These cinematics are a great way to understand the scale of soldiers involved in these great battles. Where 30 years ago we could only read and imagine.
We as Americans should know more about our history, both good and bad. This was an excellent example. Thank you, Andy I loved the animation. Really cool!
He was also fighting the A team by the time Grant took over the cream of Lee's army was gone dead at Chancellorville, antietam, Gettysburg, Bull run he didn't have the unending manpower the north had
wow impressive how good of a sense these animations give of masses of soldiers charging in to each other and slugging it out with bayonets & rifle butts. I'd always known that in a Civil War infantry assault, both the attacker and defender got a chance to shoot twice, maybe three times and then it was hand to hand combat but to see it here was outstanding.. good work!
I studied the civil war during high school. One thing I noticed is that it became impossible to discern the 'good' guys from the 'bad' guys. I was continuously rooting for whoever I was reading about, whether it be the union or confederate. They all bravely defended causes that they felt were justified. This war was such a waste of so many good men.
I can agree that as regards most of the men who fought and were doing what they thought was right, but that does not apply to the leaders of the Confederate Cause.
@@mrbaab5932 Virtually nobody thinks that slavery is ok. To think of slavery as the only issue of the time, and to then think of the people involved as a "good people who want to free the slaves" and "bad people who want to keep people in slavery" binary is a gross simplification that doesn't even come close to the truth. Most southerners who fought in the war didn't care about slaves one way or the other. They were told that the Yankees were coming to burn down their farms and cities and rape their women. In the end, unfortunately, they were right, as Sherman's march to the see, burning of Atlanta, and unnumerable atrocities in between illustrates.
The animation really did a good job of captureing a significant challenge by weapons of that day. The moments and minutes after firing, the "smoke screen" only got worse and caused more confusion. Good job!
Fighting with 19th century weapons with 18th century tactics. That's why so many casualties. They just marched in a straight line with muskets on their shoulders.
It’s sad, no, it’s devastating the impact civil war had on the Americans and also here in Britain 200 yrs or so prior. Must’ve been a horrible time to have lived through. Thankyou for putting this out. Merry Christmas from Glasgow 🇬🇧🤝🏻🇺🇸
I think the Union strategic victory at Antietam is what kept you guys and the French from joining the South. Antietam was therefore more consequential than Gettysburg, even though that battle gets all the attention as it was the largest of the War. Happy holidays to y'all from across the pond 🇺🇸 🇬🇧
Yup, the first english civil war and the thirty years war were among the most deadly and destructive wars ever seen. Not even the world wars were as destruktive as those two.
@paulhicks6667 The war began over disputes regarding state's rights and preserving national unity. Slavery really had nothing much to do with it, despite what the popular narratives say. But after Antietam, Lincoln saw a chance to make the Civil War a moral conflict in the eyes of the British, and so this he did by issuing the Emancipation. The war was no longer just about the original reasons, but ending Slavery as well. Happy new year to you.
It’s also sad that McClellan was given command time and again and his caution with the bigger army couldn’t achieve its goals. Thus the war dragged out. The Civil War had more American casualties than WW1 and WW2 combined
This was actually a great depiction. No cheesy re-enactments on history channel with just 20 actors charging the field. In American history class in HS, they don’t ever go into the bloody details of battles. They list the most important ones and when the war was won, blah blah. We gotta realize that war is a whole bunch of battles, and tens of thousands of soldiers have died. It doesn’t matter what war it is. I think what makes civil wars the most tragic is the country literally killing itself. The American civil war only lasted 5 years, but can you imagine if it lasted a century? 😱 that was Japan’s longest civil war. They also used the most modern weapons of the time as well.
A very helpful and interesting documentary. Antietam has always haunted me ever since seeing Matthew Bradey's photographs. Some maps of the battlefield would have helped make sense of it .
Ken Burns "Civil War" is a masterpiece and should be required viewing for every high schooler in America. That generation needs to understand how many soldiers gave their life for them.
Nothing honorable about defending a society based on the enslavement of other human beings. The confederate soldiers were victims of a corrupt society- not heroes.
Good video. I have been reading about the American Civil War since I was 18 years old. I'm now 65, have read many serious works on Antietam and have been to the battlefield 25 or 30 times. I have never heard that General Mansfield was wounded by Federal Troops. My understanding is that Mansfield, basically had a desk job and nagged Lincoln into giving him a field command. He was given command of the 12th corps and Sept 17th was the first fighting he had seen in the war. Mansfield was struck while getting his men ready to advance and probably never saw the Confederates before being struck down.
Thank you, I’m glad you pointed this out , I am no expert on this subject and can only go off sources that I read online so my apologies if there are any inaccuracies
@@cinematicbattles559 Antietam is a great battle to study and the actual battlefield today is basically unspoiled. Antietam battlefield is about 10 miles from Harpers Ferry, another fantastic Civil War town. Gettysburg is quite commercialized but still a great place to visit. It is about an hours drive maybe a little more between the two.
IM SO GLAD YOU FINNALY MADE ONE OF THESE! I am learning more about the napoleonic wars, but I know about the civil war so thx for making this (edit) I have actually been to this battlefield before
There was actually a battle in Lexington, Missouri where Confederate allied forces rolled hay bales forward while under fire as a kind of mobile cover. It worked fairly well, but ended up making a bit of a mess of the battle for a couple different reasons.
"We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or an earth-work lined with infantry." - Gen. Daniel Harvey (DH) Hill, Civil War survivor.
Having watched the First Four too Five minutes. Your CGI graphics were Great and the replaying of the Battle was impressive. So I will finish viewing it later. FGD, I'M a firm advocate that Major Gen. George B McClellan even with a copy of Lee's Plans in His early possession after the Battle of South Mtn. had been Fought. That He was then totally out witted & smarted by Gen. Lee in the Battle fought at the Town of Sharpsburg, MD. afterwards. At that Great and Bloody Battle? The Confederacy was able too whip the Union Army, from every aspect of it's Outcome. Even when Maj. General McClellan's Army was Double in Size too the Southern Army that General Lee could put into the Field against them. Although Lee had too Fight an entirely Defensive Battle with Half the Number of Men. IT has been said that it was a Masterpiece of Leadership on a Modern Battlefield with so many Thousands of Men involved over the Three Days it took too Fight it. From My POV it proved that McClellan was a pompous Over Stuffed, egotistical, Stuff Shirt, that was just another Eastern Blow hard too Boot 👢🥾. When Abe Lincoln then had Him relieved of His Command. He had totally earned it. TKS for Sharing.
I visited the Antietam National Battlefield on my way to Virginia about 15 years ago. I was amazed that the U.S. government plants corn on the same spot as the Bloody Cornfield. I also saw the Dunker Church and the Bloody Lane. General Joseph Hooker said that each stalk of corn was cut as closely as could have been done with a knife, and the slain lay in rows precisely where they had stood only moments before !! 😢
If you’re confederate, it’s the battle of Sharpsburg. Yankees always named the battle after the nearest water feature and confederates name it after the nearest land feature.
This one is befitting it's byword as America's bloodiest day. Have seen historical photographs taken in the aftermath and they gruesomely telegraph the ferocity of the fighting. Miller's cornfield and the sunken road stand out.
to be fair McClellan cautious was based on the fact that Lee had beaten him so many times....because he was overly cautious ever single time he tried anything. Battle seems to have been won more by simple mistakes by the confederates then McClellan's skill as a commander.
Incorrect. Lee had not beaten McClellan. Lee and McClellan faced each other prior to Antietam during the Peninsula campaign and Seven Days battles. Lee lost all but one engagement during the series of battles, but McClellan kept retreating until he reached Harrison's Landing on the James River. Tactically, McClellan won most of the Seven Days battles, but Lee unnerved him with reckless attacks. Lee lost over 20k men...McClellan lost around 16k. At the end of the day, McClellan failed to utilize his advantages more than Lee was brilliant.
If we're gonna call this battle as history dose a Victory for the Union because Lee withdrew.Then Lee Won all those engagement on the peninsula..With Gen Johnston deserving credit for the 1st.
@@cinematicbattles559 That’s amazing! As you can tell, I don’t have any of those games. My last Civil War game was Terrible Swift Sword. It was a board game with hundreds of die cut unit markers that one was always losing.😂 It was a good game though! It took at least a week to play through.
This video missed one of the most important points in the Maryland Campaign. Union troops found a copy of General Lee's plans in an abandoned Confederate camp.
THE NORTH SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE CAREFULL GOING UP AGAINST LEE. THE FACT THAT BOTH SIDES OF THE CIVIL WAR OFFERED LEE THEIR LEADERSHIP SHOULD HAVE BEEN A WARNING THAT A FIGHT WITH LEE WAS DANGEROUS, AND DEADLY.
@@spinecat IN GONE WITH THE WIND IT WAS MADE APPARENT FROM THE START, THE SOUTH HAD HEAVY INDUSTRY, NO NAVY. NOT EVEN UNIFORMS. THE CIVIL WAR WAS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION.
These people lined up arm to arm and marched head on into cannon and small arms fire by the hundreds.? It’s called meshing the fire, it’s actually called crazy as hell and irresponsible as the devil.
I stood on the site of Pickets charge at Gettysburg. It was a warm summers day. As I walked into the field a felt a chilling cold. I don’t believe in the supernatural but I have to believe where so many souls perish in such hellish ways something disturbing may remain. I have no answer to this experience. I have to believe the same elements are inherent at Antietam.
As a Marylander who has visited that particular battlefield, Sharpsburg isn't as flat as many people would think. Between the humidly rolling hills and the other terrain features (crops and trenches), the range of the rifles was vastly reduced below 500 yards. Unlike Gettysburg, Antietam, on the edges of the Potomac River, was much rougher to navigate as both forces fought on the outskirts of the river. It would be slightly similar to the rivers in Northern France or upper Italy in some places where armies would see the war of attrition from the terrain/climate.
Two of the Union's best frontline operators, Generals Francis Barlow and Israel Richardson both went down wounded at almost the same time right as they were rallying and reforming their men for the killing blow after splintering Lee's center. The attack petered out without their combat leadership.
@@mike2590rrr Lincoln was a bully. A tyrant. He was willing to sacrifice liberty to FORCE the South to OBEY his edicts. He stomped over the Constitution and killed an unconscionable number of Americans to achieve his egotistical goals.
@@NorthForkFisherman one thing for sure, he wanted to keep the $$ flowing north to DC from the southern ports. And then, there’s the issue of manifest destiny. And then there’s the (very serious) issue of his ego….
I was hoping for some visual clarification of what I've read. Instead, I get fences that don't matter and a defensive line and bridges that don't come into play. I won't mention troops marching downhill to reach a plateau, and the craziness that was the cavalry.
Somewhere out there is an alternate timeline, where the Union Army is commanded by Robert E Lee and McClellan is his chief of supply. In that timeline, the Civil War probably lasted 3 weeks. (I exaggerate for comedic effect, but still...)😉
I understand why Lee choose this spot, What I do not understand is why McCellan did not attack when he had the lost orders. I still say it was the gift of the war. Info and speed are your allies.
Apart from the generated voice, this is a tremendous recreation of Antietam Having walked that ground towards the Sunken Road it must’ve been absolutely horrific for Mahers men when the Confederates unleashed that volley As you approach the lane you can’t see it until you crest this rise about 50-75yds away, so those men had to be in for the shock of their lives when that line of Rebs came into sight Afterwards, walking the length Bloody Lane, imagining that scene of Confederates 3/4 deep firing & reloading for the men in front was an experience as well More so when you consider how it must’ve looked once they were overrun by the advancing Union troops; the carnage had to be indescribable in Americans experience of warfare until that time…Gardner’s photographs are proof of this fact
Im from Canada but have read a lot about this war. It was awful families were so divided Isee way to many similarities in modern American society I just hope this never happens again. But the country is very polarized again.
Some reasons for the Civil War being so long and bloody is that the leaders on both sides were trained at West Point and employing the same tactics against each other. Also, the use of the European tactic of marching your completely exposed men into formed enemy lines who were simply waiting for them to come within range was pure idiocy.
Ok, but you don't get the full feel of the battle. Save the robots for smaller efforts, and give me a picture of the entire battlefield showing the movement of units.
African Americans have an entire month dedicated to Black History yet I have yet to witness a single minute dedicated forl the Union soldiers who fought and died so they could be free
...and so lost was that greatest part of the American Spirit and along with it all counts of such esteem to which it had been derived from such great heritage; yet not to be forgotten, but only to lay fallow for a short period until such time as it be so that our Great Creator and our Redeemer entonces that blessed hope the day we arise!!!
Well I will give it a TU for the effort but the animations are completely confusing rather then just show fights las the narrator speaks lets see the movements (at least for a moment) from above or from distance so we can see how the armies moved back & forth show the ridges,fences,trees,corn juxtaposed to the battlefield! I have no idea what I'm watching ere sort of like a kid was given the toy men to play with.
Thus was the beginning of the end of states rights as defined in the Constitution. Because of this, we now endure the monster that is the federal government..
These cinematics are a great way to understand the scale of soldiers involved in these great battles. Where 30 years ago we could only read and imagine.
And none where out of shape like we see with civil war reanacters > average 30-40 lbs overweight 😁!
Right. People were quite lean back in those days
Comparing original photos to this cgi, I think the cgi shows too many soldiers packed too closely together. But a good tactical description.
@@frankward8336 absolutely agree
This is a game mod in napoleon total war 2
We as Americans should know more about our history, both good and bad. This was an excellent example. Thank you, Andy I loved the animation. Really cool!
Thanks man glad you enjoyed it :)
What about black troops who fought that are not even mentioned?😮
1:16. Lol typical McClellan. He had this unshakable bordering on obsessive belief that he was always outnumbered by 5:1.
McClellan's leadership style:
Ready...
Aim...
Aim...
Aim...
No wait...
Ready...
Aim...
Aim...
Aim...
etc...
He was a scared general.
He was also fighting the A team by the time Grant took over the cream of Lee's army was gone dead at Chancellorville, antietam, Gettysburg, Bull run he didn't have the unending manpower the north had
And the difference between living and dying that day was an angry Texan interrupted at breakfast 😮
wow impressive how good of a sense these animations give of masses of soldiers charging in to each other and slugging it out with bayonets & rifle butts. I'd always known that in a Civil War infantry assault, both the attacker and defender got a chance to shoot twice, maybe three times and then it was hand to hand combat but to see it here was outstanding.. good work!
I studied the civil war during high school. One thing I noticed is that it became impossible to discern the 'good' guys from the 'bad' guys. I was continuously rooting for whoever I was reading about, whether it be the union or confederate. They all bravely defended causes that they felt were justified. This war was such a waste of so many good men.
ALL wars are a waste of good men
I can agree that as regards most of the men who fought and were doing what they thought was right, but that does not apply to the leaders of the Confederate Cause.
I guess you think slavery is OK then? You don't believe in the USA Constitution when it declared 'All men are created equal'.
The US Constitution was written for and about land-owning white males.
@@mrbaab5932 Virtually nobody thinks that slavery is ok. To think of slavery as the only issue of the time, and to then think of the people involved as a "good people who want to free the slaves" and "bad people who want to keep people in slavery" binary is a gross simplification that doesn't even come close to the truth. Most southerners who fought in the war didn't care about slaves one way or the other. They were told that the Yankees were coming to burn down their farms and cities and rape their women.
In the end, unfortunately, they were right, as Sherman's march to the see, burning of Atlanta, and unnumerable atrocities in between illustrates.
Thank you for using our old mod for this video :) Good times!
What is it a mod for? Is it TW Napoleon? What is the mod called?
@@kenbo-2179 Its North and South for TW Napoleon.
The animation really did a good job of captureing a significant challenge by weapons of that day. The moments and minutes after firing, the "smoke screen" only got worse and caused more confusion. Good job!
Fighting with 19th century weapons with 18th century tactics. That's why so many casualties. They just marched in a straight line with muskets on their shoulders.
OMG LOVE THIS
YOU ARE THE BEST TH-camR
Thanks 😁
It’s sad, no, it’s devastating the impact civil war had on the Americans and also here in Britain 200 yrs or so prior. Must’ve been a horrible time to have lived through. Thankyou for putting this out. Merry Christmas from Glasgow 🇬🇧🤝🏻🇺🇸
Thanks for watching, Merry Christmas to you too sir
I think the Union strategic victory at Antietam is what kept you guys and the French from joining the South. Antietam was therefore more consequential than Gettysburg, even though that battle gets all the attention as it was the largest of the War.
Happy holidays to y'all from across the pond 🇺🇸 🇬🇧
Yup, the first english civil war and the thirty years war were among the most deadly and destructive wars ever seen. Not even the world wars were as destruktive as those two.
@paulhicks6667 The war began over disputes regarding state's rights and preserving national unity. Slavery really had nothing much to do with it, despite what the popular narratives say. But after Antietam, Lincoln saw a chance to make the Civil War a moral conflict in the eyes of the British, and so this he did by issuing the Emancipation. The war was no longer just about the original reasons, but ending Slavery as well.
Happy new year to you.
It’s also sad that McClellan was given command time and again and his caution with the bigger army couldn’t achieve its goals. Thus the war dragged out. The Civil War had more American casualties than WW1 and WW2 combined
Wow, someone's got talent. This was so well done.
Thank you very much :)
@@cinematicbattles559 you're most welcome. Thank you more for making this
This was actually a great depiction. No cheesy re-enactments on history channel with just 20 actors charging the field. In American history class in HS, they don’t ever go into the bloody details of battles. They list the most important ones and when the war was won, blah blah. We gotta realize that war is a whole bunch of battles, and tens of thousands of soldiers have died. It doesn’t matter what war it is. I think what makes civil wars the most tragic is the country literally killing itself. The American civil war only lasted 5 years, but can you imagine if it lasted a century? 😱 that was Japan’s longest civil war. They also used the most modern weapons of the time as well.
Excellent content thank you
A very helpful and interesting documentary. Antietam has always haunted me ever since seeing Matthew Bradey's photographs. Some maps of the battlefield would have helped make sense of it .
Not familiar with this battle in civil war , so much appreciated. Amazing video!
Thanks 🙏
Just visited Antietam,looking over the cornfields just imagining the chaos and carnage taking place right where I stood gave me the chills !!!! RIP
RIP brave soldiers from both sides. 😢🇺🇸
This was spectacular!
Thanks :)
Ken Burns "Civil War" is a masterpiece and should be required viewing for every high schooler in America. That generation needs to understand how many soldiers gave their life for them.
Wow! Fantastic! Maybe the battle of Chancellorsville next?
Thanks 😊 Yes thinking of doing that
Awesome video pal!!
Thanks for the support bro
Great job!
Thanks!
Bless those Brave and Honorable Soldiers on both sides that fought so hard and Courageously !
Nothing honorable about defending a society based on the enslavement of other human beings. The confederate soldiers were victims of a corrupt society- not heroes.
And stupid.
Good video.
I have been reading about the American Civil War since I was 18 years old. I'm now 65, have read many serious works on Antietam and have been to the battlefield 25 or 30 times. I have never heard that General Mansfield was wounded by Federal Troops. My understanding is that Mansfield, basically had a desk job and nagged Lincoln into giving him a field command. He was given command of the 12th corps and Sept 17th was the first fighting he had seen in the war. Mansfield was struck while getting his men ready to advance and probably never saw the Confederates before being struck down.
Thank you, I’m glad you pointed this out , I am no expert on this subject and can only go off sources that I read online so my apologies if there are any inaccuracies
@@cinematicbattles559 Antietam is a great battle to study and the actual battlefield today is basically unspoiled. Antietam battlefield is about 10 miles from Harpers Ferry, another fantastic Civil War town.
Gettysburg is quite commercialized but still a great place to visit. It is about an hours drive maybe a little more between the two.
I was there perhaps 10 years ago with my late wife. I did not know at the time my 2x great grandfather fought there with the 20th Mass.
This video is REAL good! 👏🏼😎
Cheers man
@@cinematicbattles559 you’ve done a fantastic job, keep on going bro! 💥👏🏼😎
A video of the battle of Spotsylvania would be awesome! Or Cold Harbour?
"Flank the Enemy!"
"Retreat?! Say No more!"
*Confused Texan Noises*
Texans only have one noise.
this is a very well-done video.
Cheers man
13:05
“They were quickly outnumbered and pushed back…”
The game engine took that statement quite literally.
IM SO GLAD YOU FINNALY MADE ONE OF THESE! I am learning more about the napoleonic wars, but I know about the civil war so thx for making this (edit) I have actually been to this battlefield before
Thanks for watching bro, nice man that's cool. It seems like a lovely place with a tragic past
Every American should visit the civil war battlefields
I didn't realize that large round hay bales (they lined the sides of the roads) had been invented back then. Learn something new every day!
Agricultural equipment was a touchy subject back then
There was actually a battle in Lexington, Missouri where Confederate allied forces rolled hay bales forward while under fire as a kind of mobile cover. It worked fairly well, but ended up making a bit of a mess of the battle for a couple different reasons.
"We were lavish of blood in those days, and it was thought to be a grand thing to charge a battery or an earth-work lined with infantry." - Gen. Daniel Harvey (DH) Hill, Civil War survivor.
Love seeing the soldiers walk right through the fences.
Yeah, the horses apparently didn’t have that super power. 😂
What game is this? Nice video.
Thanks , this is Napoleon total war with the American civil war mod
Very well done! I wish we could get a Total War game during this time period.
Quite sure there are a few Victorian mods for multiple different TW games, but yeah, a Total War Victoria would be cool
Excellent animations!
How did you get the General and his staff's horse to walk at 2:36, I play this game frequently and I still can't figure it out.
If you group them with other units and move them all at the same time they go at the same pace
"Bloodiest Day" so far... All Homer references aside, this was a great video
Thanks bro
Can you do a vídeo of Paraguai war?
We visited the spot. So sad, all that loss of life
Am no military expert, but why no artillery barrages before attacks?
Is this done on total war engine and using a mod?
Yes it’s napoleon total war with an American civil war mod
love ur video❤
Thanks glad you enjoyed
Having watched the First Four too Five minutes. Your CGI graphics were Great and the replaying of the Battle was impressive. So I will finish viewing it later. FGD, I'M a firm advocate that Major Gen. George B McClellan even with a copy of Lee's Plans in His early possession after the Battle of South Mtn. had been Fought.
That He was then totally out witted & smarted by Gen. Lee in the Battle fought at the Town of Sharpsburg, MD. afterwards.
At that Great and Bloody Battle? The Confederacy was able too whip the Union Army, from every aspect of it's Outcome. Even when Maj. General McClellan's Army was Double in Size too the Southern Army that General Lee could put into the Field against them. Although Lee had too Fight an entirely Defensive Battle with Half the Number of Men.
IT has been said that it was a Masterpiece of Leadership on a Modern Battlefield with so many Thousands of Men involved over the Three Days it took too Fight it. From My POV it proved that McClellan was a pompous Over Stuffed, egotistical, Stuff Shirt, that was just another Eastern Blow hard too Boot 👢🥾. When Abe Lincoln then had Him relieved of His Command. He had totally earned it. TKS for Sharing.
I visited the Antietam National Battlefield on my way to Virginia about 15 years ago. I was amazed that the U.S. government plants corn on the same spot as the Bloody Cornfield. I also saw the Dunker Church and the Bloody Lane. General Joseph Hooker said that each stalk of corn was cut as closely as could have been done with a knife, and the slain lay in rows precisely where they had stood only moments before !! 😢
My great great grandfather was with the 8th Ohio in the cornfield. Survived and went on fight at Gettysburg and Lookout Mountain.
Anty atum creek?!
Arlington and Antietam are the most sobering places I've visited.
Vietnam Memorial Wall for me. Almost eerie. Probably like you felt at A&A.
Go to Antietam during the luminary memorial. It will open your eyes to the magnitude of loss. Tremendously impacting.
In Europe, the Battle of Solferino, just 3 years earlier, had claimed 39,000 casualties - almost twice those at Antietam.
McClellan could build an army, but did not know how to use it.
Thanks for the video! If they get the chance folks should visit this area. Oh, and it is pronounced "An-tee-tum. "
If you’re confederate, it’s the battle of Sharpsburg. Yankees always named the battle after the nearest water feature and confederates name it after the nearest land feature.
This one is befitting it's byword as America's bloodiest day. Have seen historical photographs taken in the aftermath and they gruesomely telegraph the ferocity of the fighting. Miller's cornfield and the sunken road stand out.
Thanks for watching bro
Crazy to think cameras were around in that time!!
My Great Grandfather fought for the Union in the Cornfield
Where did my post go. Marching head on into canon fire arm to arm is crazy.?
No fence can stop me.
Better and better bud!!
Thanks for your support bro😁
How so? Do you want them skirmishing without any lines of communication?
Love the imagery.
Is that Total War?
to be fair McClellan cautious was based on the fact that Lee had beaten him so many times....because he was overly cautious ever single time he tried anything. Battle seems to have been won more by simple mistakes by the confederates then McClellan's skill as a commander.
Incorrect. Lee had not beaten McClellan. Lee and McClellan faced each other prior to Antietam during the Peninsula campaign and Seven Days battles. Lee lost all but one engagement during the series of battles, but McClellan kept retreating until he reached Harrison's Landing on the James River. Tactically, McClellan won most of the Seven Days battles, but Lee unnerved him with reckless attacks. Lee lost over 20k men...McClellan lost around 16k. At the end of the day, McClellan failed to utilize his advantages more than Lee was brilliant.
If we're gonna call this battle as history dose a Victory for the Union because Lee withdrew.Then Lee Won all those engagement on the peninsula..With Gen Johnston deserving credit for the 1st.
McClellan was a bumbling coward.
Greek Philosopher Plato was right…. “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
That was amazing! What game is this from? I even noticed a smooth bore canon firing with the correct bell like report when it shot.
It’s napoleon total war with an American civil war mod installed 👌
@@cinematicbattles559 That’s amazing! As you can tell, I don’t have any of those games. My last Civil War game was Terrible Swift Sword. It was a board game with hundreds of die cut unit markers that one was always losing.😂 It was a good game though! It took at least a week to play through.
@@logicaredux5205 I think you should invest! You'll have plenty of fun on these games, they're my favourite
Salut
Comment on peu jouer a ACW sur total war ???
Allez sur le site Web de Mod DB et tapez le mod American Civil War pour Napoléon Total War, il apparaîtra.
This video missed one of the most important points in the Maryland Campaign. Union troops found a copy of General Lee's plans in an abandoned Confederate camp.
Yes
THE NORTH SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE CAREFULL GOING UP AGAINST LEE.
THE FACT THAT BOTH SIDES OF THE CIVIL WAR OFFERED LEE THEIR LEADERSHIP SHOULD HAVE BEEN A WARNING
THAT A FIGHT WITH LEE WAS DANGEROUS, AND
DEADLY.
And Lee got beat.
@@spinecat IN GONE WITH THE WIND IT WAS MADE APPARENT FROM THE START, THE SOUTH HAD HEAVY
INDUSTRY, NO NAVY. NOT EVEN UNIFORMS.
THE CIVIL WAR WAS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION.
These people lined up arm to arm and marched head on into cannon and small arms fire by the hundreds.? It’s called meshing the fire, it’s actually called crazy as hell and irresponsible as the devil.
I stood on the site of Pickets charge at Gettysburg. It was a warm summers day. As I walked into the field a felt a chilling cold. I don’t believe in the supernatural but I have to believe where so many souls perish in such hellish ways something disturbing may remain. I have no answer to this experience. I have to believe the same elements are inherent at Antietam.
i am surprised that the opposing armies got that close to each other considering the range of their rifles was somewhere in excess of 500 yards.
As a Marylander who has visited that particular battlefield, Sharpsburg isn't as flat as many people would think. Between the humidly rolling hills and the other terrain features (crops and trenches), the range of the rifles was vastly reduced below 500 yards.
Unlike Gettysburg, Antietam, on the edges of the Potomac River, was much rougher to navigate as both forces fought on the outskirts of the river. It would be slightly similar to the rivers in Northern France or upper Italy in some places where armies would see the war of attrition from the terrain/climate.
Two of the Union's best frontline operators, Generals Francis Barlow and Israel Richardson both went down wounded at almost the same time right as they were rallying and reforming their men for the killing blow after splintering Lee's center. The attack petered out without their combat leadership.
this is a great depiction. is this a game or an AI depiction?
This is a game called Napoleon Total War and I’m using an American Civil war mod 👍
Lincoln’s war was very costly in terms of American lives and property damage. And for liberty.
"liberty", and for whom?
@@mike2590rrr Lincoln was a bully. A tyrant. He was willing to sacrifice liberty to FORCE the South to OBEY his edicts. He stomped over the Constitution and killed an unconscionable number of Americans to achieve his egotistical goals.
@@tomhamilton7726 And his goals were what, exactly?
@@NorthForkFisherman one thing for sure, he wanted to keep the $$ flowing north to DC from the southern ports. And then, there’s the issue of manifest destiny. And then there’s the (very serious) issue of his ego….
@@tomhamilton7726 So, of course, restoring the Union had Absolutely NOTHING to do with this, right?
I was hoping for some visual clarification of what I've read. Instead, I get fences that don't matter and a defensive line and bridges that don't come into play. I won't mention troops marching downhill to reach a plateau, and the craziness that was the cavalry.
General Robert Ely, who Minnesota named a city after.
This was something. Good.
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Somewhere out there is an alternate timeline, where the Union Army is commanded by Robert E Lee and McClellan is his chief of supply. In that timeline, the Civil War probably lasted 3 weeks.
(I exaggerate for comedic effect, but still...)😉
Interesting that even at this stage of military events the battlefield is still defined by civilian fences.
This computer animation is really neat
It’s not an animation it’s a game called Napoleon total war, I’ve installed an American civil war mod on too 😊
No protest marches in those days or moratorium sittings
600.000 casualties makes
Vietnam war appear as a skirmish!
I understand why Lee choose this spot, What I do not understand is why McCellan did not attack when he had the lost orders. I still say it was the gift of the war. Info and speed are your allies.
Winning a battle was harder in those days.
Watch the Gettysburg MOVIE Martin Sheen heads an all star cast... TOP NOTCH !!!
Apart from the generated voice, this is a tremendous recreation of Antietam
Having walked that ground towards the Sunken Road it must’ve been absolutely horrific for Mahers men when the Confederates unleashed that volley
As you approach the lane you can’t see it until you crest this rise about 50-75yds away, so those men had to be in for the shock of their lives when that line of Rebs came into sight
Afterwards, walking the length Bloody Lane, imagining that scene of Confederates 3/4 deep firing & reloading for the men in front was an experience as well
More so when you consider how it must’ve looked once they were overrun by the advancing Union troops; the carnage had to be indescribable in Americans experience of warfare until that time…Gardner’s photographs are proof of this fact
Thank you very much😁 I have since changed my narrator since this video
In todays figures, that war cost 9 million dead or wounded. Shooting each other seems to be a Murkan trait.
“An-Tee-Tum” not “Anti-atom”
Those American and Confederate troops weren't reluctant to go cold steel to cold steel.
Today there should be two Americas. Boy don’t I wish!!
Im from Canada but have read a lot about this war. It was awful families were so divided Isee way to many similarities in modern American society I just hope this never happens again. But the country is very polarized again.
Some reasons for the Civil War being so long and bloody is that the leaders on both sides were trained at West Point and employing the same tactics against each other. Also, the use of the European tactic of marching your completely exposed men into formed enemy lines who were simply waiting for them to come within range was pure idiocy.
Armies always fight the last war. They where doing the same thing in WW1. Tanks weren't invented yet what exactly would your solution have been?
THEV BEST GENERAL WINS THE BATTLE, REGARDLESS OF THE ODDS.
Ok, but you don't get the full feel of the battle. Save the robots for smaller efforts, and give me a picture of the entire battlefield showing the movement of units.
I'm sure he's working on that, your majesty.
@@ron88303 Let's hope so.
Reupload without an AI voice.
Maybe the Siege of Toulon, the Siege of Jerusalem and maybe the Fall of Constantinople next ?
Yes I am looking into these
Why are all those guys waxing their carrots instead of shooting?
*Bloody Hell! -Random Brit viewing this,* 'I have spoken'. -Kuiil
African Americans have an entire month dedicated to Black History yet I have yet to witness a single minute dedicated forl the Union soldiers who fought and died so they could be free
General Lee, perhaps irresponsibly, did not intend so much as to win a battle, but rather to influence a Presidential election.
Either way and in any regard, undoubtedly to overwhelming odds; General Lee lost.
...and so lost was that greatest part of the American Spirit and along with it all counts of such esteem to which it had been derived from such great heritage; yet not to be forgotten, but only to lay fallow for a short period until such time as it be so that our Great Creator and our Redeemer entonces that blessed hope the day we arise!!!
Well I will give it a TU for the effort but the animations are completely confusing rather then just show fights las the narrator speaks lets see the movements (at least for a moment) from above or from distance so we can see how the armies moved back & forth show the ridges,fences,trees,corn juxtaposed to the battlefield! I have no idea what I'm watching ere sort of like a kid was given the toy men to play with.
Robert Gould Shaw was there
Thus was the beginning of the end of states rights as defined in the Constitution. Because of this, we now endure the monster that is the federal government..