Confederate Artilleryman at Gettysburg Struggles to Remain Optimistic
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- William White experiences the South's defeat at Gettysburg. Although dismayed, he expresses his unwavering belief in a Confederate victory, the superior leadership of General Lee, and the virtues of slavery. -From the diary for William White of the Richmond Howitzer Battalion of Virginia.
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When I hear these stories I often think about who was lost because of that war. How many otherwise ordinary young men left dead on the field or held in bondage might have done great things? Was there a great leader? A quiet genius? A pioneer of enterprise? A visionary artist? Or even just hundreds and thousands of good and admired members of the community and capable farmers building a future for their families? The world might not have a missed a few scoundrels. But the worst of them always avoid the risks and profit (or try to profit) from disaster. Oh humanity, you are a puzzling race.
Well said!
Poetic.
I enjoy listening to War Journals. Please provide the author and title of the journals so that I may research and read the entire journal
I'd like to read it too
"A Diary of the War; or What I Saw of It." William S. White
@@WarJournals882 thx
His name is in the discription
It's interesting how William White portrays blacks in South, as preferring to be slaves in Dixie, over the opportunity to be free in the North. I am pretty sure that ideology was sold often and hard, by the slave holding plantation owners to the non slave holding soldiers who foolishly died for their cause. "They would miss their kind and considerate masters". If being a slave was such a wonderful opportunity, then why didn't these soldiers just take the place of those slaves and work for "their kind and considerate masters"?
Very well said! I was hoping someone would make this observation.
Why did the slaves go back?
@@jekylthorn8969 So you actually believe the slaves came back on the own volition? The author defends slavery with the insane noble, lost cause argument and you actually believe that the slaves, now having their freedom, just decided to come back and help their oppressor's, just because this guy said so? There is no rational reason for them to come back, or to think that slavery was preferable to freedom or this deluded soldier had a clue about what was going on. He seriously thought the South would win. After how many things he got wrong, it's questionable if he was even present at the battle.
@@JohnDoe-lc9yj dont be a moron. It was a genuine question. If they had the chance to escape, why return? Maybe you need to think about it more?
@@jekylthorn8969 It was not a genuine question from a rational person. It's obvious to any rational person that the story the soldier told was either, delusional, or a lie meant to sway public opinion.
I answered your question and explained my answer. Either you lack the reading comprehension skills necessary to understand the answer, or you just don't like the answer. Neither which is a concern of mine
Most likely you are a devotee of the Lost Cause theory yourself and still wish to portray the Civil War as a states rights issue and that slavery wasn't even a cause. In your fantasy slaves were happy to be beaten, raped and murdered. If you wish to live in that fantasy land, so be it. Just please don't foist your willful ignorance on the rest of us.
D. H. Hill said with Southern infantrymen and Union artillerymen he could beat any army in the world.
Amazing channel…so glad I found it
Thanks and welcome
Thank you
Very absorbing account!
Lee had a better opinion of Meade than this soldier did.
Really great work. 👍🏻
Thanks for the visit
@@WarJournals882 Is it true this is AI?
Great video, very interesting but, as usual with war memos, very sad.
Did he make it?