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A Family at War on the Confederate Home Front
War is not just about battles and generals, politicians and diplomats; it has massive impacts on ordinary men and women. In this lecture Dr Patrick Doyle of Holloway College, University of London, looks at how the Civil War affected a single lower-class white family from upstate South Carolina, and how the loss of men to the army destabilized traditional relationships. From letters written between family members we hear about the everyday struggles and frustrations these circumstances created, as ordinary folk came to see the “real” war as the one for sustenance and stability at home.
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Twisting John Bull’s Arm: Sequestration and Confederate Diplomatic Strategy
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For several years Dr Rodney Steward of the University of South Carolina has been looking into the Confederacy's sequestration (confiscation) of funds and property in South Carolina. In this talk he adds a British dimension to the subject as he discusses the evolution of sequestration from a domestic policy that victimised ordinary folk on the home front to a diplomatic strategy designed to forc...
Battle of the North Anna River May 1864
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Robert E Lee’s defences on the North Anna River were some of the most formidable of the entire Overland Campaign, on which he had anticipated striking a major blow on the advancing Yankees. But in the event Ulysses S Grant turned the Confederates from their positions with relatively light casualties, and the operations here are usually overlooked. In this talk Chris Mackowski looks at the oppor...
Showdown at Yellow Tavern -Frank O’Reilly
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As well as the brutal engagements between the main bodies of the Union and Confederate armies led by Grant and Lee, the Overland Campaign saw the clash of two of its most famous cavalry leaders. In the gray corner was perhaps the war’s most famous and dashing cavalier, J E B Stuart. In the blue corner was perhaps the war’s most controversial personality, the ambitious and ruthless Phil Sheridan...
WIlliam Schaw Lindsay - Confederate Advocate
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How did a poor orphan boy become a shipping magnate, an MP, and the leading supporter of the Confederates in the American Civil War, trying to persuade the British and French to grant Southern independence? This was the extraordinary life of William Schaw Lindsay, Victorian entrepreneur and advocate for the Confederacy. ACWRTUK member Bill Lindsay is his direct descendant and has spent six year...
The Crossing of the James
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Who was the victor of the Overland Campaign of 1864, Ulysses S Grant or Robert E Lee? This is question long debated by military historians. In this talk ACWRTUK member Jeremy Mindell seeks to answer it by looking at the objectives of the two sides, the human costs of the campaign, and the strategic position at its close, with some controversial conclusions. It was a brilliant follow-on to Frank...
The Battle of Monocacy
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Although our 2023 Conference principally focussed on the great battles between Grant and Lee in Virginia, it also recognised these were not fought in isolation. In this video Iain Standen, CEO of the Bletchley Park Trust, battlefield guide, and long-standing member of our Round Table stretched the geographic scope a little to look at how the Confederacy threat to Washington DC was blocked at th...
The St Albans Raid October 1864
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Erick Bush is one of our most popular speakers on our TH-cam channel. In this presentation at our 2023 AGM he looks into the St Albans Raid in Vermont, on 19 October 1864, suggesting that far from being a simple bank robbery it was a well-planned and executed cavalry raid in its own right. Erick will also be speaking at our 2024 Conference on 5-7 April, where he will talk about the role of cava...
The Raids in Cinema AGM 2023
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In this light-hearted talk which closed our 2023 AGM Roger Blake, a long-standing UK Round Table member and fan of Civil War and Western movies, looks at what Hollywood made of the Andrews Locomotive Raid of 1862 and the St Albans Raid of 1864. Prepare to leave the facts behind in favour of a fun ride through history.
Locomotive Chase
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In this the first of three talks given at our 2023 AGM, UK Round Table member Dave Bradley looks at the Andrews Raid of April 1862 in Alabama - perhaps better known as the Great Locomotive Chase. He explains its intended objectives, how it played out, and why it failed.
The Battle of Samaria Church
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Our Annual Conference features some excellent talks from our UK members as well as our guest American speakers. In this video former ACWRTUK President Greg Bayne, who is also the editor of our Crossfire magazine, looks into the last battle of the Overland Campaign, the cavalry action at Samaria Church on 24 June 1864. Don’t miss out on our 2024 Conference, where we will explore The Atlanta Camp...
The Battle of Spotsylvania
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The Battle of Spotsylvania in May 1864 was one of the most terrible of the American Civil War. In this entertaining and emotive lecture given at our 2023 Conference on the Overland Campaign of 1864 Chris Mackowksi of Emerging Civil War also explains why it was also one of the most important, changing the nature of battle in the war. Don’t miss out on our 2024 Conference, where we will explore T...
The Wilderness Campaign
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Frank O'Reilly, historian at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields National Military Park, opened our 2023 Conference on the Overland Campaign of 1864 with this great lecture on the Battle of the Wilderness. Particularly insightful on both the objectives and the relationship of the two main protagonists, Grant and Lee, as they met for the first time, and how this effected thei...
2023 Conference - Dr Helen Fry and the history of Latimer House
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We went a little off piste with our opener to our 2023 Conference. We had a new venue at Latimer House in the Chilterns, the site of one of Britain’s most secret intelligence locations in the Second World War and couldn’t resist the opportunity to investigate the history of the operations there. The result was this brilliant presentation by Dr Helen Fry. A long way from our theme of the Overlan...
Mortar Firing at Fort Macon NC - June 2023
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Taken in June 2023 this is a video of volunteers at Fort Macon NC demonstrating a Civil War mortar being fired. It was taken on an ordinary camera and was a fairly windy day on the coast so the sound is a little bit poor at times, but it was still fascinating to watch this complex procedure. The fort will be celebrating its 100th Anniversary as a State Park next year but doesn’t receive funding...
Bluejackets: The Men Who Made the US Navy
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Bluejackets: The Men Who Made the US Navy
Frank O'Reilly's view on our 2023 Conference
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Frank O'Reilly's view on our 2023 Conference
The Battle of Westport, Missouri, 23 October 1864
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The Battle of Westport, Missouri, 23 October 1864
The Red River Campaign - Louisiana - March-May 1864
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The Red River Campaign - Louisiana - March-May 1864
James Longstreet: The Civil War's Modern General
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James Longstreet: The Civil War's Modern General
The Battle of Honey Springs 17 July 1863
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The Battle of Honey Springs 17 July 1863
Edmund Kirby Smith and The Department of the Trans-Mississippi
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Edmund Kirby Smith and The Department of the Trans-Mississippi
Waterloo in Kentucky? Why Civil War battles were so indecisive.
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Waterloo in Kentucky? Why Civil War battles were so indecisive.
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.
Be glad to show you.
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
Abraham Lincoln in the 4th Lincoln/Douglas debate While I was at the hotel to-day an elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in favor of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people. [Great laughter.] While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on that subject, yet as the question was asked me I thought I would occupy perhaps five minutes in saying something in regard to it. I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, [applause]---that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and description PAGE 146 political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
408 pm Gettysburgh
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.
Myles was my
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.
He was slow day 2 at Gettysburg.
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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
Attack of the Yanky boxcutters
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.
I don't believe this is correct. While Lee probably thought an invasion might redirect some Union forces from elsewhere , his main, and most prescient objectives were to relieve the Virginian countryside so that farms and their crops could recover, and to *hopefully* put enough fear and doubt into the hearts of the average northern citizen that they might pressure the US government to sue for peace. Although I can certainly appreciate a connection to Vicksburg more than the typical "He wanted to capture DC!" drivel.
Having no proper command structure spells doom in any situation. This is not democracy and consensus of ideas. This is: the theater commander needs to get all the troops going in the right directions in accordance with the principles of war and the operational arts. Jefferson Davis should be doing nothing but asking the theater commander what he needs to accomplish the mission that commanders decide to undertake, but otherwise stay out and just do the politics and leave war to the military. One of the reasons the D-Day landing succeeded was Eisenhower had no civilian above him meddling in his business, and on the German side Hitler was acting as the Chief of Staff of the army. No one could make any decisions; he reserved that function to himself. The German army was paralyzed until someone could convince Hitler to defer judgement to the right general. By not having an iron clad chain of command in each theater, Jefferson Davis largely caused the inaction that led to the loss of Mississippi. @@manilajohn0182
@@haroldk3913 Yep. Political leaders should set grand strategic objectives and should, generally, leave it to the leadership of the armed forces on how to go about accomplishing those objectives. Political leaders bypassing their senior military leaders to give detailed instructions to 'their' subordinates is a great example of Napoleon's "Order plus counterorder equals disorder". In the case of the Confederacy, much of the responsibility for their troubles resided with Davis himself- not least because he initiated the conflict in the first place.
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!!
Thank you Dan. Maybe down the road you all will have me back, and I will do a part 2 on Longstreet, and cover the Operational level in the context of the Chattanooga Campaign, starting where I left off after Chickamauga.
Even in 1860 in Europe that kind of American maneuvering wiuld havd ended in a catastrophe. The prussian breach loading artillery was 4 times faster, 3 times more accurate and had twice the rrach. A meaneuvef like Picket's charge in close order against the Prussian's would not have reached their lines. Not to mention the breech loading infantry gun. They shot 6 times per minute and were trained to fire faster when necessary. ( every Prussian had one and they were in use for more then 30 years, so they knew tactical how to use them best).
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.
If Forrest was dismissed Hoods cavalry would of gone AWOL.
@@potcrak1 Very probably!
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.