I drive heavy equipment 10 hours a day but once upon a time I was a history major and lived for this sort of stuff. Thank you so much for making this video, it makes my life more liveable. Seriously
Once a History Passion, always a History )session. You can return to the classroom and do so from home, via the web. You can study and research any History subject you desire. I've taken a Post Grad History class from Yale University. The entire Semester. Enjoy your Passion, your Explorations and Discoveries. Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian Tennessee, USA
My g-g grandfather and 3 brothers all enlisted out of Marion County, Mississippi. Two in Mississippi 7th infantry, 1 in the "Jeff Davis" Sharpshooters & i forget the 4th brother's unit. One brother died of wounds and is buried at Holly Springs following Battle of Corinth in 1862. Their father died 2 days after learning of his son's death. That left 3 daughters between 11 & 20 and a 13 year old brother to protect them. The remaining brothers' units fell back toward Vicksburg in hopes of breaking Grant's seige. Following the fall of Vicksburg their various units chased after Federal forces across MS, AL, TN as Federals moved toward Chattanooga. One brother was wounded but kept his leg and was sent home. Following battle of Chattanooga the 2 remaining brothers proceeded to Lookout Mtn. Upon arrival a decision had been made to begin "consolidating" Confederate units into new regiments/brigades. After reviewing the 7th MS, INF a decision was made to send the paltry few survivors (over 80% casualties by this point, iirc) to Mobil, Alabama to act as a coastal guard in anticipation of an expected federal landing. It was a "mercy move", to spare complete unit annihilation. The Federals feinted several landing around Mobil Bay which kept them running around. After the surrender of CSA forces in April 1865 the 2 remaining brothers walked home from Mobil. They returned to a nightmare. The brother wounded in TN had developed gangrene and lost entire leg and was completely invalid. The little brother and sisters had been predated upon by both renegade Southerners, Louisana "state troops" (Unionists), and various "multi ethnic criminal gangs" flowing out of New Orleans and up the Mississippi & Pearl Rivers on looting expeditions. Southwest Mississippi was lawless and relentlessly preyed upon. Neither "regular" military forces of USA or CSA raised a hand against the civilians, but "state militias", bushwhackers and others stole, burned & murdered with near impunity. My family STILL thinks New Orleans is a sh*thole full of sh*t people. N.O. can't be hit by a big enough hurricane or sink into the mud fast enough as far they are concerned. N.O. & their yankee scum earned eternal damnation.
Southern traitors set half the states on fire in a pointless war of southern aggression, then blame New England for defending American ideals and saving the country. Yet the south wonders why no one respects them.
My great Grandpa on my Mama's side fought at Vicksburg with the 23rd Alabama,he surrendered at the fall,he was 16 at the time.After they pardoned or paroled him ,he re upped and surrendered again at Apomattox.He was 14 when he joined and 18 at the time of surrender.
At least one of my grgr uncles fought with the Jeff Davis Sharpshooters out of Marion County. So our ancestors could have possibly known each other. He was one of the six of nine brothers who fought in the war. I know that another fought under Captain Green out of Marion but I'll need to research the rest.
This is one of the most insightful videos I've ever heard. All you normally hear is the disbanding of the armies and trying to get home. This shows the whole spectrum of what was faced as the war ended.
Thank you,never considered what is was like just after the surrender.My GG Grandpa lost his leg at the Wilderness and walked on one leg and crutches to Americus Ga.
My GG Grandfather was more fortunate. He was with 5th GA Cav. took a pistol ball to his arm and was able to ride away. From letters that I read the wound bothered him for the rest of his life.
When I was eight years old I spent several months in hospital and in the ward was a copy of Henry Steele Commager's The Blue and the Gray which I read through from cover to cover. Yes it was in the children's ward library cupboard!! Many American's on both sides were very literate.
That's crazy! My 4th great grandfather has a similar story and from 1 town over in Wakefield. About 10 years before the war he was whipped severely for trying to learn how to read. He was whipped so badly he missed work for several days and because they expected not to see him because he was recovering he used that opportunity to escape through the underground railroad north to Canada. He went through Richmond and then through Washington.
I remember General Grants Adjutant wrote in his memoir that Union soldiers just broke down and wept when they heard of the surrender. They weren't going to die and that meant a lot to them.
@@tekay44 perhaps. It is easy to voice an opinion in hindsight. Lee and all of the ANV didn’t know what to expect once they surrendered-all of the officers prob expected to be executed or imprisoned for life. Furthermore, the south wasn’t in a terrible position until the siege of Petersburg (combined with Sherman wreaking havoc thru Georgia). Lee started losing a ton of men to desertion once they entrenched and once soldiers from the Deep South heard of Sherman burning GA. An estimated 30,000 men deserted the ANV the last 8 months of the war.
@@waroftherebellion. yes sir. I have read the same and I believe it. I can’t imagine the horrors of what those men faced. We talk about PTSD so much in 2024 but it was not a thing back then and the things those men saw-I can’t imagine.
Scary for everyone? I don't know about that. I'm sure there were some human beings that were ecstatic at the thought of their enslavers being defeated.
My g-grandfather was hit in the neck at the right shoulder by a minnie ball ranging downward at the Bloody Angle of Spottsylvania. The ball was removed and they gave him a mule and told him to go home to Louisiana to recuperate. Lee surrendered before he could return to the ranks.
This has returned my interest in the CW, since I've last read many campaign books, & Bruce Catton & Shelby Foote, back in the '80's. I will buy the recommended books. If they are close in detail to this narrative, they will be excellent. Great factual storytelling here.
Do you honestly think that they didn’t suffer along with Confederates? 🙄 Over 100,000 blacks died in Lincolns concentration camps of cholera alone, not to mention the ones who died of starvation and exposure. People are not taught the scale of human tragedy perpetrated by Lincoln and his greedy and inhumane American empire.
The reason that the troops under Basil Duke had money was that while briefly in charge of the Confederate treasury, Duke paid his troopers off in silver coin ... If I recall each man received a sum of approximately $28.00 ... The treasury was then turned over to the charge of a Confederate naval officer, and after that the treasury consisting of gold, silver, and copper coins disappeared into the ether of time ... Great video.
My g-grandfather was exchanged back into Confederate service in March 1865 after nealy two years as a POW. The last service record we have for him was in a Richmond hospital. Not sure how he got back home to Arkansas.
Great stuff. These accounts are often soul baring accounts of the ways the horrors of war often impact both soldiers and civilians. And it does not matter whether the accounts are two hundred years, or two thousand, the stories are consistent, detailing the same difficulties no matter the date. The only variable is civil wars. They have unique circumstances and consequences that last for centuries. Ask me how I know.
History has a way of repeating itself, because people don't remember it! It can and may happen again simply because we lose our ability to compromise and now there's too many far out stuff people adhere to so the country is at peril. Common sense and the age of reason must return.
READ UVA professor Dr. Caroline Janney's book, ENDS OF WAR. It's an excellent account of this time period and has NUMEROUS stories similar to this in her book. It is sooo well researched and written.
I just visited the final surrender site in Durham NC with Sherman and Johnston, then went to Johnston and Wade Hampton army was camped out in hillsborough NC , I did videos of both places, and my channel is full of Civil War relics. My favorite is the Irish jasper greens button from savannah georgia check it out if you like history and cool relics
I'm impressed with the intellect of this man, his command of the english language. He was far more eloquent in his prose and ability to communicate himself in contrast to the average modern person. He speaks of his fellow Virginian soldiers with poetic beauty in the support of their cause. In contrast, refers to the Federals as yankee hirelings. All in the eye of beholder Mr. Dooley.
@@willbass2869 God bless the fighting 69th. Many immigrants fought for their new homeland. "Foreign hirelings" seems like he's trying to make an allusion to the Hessians.
The purpose of Total War doctrine that Sherman introduced by burning Atlanta and then marching to the sea was the destruction of an enemy's ability to conduct war. Destroying factories, ripping up railroads, destroying farms and supplies. Its supposed to end a war quickly. But it turns out that doing that just takes away the means of conducting war, not the desire for war. These men, though their army and government had lost, had not lost their desire to fight. Total war, especially when it concludes quickly, always leaves partisans behind that still want to fight. In the case of the American Civil War, the partisans were the KKK. I'm not agreeing with them or their ideas by saying that. To really end a war, you have to make sure that minds are changed about it on a large enough scale. The allies did that with Germany after World War II by occupying the country so that its school system could be changed. Ultimately, the Union won the Civil War only in the sense that the public buying and selling of slaves stopped. Much else ultimately remained because of the KKK.
Have anyone read the travelogue of the British Coldstream guard officers(Colonel Freemantle I think it was) trough the civil war south,gettysburg and crossing the lines to the north then exiting via New york? Its quite a read and its free on the internet.
I don't know of a journal after he got home, only some miscellaneous letters to family. He decided to become a priest and worked hard toward that goal but became ill and died before he was ever ordained.
As a scholar, I study the confederacy and the ramifications to learn about the ideologies that produced the conflict. There are so many lessons to be learned, as it is one of the most significant events in US history. See the work of Dr. David Blight of Yale. For me, he is one of the leading scholars on these issues and his lectures are profound.
To many people in The South, INDEPENDENCE was their goal. The domestic issues would be legislated away later, AS IT HAD BEEN DONE EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD BUT HAITI & THE USA. Read your world history. Look at the success of Haití & the continuing issues left in USA today to seethat warfare is not the best solución to the issue.
I'm truly grateful for the sacrifices made by these southern heros fighting for their families and homeland from the Lincolnites invasion and aggressive disregard of the state rights of the South. I'm especially thankful for my gg grandfather, who made the ultimate sacrifice for his family and state, Alabama, in 1862. "Lay Down Your Arms. Close Ranks. Rest in Eternal Peace."
I understand the truth and that's all that matters. The Yankees were no more than invaders with blatant disregard for the Constitution. Rape, murder and theft is all they knew. That's the facts.
Meanwhile us British were fighting the Crimean War with our French allies, holding the line in North America, and building the CSS Alabama for the CSA. #OurHistory
🇺🇲 The countless masses of People who have no prejudices towards others of any race are in the far largest % and growing. This is a wonderful reality. Some continue to hold the learned fears of insecurities and prejudices. (It is thought thinking and living through the "Human Lower Mind aka Ego Mind". Have Compassion for them. The "Higher Mind aka Mature Mind' is where all our Positive Thought Energies and Wisdom reside. 💛
Not really Slavery has been around for 10,000 years or more All race of people have injured Slavery ALL races have. This was all polical BS and a great lost of life. It could of been avoided with patience. The result was black folks were just thrown to the wolf's of time.
I drive heavy equipment 10 hours a day but once upon a time I was a history major and lived for this sort of stuff. Thank you so much for making this video, it makes my life more liveable. Seriously
Thanks for saying - you're exactly the kind of person I make these for!
It'll get better. Just wait and see.
Once a History Passion, always a History )session.
You can return to the classroom and do so from home, via the web.
You can study and research any History subject you desire.
I've taken a Post Grad History class from Yale University. The entire Semester.
Enjoy your Passion, your Explorations and Discoveries.
Beth Bartlett
Sociologist/Behavioralist
and Historian
Tennessee, USA
@@WarJournals882
You have a warm and comforting voice, and it makes for a nice Narration.
My g-g grandfather and 3 brothers all enlisted out of Marion County, Mississippi. Two in Mississippi 7th infantry, 1 in the "Jeff Davis" Sharpshooters & i forget the 4th brother's unit.
One brother died of wounds and is buried at Holly Springs following Battle of Corinth in 1862. Their father died 2 days after learning of his son's death. That left 3 daughters between 11 & 20 and a 13 year old brother to protect them.
The remaining brothers' units fell back toward Vicksburg in hopes of breaking Grant's seige. Following the fall of Vicksburg their various units chased after Federal forces across MS, AL, TN as Federals moved toward Chattanooga. One brother was wounded but kept his leg and was sent home.
Following battle of Chattanooga the 2 remaining brothers proceeded to Lookout Mtn. Upon arrival a decision had been made to begin "consolidating" Confederate units into new regiments/brigades. After reviewing the 7th MS, INF a decision was made to send the paltry few survivors (over 80% casualties by this point, iirc) to Mobil, Alabama to act as a coastal guard in anticipation of an expected federal landing. It was a "mercy move", to spare complete unit annihilation.
The Federals feinted several landing around Mobil Bay which kept them running around.
After the surrender of CSA forces in April 1865 the 2 remaining brothers walked home from Mobil. They returned to a nightmare. The brother wounded in TN had developed gangrene and lost entire leg and was completely invalid. The little brother and sisters had been predated upon by both renegade Southerners, Louisana "state troops" (Unionists), and various "multi ethnic criminal gangs" flowing out of New Orleans and up the Mississippi & Pearl Rivers on looting expeditions.
Southwest Mississippi was lawless and relentlessly preyed upon.
Neither "regular" military forces of USA or CSA raised a hand against the civilians, but "state militias", bushwhackers and others stole, burned & murdered with near impunity.
My family STILL thinks New Orleans is a sh*thole full of sh*t people. N.O. can't be hit by a big enough hurricane or sink into the mud fast enough as far they are concerned.
N.O. & their yankee scum earned eternal damnation.
Great story,thanks,NO is a as you say.😆
Sounds like enlisting in the traitorous confederate army was a pretty bad decision.
Southern traitors set half the states on fire in a pointless war of southern aggression, then blame New England for defending American ideals and saving the country. Yet the south wonders why no one respects them.
My great Grandpa on my Mama's side fought at Vicksburg with the 23rd Alabama,he surrendered at the fall,he was 16 at the time.After they pardoned or paroled him ,he re upped and surrendered again at Apomattox.He was 14 when he joined and 18 at the time of surrender.
At least one of my grgr uncles fought with the Jeff Davis Sharpshooters out of Marion County. So our ancestors could have possibly known each other. He was one of the six of nine brothers who fought in the war. I know that another fought under Captain Green out of Marion but I'll need to research the rest.
GGG grandfather was killed at Iuka Mississippi. Post war, family moved to Texas, where we remain to this day. RIP James Andrew Frederick, CSA.
Thanks for sharing!
Mine surrendered in Selma Alabama
This is one of the most insightful videos I've ever heard. All you normally hear is the disbanding of the armies and trying to get home. This shows the whole spectrum of what was faced as the war ended.
Thank you,never considered what is was like just after the surrender.My GG Grandpa lost his leg at the Wilderness and walked on one leg and crutches to Americus Ga.
My GG Grandfather was more fortunate. He was with 5th GA Cav. took a pistol ball to his arm and was able to ride away. From letters that I read the wound bothered him for the rest of his life.
When I was eight years old I spent several months in hospital and in the ward was a copy of Henry Steele Commager's The Blue and the Gray which I read through from cover to cover. Yes it was in the children's ward library cupboard!! Many American's on both sides were very literate.
My 3rd great grandfather limped home from Gettysburg to Smithfield VA. with a mini ball in his leg.
They were tough rascals weren't they.
@@everettbass8659 yes sir
That's crazy! My 4th great grandfather has a similar story and from 1 town over in Wakefield. About 10 years before the war he was whipped severely for trying to learn how to read. He was whipped so badly he missed work for several days and because they expected not to see him because he was recovering he used that opportunity to escape through the underground railroad north to Canada. He went through Richmond and then through Washington.
Never really thought about the days leading up to and following Lee’s surrender-I bet it was chaotic and scary for everyone in the south.
and lee kept it going far to long. a disgrace.
I remember General Grants Adjutant wrote in his memoir that Union soldiers just broke down and wept when they heard of the surrender. They weren't going to die and that meant a lot to them.
@@tekay44 perhaps. It is easy to voice an opinion in hindsight. Lee and all of the ANV didn’t know what to expect once they surrendered-all of the officers prob expected to be executed or imprisoned for life.
Furthermore, the south wasn’t in a terrible position until the siege of Petersburg (combined with Sherman wreaking havoc thru Georgia).
Lee started losing a ton of men to desertion once they entrenched and once soldiers from the Deep South heard of Sherman burning GA.
An estimated 30,000 men deserted the ANV the last 8 months of the war.
@@waroftherebellion. yes sir. I have read the same and I believe it. I can’t imagine the horrors of what those men faced. We talk about PTSD so much in 2024 but it was not a thing back then and the things those men saw-I can’t imagine.
Scary for everyone? I don't know about that. I'm sure there were some human beings that were ecstatic at the thought of their enslavers being defeated.
My g-grandfather was hit in the neck at the right shoulder by a minnie ball ranging downward at the Bloody Angle of Spottsylvania. The ball was removed and they gave him a mule and told him to go home to Louisiana to recuperate. Lee surrendered before he could return to the ranks.
This has returned my interest in the CW, since I've last read many campaign books, & Bruce Catton & Shelby Foote, back in the '80's. I will buy the recommended books. If they are close in detail to this narrative, they will be excellent. Great factual storytelling here.
I bet those freed slaves really hated seeing the Confederates suffering.
Do you honestly think that they didn’t suffer along with Confederates? 🙄 Over 100,000 blacks died in Lincolns concentration camps of cholera alone, not to mention the ones who died of starvation and exposure. People are not taught the scale of human tragedy perpetrated by Lincoln and his greedy and inhumane American empire.
Thanks
The reason that the troops under Basil Duke had money was that while briefly in charge of the Confederate treasury, Duke paid his troopers off in silver coin ... If I recall each man received a sum of approximately $28.00 ... The treasury was then turned over to the charge of a Confederate naval officer, and after that the treasury consisting of gold, silver, and copper coins disappeared into the ether of time ... Great video.
My g-grandfather was exchanged back into Confederate service in March 1865 after nealy two years as a POW. The last service record we have for him was in a Richmond hospital. Not sure how he got back home to Arkansas.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Great stuff. These accounts are often soul baring accounts of the ways the horrors of war often impact both soldiers and civilians. And it does not matter whether the accounts are two hundred years, or two thousand, the stories are consistent, detailing the same difficulties no matter the date. The only variable is civil wars. They have unique circumstances and consequences that last for centuries. Ask me how I know.
A terrible time to be followed by even more terrible times. If only they knew what surrender would mean for them and their descendants.
I enjoyed his description of his time with the amazonian sisters.
Great to find something humorous in the midst of such troublesome times.
This is a war I’m very glad I missed.😕
History has a way of repeating itself, because people don't remember it! It can and may happen again simply because we lose our ability to compromise and now there's too many far out stuff people adhere to so the country is at peril. Common sense and the age of reason must return.
READ UVA professor Dr. Caroline Janney's book, ENDS OF WAR. It's an excellent account of this time period and has NUMEROUS stories similar to this in her book. It is sooo well researched and written.
that people go to war is not the most amazing thing…the most amazing thing is that they go to war without thought of the consequences of war.
I just visited the final surrender site in Durham NC with Sherman and Johnston, then went to Johnston and Wade Hampton army was camped out in hillsborough NC , I did videos of both places, and my channel is full of Civil War relics. My favorite is the Irish jasper greens button from savannah georgia check it out if you like history and cool relics
Sound great - thanks for sharing!
Back when people could actually write.
This soldier has a fluid position on slavery and whether he and the confederate states were part of the US or not.
The South Carolina politicians promised a quick and painless victory in 1861 . This account describes the actual outcome of the grand adventure .
More valuable lessons of history.
excellent
I think the Confederacy lost the war once the Richmond government lost the ability to provide basic security to its citizens.
They lost the war because they never could have won the war.
I'm impressed with the intellect of this man, his command of the english language. He was far more eloquent in his prose and ability to communicate himself in contrast to the average modern person. He speaks of his fellow Virginian soldiers with poetic beauty in the support of their cause. In contrast, refers to the Federals as yankee hirelings. All in the eye of beholder Mr. Dooley.
"The confederacy is having a problem with desertions."
The same guy,
"The Yankee HIRELINGS"
The coping is strong in this eloquent man.
From my limited experience this language was found in all walks of life. I do love the 19th Century style.
@@CostaColathe federal forces were full of foreign hirelings in later stages of the war.
Irish, Germans etc
@@willbass2869 God bless the fighting 69th.
Many immigrants fought for their new homeland. "Foreign hirelings" seems like he's trying to make an allusion to the Hessians.
The purpose of Total War doctrine that Sherman introduced by burning Atlanta and then marching to the sea was the destruction of an enemy's ability to conduct war. Destroying factories, ripping up railroads, destroying farms and supplies. Its supposed to end a war quickly. But it turns out that doing that just takes away the means of conducting war, not the desire for war. These men, though their army and government had lost, had not lost their desire to fight. Total war, especially when it concludes quickly, always leaves partisans behind that still want to fight. In the case of the American Civil War, the partisans were the KKK. I'm not agreeing with them or their ideas by saying that. To really end a war, you have to make sure that minds are changed about it on a large enough scale. The allies did that with Germany after World War II by occupying the country so that its school system could be changed. Ultimately, the Union won the Civil War only in the sense that the public buying and selling of slaves stopped. Much else ultimately remained because of the KKK.
Always appreciate a well though-out comment.
The USA won the war. . . 🤔
Have anyone read the travelogue of the British Coldstream guard officers(Colonel Freemantle I think it was) trough the civil war south,gettysburg and crossing the lines to the north then exiting via New york?
Its quite a read and its free on the internet.
That's for the recommendation.
Interesting parallels to todays politics.
It was the beginning of this monstrous gav we have today
No where does the narrator show any willingness to consider that the Confederacy maybe in the wrong.
This is the outcome of rebellion if your side is the loser.
I wonder what happened once he got home? Will there be a part 2 to this story?
I don't know of a journal after he got home, only some miscellaneous letters to family. He decided to become a priest and worked hard toward that goal but became ill and died before he was ever ordained.
Is this a true story
weird, some people prefer remembering pain and misery as a badge of honour.
They recognize the sacrifice they and their people have made.
But they do not realize those sacrifices were made to benefit plantation owners and similar elites and no one else.
@@kurtwicklund8901exactly
As a scholar, I study the confederacy and the ramifications to learn about the ideologies that produced the conflict. There are so many lessons to be learned, as it is one of the most significant events in US history. See the work of Dr. David Blight of Yale. For me, he is one of the leading scholars on these issues and his lectures are profound.
To many people in The South, INDEPENDENCE was their goal. The domestic issues would be legislated away later, AS IT HAD BEEN DONE EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD BUT HAITI & THE USA. Read your world history. Look at the success of Haití & the continuing issues left in USA today to seethat warfare is not the best solución to the issue.
Long live the Confederacy
"a change of masters is not always good..." This is where I get off.
How about NO masters?
Screw this.
Every human has a master - always!
@@edwardyates3924 (as for me, it's my wife.)
I'm truly grateful for the sacrifices made by these southern heros fighting for their families and homeland from the Lincolnites invasion and aggressive disregard of the state rights of the South. I'm especially thankful for my gg grandfather, who made the ultimate sacrifice for his family and state, Alabama, in 1862. "Lay Down Your Arms. Close Ranks. Rest in Eternal Peace."
There is no such thing as the South having states rights that would enable them to continually enslaving others . No state has such a right
Well then, you do not understand one damn thing, do you?
God Bless you! May God Save The South!
I understand the truth and that's all that matters. The Yankees were no more than invaders with blatant disregard for the Constitution. Rape, murder and theft is all they knew. That's the facts.
There is No such thing as a State right to enslave other people , own other people, terrorize other people an buy and sell other people
2025.
Here we go again.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Like making stupid comments.
So original
Meanwhile us British were fighting the Crimean War with our French allies, holding the line in North America, and building the CSS Alabama for the CSA. #OurHistory
Would have been better for everyone if they didn't fight so hard to defend slavery.
.
🇺🇲 The countless masses of People who have no prejudices towards others of any race are in the far largest % and growing. This is a wonderful reality.
Some continue to hold the learned fears of insecurities and prejudices. (It is thought thinking and living through the "Human Lower Mind aka Ego Mind". Have Compassion for them.
The "Higher Mind aka Mature Mind' is where all our Positive Thought Energies and Wisdom reside. 💛
Their suffering came because they fought for the evil sin of SLAVERY 😢
Not really
Slavery has been around for 10,000 years or more
All race of people have injured Slavery ALL races have.
This was all polical BS and a great lost of life.
It could of been avoided with patience.
The result was black folks were just thrown to the wolf's of time.