I live in the direct path where Sherman came through in Georgia ( east of Atlanta). I’m in my 30s but as a child my grandfather told me stories that he was told as a child by his grandparents about Sherman marching through. My grandfather showed me fields where his army camped, and there’s even an old mill nearby that Sherman spared. The foundation of an old trestle still exist that he destroyed. He lived near a road that Sherman’s army marched down. He used to say “the Yankees marched right through here down that road” makes you realize that the war is only a few generations behind us
In Shermans first few years in the Army he was sent down to Georgia to map the state. People couldn't understand how this Yankee knew so much about their home. In fact he knew Georgia much better than they did.
Be honest: Do you REALLY think Grant-Sherman we're better than Lee and Jackson? C'mon, man! At 3 to 1 odds we could win too. Sherman out west thought Forrest was the best. Put a bounty on his head. Never collected.
@@marknewton6984 Seems to me the confederates were dumb to start a war if they knew they were against 3 to 1. So yes, they were dumb, and thus Sherman and Grant were better
@@juliocesarmonterocruz2089 Well, I think you are half right: 3 to 1 odds are losing odds I admit. But I don't think Grant-Sherman were better than Lee-Jackson.Oh, well-- win some, lose some!
There IS a reason why the guilded statue of Sherman by Augustus Saint-Gaudens proudly resides on the SE corner of Central Park. Together with Grant, they won a war neither wanted.
Problem with Savannah as a supply base was that Sherman quickly outran it when he move swiftly north, just as he had outrun his railroad supply lines earlier, in Georgia. That's why he coached up his soldiers to live off the land, no matter where they were. What a general.
When Sherman taught at LSU he listened to the secessionist arguments and told them that they didn't know what they were talking about. He further told them they were facing death and destruction on a scale that they couldn't comprehend.
Sherman gave Georgia exactly what it deserved. That is the price insurrectionists and traitors must pay. Considering the hate southerns still hold for human rights and the Constitution, they apparently didn’t learn their lesson.
Until you try to reestablish political and commercial relations with the south after the war. Very foolish strategy to decimate the very country you wish to cooperate with after victory
Atlanta was the home of the Confederates only real steel making and heavy industrial facilities. There's a price to pay for having a cashless agrarian economy run by slave labor.
Sherman didn't destroy Atlanta until he had to. He'd been there for a while. But he was now leaving for Savannah -- lock, stock and barrel -- and he didn't want the Rebs to rebuild Atlanta after it had taken so much blood and guts to conquer it.
The war was pretty much over at Chattanooga he had very little opposition it is easy to burn out civilians he went overboard and read the book War Crimes Against Southern Civilians
One issue I have is the use of William as Sherman's name. He always went by Tecumseh, which was his given name. William was the confirmation name given to him by the Catholic family that raised him. He hated it and avoided using it. He was known to his West Point friends as "Cump", from Tecumseh.
@@Treklosopher You are correct, but Sherman didn't use it and didn't like it. That was my point. I think individuals should be able to choose what part of their name they use and Tecumseh Sherman didn't like William, or Billy, or Bill, or any version of it. It reminded me of how Abraham Lincoln hated being called Abe. His friends called him either Abraham, or Lincoln and he seemed to prefer Lincoln according to most of his friends from his early years in Illinois.
Being Catholic , yes he would have a confirmation name , and being in the South ( La.) Which is predominantly Catholic from previous inhabitants , as the Spanish 1st , and French 2nd , and eventually purchased under Pres. Thomas Jefferson . But , still predominantly Catholic ; instead of counties , prefects , it's called parish . Never knew about General William Tecumseh Sherman " nicknamed "Cump " @ West Point . Though he did graduate quite high in his class . "Billy Sherm " ( William Tecumseh Sherman ) fought war the way war is fought ; Death , and Destruction in that " WAR IS HELL " , and from another proper perspective in that " MIGHT MAKES RIGHT " , said by someone I don't know ; maybe from.another famous / notoriously , infamous General .
@@Treklosopher Didn't know that until I saw a rerun of Dr. Quinn : Medicine Woman . Interesting episode where the son/ or nephew of one of the town woman , who winds up with starting her own newspaper company , Her son / nephew mentioned about being wounded when his unit was ambushed by Confederates on "Billy Sherms' attack , and eventually , burning of Atlanta , Georgia , causing the dude to get wounded by a mini - ball by a Confederate sharpshooter . As , a result the son / nephew of the towns woman , had his leg patched up , but became addicted to morphine that was given by Dr.s to alleviate pain in his leg . Anyway , one of the characters / actors mention "Billy Sherms' leading his troops toward Atlanta , Georgia . I knew General William Tecumseh Sherman is what the person ( Whom I 4 got ) was referring 2 .Hm. hope my explanation was as clear as mud !
@@JohnEglick-oz6cd What President Jefferson purchased was the French claim to the Louisiana Territory. Most of it was still claimed by Spain as part of Mexico and large parts by Great Britain as part of Canada. Jefferson knew that by purchasing France's claim from Napoleon he could send settlers into the territory and simply take possession of it whatever Spain and Great Britain did. He made the determination that neither would be willing to go to war in an area that only America could occupy easily. He was obviously 100% correct.
My great uncle Othiol Johnson Turner marched with Sherman through Georgia. His grandson wrote a book about him. Our family is from Wayne County Kentucky.
I also had 5 uncles all brothers from the12th Wisconsin who served with Gen Sherman from St Louis to DC with one brother being wounded at the Battle of Peachtree Creek
Or perhaps name it for the hundreds of thousands of southerners who died due to the actions of the federal soldiers, maybe death for those who seek independence?
@@marknewton6984 A huge disadvantage for the United States. Since the traitors mostly defended territory, they enjoyed a huge tactical advantage. Thankfully their leadership core was completely inept and failed to take advantage of it. Robert E Lee had a child like understanding of logistics compared to Sherman and Grant.
My daughter played youth soccer with a girl from Tennessee and one day her mom asked if I had ever been to Tennessee? I replied that the last time a member of my family was in Tennessee was with Sherman’s army. If looks could kill… lol
WOW! The "American Civil War" was bloody , traumatic conflict on the WORLD ! Somewhat 720000 troops , and maybe a smidgeon of civilians died Some day 620 others day 720000 kia I'm that war. The fact is well over a 1/2illion troops lost their lives in one of the bloodiest conflicts in world history !
Sherman believed in hard quick war and a soft peace. He knew that it was the people of the South who provided the necessities for the Confederate Army. He graduated sixth in his class at West Point. He was an excellent artist. He had a keen analytical mind. Have you ever read his memoirs?
@@Nibiru2022 I 'm going to get into the " American Civil War " more frequently . That war , between 1961 to 1865 , was a very interesting , but , also very bloody to study . About 720000 soldiers were killed from the Union , and Confederacy combined . Some historians say about 620000 soldiers were killed , but I wonder if these #ers include civilians too ?
The whole of America is seemingly made up of a bunch of whiners... It's definitely a nation on the decline as a consequence of soft and decadent living.
Here we go. Every southerner is going to get on here and whine about Sherman and war crimes, completely ignoring things like Andersonville prison (outright war crimes against POWs), or the fact that slavery is a crime against humanity in war or peace. If you hadn't started the war by trying to tear apart the nation, being first to fire on the opposition, first to invade the opposing territory, first to attack the opposing shipping at sea (and some idiots still dare to call it the war of "Northern Aggression"), then you wouldn't have got your asses kicked. Get over it and realize that you are Americans, the same as people from the North, the Midwest, the West, etc.
@@SteveW-qb5ue Too bad I'm not a Yankee. Nowhere near there. How many slaves died from abuse? A little more than 10,000 I think, not counting the fact that the ones that lived were still slaves. And again; if you hadn't started the war, you wouldn't have lost the war.
@@SteveW-qb5ue You don't want to get started throwing stones about treatment of pows or executions when the South not only executed numerous black soldiers who surrendered, but also the white officers in command of colored troops on several occasions. Not to mention that the only ACTUAL war crime of the period committed during Sherman's march was the deliberate and unlawful hanging of Union soldiers on foraging duty who had surrendered to southern soldiers. The South initially refused to provide sufficient food supplies to their pow's claiming they lacked the means to do so which is what started the whole shameful treatment of prisoners on both sides when the North decided if the rebels didn't need to feed the surrendered Union soldiers, then they sure as hell weren't going to be feeding the Southern ones in return.
Here we go. Im sure some Sherman fan will get on here and complain about anything negative said about a thief, a murderer, and all around not a nice guy. Notice he blames everyone else. Nothing was ever his fault and “he made no mistakes”. The Ego on a tool bag.
William Tecumseh Sherman is a verified American hero that understood exactly how handle traitors and followed through to make that understanding a reality. Where is our Sherman today?
@@marknewton6984If an enemy wages war to preserve a way of life, the best way to end such fighting is to directly deprive him of it and cease his will to fight. It also does no honour to the South that upon providing an army to confront in the South, Sherman was allowed to let the dogs of war slip free in Georgia whilst Hood and others pursued military objectives in the North and West.
@@marknewton6984 Up until Gettysburg, the South had the luxury of winning almost all major engagements against the Union. That's an easy position to fight honourably from and whilst still practically accomplishing his goals. I'll grant you that he's an easy man to love but the truth remains the same. The South had a very limited base of recruitment and in the end, he failed to strategically leverage his advantages whilst they lasted, primarily the weakness of Union command. When someone of sufficient strategic pedigree emerged in Grant, the South began losing almost everywhere. Allowing himself to be drawn into the Overland Campaign is a further example of this - if you can not win on the field of battle why allow yourself to be drawn into a succession of pyrrhic campaigns? The answer is maybe Lee needed a General of Sherman's calibre.
Lee and his generals looked backward, to Napolean, while Grant and Sherman were the first modern generals. They had the strtegic vision that Lee and other rebels lacked. They integrated naval, and, the railroads and telegraph to strangle the south, They realized that the rebels would never surrender until they were totally defeated.
Devastating the enemys territory in order to break their spirit and hinder his ability to wage war, is neither new nor "modern". Ever heard of "chevauchée"? Check it!
Fun fact: If you stand in front of your bathroom mirror & say "Heritage, not hate!" 3 times.... General Sherman will jump out & burn your traitor's house down to the ground all over again! 😂😂😉
Watched Tim Pool and his friends discuss Shermans march to the sea. They all assumed that Sherman slaughtered women and children along with devastation even though never read any history of the Union doing so.
@@jimmyraythomason1Did murders and rapes happen? More than likely. Especially the rapes. Were they part of Union or even Sherman’s policy during the March? No. Were they common practice? Again, no. I don’t count the theft or destruction of rebel private property to be an atrocity.
It's a style, like how it seems appropriate to keep your hands together on the front or back or straight at your side when you are paying attention. It goes back as far as the Napoleonic era.
Georgia always seems to draw too much attention. He fought Confederate soldiers until he reached Savannah, but a friend met him to ask he not burn the city. Instead he delivered it to Lincoln. That's a nice story, but what he did to South Carolina was to destroy anything and everything for starting the war. That's something history doesn't cover. The fact is Sherman returned to Georgia years later by invitation by the leaders of Atlanta. They were celebrating an international agricultural fair, and he was a dignitary. His comment then was the city was rebuilt better than it was before.
During the civil war of 1799-1800 in Haiti also between the North and the South which the South lost too for the same reasons that the Confederacy lost, known here as "The War of the South", the Northern General Jean-Jacques Dessalines in his "March to the Sea" of 1800 in order to cut in two the Southern Peninsula, adopted exactly same the devastation strategy that 64 years later General Sherman will apply in Georgia.
My father said that when they entered Germany and “came to a small town or village they would send someone with a white flag to tell them to surrender the town or we would call in the artillery and level it. The first few weeks we leveled quite a few German villages and then they got the message and when we’d approach the town every window had a white flag or bedsheet hanging out of it.” This was not done in WW1 and we had to fight them again 24 years later. After WW2 the Germans got the message. This is Sherman’s genius.
How did the narrator decide that Atlanta was the 2nd most important city in the south? Augusta was more important than Atlanta with the munitions factories. Not to mention all the cities outside of Georgia that were even more important
Mostly because Atlanta was the central rail hub connecting Virginia and the Carolinas to the rest of Georgia and the Western states. Atlanta was important for the same reason Vicksburg was, because removing it further cut the Confederate states' ability to get supplies to each other
@@whensomethingcriesagain I hear ya but was it more important than Petersburg? What about New Orleans? I know New Orleans had been occupied for 2 years at this point but New Orleans has over 100,000 people living there. Charleston? Savannah? Kinda hard to say Atlanta was the 2nd most important city in the south behind Richmond.
I love the Sherman haters in the comments talking about modern standards to call Sherman a war criminal... Modern standards you say? Like, people who own people are evil? Gotta watch where ethical consitincy takes you sometimes lol... Yes, today Sherman would be a war criminal... Back then? He's just a guy who helped bring the side fighting for the state right of slaveholding to their proverbial knees... ...if it helps, think of Sherman as the North's Stonewall Jackson... The guy bringing some of that BDE to the cause and, while you don't agree with everything about them, you can't help but cheer a little when you hear the name... That's Sherman.
President Davis should have never removed Johnston and replaced him with Hood! Hood although a great division commander he was overwhelmed with an entire amy! Bless all the Brave and Honorable Confederate soldiers 😊
The War For Independence tied Yankee Quakers and new England puritans with New York Dutch land barons who were already beginning to introduce manufacture despite the British trade laws which allowed colonies to export raw materials only and forbid the export of finished goods. It tied the industrious north chomping at the bit of imperial regulation with southern landed gentery of the Anglican type who were unhappy with the cost and quality of.british manufacture and demand for coin which plantations had little of, their money all in land, slaves and bales of tobacco.only selling the tobacco could get them money and that was the only asset they could sell and by its nature the least valuable. So people who would never get along found themselves getting along in resenting parliament and her trade chains. After victory one thing became apparent. Slavery must not continue, and that it must . So the stage was swt for a hatred to grow in the hearts of Americans that still burns today though it's a slow burn in old coals. The founders knew that something like the Civil War would have to happen. Their one great evil is that they put it out of their minds, hoped it would go away and doomed their grandchildren to the most ungodly bloodletting in our history. They could not have perceived what they were doing. If they could and put it off anyway they would be evil men. They can't be that. Just fools in their way.
History books seldom tell the truth about the time after the Civil War. For example After the war, Southern General Joseph Wheeler commanded Camp Wikoff, a convalescent and demobilization center at Montauk Point on Long Island. In June 1900, he was commissioned a brigadier general in the Regular Army, but resigned a few months later. He died on 25 January 1906 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Sherman’s March to the sea did help end the war more quickly. That victory was one that ended the conventional war but then began the resistance fighting known as Reconstruction. That went on for ten years and ended in 1876 with the Northern states effectively abandoning the former slaves to virtual slavery. This was done for temporary political gain but also resulted in economic benefits to the north for the next hundred years thru the work of now virtual slave labor. As we have sadly found out in this century it is one thing to win a conventional war but can be difficult to win the resistance movement that comes afterward where casualties after the end of conventional warfare far exceed those during the war. Luckily for the U.S. the Reconstruction casualties were far less than in the Civil War.
I don't know if it was really an unsuccessful war so much as political revanchism. The primary goal of the south during the civil war, independence was not achieved and was never received as a goal in the aftermath.
The south had to fight and Sherman had to commit war crimes to prevent a ruinous guerrilla war. And the resulting damage to the nation's well being and soul will never be healed.
The only reason Sherman wasn’t tried for war crimes was because he was on the winning side. His campaign to live off the land meant he stole, burned, and pillaged. There are stories from most families in the south about the atrocities that modern audiences wouldn’t tolerate.
@@chrisgovatsos9421 Armed with ropes, zip ties, batons, guns, knives, everything coup participants would need to murder their opponents. You are willfully ignorant.
You root for a team with a crap QB and Brady comes into town and kicks you ass sideways. Sherman was a much better general and had a better team and kicked the southern army's ass sideways, of course they don't like Sherman. Part of the problem was the Army of Tennessee went, abandoned Atlanta, and wasted itself in pointless battles and frontal assaults. That army or whoever had not died or deserted, would meet Serman the next spring a shadow of itself. Forest Gump should have harassed supply lines while the Army of Tennesse added itself to the next line of deep south defense.
I can tell by the comments that nobody has any background in the history of Sherman? You won’t find much military truth in his memoirs. Grant gave him many opportunities to gain glory and he messed a lot of those up! If you want to educate yourself on the man from a different historical view. Read MASTER OF WAR. Then I’d like to see what you think of him?? Until then, SHUT UP!!
I live in the direct path where Sherman came through in Georgia ( east of Atlanta). I’m in my 30s but as a child my grandfather told me stories that he was told as a child by his grandparents about Sherman marching through. My grandfather showed me fields where his army camped, and there’s even an old mill nearby that Sherman spared. The foundation of an old trestle still exist that he destroyed. He lived near a road that Sherman’s army marched down. He used to say “the Yankees marched right through here down that road” makes you realize that the war is only a few generations behind us
Fascinating
In Shermans first few years in the Army he was sent down to Georgia to map the state. People couldn't understand how this Yankee knew so much about their home. In fact he knew Georgia much better than they did.
Well, Sherman knew it at least as well as his adversary generals, which was more than enough. Sherman was quite a guy.
@@mitchellhawkes22 He screwed up bad at Kennesaw. But he never it again.
Why not? Yankees just take what they want anyway. It makes perfect sense to map what you are taking.
@@jeffmilroy9345ironic, given the Confederacy being founded to preserve the right to enslave human beings
This channel should be huge. Really appreciate the work you all are doing! Amazing writing and history it really brings the events to life
I greatly appreciate the time two fine generals Sherman and Grant, they new how to win a war.
Be honest: Do you REALLY think Grant-Sherman we're better than Lee and Jackson? C'mon, man! At 3 to 1 odds we could win too. Sherman out west thought Forrest was the best. Put a bounty on his head. Never collected.
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Yeah, they were better. That's why they won
@@juliocesarmonterocruz2089 3 to 1 odds? And the favorites didn't always win.
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Seems to me the confederates were dumb to start a war if they knew they were against 3 to 1. So yes, they were dumb, and thus Sherman and Grant were better
@@juliocesarmonterocruz2089 Well, I think you are half right: 3 to 1 odds are losing odds I admit. But I don't think Grant-Sherman were better than Lee-Jackson.Oh, well-- win some, lose some!
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There IS a reason why the guilded statue of Sherman by Augustus Saint-Gaudens proudly resides on the SE corner of Central Park. Together with Grant, they won a war neither wanted.
The commentary of this video is profound and fearless. Well done.
I'm intrigued , and fascinated by it !
Sherman abandoned his rail supply lines in Atlanta, but presumably he obtained a much better operating base in Savannah that could be supplied by sea.
This is one of the worst broadcast I've ever seen about the Civil War and Sherman. This guy can't even pronounce the names properly. 🙄
Problem with Savannah as a supply base was that Sherman quickly outran it when he move swiftly north, just as he had outrun his railroad supply lines earlier, in
Georgia. That's why he coached up his soldiers to live off the land, no matter where they were. What a general.
When Sherman taught at LSU he listened to the secessionist arguments and told them that they didn't know what they were talking about. He further told them they were facing death and destruction on a scale that they couldn't comprehend.
sounds like something a war criminal would say
@@suprotwin Nope, he just spoke the truth as he saw it.
Sherman gave Georgia exactly what it deserved. That is the price insurrectionists and traitors must pay. Considering the hate southerns still hold for human rights and the Constitution, they apparently didn’t learn their lesson.
@@suprotwin It's only a war crime if you lose.
@@TheGhostofTomMetzger Confederates executed every black soldier they captured. What kind of war crime do you call that?
The destruction of Atlanta was sound strategically. Many of the Confederate supplies had the words “Made in Atlanta”.
Until you try to reestablish political and commercial relations with the south after the war. Very foolish strategy to decimate the very country you wish to cooperate with after victory
Atlanta was the home of the Confederates only real steel making and heavy industrial facilities. There's a price to pay for having a cashless agrarian economy run by slave labor.
@@darbyoharauntil you remember that the North and the South actually did reconnect. Oops 😂
Sherman didn't destroy Atlanta until he had to. He'd been there for a while. But he was now leaving for Savannah -- lock, stock and barrel -- and he didn't want the Rebs to rebuild Atlanta after it had taken so much blood and guts to conquer it.
The war was pretty much over at Chattanooga he had very little opposition it is easy to burn out civilians he went overboard and read the book War Crimes Against Southern Civilians
Well done.
Always such informative and educational videos!!
Glad you like them!
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@@StevenShay Like it was 1999 .
Gad, look at that fierce Sherman face at 0:50.
Thank heavens he worked for the side of light, and the future of America and the human race.
a pity the fledgling US Army couldn't afford barbers in those days.
Side of light huh? Killing people isn't part of the light of God.
This guy is a great storyteller or narrator or whatever. Very good.
One issue I have is the use of William as Sherman's name. He always went by Tecumseh, which was his given name. William was the confirmation name given to him by the Catholic family that raised him. He hated it and avoided using it. He was known to his West Point friends as "Cump", from Tecumseh.
Except his soldiers called him Uncle Billy dude. So even in his own time he was called William in some form.
@@Treklosopher You are correct, but Sherman didn't use it and didn't like it. That was my point. I think individuals should be able to choose what part of their name they use and Tecumseh Sherman didn't like William, or Billy, or Bill, or any version of it. It reminded me of how Abraham Lincoln hated being called Abe. His friends called him either Abraham, or Lincoln and he seemed to prefer Lincoln according to most of his friends from his early years in Illinois.
Being Catholic , yes he would have a confirmation name , and being in the South ( La.) Which is predominantly Catholic from previous inhabitants , as the Spanish 1st , and French 2nd , and eventually purchased under Pres. Thomas Jefferson . But , still predominantly Catholic ; instead of counties , prefects , it's called parish .
Never knew about General William Tecumseh Sherman " nicknamed "Cump " @ West Point . Though he did graduate quite high in his class .
"Billy Sherm " ( William Tecumseh Sherman ) fought war the way war is fought ; Death , and Destruction in that " WAR IS HELL " , and from another proper perspective in that " MIGHT MAKES RIGHT " , said by someone I don't know ; maybe from.another famous / notoriously , infamous General .
@@Treklosopher Didn't know that until I saw a rerun of Dr. Quinn : Medicine Woman . Interesting episode where the son/ or nephew of one of the town woman , who winds up with starting her own newspaper company , Her son / nephew mentioned about being wounded when his unit was ambushed by Confederates on "Billy Sherms' attack , and eventually , burning of Atlanta , Georgia , causing the dude to get wounded by a mini - ball by a Confederate sharpshooter . As , a result the son / nephew of the towns woman , had his leg patched up , but became addicted to morphine that was given by Dr.s to alleviate pain in his leg . Anyway , one of the characters / actors mention "Billy Sherms' leading his troops toward Atlanta , Georgia . I knew General William Tecumseh Sherman is what the person ( Whom I 4 got ) was referring 2 .Hm. hope my explanation was as clear as mud !
@@JohnEglick-oz6cd What President Jefferson purchased was the French claim to the Louisiana Territory. Most of it was still claimed by Spain as part of Mexico and large parts by Great Britain as part of Canada. Jefferson knew that by purchasing France's claim from Napoleon he could send settlers into the territory and simply take possession of it whatever Spain and Great Britain did. He made the determination that neither would be willing to go to war in an area that only America could occupy easily. He was obviously 100% correct.
My great uncle Othiol Johnson Turner marched with Sherman through Georgia. His grandson wrote a book about him. Our family is from Wayne County Kentucky.
My 3rd great-grandfather Joseph Fry also took part in Sherman's March to the Sea, with the 57th Illinois Infantry.
@nomenclature9607Not enough, judging by the comments here.
To have served under Sherman. What a blessing to the soldiers and their families for generations.
I also had 5 uncles all brothers from the12th Wisconsin who served with Gen Sherman from St Louis to DC with one brother being wounded at the Battle of Peachtree Creek
I'm sure we're all related to war criminals, but it'd be weird to know their name.
Born and raised in Marietta, this story hits home. 😮 I’ve never heard it told like this. Love the video!!!
Great episode just like I was there
They should have renamed Fort Benning to Fort Sherman.
Totally correct
Or perhaps name it for the hundreds of thousands of southerners who died due to the actions of the federal soldiers, maybe death for those who seek independence?
Maybe you should read, Gone with the Wind. Today, Sherman would be tried for war crimes.
No, they shouldn't have. It was named Fort Benning for a reason. Study your history.
Instead he got a tank named after him
Grant and Sherman! Great Generals
They were both s---- !
@@marknewton6984 Easy for you to say, but they won the war.
@@AlaskaErik At 3 to 1 odds who couldn't win.
@@marknewton6984 A huge disadvantage for the United States. Since the traitors mostly defended territory, they enjoyed a huge tactical advantage. Thankfully their leadership core was completely inept and failed to take advantage of it. Robert E Lee had a child like understanding of logistics compared to Sherman and Grant.
@@GregoryCunningham Do you really think that Lee-Jackson could not defeat Grant-Sherman with even odds? C'mon, man!
My daughter played youth soccer with a girl from Tennessee and one day her mom asked if I had ever been to Tennessee? I replied that the last time a member of my family was in Tennessee was with Sherman’s army.
If looks could kill… lol
Kind of an interesting thing to say to someone who, based on your comment, was just trying to strike up a conversation.
Well done.
WOW! The "American Civil War" was bloody , traumatic conflict on the WORLD ! Somewhat 720000 troops , and maybe a smidgeon of civilians died
Some day 620 others day 720000 kia I'm that war. The fact is well over a 1/2illion troops lost their lives in one of the bloodiest conflicts in world history !
Weird answer. I bet you're fun at cocktail parties lol
Funny boy haha ( Jerk)!
Lmao good response
this is a great presentation
Sherman shows why treason sucks!
It`s only treason if you don`t win.......
To prove treason you must prove secession was illegal and you can't do that
Sherman believed in hard quick war and a soft peace. He knew that it was the people of the South who provided the necessities for the Confederate Army. He graduated sixth in his class at West Point. He was an excellent artist. He had a keen analytical mind. Have you ever read his memoirs?
I'd love to read his memoirs . He put it succinctly , and rawly about how war can be HELL !!
@@JohnEglick-oz6cd I have read his memoirs and it is a very good read.
@@Nibiru2022 I 'm going to get into the " American Civil War " more frequently . That war , between 1961 to 1865 , was a very interesting , but , also very bloody to study . About 720000 soldiers were killed from the Union , and Confederacy combined . Some historians say about 620000 soldiers were killed , but I wonder if these #ers include civilians too ?
unfortunately that peace would never come, and racism would last for more than a century
Raping and pillaging does tend to soften one's ardour for war!
Nicely done…SUBSCRIBED ..
"Grant and Sherman" this world will always be a better place for them having lived 🌎 🗽🇺🇸
Brilliant strategist and warrior
I can't remember if the quote from Sherman to Grant, "I'll make Georgia howl" was real or not, but they're still whining to this day.
Where do most people want to live today?
@@marknewton6984 California
The whole of America is seemingly made up of a bunch of whiners... It's definitely a nation on the decline as a consequence of soft and decadent living.
Ever heard of anyone retiring to the North?
@@nghtwtchmn129Yeah, plenty
I encourage the Johnny Rebs to read about the burning of Chambersburg PA, so basically, the Confeds did the same thing as Sherman
Sherman's March was part of a strategy to win the war. Burning Chambersburg was just vindictive.
They're just sore that Sherman did it better 😂
Fed's did it 1.000 times more and it matters
God Bless Sherman. He took it too easy on the murderous slaving traitors.
How can you be a traitor to a country you are no longer a city of?
So are you counting all the Northern slave owners as traitors as well?
Grant owned slaves.
@@marknewton6984Grant owned one slave that came as his wife's dowery and Grant eventually set the slave free.
@@marknewton6984Grant owned one slave that came as his wife's dowery and Grant eventually set the slave free.
@@mrbaab5932 After he buildt the barn for free...
Key moment in the war. For those who want to learn more A Teenager’s Guide to the Civil War: A History Book for Teens is a good resource.
Here we go. Every southerner is going to get on here and whine about Sherman and war crimes, completely ignoring things like Andersonville prison (outright war crimes against POWs), or the fact that slavery is a crime against humanity in war or peace.
If you hadn't started the war by trying to tear apart the nation, being first to fire on the opposition, first to invade the opposing territory, first to attack the opposing shipping at sea (and some idiots still dare to call it the war of "Northern Aggression"), then you wouldn't have got your asses kicked.
Get over it and realize that you are Americans, the same as people from the North, the Midwest, the West, etc.
You Yankees also forget the deliberate deaths of 10,000 Southern POWs at Camp Douglas outside of Chicago- or the shooting of POW’s at Rock Island.
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Too bad I'm not a Yankee. Nowhere near there. How many slaves died from abuse? A little more than 10,000 I think, not counting the fact that the ones that lived were still slaves. And again; if you hadn't started the war, you wouldn't have lost the war.
War is cruelty
@@SteveW-qb5ue You don't want to get started throwing stones about treatment of pows or executions when the South not only executed numerous black soldiers who surrendered, but also the white officers in command of colored troops on several occasions. Not to mention that the only ACTUAL war crime of the period committed during Sherman's march was the deliberate and unlawful hanging of Union soldiers on foraging duty who had surrendered to southern soldiers. The South initially refused to provide sufficient food supplies to their pow's claiming they lacked the means to do so which is what started the whole shameful treatment of prisoners on both sides when the North decided if the rebels didn't need to feed the surrendered Union soldiers, then they sure as hell weren't going to be feeding the Southern ones in return.
Here we go. Im sure some Sherman fan will get on here and complain about anything negative said about a thief, a murderer, and all around not a nice guy. Notice he blames everyone else. Nothing was ever his fault and “he made no mistakes”. The Ego on a tool bag.
William Tecumseh Sherman is a verified American hero that understood exactly how handle traitors and followed through to make that understanding a reality. Where is our Sherman today?
Lincoln loved Sherman
@@chinesejohn812I can see why.
I actually found out recently that major Sherman is apart of my ancestry history pretty cool to be able to see what he exactly did during the war
After Georgia! That’s the story we want to hear!
"A heads down arm swinging Hood..." Oh my lol
Sherman is one of my heroes of the CW.
He made war against widows and orphans.
Me too. I don't understand why there isn't a memorial to him in Savannah for liberating the city.
@@marknewton6984If an enemy wages war to preserve a way of life, the best way to end such fighting is to directly deprive him of it and cease his will to fight.
It also does no honour to the South that upon providing an army to confront in the South, Sherman was allowed to let the dogs of war slip free in Georgia whilst Hood and others pursued military objectives in the North and West.
@@blue-pi2kt Lee would not have done it. He was respectful to the citizens of Gettysburg, who stood I'm line to get his autograph.
@@marknewton6984 Up until Gettysburg, the South had the luxury of winning almost all major engagements against the Union. That's an easy position to fight honourably from and whilst still practically accomplishing his goals.
I'll grant you that he's an easy man to love but the truth remains the same. The South had a very limited base of recruitment and in the end, he failed to strategically leverage his advantages whilst they lasted, primarily the weakness of Union command. When someone of sufficient strategic pedigree emerged in Grant, the South began losing almost everywhere. Allowing himself to be drawn into the Overland Campaign is a further example of this - if you can not win on the field of battle why allow yourself to be drawn into a succession of pyrrhic campaigns? The answer is maybe Lee needed a General of Sherman's calibre.
Sherman played a major role in ending the war. From the coast he and his army through mud averaging 12 miles a day building their own road.
Typo at 4:57
"Ulsysses" should be "Ulysses"
I'm a descendent of an Irish man who was drafted into Sherman's army.
Read the good book THE MARCH for the story of his march thru GA. He was doing his job, as Lincoln ordered.
Some of the southeners were shocked that Sherman was in the south
Lee and his generals looked backward, to Napolean, while Grant and Sherman were the first modern generals. They had the strtegic vision that Lee and other rebels lacked. They integrated naval, and, the railroads and telegraph to strangle the south, They realized that the rebels would never surrender until they were totally defeated.
Devastating the enemys territory in order to break their spirit and hinder his ability to wage war, is neither new nor "modern". Ever heard of "chevauchée"?
Check it!
Fun fact: If you stand in front of your bathroom mirror & say "Heritage, not hate!" 3 times.... General Sherman will jump out & burn your traitor's house down to the ground all over again! 😂😂😉
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Whoever the narrator of these documentaries is, should run for president.
Watched Tim Pool and his friends discuss Shermans march to the sea. They all assumed that Sherman slaughtered women and children along with devastation even though never read any history of the Union doing so.
Remember it is always the victor who writes the history.
Tim Pool, as successful as he may be, is a clown.
@@jimmyraythomason1Did murders and rapes happen? More than likely. Especially the rapes. Were they part of Union or even Sherman’s policy during the March? No. Were they common practice? Again, no. I don’t count the theft or destruction of rebel private property to be an atrocity.
@@jimmyraythomason1 Japan: Are you sure about that?
He would have been one hell of a hockey player.
Fun fact: Atlanta was not the capitol of Georgia then. It was Milledgeville.
Why did a lot of the Officers put their right hand coat ? Were they cold?
It's a style, like how it seems appropriate to keep your hands together on the front or back or straight at your side when you are paying attention.
It goes back as far as the Napoleonic era.
I'm here in the comments for the Sherman jokes
I’m personally here to see how many Southerners are still mad.😂
Georgia always seems to draw too much attention. He fought Confederate soldiers until he reached Savannah, but a friend met him to ask he not burn the city. Instead he delivered it to Lincoln. That's a nice story, but what he did to South Carolina was to destroy anything and everything for starting the war. That's something history doesn't cover. The fact is Sherman returned to Georgia years later by invitation by the leaders of Atlanta. They were celebrating an international agricultural fair, and he was a dignitary. His comment then was the city was rebuilt better than it was before.
During the civil war of 1799-1800 in Haiti also between the North and the South which the South lost too for the same reasons that the Confederacy lost, known here as "The War of the South", the Northern General Jean-Jacques Dessalines in his "March to the Sea" of 1800 in order to cut in two the Southern Peninsula, adopted exactly same the devastation strategy that 64 years later General Sherman will apply in Georgia.
Dessalines and Sherman were both creeps and butchers.
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My father said that when they entered Germany and “came to a small town or village they would send someone with a white flag to tell them to surrender the town or we would call in the artillery and level it. The first few weeks we leveled quite a few German villages and then they got the message and when we’d approach the town every window had a white flag or bedsheet hanging out of it.” This was not done in WW1 and we had to fight them again 24 years later. After WW2 the Germans got the message. This is Sherman’s genius.
Sherman is total War
January 6. Where is my Sherman?
Sherman was a Absolute BAD-ASS!!
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Sherman was one of the few Warriors that truly understood the art of war. Americans no longer have the stomach for this brand of war.
No they should have left it Ft. Benning. But maybe you can name the base in Romania where the 101st is, Ft. Sherman.
The South seceded from the union they started it. He finished it..
Sherman’s March might’ve shortened the war by a year.
Swayth. He cut a swayth.
I always said it “Swoth”.
My great great grandfather William Truesdell of the 53rd Ohio marched with Sherman
Nothing to be proud of.
Sherman we’ll make Atlanta shake?
... actually sounds normal when run at 1.25 speed ...
How did the narrator decide that Atlanta was the 2nd most important city in the south?
Augusta was more important than Atlanta with the munitions factories. Not to mention all the cities outside of Georgia that were even more important
Mostly because Atlanta was the central rail hub connecting Virginia and the Carolinas to the rest of Georgia and the Western states. Atlanta was important for the same reason Vicksburg was, because removing it further cut the Confederate states' ability to get supplies to each other
@@whensomethingcriesagain I hear ya but was it more important than Petersburg? What about New Orleans? I know New Orleans had been occupied for 2 years at this point but New Orleans has over 100,000 people living there. Charleston? Savannah?
Kinda hard to say Atlanta was the 2nd most important city in the south behind Richmond.
I love the Sherman haters in the comments talking about modern standards to call Sherman a war criminal... Modern standards you say? Like, people who own people are evil? Gotta watch where ethical consitincy takes you sometimes lol... Yes, today Sherman would be a war criminal... Back then? He's just a guy who helped bring the side fighting for the state right of slaveholding to their proverbial knees... ...if it helps, think of Sherman as the North's Stonewall Jackson... The guy bringing some of that BDE to the cause and, while you don't agree with everything about them, you can't help but cheer a little when you hear the name... That's Sherman.
"Slavery was good for most folks" - Republican Ron DuhSantis
Play the song “Marching Through Georgia””
How about the Nights the Lights Went Out in Georgia, and Midnight Train to Georgia
@@samkohen4589 Marching Through Georgia was a song directly inspired by the March to the Sea….from the Northern perspective
I think those songs are more appropriate. General Sherman would approve
@@samkohen4589 ok, but disagree
Sherman did not like Marching Through Georgia….
When the narration said Sherman was a mediocre tactician I stop listening. Sherman was superb at tactics and battlefield control.
Sherman was the Patton of the civil war
Sherman was better. At least he didn't encourage his troops to kill POWs. Search for "Biscari Massacre" and Patton's role in it.
No, he was the Hitler.
... and Lee as the Saddam Hussein
Except Sherman actually had tactical skill as a general
What happened to this narrations Bedford Forrest video??
that traitor doesnt need a video or a loser participation trophy
So many southerners in this comment section caught the vapours.
I wholeheartedly agree and Fort Hood to fort Murphy after Audie Murphy the hell with the traitorous confederacy
Sermon with somebody not to f with imagine that guy being president
President Davis should have never removed Johnston and replaced him with Hood! Hood although a great division commander he was overwhelmed with an entire amy! Bless all the Brave and Honorable Confederate soldiers 😊
The War For Independence tied Yankee Quakers and new England puritans with New York Dutch land barons who were already beginning to introduce manufacture despite the British trade laws which allowed colonies to export raw materials only and forbid the export of finished goods. It tied the industrious north chomping at the bit of imperial regulation with southern landed gentery of the Anglican type who were unhappy with the cost and quality of.british manufacture and demand for coin which plantations had little of, their money all in land, slaves and bales of tobacco.only selling the tobacco could get them money and that was the only asset they could sell and by its nature the least valuable.
So people who would never get along found themselves getting along in resenting parliament and her trade chains.
After victory one thing became apparent. Slavery must not continue, and that it must .
So the stage was swt for a hatred to grow in the hearts of Americans that still burns today though it's a slow burn in old coals.
The founders knew that something like the Civil War would have to happen. Their one great evil is that they put it out of their minds, hoped it would go away and doomed their grandchildren to the most ungodly bloodletting in our history. They could not have perceived what they were doing. If they could and put it off anyway they would be evil men. They can't be that. Just fools in their way.
LMFAO, the Southern Soy-boys got their panties in a twist, and their period cramps a-flaring up, whenever they think about Sherman 🤣🤣🤣
Many will be critical of my description of the confederacy as traitorous. Honestly how else can one describe it? Noble? Honorable? Hell no
Try despicable
Sherman and John Brown did nothing wrong
They were both creeps.
Where is Sherman when Atlanta can really use him?
Can folks in the south tell me why you are still fighting the civil war?
All Hail Abraham Loinkin 0:01
War is terrible. How did the Slaves view Sherman?
Not sure I like the foaming at the mouth naration. Tone it down a bit fella.
Too bad Sherman and Grant wasn’t with Custer at the Little Bighorn
😂 why? Neither of them ever fought Indians. They’d have been as useless as Reno
They would have still lost.
The idea was indians fill them with arrows
@@garysmart2592 Good idea
@@garysmart2592The confederacy would have still lost
History books seldom tell the truth about the time after the Civil War. For example After the war, Southern General Joseph Wheeler commanded Camp Wikoff, a convalescent and demobilization center at Montauk Point on Long Island. In June 1900, he was commissioned a brigadier general in the Regular Army, but resigned a few months later. He died on 25 January 1906 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
The order to not pillage civilian or private residences was a loose one and even he wasn’t serious about it. More of an implied joke really.
Its time to change the name. Sherman was the best!
Because sherman was bipolar
Sherman’s March to the sea did help end the war more quickly. That victory was one that ended the conventional war but then began the resistance fighting known as Reconstruction. That went on for ten years and ended in 1876 with the Northern states effectively abandoning the former slaves to virtual slavery. This was done for temporary political gain but also resulted in economic benefits to the north for the next hundred years thru the work of now virtual slave labor.
As we have sadly found out in this century it is one thing to win a conventional war but can be difficult to win the resistance movement that comes afterward where casualties after the end of conventional warfare far exceed those during the war. Luckily for the U.S. the Reconstruction casualties were far less than in the Civil War.
I don't know if it was really an unsuccessful war so much as political revanchism. The primary goal of the south during the civil war, independence was not achieved and was never received as a goal in the aftermath.
It's United States Armies. Not union armies. Get your history straight.
If you can do better, where’s your video?
The south had to fight and Sherman had to commit war crimes to prevent a ruinous guerrilla war. And the resulting damage to the nation's well being and soul will never be healed.
The only reason Sherman wasn’t tried for war crimes was because he was on the winning side. His campaign to live off the land meant he stole, burned, and pillaged. There are stories from most families in the south about the atrocities that modern audiences wouldn’t tolerate.
That’s the biggest issue with how the union won. They so devastated the south that it caused massive issues for 100 years post war
He "stole" your ancestors slaves by liberating them, deal with it traitor. He was rather generous to not execute your ancestors for treason.
Am I supposed to feel bad for a bunch of traitors?
Your 'dramatic' reading skills leave much to be desired. At least learn to pronounce the words you are using. Example: Swath.
He went nuts somewhere, had to be Shiloh
Sherman was nuts.
@@marknewton6984 it would seem so if you lived in Georgia
@@OldHickoryAndyJackson If you lived anywhere...
@@marknewton6984 except Lancaster Ohio
@@OldHickoryAndyJackson Oh, well--there is always an exception!
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Now this is how you deal with traitors. Not giving them slaps on the wrist, like most of the Jan 6th insurrections and traitors.
I thought we as citizens have a right to protest. You sound like Nancy Pelosi.
@@billymania11 Attempting a coup isn't a protest. You sound like a traitor
Ok Nancy@@moosesandmeese969
@@moosesandmeese969armed with selfie sticks and waving deadly American flags
@@chrisgovatsos9421 Armed with ropes, zip ties, batons, guns, knives, everything coup participants would need to murder their opponents. You are willfully ignorant.
You root for a team with a crap QB and Brady comes into town and kicks you ass sideways. Sherman was a much better general and had a better team and kicked the southern army's ass sideways, of course they don't like Sherman. Part of the problem was the Army of Tennessee went, abandoned Atlanta, and wasted itself in pointless battles and frontal assaults. That army or whoever had not died or deserted, would meet Serman the next spring a shadow of itself. Forest Gump should have harassed supply lines while the Army of Tennesse added itself to the next line of deep south defense.
Tom Crybrady couldn't even handle tackle football, he ain't kicking anyone's ass.
Luckily we had Sherman.
I can tell by the comments that nobody has any background in the history of Sherman? You won’t find much military truth in his memoirs. Grant gave him many opportunities to gain glory and he messed a lot of those up! If you want to educate yourself on the man from a different historical view. Read MASTER OF WAR. Then I’d like to see what you think of him?? Until then, SHUT UP!!
Ooooh, we have an expert here!
The south has risen again in the form of SEC football