred thousand at one polnt on call to fight and could only get larger if needed the south was fighting as u say for survivail and new it could not win it only dragged it on as mutch as they could hopeing for some miricle britain joining them or a peace deal with terms for them to agree to

Some maps would have been very effective!

I agree with you on the fate of the crew. Surprised at those who still dispute the facts as best they are known today through science.

Enjoyed this ya'll notice the ghosts telling him to exit over his right shoulder .

Interesting synopsized of JBH who got through so many major encounters during the conflict.

As good a 30 minute program about Spring Hill as any. A lot of the myths and misconceptions he discussed still persist among Southerners and I hate that. I say that as a life long Southerner too.