@@Jkl158 A good point but to be honest that probably wouldn't have saved him either. Stanton detested him and the Grant people considered him something of a rival. It's the politics that ultimately wrecked him.
@@Philbert-s2c The Slege of Chattanooga. After the defeat at Chickamauga Rosecrans stayed in command of the Army of the Cumberland in defense of the City for a month. Lincoln and Stanton had no real confidence in Rosecrans any longer but they let Grant make the decision to replace him with Tomas as Commander of the AotC. But there is much evidence that Rosecrans lost the trust of Secretary Stanton in the Summer of 63 when he remained stationary at Murfreesboro for over six month after the Battle of Stones River
I just wanted to say you're videos are really great man. Keep up the hard work and I am sure you'll become one of best in the historical documentary genre on youtube!!!!
Even though it’s been over 160 years after the fact, this was a nail-biter battle!! I could feel that throughout!! Another amazing video Warhawk!!! This was incredible!!!
Thanks for this remarkable contribution to Civil War scholarship. You have shown that Rosecrans's contribution to Union victory has been wildly underrated due to Grant, Sherman, and Meade. As you say, no Second Corinth, no Vicksburg campaign, no elevation of Grant to command of the entire Union army.
These are my stomping grounds. My in-laws are situated across the tracks from Battery F where you show Moore’s troops situated. I’m also in the park movie and the voice of Sam Watkins. Shiloh and Corinth are both near to my heart.
There‘s only two things that can make a man feel truly secure: intimidating earthworks, and the knowledge that the overwhelming force on the other side is in the capable hands of Earl van Dorn.
Not sure about overwhelming force, both sides had around 22k troops, and honestly his plan wasnt bad, suprise attack from the west almost worked if lovell had done his job.
Thank you for making this video! My great, great grandfather was in this battle within Mower's brigade under Stanley (he was in 26th Illinois, cmd. Gilmore). I am a historian and so appreciate how your work adds to the remembrance and honor of those who participated.
A very well made video displaying Rosecrans as a very capable commander. I never get why Grant was so annoyed with Rosecran's existence and somehow got a long with Meade despite the latter have a reputation for a furious temper and not liked by many.
My Great-Great Grand dad was there. William Toney of Company A, Seventeenth Iowa Infantry Volunteers. He volunteered when he was 40 years old. Iuka was his first action. He was captured at Tilton in 1864 and escaped. He participated in the Grand Parade and returned home to our family. I would not be here but for him.
Mine too(well, 3x great grandfather). Conrad Peters Hale 3rd Missouri CSA. Captured in a battle near Vicksburg. I can only guess it was BlackWater Bridge or something nearby (Missouri fellas got spanked bad that day) because he was sent to war prison instead of paroled at the Vicksburg surrender with Pemberton.
Excellent video! My great-great grandfather, under Cabell, was injured on the second day's battle. He was gut shot clean through, captured, and somehow lived. It's said a Yankee doctor pulled his silk handkerchief through the wound to clean it. He was later paroled, joined a cavalry unit, and kept fighting. He must have been an absolute unit and a legend.
You have to be the very best civil war history narrator. Not going to say over all historian, as you do write your own scripts, you stand on the shoulders of giants in the field. Just like Bill Belicheck stands on the shoulders of Vince Lombardi and Nick Saban stood on the shoulders of Paul "Bear" Bryant. I thoroughly enjoy your telling of our historical battles. And, honestly, with the intereting and detailed way you are able to break down each minor and major battle of each campaign, there is enough for you to make a lifetime career out of the wars the US has fought on this soil. The indian wars, with the amount of research that it requires due to the disparity between the combating forces, would be enough to take another life time. Another great piece of writing and story telling.
I just binged every single video you have on your playlist of the Civil War battles in chronological order and it was all phenomenal! Great content and you can see the hard work you put into each and every episode. I’m sad to see I’m on the final episode for now but will be looking out for anything your channel puts out from now on!
Love the videos, though in some of your previous videos, you included graphics for each regiment. Is there a reason you don't seem to do thay anymore? I thought that was a really neat feature that allowed viewers to see some underappreciated units. Keep it up regardless!
Yes, I use to do regiments but I found, especially with larger battles, how long it takes to animate even a single section with tons of regiments all moving at once. It was just very inefficient under my current circumstances
My 3rd great grandfather Albert Monroe Johnston was seriously wounded in this battle. He was in the 22nd Mississippi Co K Pegue's Defenders. In this video, the 22nd was within Bowen's brigade. The 22nd MS was deployed as skirmishers in front of the division as they advanced on Corinth and attacked a hill at the crossing of the State Line Road and Railroad. On that hill was posted Union artillery, with rifle pits extending north and south. Their path crossed over a rail line switch near what is now the Wenasoga Rd. (I have the exact google map coordinates of where this spot is and have been there in person) The trench works snaked under and around this rail line. Anyone attacking them would have to climb over the rail as they are elevated above the rest of the ground. It was here that Albert was shot in the right upper thigh by a Federal skirmisher. He fell to the ground and the skirmisher began to reload. Albert desperately grabbed his fallen rifle and shot the skirmisher before he finished. Albert lay wounded as the rest of the regiment went on to make their successful attack on the Union artillery battery on the hill. General Lovell reported that "the hill was carried mainly by the 9th Arkansas and 22nd Mississippi, each vying with the other in the dashing gallantry of their charge." Although he could not partake in that brief moment of success for the army, it was possibly lucky for Albert. The next day on October 4th, General Van Dorn ordered his army to make a suicidal attack on a well entrenched and heavily defended city and were badly mauled. The Confederates were forced into retreat and were harassed by more Union skirmishers from General Rosencrans' army for several days. During the army's retreat, Albert and the rest of the wounded were abandoned by the army who were in a frantic route from a fast pursuing Union army, where they were fast becoming surrounded and at risk of being captured or killed. A regimental surgeon named Dr. George C. Phillips bravely rounded up the wounded into what wagons they could find and the "walking wounded" made a desperate journey through Union pickets, forcing a nearly impossible crossing across the Tuscumbia River under threat of attack to safety. Following this and a ten month furlough from service, he was transferred to the 1st Mississippi Partisan Rangers cavalry under command of Nathan Bedford Forrest, as with his prominent limp he could no longer keep up with the hard driving infantry marches. He took part in the actions at Oxford, Holly Springs, Hurricane Creek, and Tupelo before the war ended. He was not in the division that Gen Forrest took to raid Tennessee. The Johnston family land was pillaged and burned during the events of the burning of Oxford, Mississippi on the orders of General Andrew Jackson Smith (known as Whiskey Smith after that event). After the war, he took his wife to far west Texas and later served as a guide for cavalry forces campaigning against the Comanche in the Texas Panhandle during Ranald Mackenzie's campaigns.
I live about an hour or so north of Corinth/Pittsburg Landing battlefields. It's a shame that most of the Corinth field is now developed. Sad really. Cheers from Tennessee
@WarhawkYT Corinth is a very small city with a population of just over 14,000. It's not that it's large and expanding. There's something else happening there that as a Tennessean I don't know what the problem is. It does sit on a major east/west highway and a couple of rail lines, but the highway isn't a federal interstate and the railroads have been deteriorating for decades. I think they missed some tourist dollars in the long run with short sighted expansion. In my opinion. Still Pittsburg Landing/Shiloh is just 20 miles or so away and it seems that they lost an opportunity. Cheers
You've done it, you've finally done it. You convinced me there is in fact a worse general than McClellan and it's Earl Van Dorn. Lovell a very interesting second place😂.
@@johnhoffman2745 his entire civil war career, his West Virginia campaign he repeatedly outnumbered every confederate force he encountered and refused to do anything but skirmish. I believe it was Rich Mountain in 1861 he sent a detachment under William Rosecrans to flank the confederate position, when he heard return fire he automatically assumed he got defeated immediately and refused to follow up his attack. EVERY SINGLE DECISION HE MADE DURING THE PENINSULA CAMPAIGN FROM FIRST TO LAST WAS PURE COWARDICE. Antietam he legitimately had the enemies battle plan and EXACT POSITIONS OF HIS SEPARATED ARMY, he did nothing for hours, then at the battle sent his force in piecemeal and PARTIAL with DROVES of reinforcements at his fingertips kicking dirt in the background. After all that he refused to chase his wounded adversary who's by now even more outnumbered and deal a finishing blow. Wouldn't even move his army, you call all of that extreme caution, I call it cowardice and inability. Generals are aloud to move slow but you've got to have a reason in moving slow, to earn a methodical planned out tactical masterstroke perhaps, he literally never got close. He never appeared near a battlefield when the fight was actually happening, and blamed everyone but himself for HIS failures. Coward.
@@johnhoffman2745 1861 in West Virginia he refused to do anything but lightly skirmish constantly outnumbered opponents, Rich Mountain he sent a detachment under William Rosecrans to flank the confederate position and when he heard return fire he automatically assumed he'd been defeated and refused to follow up his attack. Literally every single decision during the peninsula campaign was pure cowardice. And Antietam he genuinely had the enemies battle plan and EXACT POSITIONS, he did nothing for hours and when he did attack used fractions of his army in piecemeal frontal assaults. After all this he absolutely refuses to even pursue his wounded adversary who's by now even more outnumbered. He never appeared anywhere near a battlefield let alone a front line during the actual fighting, and he blamed everyone but himself for HIS OWN mistakes.
From my vast knowledge of the American Civil War, I know that almost all generals try to flank their opponents but almost always find themselves attacking the front of an army lol
There are photographs of the slain 2nd Texas soldiers around Battery Robinett. It was a slaughter for those soldiers, losing over half their men. It shows the bravery of the Confederates to attack such a position, and the Federal stubbornness to hold it.
The NPS visitor center is on the area of Second Corinth. 1st Corinth being a Confederate skedaddle . But go into Corinth to see rail X that made the town important several interesting sites in the downtown areas including the houses that Generals used in Corinth.
6:27 "Rosencrans is a man of rare ability..." he is also one that "strives for perfection." "The federals [under Rosencrans] slip into a state of laziness... letting their readiness fall into ruin" 7:30 "Price pulls out of Iuka that night on Fulton Road, which is luckily left unguarded [by Rosencrans]..." 15:45 Having scattered his divisions in a dispersed defensive, Rosencrans belatedly begins collecting them to receive the attack of Van Dorn. Yes, Rosencrans and his men did a good job with the tactical fight at Corinth, but this talk of rare abilities and perfectionism seems a little hard to fathom when, somewhat like Grant at Shiloh, the desperate circumstances were partly of his own making. Moreover, unlike Grant, Rosencrans lacked the killer instinct and was able rather than exceptional. TLDR: Rosencrans was a fairly good defensive tactical commander but not more than that.
I heard somebody once describe the Confed military command structure as a array of barbarian warbands, that cooperate as long as the general target is understood. I think that gets truer the farther west you go.
Autumn 1862. The season that doomed the Confederacy. Iuka, 2nd Corinth, Perryville, Antietam. The rebs just could not retake the vital areas they needed to keep the war in the upper South.
My g-g-great grandfather Frank Corley, 37 Mississippi Infantry Regiment was shot in this battle. My great aunt was named Robinette (Battery Robinette) because of his service.
TransMiss was key a always. After each victory starting at Pea Ridge the Union actually transferred forces East. Yes small numbers but steady and usually well led. Cheers
For sure I can’t wait to see what battle you are covering next and just saying but if you need an idea for like a miniseries like how the Texas revolution was one in a way I have ideas and one of the ideas is Pontiacs war and the war had five major battles and many smaller battles and the major battles are the siege of Fort Detroit, the battle of bloody run, the siege of fort Pitt and the battles of bushy run and devils hole and the war is sort of forgotten however it was still important because after the war the British issued the royal proclamation of 1763 and the proclamation at least temporarily forbade all new settlements west of a line drawn along the Appalachian mountains and the proclamation is important because it was one of the first significant areas of dispute between Britain and its colonies and these disputes and the proclamation would become a contributing factor that led to the American revolution.
This battle eleveted Rosecranse to Nashville for battle of Stone Rivers! Grant critized Rosy his troops did not followed Van Dorn's at once. Mead got similar opinion at Gettysburg after 3 days battle..........McClellan had 1 day battle at Antietam, Rosrcrans had 2 days battle, Mead had 3 days battle. Critic against McClellan I think is right, against Mead the critic is not right after 3 days. The debate can be after 2 days battle the soldiers could have followed Van Dorn's troops quickly?
Grant did like Rosy's upstart attitude, similar to the Halleck/Grant relationship. Of course when either side wins, there will be complainers saying "why didnt you attack them when they were running? they were easy prey" well some times your army is so battered from the fight its hard to get the units moving again.
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Wow this rosecrans guy is surely capable, i sure hope one battle doesnt ultimately ruin his career!
2 battles
It’s a shame he didn’t return to his army after they stabilized at Chickamauga. I feel like he could have saved his career if he had
@@Jkl158 A good point but to be honest that probably wouldn't have saved him either. Stanton detested him and the Grant people considered him something of a rival. It's the politics that ultimately wrecked him.
@@calinmarian98 What's the other one?
@@Philbert-s2c The Slege of Chattanooga. After the defeat at Chickamauga Rosecrans stayed in command of the Army of the Cumberland in defense of the City for a month. Lincoln and Stanton had no real confidence in Rosecrans any longer but they let Grant make the decision to replace him with Tomas as Commander of the AotC. But there is much evidence that Rosecrans lost the trust of Secretary Stanton in the Summer of 63 when he remained stationary at Murfreesboro for over six month after the Battle of Stones River
I just wanted to say you're videos are really great man. Keep up the hard work and I am sure you'll become one of best in the historical documentary genre on youtube!!!!
Thank you Curly, I hope we do!
Even though it’s been over 160 years after the fact, this was a nail-biter battle!! I could feel that throughout!! Another amazing video Warhawk!!! This was incredible!!!
Thanks GC, second Corinth is definitely one of my favorites!! Shoutout to my hometown regiment, Rogers’ and his 2nd Texas
@ HUZZAH FOR ROGERS AND THE 2ND TEXAS!!!
Thanks for this remarkable contribution to Civil War scholarship. You have shown that Rosecrans's contribution to Union victory has been wildly underrated due to Grant, Sherman, and Meade. As you say, no Second Corinth, no Vicksburg campaign, no elevation of Grant to command of the entire Union army.
These are my stomping grounds. My in-laws are situated across the tracks from Battery F where you show Moore’s troops situated. I’m also in the park movie and the voice of Sam Watkins. Shiloh and Corinth are both near to my heart.
Dude that is so cool! I really enjoyed my time wandering around Corinth 2 years ago, I need to go again!
There‘s only two things that can make a man feel truly secure: intimidating earthworks, and the knowledge that the overwhelming force on the other side is in the capable hands of Earl van Dorn.
Not sure about overwhelming force, both sides had around 22k troops, and honestly his plan wasnt bad, suprise attack from the west almost worked if lovell had done his job.
yeah, the two sides were roughly equal. When attacking fortifications, the rule of thumb is having a 2 to 1 advantage to have a sure chance of winning
@@WarhawkYTNot always, though I have heard it being 3:1 instead of 2:1.
Thank you for making this video! My great, great grandfather was in this battle within Mower's brigade under Stanley (he was in 26th Illinois, cmd. Gilmore). I am a historian and so appreciate how your work adds to the remembrance and honor of those who participated.
These videos are school teaching worthy. Another well done video
Thank you!
A very well made video displaying Rosecrans as a very capable commander. I never get why Grant was so annoyed with Rosecran's existence and somehow got a long with Meade despite the latter have a reputation for a furious temper and not liked by many.
My Great-Great Grand dad was there. William Toney of Company A, Seventeenth Iowa Infantry Volunteers. He volunteered when he was 40 years old. Iuka was his first action. He was captured at Tilton in 1864 and escaped. He participated in the Grand Parade and returned home to our family. I would not be here but for him.
Mine too(well, 3x great grandfather). Conrad Peters Hale 3rd Missouri CSA. Captured in a battle near Vicksburg.
I can only guess it was BlackWater Bridge or something nearby (Missouri fellas got spanked bad that day) because he was sent to war prison instead of paroled at the Vicksburg surrender with Pemberton.
thats cool!
Excellent video! My great-great grandfather, under Cabell, was injured on the second day's battle. He was gut shot clean through, captured, and somehow lived. It's said a Yankee doctor pulled his silk handkerchief through the wound to clean it. He was later paroled, joined a cavalry unit, and kept fighting. He must have been an absolute unit and a legend.
You have to be the very best civil war history narrator. Not going to say over all historian, as you do write your own scripts, you stand on the shoulders of giants in the field. Just like Bill Belicheck stands on the shoulders of Vince Lombardi and Nick Saban stood on the shoulders of Paul "Bear" Bryant.
I thoroughly enjoy your telling of our historical battles. And, honestly, with the intereting and detailed way you are able to break down each minor and major battle of each campaign, there is enough for you to make a lifetime career out of the wars the US has fought on this soil. The indian wars, with the amount of research that it requires due to the disparity between the combating forces, would be enough to take another life time.
Another great piece of writing and story telling.
Thank you Robert! I hope so! if not we can always breakout into new areas and new conflicts!
I just binged every single video you have on your playlist of the Civil War battles in chronological order and it was all phenomenal! Great content and you can see the hard work you put into each and every episode. I’m sad to see I’m on the final episode for now but will be looking out for anything your channel puts out from now on!
Your channel deserves more attention, keep grinding man you’re destined to have a million subscribers some day I’m sure of it!
I'm with ya but Im happy where im at, we all have to start from 0
He is certainly not wrong!
Love the videos, though in some of your previous videos, you included graphics for each regiment. Is there a reason you don't seem to do thay anymore? I thought that was a really neat feature that allowed viewers to see some underappreciated units. Keep it up regardless!
Yes, I use to do regiments but I found, especially with larger battles, how long it takes to animate even a single section with tons of regiments all moving at once. It was just very inefficient under my current circumstances
Thanks for another definitive battle summary from the Civil War. I enjoy and look forward to each one of your videos, excellent work.
You're welcome WT!
Love this series, I’m sure it’s hard work but it’s great to see such high quality historical content.
thank you BM!
My 3rd great grandfather Albert Monroe Johnston was seriously wounded in this battle. He was in the 22nd Mississippi Co K Pegue's Defenders. In this video, the 22nd was within Bowen's brigade. The 22nd MS was deployed as skirmishers in front of the division as they advanced on Corinth and attacked a hill at the crossing of the State Line Road and Railroad. On that hill was posted Union artillery, with rifle pits extending north and south.
Their path crossed over a rail line switch near what is now the Wenasoga Rd. (I have the exact google map coordinates of where this spot is and have been there in person) The trench works snaked under and around this rail line. Anyone attacking them would have to climb over the rail as they are elevated above the rest of the ground.
It was here that Albert was shot in the right upper thigh by a Federal skirmisher. He fell to the ground and the skirmisher began to reload. Albert desperately grabbed his fallen rifle and shot the skirmisher before he finished. Albert lay wounded as the rest of the regiment went on to make their successful attack on the Union artillery battery on the hill.
General Lovell reported that "the hill was carried mainly by the 9th Arkansas and 22nd Mississippi, each vying with the other in the dashing gallantry of their charge." Although he could not partake in that brief moment of success for the army, it was possibly lucky for Albert. The next day on October 4th, General Van Dorn ordered his army to make a suicidal attack on a well entrenched and heavily defended city and were badly mauled. The Confederates were forced into retreat and were harassed by more Union skirmishers from General Rosencrans' army for several days.
During the army's retreat, Albert and the rest of the wounded were abandoned by the army who were in a frantic route from a fast pursuing Union army, where they were fast becoming surrounded and at risk of being captured or killed. A regimental surgeon named Dr. George C. Phillips bravely rounded up the wounded into what wagons they could find and the "walking wounded" made a desperate journey through Union pickets, forcing a nearly impossible crossing across the Tuscumbia River under threat of attack to safety.
Following this and a ten month furlough from service, he was transferred to the 1st Mississippi Partisan Rangers cavalry under command of Nathan Bedford Forrest, as with his prominent limp he could no longer keep up with the hard driving infantry marches. He took part in the actions at Oxford, Holly Springs, Hurricane Creek, and Tupelo before the war ended. He was not in the division that Gen Forrest took to raid Tennessee. The Johnston family land was pillaged and burned during the events of the burning of Oxford, Mississippi on the orders of General Andrew Jackson Smith (known as Whiskey Smith after that event). After the war, he took his wife to far west Texas and later served as a guide for cavalry forces campaigning against the Comanche in the Texas Panhandle during Ranald Mackenzie's campaigns.
That’s an incredible story, thank you for sharing.
Your videos are so good. Great music and storytelling. Also your video editing skills are getting better.
appreciate it logan, Im glad you noticed!
I live about an hour or so north of Corinth/Pittsburg Landing battlefields. It's a shame that most of the Corinth field is now developed. Sad really. Cheers from Tennessee
Thats what happens when these battles were fought near cities
@WarhawkYT Corinth is a very small city with a population of just over 14,000. It's not that it's large and expanding. There's something else happening there that as a Tennessean I don't know what the problem is. It does sit on a major east/west highway and a couple of rail lines, but the highway isn't a federal interstate and the railroads have been deteriorating for decades. I think they missed some tourist dollars in the long run with short sighted expansion. In my opinion. Still Pittsburg Landing/Shiloh is just 20 miles or so away and it seems that they lost an opportunity. Cheers
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It is a glorious day when Warhawk drops a video. Thank you for everything.
God bless the Commonwealth, glory to Virginia.
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Thanks!
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Van Dorn got tired of winning.
"we're going to win so much that you're going to get tired of winning"
You've done it, you've finally done it. You convinced me there is in fact a worse general than McClellan and it's Earl Van Dorn. Lovell a very interesting second place😂.
McClellan, at least, was just overly cautious. Van Dorn was overly reckless.
@quintomalley1196 in truth I think McClellan was a coward, Van Dorn a jackass.
@@samcukanow6188I wouldn't go as far as to call McClellan a coward. What examples of cowardice do you point to? Debilitatingly cautious sure.
@@johnhoffman2745 his entire civil war career, his West Virginia campaign he repeatedly outnumbered every confederate force he encountered and refused to do anything but skirmish. I believe it was Rich Mountain in 1861 he sent a detachment under William Rosecrans to flank the confederate position, when he heard return fire he automatically assumed he got defeated immediately and refused to follow up his attack. EVERY SINGLE DECISION HE MADE DURING THE PENINSULA CAMPAIGN FROM FIRST TO LAST WAS PURE COWARDICE. Antietam he legitimately had the enemies battle plan and EXACT POSITIONS OF HIS SEPARATED ARMY, he did nothing for hours, then at the battle sent his force in piecemeal and PARTIAL with DROVES of reinforcements at his fingertips kicking dirt in the background. After all that he refused to chase his wounded adversary who's by now even more outnumbered and deal a finishing blow. Wouldn't even move his army, you call all of that extreme caution, I call it cowardice and inability. Generals are aloud to move slow but you've got to have a reason in moving slow, to earn a methodical planned out tactical masterstroke perhaps, he literally never got close. He never appeared near a battlefield when the fight was actually happening, and blamed everyone but himself for HIS failures. Coward.
@@johnhoffman2745 1861 in West Virginia he refused to do anything but lightly skirmish constantly outnumbered opponents, Rich Mountain he sent a detachment under William Rosecrans to flank the confederate position and when he heard return fire he automatically assumed he'd been defeated and refused to follow up his attack. Literally every single decision during the peninsula campaign was pure cowardice. And Antietam he genuinely had the enemies battle plan and EXACT POSITIONS, he did nothing for hours and when he did attack used fractions of his army in piecemeal frontal assaults. After all this he absolutely refuses to even pursue his wounded adversary who's by now even more outnumbered. He never appeared anywhere near a battlefield let alone a front line during the actual fighting, and he blamed everyone but himself for HIS OWN mistakes.
Helping to push the algorithm forward. Excellent content.
appreciate it!
@@WarhawkYT You're welcome, glad to help out.
Excellent video! I just wanted to point out that around 21:06 you mixed up Van Dorn and Rosecrans
Thanks, I totally missed that haha
@@WarhawkYTit happens haha, just wanted to say thank you for the hard work you put into these videos!
Finally, been missing my warhawk updates
same here
Thanks for another incredible video!!! Happy New Year 🎉
I don’t know how I’ve missed this new video. Well, better late than never! I guess it’s a Christmas gift.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL.
And absolutely no one learned from this battle that frontally attacking a heavily entrenched enemy might be a bad idea
From my vast knowledge of the American Civil War, I know that almost all generals try to flank their opponents but almost always find themselves attacking the front of an army lol
@@WarhawkYT Attacking in perfectly ordered lines is harder than it sounds.
Okay folks nice video and goodbye for another five or more months
Lmao I’m not that slow, maybe a month or two
@WarhawkYT I really wish that
Almost like Van Dorn didn't expect Roscrans to want to continue the fight after he retreated to the second line.
he was expecting him to fight, just not put up that much resistence
There are photographs of the slain 2nd Texas soldiers around Battery Robinett. It was a slaughter for those soldiers, losing over half their men. It shows the bravery of the Confederates to attack such a position, and the Federal stubbornness to hold it.
@@charlessaint7926 yeah, I’ve looked at that picture of Roger’s and his slain men many times
As a history nerd these are the kind of videos I enjoy watching non stop, thank you good sir 🫡
as a history nerd these are the kind of videos i wanted to see, thanks!
I just want to say that this video is truly amazing. Thanks.
Thank you, I appreciate it!
The NPS visitor center is on the area of Second Corinth. 1st Corinth being a Confederate skedaddle
. But go into Corinth to see rail X that made the town important several interesting sites in the downtown areas including the houses that Generals used in Corinth.
I want to go back, i enjoyed my time there back in 2021!
6:27 "Rosencrans is a man of rare ability..." he is also one that "strives for perfection."
"The federals [under Rosencrans] slip into a state of laziness... letting their readiness fall into ruin"
7:30 "Price pulls out of Iuka that night on Fulton Road, which is luckily left unguarded [by Rosencrans]..."
15:45 Having scattered his divisions in a dispersed defensive, Rosencrans belatedly begins collecting them to receive the attack of Van Dorn.
Yes, Rosencrans and his men did a good job with the tactical fight at Corinth, but this talk of rare abilities and perfectionism seems a little hard to fathom when, somewhat like Grant at Shiloh, the desperate circumstances were partly of his own making. Moreover, unlike Grant, Rosencrans lacked the killer instinct and was able rather than exceptional.
TLDR: Rosencrans was a fairly good defensive tactical commander but not more than that.
Rosecrans was a beast. Even at Chickamauga He still inflicted more casualties on the rebels!
9:20 camels? Next thing you know, we would be having elephants dragging canons...
Absolutely top tier content 👏
Thank you!
I heard somebody once describe the Confed military command structure as a array of barbarian warbands, that cooperate as long as the general target is understood. I think that gets truer the farther west you go.
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That’s TH-cam’s doing, not mine.
Is that TH-cam also using your own voice?
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Wow, great work again and I know so much more about this action, thanx!!
Thanks Carl!
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Very nicely done. I always thought Corinth deserved more attention.
Thanks LM!
Thanks for everything.
You're welcome!
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You're welcome, I hope you enjoy!
Autumn 1862. The season that doomed the Confederacy. Iuka, 2nd Corinth, Perryville, Antietam. The rebs just could not retake the vital areas they needed to keep the war in the upper South.
DORN, NO! STHAAAP!
HE HAS AIRPODS IN, HE CANT HEAR US!!!
My g-g-great grandfather Frank Corley, 37 Mississippi Infantry Regiment was shot in this battle. My great aunt was named Robinette (Battery Robinette) because of his service.
LETS GO!! i been rewatching the older videos !!
less goo!
TransMiss was key a always. After each victory starting at Pea Ridge the Union actually transferred forces East. Yes small numbers but steady and usually well led. Cheers
Second Corinth is actually considered Western Theater. Though Van Dorn has fought in both theaters by now
@@WarhawkYT Yes, I pointing out Prairie Grove is usual left out of the Fall of 1862 overview of crisis. Great Job
Love your videos. A regimental scale of Starke's engagement at Antietam would have been awesome !!
Thanks dapper young fellow
Would you be willing to cover the Battle of Iuka at some point?
We might go back and cover it after finishing the war
For sure I can’t wait to see what battle you are covering next and just saying but if you need an idea for like a miniseries like how the Texas revolution was one in a way I have ideas and one of the ideas is Pontiacs war and the war had five major battles and many smaller battles and the major battles are the siege of Fort Detroit, the battle of bloody run, the siege of fort Pitt and the battles of bushy run and devils hole and the war is sort of forgotten however it was still important because after the war the British issued the royal proclamation of 1763 and the proclamation at least temporarily forbade all new settlements west of a line drawn along the Appalachian mountains and the proclamation is important because it was one of the first significant areas of dispute between Britain and its colonies and these disputes and the proclamation would become a contributing factor that led to the American revolution.
*whisper* Stones River
definitely want to cover Pontiac's War at some point!
Awesome stuff!! Keep those rolling
You got it!
Rosecrans was a better general than history gives him credit for..
I love your videos! Keep up this great work!
thank you!
Love the content. Cheers from Estonia
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Very few of those Confederate troops from the Trans-Mississippi ever returned to their homes. They fought on all the way to Nashville.
Not often that I see a video about my little home town.
a little town with a big past
These videos make me want to play war of rights.
awesome video! thank you!
you're welcome!
::Rosecrans has entered the chat::
Ole Rosy is out for a fight
Goated general, shame Chickamauga permanently stained his reputation
@@Petlin-g7i The Grant faction had a lot to do with that...
...but we'll get there I'm sure.
It's like a dry run of how Gettysburg played out....
This battle eleveted Rosecranse to Nashville for battle of Stone Rivers! Grant critized Rosy his troops did not followed Van Dorn's at once.
Mead got similar opinion at Gettysburg after 3 days battle..........McClellan had 1 day battle at Antietam, Rosrcrans had 2 days battle, Mead had 3 days battle. Critic against McClellan I think is right, against Mead the critic is not right after 3 days. The debate can be after 2 days battle the soldiers could have followed Van Dorn's troops quickly?
Grant did like Rosy's upstart attitude, similar to the Halleck/Grant relationship. Of course when either side wins, there will be complainers saying "why didnt you attack them when they were running? they were easy prey" well some times your army is so battered from the fight its hard to get the units moving again.
I never realized how woke the confederacy was with all these units of trans Mississippians
Yep, the transgenders love the confederacy
Back to Perryville next, I assume?
Yep
My 4th great grandfather was at this battle with the 12th Arkansas battalion sharpshooters
should do a collab with history gone wilder
We will see
Outstanding
Awesome
Alright, let me grab my cookies and milk. Here we go again
oooo nice snack
Haven’t even watched the vid yet, and I’m just gonna guess it was all Earl Van Dorn’s fault
you nailed it lol
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Not so easy having to be on the offensive is it you traitors?
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