Sir as someone who cannot afford to purchase subscriptions to documentary producing websites, I thank you with my entire heart for making such amazing content on TH-cam for free. Regards, A Military history admirir6
I agree whole heartedly. I love watching documentaries and anything history. For a couple years I had subscribed to streaming services that had history or documentaries. A couple years back my son showed me all the TH-cam channels that had everything I was looking for. The only catch is watching commercials or adds occasionally. I instantly cut off those streaming services and hooked up an Android box in the living room and Firestick's in the bedrooms. I love it, in the long run you save money each month not paying for cable or multiple streaming services.
The Nelson Rifle was invented and made by my Wife's Great Great Grandfather JD Nelson a blacksmith of Nelson Georgia north of Atlanta....I don't know how many still survive because not many were made....
Outstanding video! I am the proud owner of an original 1842 Springfield which was made in 1846. It is in excellent condition....not quite as nice as the one in the museum in this video, but almost. The stock shows expected minor scratches and dents from use. The barrel, lock mechanism, trigger and straps are all excellent with very little corrosion pitting. I’ve shot it on two occasions since I’ve owned it, with patch and ball and 70 grains of black powder. It still shoots beautifully (though low and to the right a bit most likely because of the light powder load). The post 1860 bayonet is absolutely perfect. It is an honor and privilege to have this beautiful piece of history hanging on my wall. I wish it could tell me its story....and the story of the men that carried it into battle.
I have a 1860s English Fowler double barrel it’s about .68” Damascus barrels I’ve shot it with 70 grains or pyrodrex. I wander the standard load for your gun? I personally believe they’ll hold much more powder than usually assumed
@@jefferyboring4410 the English Fowler sounds sweet! The standard load out for my musket is 110 grains. I am sure it could handle this full charge, but I don’t feel the need to push it. I use only black powder and would suggest that you do not use Pyrodex or any other BP substitute in these antique firearms. These powders ignite and burn differently than BP. I do not claim to be an expert on this, but after a fair amount of research that is the conclusion I came to.
Yes, very true !Many Confederate cavalrymen brought double-barrel shotguns from home. Both with 28" to 3o" barrels, or with 12 gauge 20" -22" barrels made as "Coach Guns", or sawed -off to carbine size and saddle rings added, for attaching to Carbine swivel rings for attaching to cavalry straps across their chests. One such regiment equipped with a plethora of revolvers and shotgun-carbines, was the 8th Texas Cavalry~ better known as "Terry's Texas Rangers" . At the Battle of Shiloh, they made a famous rear-guard charge on Yankee infantry who held fast with bayonets fixed to skewer horses and men. But the Texans were too smart, and skidded to a halt 20 yards away, and cut lose with a hurricane of withering buckshot at point-blank range ~ decimating scores of YANKEES , enabling the Confederate army to withdraw and fight another day ! And another regiment, enlisted as the 1st Texas Mounted Rifles Regt., and one of their sergeants , noting an abundance of shotgun-carbines commented, "We uns need to change our name to the 1st Texas Mounted Shotguns !" Not only cavalrymen, but I've seen many Confederate infantrymen photographed with long double-barrel scatterguns also !
@@JDMatthias Henry "repeater" rifles weren't invented until 1860. Very few were in the civil war because they were highly expensive. Winchester first "repeater rifle was in 1866. Very few Sharps rifles were in the civil war either because of high expense also. Many civil war soldiers provided their own firearms.
@@sergeantmasson3669 where do you get your information? The Sharps carbine was the most prevalent weapon used by federal cavalry throughout the war and they weren’t being purchased by the individual soldiers.
Amazing how tactics change in varying types of war. Not giving faster loading loading firearms to soldiers due the idea of wasting ammunition, has gone to firearms with staggering rates of fire.
The .30/40 Krag rifle that replaced the single shot trapdoor Springfield was designed to be slower to load. The magazine wasn’t filled by a stripper clip, each round had to be loaded into the magazine individually. It also had a magazine cut off that turned it into a single shot.
@@sgtmayhem7567 Yeah the Germans did the same with the M1871/84. It had a 8 round tube magazine but they would cut that of and single shot most of the time. the magazine was only a backup for emergency firepower.
It's not about "individual soldiers wasting ammunition", that's a gross oversimplification, in 1860 if you quadrupled the Ammunition expenditure of your army, you also HAD to quadruple your supply trains transporting ammunition,, throughout the US Civil war BOTH sides despite the enormous numbers of horses, wagons & thousands of Kilometers of Railway suffered continual material shortages of every kind. You want to increase the firepower four fold........the Confederacy couldn't even supply it''s troops with shoes for Christ's sake.
It is amazing to me given the difference in the amount of material of war and available manpower. That the Confederates lasted as long as they did and won as often as they did.
Thank you very much for another quality upload! 👍 Here's a useful mini break-up of the various marches/melodies in fife and drums used in the soundtrack, for anyone interested... 09:23 - Turkey in the Straw (aka Zip Coon) 10:11 - Kilgaragh Mountain _(unsure)_ 11:01 - Year of Jubilo (aka Kingdom Coming) 13:32 - Camptown Races 14:10 - Oh! Susanna 23:01 - Wait for the wagon aka Dissolution Wagon aka Brass Mounted Army 25:54 - The Arkansas Traveler 28:26 - Pop Goes the Weasel _(unsure)_ 31:46 - My Old Kentucky Home 33:09 - Mister, Here's Your Mule _(unsure, also reminds somewhat of parts of Grafted into the Army)_ 33:53 - Stonewall Jackson's Way 34:40 - The Bonnie Blue Flag 43:44 - Turkey in the Straw (aka Zip Coon) 47:45 - When Johnny Comes Marching Home 53:49 - Riding a Raid (Bonnie Dundee melody) (a couple of others I cannot identify, unfortunately...)
I was a civil war renactor for years and always prefered the remington 1858 new model army revolver. With a solid frame and a drop out cylinder it was far faster to reload with a second cylinder as many officers had a second cyloinder.
The Confederacy also had the same type of system with the Spiller & Burr ( a copy of the North's Whitney Navy .36 revolver) made in my hometown of Macon, Georgia. A top-strap with a nice long rear sight groove, and on the left side a swivel wedge that you could give a 3/4 turn which released the loading lever and cylinder pin to slide forward and drop-out the cylinder ,to pop-in a pre-loaded cylinder. Some examples in museums have a reddish tint to the brass frame, which was due to foraging parties confiscating moonshine brass and copper stills, to melt down and re-cast into frames, the copper giving a reddish tint to the brass. Many Spiller & Burr revolvers were also made with detachable shoulder stocks, to use as pistol-carbines !
No one carried extra cylinders and officers certainly weren't firing off rounds on the battlefield. Their job was to command their men. Any officer looking down the sights of a firearm, and not at his men, was not doing his job. Just because Clint Eastwood did it in "Pale Rider" it doesn't mean it was actually done during the period.
@@gmonynegro595 There's no evidence swapping cylinders was common. It's bad practice to take a single or very few instances as common practice. You're literally taught not to do that in history classes.
🤣 I love how even in the Civil War magazine size was an issue with troops. "Well we can't give them SIX rounds in the gun, that's insane. They'd shoot all of it!" Toward the end of the war : "you got your third colt pistol reloaded yet? We have to make a push."
I've always thought that in the war the mechanism for the muskets was percussion, and it was the beginning of the rifled musket. However, I didn't know that in the early parts of the war, that some units still used smoothbore flintlock muskets dating back to the 1810s, or had replaced the flintlock mechanism to a percussion mechanism but still utilized a smoothbore barrel instead of a rifled barrel. Great video!!!
It makes a level of sense since many arms were privately acquired and were not strictly "regulation" at the time. Caveat to this, the 1792 Militia Acts were still in effect and any man called up for militia service must be able to provide his own equipment precisely because official procurement channels were unable to meet the excessive demand of raising large armies in such short order.
Even percussion guns with paper wrapped "cartridge" a charge and conical bullets were used and state of the art short lived Precursor to brass cartridge cases.
Smooth bore muskets were liked. Buck and ball means you get a little bit of shotgun, a little bit of 69 cal. Irish brigade only changed as loses to unit were replaced. Most combat is short range so a 600 yard range was unneeded.
Oh man. I used to have this DVD set if I remember correctly it was a multi DVD set. It starts out with the invention of gunpowder and then goes to Modern Firearms of the time of the release of the documentaries. I really enjoyed these and I'm glad someone uploaded them.
Very good channel, greatly enjoyed the very clear descriptions and demos, no mention of the great Burnside carbine though. Many thanks for this in any case, very well done.
This is a great video. I really liked some of the little details like the museum curator showing the spark a flintlock makes, and the close up details of things like the Minie ball being seated and rammed home and the percussion cap being slid onto the nipple. I thought that gave a great insight into what these guns would have been like to use. I also noticed that a lot of the soldiers really looked like boys of 18 or 19. I thought that was good casting.
Those Confederate purchasing agents pulled off some impressive shit. Damn near miraculous in some cases. Including what they had to do to actually get the shit to the Confederate states.
When the Civil War started, soldiers used muskets, line abreast, and fought in way Napoleon would find familiar. By 1864, the rate of fire increased so much, that now soldiers dug trenches. Recently invented barbed wire was used in front of trenches, creating scenes that soldiers in WW1 would find familiar., The usage of trains to transport troops and armies was studied by the Germans, who used trains very effectively for movement of troops and material. The usage of a turret on an iron-clad, non-wood, boat was a huge leap in naval technology. The Gatling gun was the first high rate of fire gun. First supplanted by the later machine gun, the Gatling gun is now the main weapon in the A-10 ground support plane. The American Civil War was possibly the most important war, when it comes to development of military technology. One could take pride that we were very smart. But, seems to me, if were smarter, we would not have had the war.
Development of submarines, grenades and torpedoes also along with treatment of wounded men. It truly was the first modern war. Sadly it was so modern the casualty rate was high.
@@kirbystarnino4199 Medical science was pretty primitive, but the development of nursing and a medical corps did occur. Although, the Crimean War was where the Red Cross got started, and modern nursing, I believe. Also, thanks for pointing out subs, etc. I neglected them.
Excellent remarks! In many respects the American Civil War marked simultaneously the twilight of the old type of firearms warfare and the dawn of the modern one... Was a historical landmark in many respects, not only for the US History but for the world. And maybe that's why so many foreigners find it maybe the most intriguing and fascinating period of US History (myself included!)
@@Freawulf It is fascinating. But, all of American History is fascinating, to me. The Pre-Colonial period, especially the first American Revolution of 1676, which failed. Then, the Somerset case, which suggests that the American Revolution was to done to PRESERVE slavery!! (How about that!!) etc etc.
@@craigkdillon Glad I found these comments, I'm sick of having arguments with people who think the Civil War isn't the first modern war because they fought in lines at the start, lol
7:54 about the alamo, the majority of the men were using the brown bess, it was a total mix of all types of muskets and pistols, flintlock and caplock you name it
I read that some soldiers forget to use the cap and kept ramming bullets down thinking they had fired it. Guns recovered from battle field sone had like 2 or even 5 bullets inside.
it was probably vent fouling. I don't know what the Union & Confederate Rifle Drill involved but it probably DIDN'T involve clearing a hang fire in the middle of a battle, sure they were given a special ramrod screw attachment for removing stuck balls (bullets) but actually using one of those is more like a leisurely exercise done on a range or back in camp as per rifle cleaning. Just my 2 pfennigs worth.
I read that as well. Seems like some units weren't drilled enough for real combat and when the time came the shock was overwhelming and caused soldiers to reload and fire incorrectly.
Military intelligence two words that do not belong in the same sentence. Remember the brass is mostly fighting the last war. As would be the funding from congress.
Yessiree. I’m a big Army of the TN fan. Portions of the Seventeenth Corps veteranized and ended up spending their pay and their furlough privately buying Henrys. Made them deadly in the 1864 campaign for Atlanta
Wasting ammunition was part of it. Repeating rifles and the demand for ammunition also complicated the supply chain. One wonders how history might be different if the 7th at Little Bighorn had been armed with repeating Spencers or Henrys instead of single shot trapdoor carbines.
@@wsmvolunteers8588 I saw an old program on TH-cam and as a kid where they metal detected a lot of the rounds incoming were Henrys. A much better gun in such a battle
True that. There is an interesting book "Archeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn." Investigators found evidence that some warriors were armed with Henrys and Winchester Model 1866s, both using the same .44 rimfire cartridge.
FYI, the usual spelling was "Minie", not "Mini". That was the same as the inventor's name (Minié) just without the accent mark. Simplified Army typesets for stamping out labels didn't have accented letters. Thus the Min-yay ball became the Min-nee ball.
in the reference to the Enfield rifle they neglected to mention the English Whitworth rifle, and it's superb accuracy of the hexogaonal bored rifles. The confederates in Tennessee, were able to keep a supply train of the Union army from being able to deliver the supplies by shooting the mules. The Confereates were up in the mountain ridges and shooting at over a thousand yards! Also neglected was the LeMat revolver with a 29 gauge shot gun barrel under the .44 caliber revolver barrel. It was the favorite of Confederate Generals, J.E.B. Stuart, and P.G.T. Beauregard. It was patented in 1856, by Dr. J.A.F .Lemat of New Orlens. It was manufactured in Paris France, and Burmingham England. Also not mentioned was the populare1858 Star revolver,r which both sides highly prized. It was a double action revolver! It was manufactured in both Birmingham, and Yonkers, N.Y. .
@@rkimberly985 The total number of both of those weapons imported would not have equipped a single normal strength brigade. While both were fine weapons their availability was so limited as to make them insignificant in the course of the war.
@@johngaither3830 I agree. The strategies of the South, dealing with egos and hot heads, were not the most well thought out, before declaring war. If they had did some pre-planning, like building up their arsenals, and importing more weapons, and putting more emphasis on sinking Union ships, especially while in pot, to lessen any future Union blockades. They simply went to far too fast, without proper planning. Had they done so, they could have tied the Union in knots! If they had sat down and gauged their supplies, amount of readily available troops, and experienced commanders, and routes of Northern RRs, and planned sabotage, of these, and shipping ports of the North, things would have gone a whole lot smoother. Hitting various lines of supply with alternating raiders, and Places, RRs etc.that would confuse the Union troops. While they are out chasing after one group of raiders, the raiders could set up ambushes of the Union troops that were after them.. And if they kept up these harassment raids, The South could have been making major incursions into Union held territories. But just my fanciful imagination, since they did not plan ahead or access their current sources, and capabilities, before declaring war. And the South lost the War.. Like I said, Jefferson Davis was not much help. But lacking in numbers as they were, they still should have at least been mentioned, since they were major improvements over what was the majority of weapons used in that senseless war.
In every war bean counters were the soldier's real enemy. Cheaper guns, ammunition, clothes and food could determine the outcome. But they still expected you to do your job and even give your life.
Error at 57:55 mark: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was not yet a Brigadier General at the time of his legendary defense of Little Round Top; he was still a Lieutenant Colonel.
For years I carried a Model 1795 Springfield Armory musket into battle, it was the rifle represented on my CIB (Combat Infantryman's Badge). SSG. U.S. Army (Medically Retired) Infantry / Sniper / SOF Intel (SOT-A), multiple tours
A while back, I read a book that said, that in the very early stages of the war, the south tended to outrange the north somewhat, because they were using hunting rifles, which were generally bigger guns meant for longer ranges than military rifles. I wonder if that was true.
@@brucemorrison2132 On Confederate domestic war industry, "...on balance the degree of industrialization achieved by the Confederate South was phenomenal. The Confederates sustained themselves industrially better than they did agriculturally and far better than they had any reason to expect in 1861. Symbolically, in April 1865, when Lee's tired army marched and fought its way to Appomattox, the men exhausted their supply of food before they ran out of ammunition. In fact when Lee surrendered, the remnant Army of Northern Virigina had a sufficient average of seventy-five rounds of ammunition per man and adequate shells" (The Confederate Nation, Emory Thomas)
I have had the fun of shooting a reproduction Colt Navy Revolver and it took me about 5 minutes to reload it. But I was at a table with everything prepared and laid out. I can not see doing it hurriedly in the field and under fire. Its an impressive feat for anyone who managed it. Especially in poor light. Putting on caps and pinching them so they don't fall off is a job in itself. I hunt deer with a muzzleloader and my cap has fallen off more than once. Thankfully I noticed before I had the chance to fire. And its tough to fish out one cap out from a tin without knocking 10 more out, and then get it on the nipple with cold hands.... and this is sitting still without explosions, bullets flying by and people screaming around me. What a crazy, brutal, terrifying way to engage in combat. I am not surprised Civil War battlefields are haunted. Thats a lot of extreme human emotion that occurred in one place. Its insane.... a single MG42 spits out the same amount of lead in a minute that an entire company of trained troops managed with muskets.
I like all the reenactor footage that I recognize from the old Sierra Interactive games Robert E. Lee: Civil War General, and Grant Lee Sherman: Civil War Generals II.
Black powder is a lot of fun. Shooting replicas. My fav is the 44 Rogers & Spencer revolver. Reliable, does not crust up like the Colt and is good for 50 yards. The short barrel brass Colt 1849 self disassembles after a few shots Good for 2-3 drums then locks up and that's with clean burning Swiss powder. My cap Cal 54 Pennsylvania rifle is a good shooter up to 150 yards. It's best at 80 yards or less. All shoot brutally effective big rounds. Ball and Mini.
I mean, they defiantly increases the rate of development in America however in Europe most of the developments made were already in service. But this was great video
I used to shoot a P53 regularly at my gun club in the UK, a wonderfully accurate and extremely powerful rifle, if you can get one with a Tower Armory stamp.
The Williams Type 2 was supposed to be a replacement for the Burton improved miníe bullet. It shot "cleaner", because the zinc disc created a gas seal much sooner than the Burtons, and therefore allowed more rounds to be fired without cleaning, and more accurately than the Burton. The reason they were unpopular, was because they were much harder to unload from picket duty than the Burtons, because if the Williams bullets were rammed home according to drill, they were already expanded. InRange TV did an excellent video on this topic. th-cam.com/video/wUhAxfeTrUk/w-d-xo.html
Pepperbox pistols don't get enough recognition. Even if a lot of these soldiers didn't have a long arm, lots of people had the Allen and thurber pepperbox. It's was relatively cheap even in its day and was carried by thousands of soldiers
Sorry to burst your bubble but the modern company called Springfield Armory has zero ties to the original Springfield Armory. They simply took the name knowing that the average American will do zero research and buy from them using the name of a previous legendary company.
The big problem with the flintlock system was the fact that it wasn't waterproof that's where the percussion cap system has it beat you could ask a percussion cap in water and every which way and it would still shoot you try that with a flintlock you're going to get your powder wet and it's not going to fire then you have a really big club to hit people with
minie ball had a plug in the base to help it expand another guy named Burton improved on it by removing the plug an thinning down the wall of the bullet slightly . this made it quicker and cheaper to make but the name Minie stuck with the bullet
This was quite interesting. Nevertheless, I'm a little bit disappointed about not learning about the Whitworth rifle, the deadly weapon of the Dixie sharpshooters.
Many soldiers were forget that and shoot rammers to the rebels... LOL! I have met muskets at the Serbian museum from the wars of the independence 1878/78. It was the conscript army and it hasn't such problems...
Looking at casualty rates during the Napoleonic Wars and comparing them with the American Civil War, the casualty rates were about the same. The rifle is objectively more accurate than the smoothbore, but was that accuracy truly a difference maker to the average soldier during combat? Probably not as much as myth has made it out to be.
@@shotgunsteve93 How many of those Napoleonic casualties were from famine or lack of medical knowledge. You will never convince me tactics hadn't been outdated by the weapons. At the start probably not but, by the end absolutely. The main reason The Great War was fought in trenches dates back to Robert E Lee holding off superior forces longer than any before. He changed tactics and fought from fortified defensive positions. A tactic made obsolete by mechanized armor. My original comment is based on engagements like Burnsides Bridge and Gettysburg. In both a few held off many simply because the distance and accuracy offered by the rifle.
I'm surprised the Smith & Wesson #2 revolver wasn't mentioned. Granted it was never an "officially" issued revolver (despite its nickname of "Old Army"), but there was an entire unit of volunteer cavalry from Kentucky that was armed with these guns, and their rimfire cartridges made them more reliable and faster to load than the cap-and-ball revolvers. And they were very popular with individual soldiers, as well.
Your initial presenter is not well schooled. The hammer was not called a hammer until percussion firearms were prevalent. The striking face that the flint impacted is called the frizzen. Also, he skipped the model 1803, which was the first American battle rifle that was used in Lewis and Clark expedition.
Many US citizens may not like it but in fact the most powerful politician involved even at a distaff level in the US civil war was probably Prince Albert who did his best to prevent the British empire at the time at the height of it's power and allied(for once with the French empire)and which with a fraction of it's power had ended the transoceanic slave trade in less than a decade from taking part militarily in the war
You should read up on the world’s finest war. The Pig War. 1859, San Juan Island in territory yet to be determined as to what country it belonged to. Picket was there….
The South may have suffered for lack of shoes, but not arms; the U.S. Army keep it well supplied with throw downs. To this day, the UCMJ contains a specific prohibition against soldiers "casting away" their weapons. Of course doing so allows one to run faster.
@@rslover65 Sure does. The Southerners may have started out carrying flintlock shotguns, but by the war's end the few that were left were all carrying U.S. made Springfields.
Grant had three rebel armies throw down their weapons, I believe the word was surrender. Whereas the great leader bobby lee captured the army of...oh wait...it's here somewhere....I'm still looking....
They did in all wars until WW2 although on the Western Front in WW1 there were more deaths from battle, notably artillery fire, than disease but this didn't apply to some of the other fronts, notably Africa
@Dav1Gv I would not have wanted to fight in the war back then, I really wouldn't want to fight in a war today I'm a Gulf War veteran but I didn't see horrible combat or anyting! Those conditions back then would be appalling...
@@jerrydonquixote5927 There's an account by the wife of the caretaker of the Cemetery at Getthysburg about seeing operations with the arms and legs just loaded into carts until they were full and then they were driven off and dumped and, of course, if the surgeon actually washed his scalpel and saw in a bucket of water mixed with the blood of the others he had operated on you were one of the lucky ones. Not anyone's fault, of course, they didn't know about infection then. Surprisingly about 50% survived. For that matter in WW1 the medics didn't anticipate the wounded would be infected by bacteria from manured soil, hence the problem of gas gangrene. Many years ago I was a very undistinguished subaltern in the TA, I'm very glad that the Cold War didn't turn hot.
Anybody interested in seeing these weapons tested should check out "Weapons of Westpoint!" Here is a live fire demonstration of a Napoleon cannon: th-cam.com/video/J0usa46ZIsc/w-d-xo.html
I enjoyed your video some of the acting was very realistic. The information about the firearms was also commendable. You did however leave out the 1860 Remington 44 which was a favorite of the Union Calvary and officers. I have a 44 sheriff's model Colt by pietta and I also have two Remington pietas 44. I like them all however if you wanted to carry spare cylinders for the Remington you can exchange them very quickly. But the quickest way is what they did they carried several in their waistband ready to go. That's what made control such a devastating gorilla fighter and his men
32:21 the residents of harper’s ferry chose their wallets over the Union, just for the rebels to steal all their stuff and send it to Richmond. And since Confederate currency at the time was I.O.U. paper notes you know they weren’t compensated 😂
1:44, I remember a history professor @Horton Watkins High School, Ladue MO, told her students that many Union soldiers had lost their thumbs, because of the faulty hammers on the pistol revolvers that they had been given!
Smooth bore muskets vs rifles at range and repeaters at mid to close range... Just a massive difference in firepower. I often wonder if many battles were in fact not decided by generalship or position or even numbers but by the presence of rifles and or repeaters at the right spots and the right moment...
Excellent documentary well done 👍🏼. I like shooting black powder myself. 1861 caliber 58 is a dam good hunting rifle. The deer 🦌 go right down I don’t think they suffer not long anyway.
@ Julius Dream. I have an 1861 two band Enfield .58 cal reproduction imported by Lyman so long ago they don’t even have documentation on it. It was used when my Dad bought it, given to me when he bought a T/C Hawkins kit, and I’ve killed WELL over two dozen deer in the last 40yrs with it. In my youth, I could bark squirrels with it & kill them without a mark. I’d pay big $$$ for a new barrel...mine is very pitted...and that ramrod has worn the lands out. First two shots in 1-12” at 100yds. IF you can load a 3rd round, it is MOA of paper plate. I cherish it,
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Sir as someone who cannot afford to purchase subscriptions to documentary producing websites, I thank you with my entire heart for making such amazing content on TH-cam for free.
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A Military history admirir6
I agree whole heartedly. I love watching documentaries and anything history. For a couple years I had subscribed to streaming services that had history or documentaries. A couple years back my son showed me all the TH-cam channels that had everything I was looking for. The only catch is watching commercials or adds occasionally. I instantly cut off those streaming services and hooked up an Android box in the living room and Firestick's in the bedrooms. I love it, in the long run you save money each month not paying for cable or multiple streaming services.
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Wish I can go back in time to Industrialize and Secularize the Bronze Age. No more Slavery.
@@christiandauz3742 Sadly slavery still exist today in many countries
@@robertskinner6487 Africa rn probably “he talking bout y’all Spain”👀
Major John Mead Gould was my great great grandfather. He kept a diary throughout his adult life. Thank you for mentioning him.
The Nelson Rifle was invented and made by my Wife's Great Great Grandfather JD Nelson a blacksmith of Nelson Georgia north of Atlanta....I don't know how many still survive because not many were made....
Yea right lol..
Yeah and mine wax Abraham Lincoln himself
America has ingenious people.
Prove it
@@brianstabile165 his last descendent died in the 1980s…
Outstanding video! I am the proud owner of an original 1842 Springfield which was made in 1846. It is in excellent condition....not quite as nice as the one in the museum in this video, but almost. The stock shows expected minor scratches and dents from use. The barrel, lock mechanism, trigger and straps are all excellent with very little corrosion pitting. I’ve shot it on two occasions since I’ve owned it, with patch and ball and 70 grains of black powder. It still shoots beautifully (though low and to the right a bit most likely because of the light powder load). The post 1860 bayonet is absolutely perfect.
It is an honor and privilege to have this beautiful piece of history hanging on my wall. I wish it could tell me its story....and the story of the men that carried it into battle.
I have a 1860s English Fowler double barrel it’s about .68” Damascus barrels I’ve shot it with 70 grains or pyrodrex. I wander the standard load for your gun? I personally believe they’ll hold much more powder than usually assumed
@@jefferyboring4410 the English Fowler sounds sweet! The standard load out for my musket is 110 grains. I am sure it could handle this full charge, but I don’t feel the need to push it. I use only black powder and would suggest that you do not use Pyrodex or any other BP substitute in these antique firearms. These powders ignite and burn differently than BP. I do not claim to be an expert on this, but after a fair amount of research that is the conclusion I came to.
@TheAirplaneDriver, if you have no heirs who share your passion, make sure it ends up with a suitable collector or a museum.
@@melodymakermark Point well taken 👍🏻
I am so incredibly jealous. How cool man. Good on you
I came across an recruiting ad for one of the Texas cavalry units that told them to bring double barreled shotguns
Most Texan cavalry units preferred shotguns than anything else besides pistols
That makes sense unless you have a Henry or Spencer Carbine
Yes, very true !Many Confederate cavalrymen brought double-barrel shotguns from home. Both with 28" to 3o" barrels, or with 12 gauge 20" -22" barrels made as "Coach Guns", or sawed -off to carbine size and saddle rings added, for attaching to Carbine swivel rings for attaching to cavalry straps across their chests. One such regiment equipped with a plethora of revolvers and shotgun-carbines, was the 8th Texas Cavalry~ better known as "Terry's Texas Rangers" . At the Battle of Shiloh, they made a famous rear-guard charge on Yankee infantry who held fast with bayonets fixed to skewer horses and men. But the Texans were too smart, and skidded to a halt 20 yards away, and cut lose with a hurricane of withering buckshot at point-blank range ~ decimating scores of YANKEES , enabling the Confederate army to withdraw and fight another day ! And another regiment, enlisted as the 1st Texas Mounted Rifles Regt., and one of their sergeants , noting an abundance of shotgun-carbines commented, "We uns need to change our name to the 1st Texas Mounted Shotguns !" Not only cavalrymen, but I've seen many Confederate infantrymen photographed with long double-barrel scatterguns also !
@@JDMatthias Henry "repeater" rifles weren't invented until 1860. Very few were in the civil war because they were highly expensive. Winchester first "repeater rifle was in 1866. Very few Sharps rifles were in the civil war either because of high expense also. Many civil war soldiers provided their own firearms.
@@sergeantmasson3669 where do you get your information? The Sharps carbine was the most prevalent weapon used by federal cavalry throughout the war and they weren’t being purchased by the individual soldiers.
Amazing how tactics change in varying types of war. Not giving faster loading loading firearms to soldiers due the idea of wasting ammunition, has gone to firearms with staggering rates of fire.
Far more reasons then that against the repeaters.
That same logic was used when the us military moved from full auto M16s to three round burst.
The .30/40 Krag rifle that replaced the single shot trapdoor Springfield was designed to be slower to load. The magazine wasn’t filled by a stripper clip, each round had to be loaded into the magazine individually. It also had a magazine cut off that turned it into a single shot.
@@sgtmayhem7567 Yeah the Germans did the same with the M1871/84. It had a 8 round tube magazine but they would cut that of and single shot most of the time. the magazine was only a backup for emergency firepower.
It's not about "individual soldiers wasting ammunition", that's a gross oversimplification, in 1860 if you quadrupled the Ammunition expenditure of your army, you also HAD to quadruple your supply trains transporting ammunition,, throughout the US Civil war BOTH sides despite the enormous numbers of horses, wagons & thousands of Kilometers of Railway suffered continual material shortages of every kind.
You want to increase the firepower four fold........the Confederacy couldn't even supply it''s troops with shoes for Christ's sake.
I am about a quarter into this documentary. I want to say this documentary is amazing! One of the best ever! Thank you 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it!
It is amazing to me given the difference in the amount of material of war and available manpower. That the Confederates lasted as long as they did and won as often as they did.
And they nearly won it all on a number of occasions.
Thank you very much for another quality upload! 👍
Here's a useful mini break-up of the various marches/melodies in fife and drums used in the soundtrack, for anyone interested...
09:23 - Turkey in the Straw (aka Zip Coon)
10:11 - Kilgaragh Mountain _(unsure)_
11:01 - Year of Jubilo (aka Kingdom Coming)
13:32 - Camptown Races
14:10 - Oh! Susanna
23:01 - Wait for the wagon aka Dissolution Wagon aka Brass Mounted Army
25:54 - The Arkansas Traveler
28:26 - Pop Goes the Weasel _(unsure)_
31:46 - My Old Kentucky Home
33:09 - Mister, Here's Your Mule _(unsure, also reminds somewhat of parts of Grafted into the Army)_
33:53 - Stonewall Jackson's Way
34:40 - The Bonnie Blue Flag
43:44 - Turkey in the Straw (aka Zip Coon)
47:45 - When Johnny Comes Marching Home
53:49 - Riding a Raid (Bonnie Dundee melody)
(a couple of others I cannot identify, unfortunately...)
I was a civil war renactor for years and always prefered the remington 1858 new model army revolver. With a solid frame and a drop out cylinder it was far faster to reload with a second cylinder as many officers had a second cyloinder.
The Confederacy also had the same type of system with the Spiller & Burr ( a copy of the North's Whitney Navy .36 revolver) made in my hometown of Macon, Georgia. A top-strap with a nice long rear sight groove, and on the left side a swivel wedge that you could give a 3/4 turn which released the loading lever and cylinder pin to slide forward and drop-out the cylinder ,to pop-in a pre-loaded cylinder. Some examples in museums have a reddish tint to the brass frame, which was due to foraging parties confiscating moonshine brass and copper stills, to melt down and re-cast into frames, the copper giving a reddish tint to the brass. Many Spiller & Burr revolvers were also made with detachable shoulder stocks, to use as pistol-carbines !
No one carried extra cylinders and officers certainly weren't firing off rounds on the battlefield. Their job was to command their men. Any officer looking down the sights of a firearm, and not at his men, was not doing his job. Just because Clint Eastwood did it in "Pale Rider" it doesn't mean it was actually done during the period.
@@shotgunsteve93 And you would know because your were there?
@@gmonynegro595 There's no evidence swapping cylinders was common. It's bad practice to take a single or very few instances as common practice. You're literally taught not to do that in history classes.
And.... it's just a sexy gun. Let's be honest.
🤣 I love how even in the Civil War magazine size was an issue with troops. "Well we can't give them SIX rounds in the gun, that's insane. They'd shoot all of it!"
Toward the end of the war : "you got your third colt pistol reloaded yet? We have to make a push."
I've always thought that in the war the mechanism for the muskets was percussion, and it was the beginning of the rifled musket. However, I didn't know that in the early parts of the war, that some units still used smoothbore flintlock muskets dating back to the 1810s, or had replaced the flintlock mechanism to a percussion mechanism but still utilized a smoothbore barrel instead of a rifled barrel. Great video!!!
It makes a level of sense since many arms were privately acquired and were not strictly "regulation" at the time. Caveat to this, the 1792 Militia Acts were still in effect and any man called up for militia service must be able to provide his own equipment precisely because official procurement channels were unable to meet the excessive demand of raising large armies in such short order.
Yep. Very much a case of what ever you have or can modify, use it.
Even percussion guns with paper wrapped "cartridge" a charge and conical bullets were used and state of the art short lived Precursor to brass cartridge cases.
Smooth bore muskets were liked. Buck and ball means you get a little bit of shotgun, a little bit of 69 cal. Irish brigade only changed as loses to unit were replaced. Most combat is short range so a 600 yard range was unneeded.
@@tomfennesy9105 though the casualties got worse with the improved accuracy even if by accident.
Oh man. I used to have this DVD set if I remember correctly it was a multi DVD set. It starts out with the invention of gunpowder and then goes to Modern Firearms of the time of the release of the documentaries. I really enjoyed these and I'm glad someone uploaded them.
Very good channel, greatly enjoyed the very clear descriptions and demos, no mention of the great Burnside carbine though.
Many thanks for this in any case, very well done.
This is a great video. I really liked some of the little details like the museum curator showing the spark a flintlock makes, and the close up details of things like the Minie ball being seated and rammed home and the percussion cap being slid onto the nipple. I thought that gave a great insight into what these guns would have been like to use.
I also noticed that a lot of the soldiers really looked like boys of 18 or 19. I thought that was good casting.
Those Confederate purchasing agents pulled off some impressive shit. Damn near miraculous in some cases. Including what they had to do to actually get the shit to the Confederate states.
When the Civil War started, soldiers used muskets, line abreast, and fought in way Napoleon would find familiar.
By 1864, the rate of fire increased so much, that now soldiers dug trenches.
Recently invented barbed wire was used in front of trenches, creating scenes that soldiers in WW1 would find familiar.,
The usage of trains to transport troops and armies was studied by the Germans, who used trains very effectively for movement of troops and material.
The usage of a turret on an iron-clad, non-wood, boat was a huge leap in naval technology.
The Gatling gun was the first high rate of fire gun. First supplanted by the later machine gun, the Gatling gun is now the main weapon in the A-10 ground support plane.
The American Civil War was possibly the most important war, when it comes to development of military technology.
One could take pride that we were very smart.
But, seems to me, if were smarter, we would not have had the war.
Development of submarines, grenades and torpedoes also along with treatment of wounded men. It truly was the first modern war. Sadly it was so modern the casualty rate was high.
@@kirbystarnino4199 Medical science was pretty primitive, but the development of nursing and a medical corps did occur. Although, the Crimean War was where the Red Cross got started, and modern nursing, I believe.
Also, thanks for pointing out subs, etc. I neglected them.
Excellent remarks! In many respects the American Civil War marked simultaneously the twilight of the old type of firearms warfare and the dawn of the modern one... Was a historical landmark in many respects, not only for the US History but for the world. And maybe that's why so many foreigners find it maybe the most intriguing and fascinating period of US History (myself included!)
@@Freawulf It is fascinating. But, all of American History is fascinating, to me.
The Pre-Colonial period, especially the first American Revolution of 1676, which failed.
Then, the Somerset case, which suggests that the American Revolution was to done to PRESERVE slavery!! (How about that!!)
etc etc.
@@craigkdillon Glad I found these comments, I'm sick of having arguments with people who think the Civil War isn't the first modern war because they fought in lines at the start, lol
7:54 about the alamo, the majority of the men were using the brown bess, it was a total mix of all types of muskets and pistols, flintlock and caplock you name it
Wow. This was professional, informative and entertaining!!! Thank you.
But somewhat biased !
Nicely done.
Arms technology bloomed!
As with small arms, Naval warfare was transformed by the civil war.
Well done..
I read that some soldiers forget to use the cap and kept ramming bullets down thinking they had fired it. Guns recovered from battle field sone had like 2 or even 5 bullets inside.
it was probably vent fouling.
I don't know what the Union & Confederate Rifle Drill involved but it probably DIDN'T involve clearing a hang fire in the middle of a battle, sure they were given a special ramrod screw attachment for removing stuck balls (bullets) but actually using one of those is more like a leisurely exercise done on a range or back in camp as per rifle cleaning.
Just my 2 pfennigs worth.
@@panzermacher I don’t know but experts say If they had fired then it would have likely blown the barrel up in their face.
I read that as well. Seems like some units weren't drilled enough for real combat and when the time came the shock was overwhelming and caused soldiers to reload and fire incorrectly.
The army didn't like the Henry repeating rife "They'll waste ammunition" (Good to see the army brass have always been morons, it's nothing new!)
Military intelligence two words that do not belong in the same sentence. Remember the brass is mostly fighting the last war. As would be the funding from congress.
Yessiree. I’m a big Army of the TN fan. Portions of the Seventeenth Corps veteranized and ended up spending their pay and their furlough privately buying Henrys. Made them deadly in the 1864 campaign for Atlanta
Wasting ammunition was part of it. Repeating rifles and the demand for ammunition also complicated the supply chain. One wonders how history might be different if the 7th at Little Bighorn had been armed with repeating Spencers or Henrys instead of single shot trapdoor carbines.
@@wsmvolunteers8588 I saw an old program on TH-cam and as a kid where they metal detected a lot of the rounds incoming were Henrys. A much better gun in such a battle
True that. There is an interesting book "Archeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn." Investigators found evidence that some warriors were armed with Henrys and Winchester Model 1866s, both using the same .44 rimfire cartridge.
FYI, the usual spelling was "Minie", not "Mini". That was the same as the inventor's name (Minié) just without the accent mark. Simplified Army typesets for stamping out labels didn't have accented letters. Thus the Min-yay ball became the Min-nee ball.
in the reference to the Enfield rifle they neglected to mention the English Whitworth rifle, and it's superb accuracy of the hexogaonal bored rifles. The confederates in Tennessee, were able to keep a supply train of the Union army from being able to deliver the supplies by shooting the mules. The Confereates were up in the mountain ridges and shooting at over a thousand yards! Also neglected was the LeMat revolver with a 29 gauge shot gun barrel under the .44 caliber revolver barrel. It was the favorite of Confederate Generals, J.E.B. Stuart, and P.G.T. Beauregard. It was patented in 1856, by Dr. J.A.F .Lemat of New Orlens. It was manufactured in Paris France, and Burmingham England. Also not mentioned was the populare1858 Star revolver,r which both sides highly prized. It was a double action revolver! It was manufactured in both Birmingham, and Yonkers, N.Y. .
Actually the LeMatt was 42 caliber with 20 gauge shotgun under the pistol barrel.
@@denisdegamon8224 You are correct. My misprint of the gauge being 29, was meant to be 20. Just one key over.
@@rkimberly985 The total number of both of those weapons imported would not have equipped a single normal strength brigade. While both were fine weapons their availability was so limited as to make them insignificant in the course of the war.
@@johngaither3830 I agree. The strategies of the South, dealing with egos and hot heads, were not the most well thought out, before declaring war. If they had did some pre-planning, like building up their arsenals, and importing more weapons, and putting more emphasis on sinking Union ships, especially while in pot, to lessen any future Union blockades. They simply went to far too fast, without proper planning. Had they done so, they could have tied the Union in knots! If they had sat down and gauged their supplies, amount of readily available troops, and experienced commanders, and routes of Northern RRs, and planned sabotage, of these, and shipping ports of the North, things would have gone a whole lot smoother. Hitting various lines of supply with alternating raiders, and Places, RRs etc.that would confuse the Union troops. While they are out chasing after one group of raiders, the raiders could set up ambushes of the Union troops that were after them.. And if they kept up these harassment raids, The South could have been making major incursions into Union held territories. But just my fanciful imagination, since they did not plan ahead or access their current sources, and capabilities, before declaring war. And the South lost the War.. Like I said, Jefferson Davis was not much help. But lacking in numbers as they were, they still should have at least been mentioned, since they were major improvements over what was the majority of weapons used in that senseless war.
Amazing content!
Content greatly appreciated. On par with any program l have seen, superior to most.
In every war bean counters were the soldier's real enemy. Cheaper guns, ammunition, clothes and food could determine the outcome. But they still expected you to do your job and even give your life.
Great show!! Thank you// Lars
Very well presented, ty
What an American centric title
Error at 57:55 mark: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was not yet a Brigadier General at the time of his legendary defense of Little Round Top; he was still a Lieutenant Colonel.
For years I carried a Model 1795 Springfield Armory musket into battle, it was the rifle represented on my CIB (Combat Infantryman's Badge).
SSG. U.S. Army (Medically Retired) Infantry / Sniper / SOF Intel (SOT-A), multiple tours
Thank you for your service
Dont go off half cocked, and dont be just a flash in the pan.
😆
Excellent vid!
Love the action starting @ 37:54
A while back, I read a book that said, that in the very early stages of the war, the south tended to outrange the north somewhat, because they were using hunting rifles, which were generally bigger guns meant for longer ranges than military rifles. I wonder if that was true.
Good stuff quality documentaries
But hardly any credit to Confederate arms manufacturing at all .
@@brucemorrison2132 On Confederate domestic war industry, "...on balance the degree of industrialization achieved by the Confederate South was phenomenal. The Confederates sustained themselves industrially better than they did agriculturally and far better than they had any reason to expect in 1861. Symbolically, in April 1865, when Lee's tired army marched and fought its way to Appomattox, the men exhausted their supply of food before they ran out of ammunition. In fact when Lee surrendered, the remnant Army of Northern Virigina had a sufficient average of seventy-five rounds of ammunition per man and adequate shells" (The Confederate Nation, Emory Thomas)
I have had the fun of shooting a reproduction Colt Navy Revolver and it took me about 5 minutes to reload it.
But I was at a table with everything prepared and laid out.
I can not see doing it hurriedly in the field and under fire. Its an impressive feat for anyone who managed it. Especially in poor light. Putting on caps and pinching them so they don't fall off is a job in itself.
I hunt deer with a muzzleloader and my cap has fallen off more than once. Thankfully I noticed before I had the chance to fire. And its tough to fish out one cap out from a tin without knocking 10 more out, and then get it on the nipple with cold hands.... and this is sitting still without explosions, bullets flying by and people screaming around me.
What a crazy, brutal, terrifying way to engage in combat. I am not surprised Civil War battlefields are haunted. Thats a lot of extreme human emotion that occurred in one place.
Its insane.... a single MG42 spits out the same amount of lead in a minute that an entire company of trained troops managed with muskets.
A very good and detailed presentation.
I like all the reenactor footage that I recognize from the old Sierra Interactive games Robert E. Lee: Civil War General, and Grant Lee Sherman: Civil War Generals II.
Black powder is a lot of fun. Shooting replicas. My fav is the 44 Rogers & Spencer revolver. Reliable, does not crust up like the Colt and is good for 50 yards.
The short barrel brass Colt 1849 self disassembles after a few shots Good for 2-3 drums then locks up and that's with clean burning Swiss powder. My cap Cal 54 Pennsylvania rifle is a good shooter up to 150 yards. It's best at 80 yards or less. All shoot brutally effective big rounds. Ball and Mini.
Great Documentary
I love this bro
Nicely done.
Thank you my King for the Vdeo. 🐍
The first casualty of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was, ironically, a black freeman.
Ngl that missisipi rifle looks beautiful with that bronze metal in some of the parts.
Edit:Brass
I mean, they defiantly increases the rate of development in America however in Europe most of the developments made were already in service. But this was great video
very cool and informattive
I used to shoot a P53 regularly at my gun club in the UK, a wonderfully accurate and extremely powerful rifle, if you can get one with a Tower Armory stamp.
The Williams Type 2 was supposed to be a replacement for the Burton improved miníe bullet. It shot "cleaner", because the zinc disc created a gas seal much sooner than the Burtons, and therefore allowed more rounds to be fired without cleaning, and more accurately than the Burton. The reason they were unpopular, was because they were much harder to unload from picket duty than the Burtons, because if the Williams bullets were rammed home according to drill, they were already expanded. InRange TV did an excellent video on this topic.
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Thank you for sharing! Karl's channel is an absolute treasure
My favorite quote
" God made man, Samuel Colt made them equal"
Pepperbox pistols don't get enough recognition. Even if a lot of these soldiers didn't have a long arm, lots of people had the Allen and thurber pepperbox. It's was relatively cheap even in its day and was carried by thousands of soldiers
It’s crazy just how old Springfield Armory is going from making flintlocks to AR-15s
Sorry to burst your bubble but the modern company called Springfield Armory has zero ties to the original Springfield Armory. They simply took the name knowing that the average American will do zero research and buy from them using the name of a previous legendary company.
The big problem with the flintlock system was the fact that it wasn't waterproof that's where the percussion cap system has it beat you could ask a percussion cap in water and every which way and it would still shoot you try that with a flintlock you're going to get your powder wet and it's not going to fire then you have a really big club to hit people with
I like this video so much
Lion Heart produces another great Historical Video 👍Awesome 🇺🇸
minie ball had a plug in the base to help it expand another guy named Burton improved on it by removing the plug an thinning down the wall of the bullet slightly . this made it quicker and cheaper to make but the name Minie stuck with the bullet
This was quite interesting. Nevertheless, I'm a little bit disappointed about not learning about the Whitworth rifle, the deadly weapon of the Dixie sharpshooters.
Many soldiers were forget that and shoot rammers to the rebels... LOL!
I have met muskets at the Serbian museum from the wars of the independence 1878/78. It was the conscript army and it hasn't such problems...
69 caliber....nice
That's a favorite caliber of mine lolz
The rifle is the main reason for the high casualty rate. Tactics were outdated by the technology
Looking at casualty rates during the Napoleonic Wars and comparing them with the American Civil War, the casualty rates were about the same. The rifle is objectively more accurate than the smoothbore, but was that accuracy truly a difference maker to the average soldier during combat? Probably not as much as myth has made it out to be.
@@shotgunsteve93 How many of those Napoleonic casualties were from famine or lack of medical knowledge. You will never convince me tactics hadn't been outdated by the weapons. At the start probably not but, by the end absolutely. The main reason The Great War was fought in trenches dates back to Robert E Lee holding off superior forces longer than any before. He changed tactics and fought from fortified defensive positions. A tactic made obsolete by mechanized armor. My original comment is based on engagements like Burnsides Bridge and Gettysburg. In both a few held off many simply because the distance and accuracy offered by the rifle.
This is well produced. Kudos.
And as the adverts, if you don't get paid, why would you do it?
I'm surprised the Smith & Wesson #2 revolver wasn't mentioned. Granted it was never an "officially" issued revolver (despite its nickname of "Old Army"), but there was an entire unit of volunteer cavalry from Kentucky that was armed with these guns, and their rimfire cartridges made them more reliable and faster to load than the cap-and-ball revolvers. And they were very popular with individual soldiers, as well.
And actually a weak firearm , as it fired scrawny .32 rim fire cartridges, not a real "combat" load. More of a pimp's and a "fallen angel's" pop-gun !
@@brucemorrison2132 a .32 will kill you just as good as anything else.
@@diehard2705 not nearly as well as a 36 or 44 revolver. It really isn't a military effective combat revolver as the previous mentioned calibers.
@@denisdegamon8224 you’re the kind of person that thinks we need to ditch 556 and go back to 7.62 nato aren’t you
@@diehard2705 I mean the army is switching to 6.8mm
Excellent
As Corb Lund said, "a sabre keen and a saddle carbine and an army remington"
Very good I thought that thr Remimgton new model revolvers might have got a mention though.
Your initial presenter is not well schooled. The hammer was not called a hammer until percussion firearms were prevalent. The striking face that the flint impacted is called the frizzen. Also, he skipped the model 1803, which was the first American battle rifle that was used in Lewis and Clark expedition.
Awesome
Nice tie, Mr. Ruff.
But, could you form one sentence without ...Ah... in it ?
Many US citizens may not like it but in fact the most powerful politician involved even at a distaff level in the US civil war was probably Prince Albert who did his best to prevent the British empire at the time at the height of it's power and allied(for once with the French empire)and which with a fraction of it's power had ended the transoceanic slave trade in less than a decade from taking part militarily in the war
My great great grandpa Captain Henry Newton Lee served in the Company "A" 10th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Infantry during the civil war... Union...
Loved the 1852 Enfield .58
Really good attention to chronology - every weapon is a smoothbore musket - suddenly we are using Minie Balls, yet rifling has not been mentioned ...
Fr 😂🤣😂
The weapons list in GT civil war long and o most complete
Yankee Solder : A man named Jefferson Davis
Me: Uh Oh.
LMAO !
You should read up on the world’s finest war. The Pig War. 1859, San Juan Island in territory yet to be determined as to what country it belonged to. Picket was there….
excellante supremmo documentary@@
The South may have suffered for lack of shoes, but not arms; the U.S. Army keep it well supplied with throw downs. To this day, the UCMJ contains a specific prohibition against soldiers "casting away" their weapons. Of course doing so allows one to run faster.
Missionary Ridge had thousands.
Considering how often Yankee conscripts turn and ran during the first 2 years, no surprise.
History shows who threw down the most arms.
@@rslover65 Sure does. The Southerners may have started out carrying flintlock shotguns, but by the war's end the few that were left were all carrying U.S. made Springfields.
Grant had three rebel armies throw down their weapons, I believe the word was surrender. Whereas the great leader bobby lee captured the army of...oh wait...it's here somewhere....I'm still looking....
Civil War is very fascinating damn those are some harsh conditions they fought in! More men died of disease than bullets or socket bayonets!
They did in all wars until WW2 although on the Western Front in WW1 there were more deaths from battle, notably artillery fire, than disease but this didn't apply to some of the other fronts, notably Africa
@Dav1Gv I would not have wanted to fight in the war back then, I really wouldn't want to fight in a war today I'm a Gulf War veteran but I didn't see horrible combat or anyting! Those conditions back then would be appalling...
@@jerrydonquixote5927 There's an account by the wife of the caretaker of the Cemetery at Getthysburg about seeing operations with the arms and legs just loaded into carts until they were full and then they were driven off and dumped and, of course, if the surgeon actually washed his scalpel and saw in a bucket of water mixed with the blood of the others he had operated on you were one of the lucky ones. Not anyone's fault, of course, they didn't know about infection then. Surprisingly about 50% survived. For that matter in WW1 the medics didn't anticipate the wounded would be infected by bacteria from manured soil, hence the problem of gas gangrene. Many years ago I was a very undistinguished subaltern in the TA, I'm very glad that the Cold War didn't turn hot.
@@Dav1Gv that's horrible unfathomable!
Anybody interested in seeing these weapons tested should check out "Weapons of Westpoint!" Here is a live fire demonstration of a Napoleon cannon:
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You can bet I'll brag on that old rebel flag.
_I love Guns, they don't pick sides they just are and the winning side normaly has the better ones_
They dont kill anyone. It takes a person to shoot them to kill someone
My wife from Chicago just heard the war referred to as the war of northern aggression for the first time. Priceless.
I enjoyed your video some of the acting was very realistic. The information about the firearms was also commendable. You did however leave out the 1860 Remington 44 which was a favorite of the Union Calvary and officers. I have a 44 sheriff's model Colt by pietta and I also have two Remington pietas 44. I like them all however if you wanted to carry spare cylinders for the Remington you can exchange them very quickly. But the quickest way is what they did they carried several in their waistband ready to go. That's what made control such a devastating gorilla fighter and his men
I meant to say Cantrell not control
Some of those Civil War guns had giant calibers. Imagine getting hit at close range by a .69 soft lead round... Jeebus...
You only had one shot so you had to put your opponent down , no double tapping....
lol “Jefferson Davis Starship”
I kid!! Ikid!!!
2:25 Okay, yeah. Stonewall Jackson was briefly a colonel, but I have a hunch that's not what the person who made that was thinking about.
god the old muskets are beautiful..
32:21 the residents of harper’s ferry chose their wallets over the Union, just for the rebels to steal all their stuff and send it to Richmond. And since Confederate currency at the time was I.O.U. paper notes you know they weren’t compensated 😂
1:44, I remember a history professor @Horton Watkins High School, Ladue MO, told her students that many Union soldiers had lost their thumbs, because of the faulty hammers on the pistol revolvers that they had been given!
I've never heard of that, ever... how?
Smooth bore muskets vs rifles at range and repeaters at mid to close range... Just a massive difference in firepower. I often wonder if many battles were in fact not decided by generalship or position or even numbers but by the presence of rifles and or repeaters at the right spots and the right moment...
I mean would Buford had held the line and the high ground that first at Gettysburg if he hadn’t outfitted his cavalry with repeaters?
Excellent documentary well done 👍🏼. I like shooting black powder myself. 1861 caliber 58 is a dam good hunting rifle. The deer 🦌 go right down I don’t think they suffer not long anyway.
@ Julius Dream. I have an 1861 two band Enfield .58 cal reproduction imported by Lyman so long ago they don’t even have documentation on it. It was used when my Dad bought it, given to me when he bought a T/C Hawkins kit, and I’ve killed WELL over two dozen deer in the last 40yrs with it. In my youth, I could bark squirrels with it & kill them without a mark. I’d pay big $$$ for a new barrel...mine is very pitted...and that ramrod has worn the lands out. First two shots in 1-12” at 100yds. IF you can load a 3rd round, it is MOA of paper plate. I cherish it,
Meant to write 1” to 1-1/2” at 100yds...
2:35 lol thats longstreet.
Interesting
far, far too many ads for a Civil War game in this video
Imagine 20 years later maxim will invent his machine gun
1848 sharps was a awsom rifle
Cool
The only différance between then and now is that it's not how many guns you can buy but how many you sell
Maybe a video like this but for cannons?
Great idea! +1
I always thought the sharps rifle/carbine was called the beechers bible because they were smuggled in boxes labeled Bibles