No matter how much I study the Civil War, you guys always find a way to spark my determination to learn more even further! Thank you for this excellent presentation!
I learned most of the events of this video from this channel already, but still watched the entire video just because how great of a presentation it is!
Amazing! Thanks for keeping ACW History in the spotlight. I am not an American, but I consider it to be one of the pivotal moments of modern History overall.
Awesome!!!! Thanks for mentioning a few battles in MO & AR & NM - these areas usually get forgotten beyond belief. 1862 - the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment is organized and fights at Island Mound Missouri. They will fight in MO/KS/AR and Indian Territory and later be redesignated as the 70th US Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment. 1863 - is Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, Kansas, where roughly 150 men/boys of all ages are slaughtered and the town burned down. Quantrill will later defeat a Union force outside of Baxter Springs, KS. 1864 - Confederate army invades SE Missouri from Arkansas with its main objective of St Louis and its arsenal. Confederates defeated at the Battle of Fort Davidson and then change their objective to Jefferson City and then Westport near Kansas City. 3-day battle of Westport/Bryam's Ford/Independence, MO, sends them retreating into Kansas where they are again defeated at the Battle of Mine Creek (the largest cavalry battle west of the Mississippi River). They are chased all the way back to Indian Territory never to be a threat again.
I'm not from the US, but I have studied the American civil war. One name that keeps coming up in glowing terms is George Henry Thomas. He stands out, for me, as arguably the finest leader of men on either side. Never got the credit he deserved .. but then he never looked for it either.
Thomas was a good, stubborn General. Grant in his autobiography expressed a bit of frustration because he thought Thomas took too long to prepare and deploy. Of course, everyone took too long to Grant....
@ wow even though it’s short I love it as the war of 1812 is the missing piece of my family history and what I mean by missing piece is there’s not a lot of info about my 4th great grandfather John Jacob Weikert’s service in the war and the only thing my family knows is that he served in Cobeans battalion of Pennsylvania reserves.
Ditto on the previous comment, the Elliott family and friends here in Victoria British Columbia Canada,wish you all the best;and look forward to seeing,sharing,and listening....
The PC game Robert e lee civil war general was my start point in really learning the civil war. the game was amazing. I cant seem to find that old game anymore. that game really hits, how hard the south defended at these battles. your always outgunned and out manned, and it was just amazing the tactics used on both sides.
What a shame only one image of Lincoln giving the Gettysburg Address…**Watching this brings back memories of being an Orange Blossom NYS Volunteer reenactor in the late 80’s. Took part in the battle of Antiietam reenactment with thousands of other reenactors. It was impressive to say the least.
People can say all they want that the civil war wasn't about slavery but Jefferson Davis said in March of 1865 he would accept no peace plan that didn't include the preservation and expansion of slavery so don't tell me it wasn't about slavery. You can try but you're not accurate. Slavery was part of state's rights and a major part at that.
Why did the states suceed from the union? It's in their historical documents and you can read them for yourself. The first was south carolina. Read it and it will tell you. I read it and it said that it entirely about slavery. Source documents don't lie. People's commentary do lie.
As sad as our American Civil War was, we are still fighting the war today. Monuments of that war have been torn down and destroyed. Future generations will make the same mistakes of 1861, 164 years ago. Your video is one of the best that I have even watched. Shalom
Those monuments mostly built during jim crow Era had no business ever going up.. they teach nothing... makes zero sense that the United States had 10× the monuments dedicated to the confederate side than the union side.. military forts named after confederate generals.....lousy generals at that ...like hood ....
Because the fact of slavery was the basis of most of the other reasons, and because the South *_specifically_* and *_explicitly_* started the war in order to separate and create a slave nation. You don't know enough about the war to offer an informed opinion, so we get the usual stupid attitudes of slavery's apologists. Read Alexander Stephens" "Cornerstone Speech," if you want to start to understand even the most basic facts about the war.
1st Alabama Calvary Union Regiment made of 8 north Alabama counties, the most racially integrated regiment of the entire Civil War. And History never remembers them.
Reserved for Lincoln the Federalist. Cant take this video seriously when he doesnt explain the root cause and that Lincoln only outlawed slavery IN THE SOUTH to punish them while allowing three states of his own to carry out the practice. Agree with me or not, I beg, BEG you to read foreign diplomats and dignitaries accounts of the treatment of slaves in the south vs the north. The north treated them like animals.
Davis was against succession and wanted to be a military commander, not the President of the Confederacy... Also, your map leaves out that the New Mexico territory succeeded with the Confederacy... I live in Tucson, AZ and we had a Confederate garrison stationed here... The Farthest western battle of the war took place about 30 miles from where I grew up.
2% of our population, countrymen on both sides gone. After 4 years of conflict, our divided nation finally stands united. These United States. Freedom is never ever free, It always comes at the highest cost. Paid for in blood. Father against son. Brother against brother. Neighbor against neighbor. Battles and names may fade away in the passage of time. They shall not be forgotten ever in our nation's history.
One Confederate politician said at the time that if the slave can make a good soldier, then the entire rationale underpinning slavery was wrong. Sometimes people come SO close to getting the concept of basic human decency...then run away from it as fast as they can. Black enlistment in the Confederate army was statistically non-existent.
The problem with this video lay in the very beginning. Lincoln may have been "anti slavery" (despite him claiming if he could stop the war without freeing the slaves he wouldnt free them) but the war didnt begin with its abolition and the emancipation proclaimation was only made to hurt the south for he allowed the practice to continue in 3 northern states. Why did the north have to block the south from getting good if Europe looked down on them so much for engaging in slavery? It's because the north was actively engaging in it too. Lincoln was a federalist and wanted a more centralized government, that's where the animosity began. People often facetiously ask "A states right to what?!" The simple answer is a states right to govern itself as the founding fathers intended.
@@MickeyloverMelvin Dangerous talk perhaps, but never be spoken? These kinds of things should be discussed, even if it's dismissed immediately. The absence of these kinds of conversations is when tyrants thrive
Nope. There’s no point and no similar dividing line. There may be more political violence (we already had a couple pretty troubling occurrences of that in the last year) than say in the 90’s, more similar to the 60’s or 70’s, but it won’t be like the 1860’s.
It wouldn't be exactly the same fight again. The issues are different, and it wouldn't be one geographic section against another as in the Civil War. If another civil war comes to America, it would be more a guerilla war with no discernable front lines and multiple factions.
Even before the end of the 1700's, there was talk of the South leaving, or not joining the Union. The North was in a trade war with Europeans nations, and the South was taking the brunt of their issues. At that ti9me, there was a triangular trade going. The South sold crops and textiles to the North. The north processed them and sold them to European nations. European nations sold goods and supplies to the South. Without having the power to make the North come to a compromise with Europe, the South's economy was suffering the most. That was the beginning of the rift that tore the nation apart. Slavery wasn't an issue at that point and wouldn't become an issue for years to come.
@@wyattmcgee1 True. The South had become accustomed to the triangle trade. It could have added processing industries to its own economy, but it didn't. It would have taken a lot of time and work to do it, and a lot of materials that the North had and the South didn't. Big businesses and politicians were and are still playing games and the little man suffers.
It is very fortunate that Lee was so myopic about Virginia. Had he sent reinforcements to Johnston to relieve the siege of Pemberton at Vicksburg, 1863 would have been disastrous for the Union. Rather than two decisive victories, there would have been one defeat or stalemate that would have led to a retreat, the forces loaned in the West could have then reinforced Bragg in Tennessee leading to further setbacks.
The problem with these what-ifs is that they don’t tend to anticipate how the other side would react to the change. What might the Union have done if they saw Lee diminishing his forces in Virginia?
4:09 It wasn't that they refused to leave, they were ordered to stay. Would the forefathers allow a British fort to remain in their harbor and collect tariffs from foreign trade? I don't think they would. They would give them time to leave and if they wouldn't go, they would be bombarded. That is exactly what happened at Sumter. A foreign country sitting in their harbor got bombarded when they refused to leave. That was Lincoln's plan all along, make the Southerners fire first. 9:25 Why do yall paint a false picture of Antietam? Lee waited all day on the second day, but Union weren't obliging to attack again. He went back to Virginia that night. Nobody forced him to leave, as you try to make it sound. This video is full of half-truths and I thought yall were history people. 11:31 Yall said Vicksburg was a stronghold? What about Port Hudson? They held out longer than Vicksburg, with alot less men. I have never heard any U.S. casualty reports on that siege. It's never mentioned that black troops were used in a combat role there either, probably for the first time in the war. To the victor goes the spoils of war, half-truths and flat out lies included.
I read and the same thing appeared in a documentary was that a BANK in the South (I can't remember where) was filled with GOLD and the North wanted it to be held in their states. This was before the Civil War, when The South had said no, not long after, the Fort Sumter situation occurred. This gave the North a reason to go to war to try to claim the GOLD for themselves but instead the South moved the gold to an undisclosed place (which only a select number of people knew the location) noted only in their records as only having been moved, which to this day is still not found. The North thought this civil war would only last a couple of months and they then can secure the gold for themselves, but the war lasted longer than they thought. During those early months in the war, President Lincoln and his government received word that the gold was moved to an undisclosed location which only a select few in the South Command (The Confederate) knew about.
Sorry but this gives it a very very cartoonish look. I get that you’re turning to attract newer audiences but I hope this doesn’t become the norm for reformatting future content.
There's tons of non cartoonish animated battle map channels out there. You can just be silent and search for one of them to satisfy you, and leave channels to do as they please. It's not rocket science.
No matter how much I study the Civil War, you guys always find a way to spark my determination to learn more even further! Thank you for this excellent presentation!
I feel the same. What an insightful well produced video that flames my interest.
Yes that was an amazing quick retelling for a foreigner. I hope history does not repeat.
Yeah this is a huge treat
Wow! That was just excellent! Gave me chills watching it.
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I learned most of the events of this video from this channel already, but still watched the entire video just because how great of a presentation it is!
Very clear and informative video about civil war. A+
Amazing! Thanks for keeping ACW History in the spotlight. I am not an American, but I consider it to be one of the pivotal moments of modern History overall.
I have no words to express how great this episode was. 5 🌟
Beautiful, dignified presentation. Thank you!
Thanks!
This video is an incredible recap of the war. Very well done!
Stellar synopsis of events. I wish videos like this were around when I was a kid
Awesome!!!! Thanks for mentioning a few battles in MO & AR & NM - these areas usually get forgotten beyond belief.
1862 - the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment is organized and fights at Island Mound Missouri. They will fight in MO/KS/AR and Indian Territory and later be redesignated as the 70th US Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
1863 - is Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, Kansas, where roughly 150 men/boys of all ages are slaughtered and the town burned down. Quantrill will later defeat a Union force outside of Baxter Springs, KS.
1864 - Confederate army invades SE Missouri from Arkansas with its main objective of St Louis and its arsenal. Confederates defeated at the Battle of Fort Davidson and then change their objective to Jefferson City and then Westport near Kansas City. 3-day battle of Westport/Bryam's Ford/Independence, MO, sends them retreating into Kansas where they are again defeated at the Battle of Mine Creek (the largest cavalry battle west of the Mississippi River). They are chased all the way back to Indian Territory never to be a threat again.
I'm not from the US, but I have studied the American civil war. One name that keeps coming up in glowing terms is George Henry Thomas. He stands out, for me, as arguably the finest leader of men on either side. Never got the credit he deserved .. but then he never looked for it either.
I've never heard of him.
Thomas was a good, stubborn General. Grant in his autobiography expressed a bit of frustration because he thought Thomas took too long to prepare and deploy. Of course, everyone took too long to Grant....
He was awesome...
@@billbowers7553Yes but he always delivered.
I’m from the us and we don’t even speak about the civil war
Awesome!
For sure i would love to see something like this but on the war of 1812.
It’s shorter, but here you go! th-cam.com/video/aRYy0j927eg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=iBKJauoiMVkgsi-F
@ wow even though it’s short I love it as the war of 1812 is the missing piece of my family history and what I mean by missing piece is there’s not a lot of info about my 4th great grandfather John Jacob Weikert’s service in the war and the only thing my family knows is that he served in Cobeans battalion of Pennsylvania reserves.
Great video, thank you.
I love this channel so much
Awesome Work Gentlemen!
Great synopsis! Thanks
Phenomenal video! This should be shown at the tour opening in Gettysburg and other Civil War Museums that can do it!
Ditto on the previous comment, the Elliott family and friends here in Victoria British Columbia Canada,wish you all the best;and look forward to seeing,sharing,and listening....
Outstanding!!
I love American history
The PC game Robert e lee civil war general was my start point in really learning the civil war. the game was amazing. I cant seem to find that old game anymore. that game really hits, how hard the south defended at these battles. your always outgunned and out manned, and it was just amazing the tactics used on both sides.
Awesome
Thank you.
Very cool
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very nice to see
I love this! I can’t help but to think about we’re living this out with the WW2 generation now.
Never forget what our nation has been through.
What a shame only one image of Lincoln giving the Gettysburg Address…**Watching this brings back memories of being an Orange Blossom NYS Volunteer reenactor in the late 80’s. Took part in the battle of Antiietam reenactment with thousands of other reenactors. It was impressive to say the least.
@13:47 it is good to mention this was the high water line for the South as far as their northward advance. The beginning of the end
People can say all they want that the civil war wasn't about slavery but Jefferson Davis said in March of 1865 he would accept no peace plan that didn't include the preservation and expansion of slavery so don't tell me it wasn't about slavery. You can try but you're not accurate. Slavery was part of state's rights and a major part at that.
That is very true, but was that all?
Why did the states suceed from the union? It's in their historical documents and you can read them for yourself. The first was south carolina. Read it and it will tell you. I read it and it said that it entirely about slavery. Source documents don't lie. People's commentary do lie.
This is why we need the monuments that have been taken down or destroyed. Put our history back ... We need it...
2:26: Her Majesty Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were among those who read it.
My man Lincoln’s eyes lookin like that new Superman.
Our world history is very sad Our world needs love and hope
16:33 they are holding with left hands
Please can you produce one of these about the English Civil War?
Maybe now that the adults are back in the room, maybe we can get some statues put back up
Thank you for your sacrifice. He died to make men holy let us die to make men free... your deaths were not in vain.
Would've been nice to include Lincoln asked Lee to lead that army against his native state
As sad as our American Civil War was, we are still fighting the war today. Monuments of that war have been torn down and destroyed. Future generations will make the same mistakes of 1861, 164 years ago. Your video is one of the best that I have even watched. Shalom
Those monuments mostly built during jim crow Era had no business ever going up.. they teach nothing... makes zero sense that the United States had 10× the monuments dedicated to the confederate side than the union side.. military forts named after confederate generals.....lousy generals at that ...like hood ....
Racist traitors should not be honored.
only monuments of the traitors. those monuments were put up during the jim crow era to intimidate black people.
God bless the Union and the commonwealth 🥵🤙🏼
You would be hard pressed to find anyone on the battlefield that was fighting for or against slavery.
History is told by the victors slavery was only 1 of the many reasons there was a succession but unfortunately slavery is what’s talked about the most
Because the fact of slavery was the basis of most of the other reasons, and because the South *_specifically_* and *_explicitly_* started the war in order to separate and create a slave nation. You don't know enough about the war to offer an informed opinion, so we get the usual stupid attitudes of slavery's apologists. Read Alexander Stephens" "Cornerstone Speech," if you want to start to understand even the most basic facts about the war.
17:50 Grant
Only slavery caused secession? One single issue? The victor always writes it’s own interpretation of history.
Yeaaa true but the losers also wrote their own constitutions and reasons for secession lol and Slavery was mention in each and every state
1st Alabama Calvary
Union Regiment made of 8 north Alabama counties, the most racially integrated regiment of the entire Civil War.
And History never remembers them.
Where is the word “Traitor”.
Reserved for Lincoln the Federalist.
Cant take this video seriously when he doesnt explain the root cause and that Lincoln only outlawed slavery IN THE SOUTH to punish them while allowing three states of his own to carry out the practice.
Agree with me or not, I beg, BEG you to read foreign diplomats and dignitaries accounts of the treatment of slaves in the south vs the north.
The north treated them like animals.
Davis was against succession and wanted to be a military commander, not the President of the Confederacy... Also, your map leaves out that the New Mexico territory succeeded with the Confederacy... I live in Tucson, AZ and we had a Confederate garrison stationed here... The Farthest western battle of the war took place about 30 miles from where I grew up.
2% of our population, countrymen on both sides gone. After 4 years of conflict, our divided nation finally stands united.
These United States. Freedom is never ever free, It always comes at the highest cost. Paid for in blood.
Father against son. Brother against brother. Neighbor against neighbor.
Battles and names may fade away in the passage of time. They shall not be forgotten ever in our nation's history.
"The Confederate Congress desperately authorizes the enlistment of black soldiers." Let that marinate for a second...
One Confederate politician said at the time that if the slave can make a good soldier, then the entire rationale underpinning slavery was wrong. Sometimes people come SO close to getting the concept of basic human decency...then run away from it as fast as they can. Black enlistment in the Confederate army was statistically non-existent.
Like if your wife left you while you were watching this video 😢
Barksdale’s Brigade, part of Longstreet’s attack on July 2nd, was probably the grandest charge of war and the true highwater mark, not pickets.
The problem with this video lay in the very beginning.
Lincoln may have been "anti slavery" (despite him claiming if he could stop the war without freeing the slaves he wouldnt free them) but the war didnt begin with its abolition and the emancipation proclaimation was only made to hurt the south for he allowed the practice to continue in 3 northern states.
Why did the north have to block the south from getting good if Europe looked down on them so much for engaging in slavery?
It's because the north was actively engaging in it too.
Lincoln was a federalist and wanted a more centralized government, that's where the animosity began.
People often facetiously ask "A states right to what?!"
The simple answer is a states right to govern itself as the founding fathers intended.
Good grief!!! Finally someone who explains apart from emotion and old animosity.
Here we are, 160 years later, and we're probably going to have to have this fight again.
This is dangerous talk that should never be spoken
@@MickeyloverMelvin Dangerous talk perhaps, but never be spoken? These kinds of things should be discussed, even if it's dismissed immediately. The absence of these kinds of conversations is when tyrants thrive
Nope. There’s no point and no similar dividing line. There may be more political violence (we already had a couple pretty troubling occurrences of that in the last year) than say in the 90’s, more similar to the 60’s or 70’s, but it won’t be like the 1860’s.
It wouldn't be exactly the same fight again. The issues are different, and it wouldn't be one geographic section against another as in the Civil War. If another civil war comes to America, it would be more a guerilla war with no discernable front lines and multiple factions.
If the South want to leave the US again, I’m all for just letting them.
Even before the end of the 1700's, there was talk of the South leaving, or not joining the Union. The North was in a trade war with Europeans nations, and the South was taking the brunt of their issues. At that ti9me, there was a triangular trade going. The South sold crops and textiles to the North. The north processed them and sold them to European nations. European nations sold goods and supplies to the South. Without having the power to make the North come to a compromise with Europe, the South's economy was suffering the most. That was the beginning of the rift that tore the nation apart. Slavery wasn't an issue at that point and wouldn't become an issue for years to come.
Which wouldn’t be an issue had the south industrialized.
@@wyattmcgee1 True. The South had become accustomed to the triangle trade. It could have added processing industries to its own economy, but it didn't. It would have taken a lot of time and work to do it, and a lot of materials that the North had and the South didn't. Big businesses and politicians were and are still playing games and the little man suffers.
I fear America is once again divided, for similar reasons.
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DAMMIT, stupendous production
Not so much. Too many half-truths and facts left out.
You guys are still fighting , lol Muricans
It is very fortunate that Lee was so myopic about Virginia. Had he sent reinforcements to Johnston to relieve the siege of Pemberton at Vicksburg, 1863 would have been disastrous for the Union. Rather than two decisive victories, there would have been one defeat or stalemate that would have led to a retreat, the forces loaned in the West could have then reinforced Bragg in Tennessee leading to further setbacks.
The problem with these what-ifs is that they don’t tend to anticipate how the other side would react to the change. What might the Union have done if they saw Lee diminishing his forces in Virginia?
they didn’t secede because they “feared for their lives” they seceded because they wanted to preserve the institution of slavery.
4:09 It wasn't that they refused to leave, they were ordered to stay.
Would the forefathers allow a British fort to remain in their harbor and collect tariffs from foreign trade? I don't think they would. They would give them time to leave and if they wouldn't go, they would be bombarded. That is exactly what happened at Sumter. A foreign country sitting in their harbor got bombarded when they refused to leave. That was Lincoln's plan all along, make the Southerners fire first.
9:25 Why do yall paint a false picture of Antietam? Lee waited all day on the second day, but Union weren't obliging to attack again. He went back to Virginia that night. Nobody forced him to leave, as you try to make it sound.
This video is full of half-truths and I thought yall were history people.
11:31 Yall said Vicksburg was a stronghold? What about Port Hudson? They held out longer than Vicksburg, with alot less men. I have never heard any U.S. casualty reports on that siege. It's never mentioned that black troops were used in a combat role there either, probably for the first time in the war.
To the victor goes the spoils of war, half-truths and flat out lies included.
I read and the same thing appeared in a documentary was that a BANK in the South (I can't remember where) was filled with GOLD and the North wanted it to be held in their states. This was before the Civil War, when The South had said no, not long after, the Fort Sumter situation occurred. This gave the North a reason to go to war to try to claim the GOLD for themselves but instead the South moved the gold to an undisclosed place (which only a select number of people knew the location) noted only in their records as only having been moved, which to this day is still not found. The North thought this civil war would only last a couple of months and they then can secure the gold for themselves, but the war lasted longer than they thought. During those early months in the war, President Lincoln and his government received word that the gold was moved to an undisclosed location which only a select few in the South Command (The Confederate) knew about.
Sorry but this gives it a very very cartoonish look. I get that you’re turning to attract newer audiences but I hope this doesn’t become the norm for reformatting future content.
There's tons of non cartoonish animated battle map channels out there. You can just be silent and search for one of them to satisfy you, and leave channels to do as they please. It's not rocket science.
@ but i love this channel is super informative and I have definitely learned a lot here. I guess from now on I’ll just shut my mouth. Thanks