I grew up near Greensboro, NC and always heard stories about the Battle of Guildford Courthouse and its significance as a turning point during the Revolutionary War. I never knew the Confederate cause literally dissolved in Greensboro. It shows how much we selectively pick and choose moments in history to remember. Thank you Ranger Brown for your lecture.
I just stumbled upon this video after watching a documentary of the battle Chikamauga. Im so glad i clicked on this. One of the best presentations iv ever listened to. Made even better considering i live in NC and iv been to nearly every place mentioned. The "walk home" part nearly made me cry.
Excellent lecture…attention keeping, chocked full of intimate details…really enjoyed it…will listen for more, I’ve been a civil war re-enactor for 25 years and still have so much to know about the war….great job…👍
The Confederates were outmanned, out gunned and out maneuvered during the end of the war. I have to believe the soldiers knew it was over way before it was over. Outstanding presentation, very informative. Thank you
Fun fact: Tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) Roman Catholic Irish were expelled from their Irish homeland (by a ZOG Protestant King) and they arrived in New York Harbor (by boat). Upon docking, Lincoln ordered them conscripted into the Federal Army or be deported post haste. Entire Federal Army infantry regiments were composed of enslaved Roman Catholic Irish. Why? Because the South was winning the War of Rights and U.S. Congress told Lincoln they were intent on withdrawing all funding (of Lincoln's war). Lincoln responded by enslaving the arriving Roman Catholic Irish and rendering them into infantry so as to throw them at the C.S.A. army. Much of U.S. history has been subverted/denied us.
i enjoyed this talk. It was filled with information and insight. I had not realized that Lane's brigade had such a dismal ending engagement. Even the last walk that the speaker brought up was insightful and filed me with some dim part of the emotion these men felt as the war truly ended for each.
Thank you Ranger Phillip Brown for recommending the three books 📚 The Confederate Surrender at Greensboro The Final Days of the Army of Tennessee, April 1865 by Robert M. Drunkenly, Last Stand in the Carolinas The Battle of Bentonville by Mark L. Bradley, and This Astounding Close The Road To Bennett Place Mark L Bradley. They are fantastic books!! Tragic war!! 17th Corp Preston Blair, was the hardest fighting Corp through out the war 1861 - 1865. Huzzah for the great State of Illinois!!
2 of my great great grandfathers, made that walk of over 600 miles from Greensboro together. One to Bells, TN and the other to Dyersberg, TN not knowing that one day they would be more than battle brothers.
I’ve visited Bull run , twice, I’ve been to Arlington, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, and fort mchenry. Always wanted to visit Gettysburg. Had several ancestors from Alabama and Mississippi there.
The Army of Tennessee after their defeat at Nashville on the 15 and 16th of December 1864 retreated across the Tennessee River into Alabama as I recall. At that time Hood resigned his command and the army was sent on a 30 day furlough and told to reassemble after that for further action. No sure how many returned to active duty. My Great-Great Grandfather was wounded on the 16th of December at Nashville but was able to retreat with the Army. He was in the 19th South Carolina Infantry Regiment, and his military records end after the Nashville battle and it is unknown where he was at surrender. It is likely that he returned to his home in Edgefield County, South Carolina to recover from his wound. My speculation was if able he became part of the units then being formed in South Carolina for the final defense?
Army of Northern VA sent its South Carolina Brigade to this theater - same Brigade that attacked Peach Orchard at Gettysburg. Escaped surrender to Appomatox, only to surrender to Sherman.
Good day to you sir. This is Ted from Texas. I am a living historian. I portrayed the general Joseph E Johnston. I found this lecture to be very informative and interesting. I enjoyed it and learned a few things I did not know. I do enjoy history, history of the Civil War. The Civil War had helped mold our country the great country we were. We are going through political turmoil now. Hoping and praying but it doesn't ignite another civil war. I thank you again and I will continue watching and learning history to the eyes of you men and women At the park service.
There's an easy explanation for weekness of resistance. George Thomas. The man crushed an army larger than the Army of Northern VA with very competent leadership, 2 armies actually. Along with Sherman he drained the West of fighting resources. Shouldn't have forced Johnston to retire. Of course, the war was lost at Shiloh.
The South did lose the war at shiloh. Never again would the South have parity of numbers against federal armies. When Shiloh was lost the South lost more land mass and lands able to produce and feed its armies than it lost in both Sheridan's march up the valley and Sherman's March through Georgia. After Shiloh the South's only hope was a political solution. Unreconstructed Alabamian here but the reality is the South lost the war at Shiloh.
Vicksburg Campaign was the beginning of the end of the Confederacy, and the fall of Atlanta and Chattanooga. I under what he getting at!! Shiloh was the crack in the foundation, and so was Corinth.
This campaign gets overshadowed by the fall of Petersburg and subsequent events leading up to surrender of Appomattox. Still, Bentonville is an interesting battle to study. No way that Johnson's ad hoc army could tackle Sherman's whole force. Even if Johnson had beaten Sherman, Grant would have diverted forces from Virginia to counter, and in the end Johnson would have been caught between two superior forces. Wisely, he saw situation as it was, a hopeless cause, and surrendered to Sherman (right around time when Lincoln was assasinated).
Ernest Spencer I suppose the only hope they had was to link with the AoNV by rail and dig in for defense somewhere near Lynchburg. Still, that scenario was pretty hopeless.
Forgive me, sir, for saying, not thirteen "Henry Flat" cartridges, but seventeen, originally, and later sixteen shots from the original 1860 Henry Rifle during the American Civil War. The modern-day Uberti-Henry in .45 Colt or .44 WCF cartridges will hold 13 rounds. Thank you for your marvelous lecture, sir. Col. Hammer, Alaska
Had not Southerners secede from the Union, and attack Fort Sumter, and formed the Confederacy. They wouldn't have suffered such humiliation and defeat, and total destruction of southern states.
Ranger Brown, an excellent lecture on macro and micro Civil War history. Better than the professors (and I am one) and better delivered. You were careful to consider your mixed audience, informative, entertaining, and completely prepared. I'm from NC and I learned how much I don't know. I'm sure your Q&A was also excellent.
The War Between the States die end at Bentonville,the last Confederate General to surrender was Stand Watie in Southeast Indian Territory in June of'65. And it wasn't over at sea.The Shenandoah left the Bering Sea wreaking havoc on the Whalers of New England and circumvented the world,striking her colors in port at Liverpool,England.
The CSA documented its fundamental facts - such as its seceeding specifically for slavery, and its constitutional ban on states' right to sbolish slavery - thus proving the "states' rights" nonsense to be the pathetic lie it is. The CSA got just what it deserved, and those who identify with the CSA and fly its flags do so to the extent that they are obviously anti-American.
It's obvious Sherman had 'connections', regardless of how well a general he was. I know a lot of his soldiers were upset about Bentonville because there they were, almost nearing the end and surviving, and then this battle happens with losses because of Sherman's sloppiness with staying alert.
***** Seems political generals were the bane of the Union Army. When Grant got situated into the Army of the Potomac in late summer '64 he asked his cavalry chief James Wilson on why there were so many bad political generals and what could be done with them. Wilson told Grant to fill his staff member Seneca Indian Eli Parker with the worst commissary whiskey available and let him scalp them all. Many of these generals did some good-mainly in the form of raising regiments from their respective states with which they conveniently appointed themselves commanders of. Many times the soldiers refused to have someone from another state in command.
I'm not calling Sherman a political general-he innovated the 'total war' approach. However on a tactical level I find his record wasn't exactly stellar. For example at Lookout Mountain Grant wanted Sherman to have the glory for it's capture but Sherman's attack bogged down. I also use the attack at Shiloh that caught Sherman's division by surprise and yet again at Bentonville. I'm more of a George Thomas fan, but we won't ever really know about him because he told his wife to burn his war diary upon his death.
***** As my hair turns grayer I'm happy that it's doing just that instead of falling out. I don't think George Thomas was bi-polar. Everyone that knew him said he was always even tempered. I think he simply didn't want 'the glory' memoirs usually give their authors which says a great deal of his character. He was a Virginian and his family forever disowned him for his service to the Union instead of Virginia. His troops loved him because they knew he wouldn't needlessly waste their lives and if 'Old Pap' was around things were going to be alright. In the words of Bruce Catton my favorite author, "the Union gained back nearly everything in George Thomas they had lost in Robert Lee." Sorry for the long reply...it's awesome that you're related to Joe Johnston. I don't have any ancestors that high up-just one that served with Sherman in his March to the Sea and another that died in a Richmond hospital 5 days after receiving a head wound at Petersburg, and another who was a Colonel in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
I can well imagine losing your hair upon seeing cases that an increasingly immoral society produces. I truly respect the capabilities of reasoning that marks a judge's profession. (Ever read about 'Judge' Roy Bean?) I really need to do some traveling to Civil War battlefields. We have a few here in Missouri but we never had any major engagements, with the exception of Wilson's Creek. Most around here are a simple marker around a ford or crossing and are mostly sadly forgotten and neglected. I firmly believe the saying that states a people that forget their history are doomed to repeat it. Our history may not be forgotten, but when political correctness becomes infused in it one might as well throw it out the window anyway in my humble opinion. I always wondered about being paroled in the Civil War. It was one of Grant's favorite terms of surrender but I think it was really Grant's logistical sense he learned from Winfield Scott in the Mexican War. Paroling prisoners freed Grant's armies from having to feed and guard them. As God-fearing honorable men they promised to peaceably go home and never pick up arms against the Union for the duration. Talk about devotion-I couldn't imagine continuing to fight for a lost cause after Lee and Johnston surrendered. Lee could have easily told his army to disband and continue fighting but he formally surrendered to end the bloodshed and hoped his example would influence the rest of any Confederates who pledged to fight on. These men were cast from an iron mold to withstand all the disease, bad food, and combat that I simply cannot fathom. Wow, getting shot in the head, recovering and walking home 75 miles-taken all in stride by what I consider the finest set of Americans ever; little wonder it lasted 4 years and cost 650,000 lives.
I currently reside in Gladstone, MO which is really part of North Kansas City. I grew up on a small farm near Braymer, a town of 900 or so. It's been my dream to get moved out of the city and to get back out to the farm but meaningful employment is lacking out there. I come from a long line of Republicans, back to my great-grandfather who moved from Virginia as a boy with $5 in his pocket and a 6th grade education. He was able to build himself up to shipping off 20 railroad cars full of swine to the Kansas City stockyards but lost it all during the '29 crash. I do consider myself very conservative on the role of government but I'm very frustrated at the GOP's apparent lack of backbone these last few years, at least in DC. I'm pleased with our state legislature who have toed the line against our liberal governor. (For example, passing a bill stating that Missouri will not recognize any Federal bill infringing the 2nd Amendment. What part of "shall not be infringed" do liberals not understand? (It shows their thinking on government power.) I can go on and get very agitated on this subject. Long story short I wished I'd been able to teach history or civics but college seems to think I need to know algebraic formulas to do so and that's my Achilles Heel. Anyhow Springfield is about 3 hours from here-it'd be great to talk. The furthest South I've ever been is Tennessee. Shiloh would probably be the closest major battlefield to me.
Beauregard's plan to defend Salisbury was a decent plan, and the men in gray had men already in the area and it was the last supply line to lee and Johnston with the fall of Ft Fisher .... Beauregard served the Confederacy well and the USA well in Mexico.... Too bad him and Davis did not get along....
That feud might have cost them the war as Davis put incompetents in command specifically to avoid giving the skilled Beauregard command same case with Davis and Joseph E Johnston his personal grudges were perhaps the confederacy greatest military weakness
No Longstreet should have listened to Lee, and when he did at the Wilderness the Union army was pushed back and would many think been defeated had Longstreet not been hit by Union fire.
@@jamessoltis5407 They weren't traitors.. They legally departed from the union to gain sovereign independence from Northern Aggression. America was founded on this principle; hence, that's how we gained independence from the British. If the South had won, the North would be called the traitors; which, highlights neither side were traitors. Each side were fighting for their own beliefs which is divine.
@@smooth247fyi …derp. Secession has been found to be unconstitutional, according to the Supreme Court: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._White?wprov=sfti1 The treasonous CSA killed more Americans than any other organization in history. Full stop. The American colonists who took up arms against their crown were technically treasonous. However, their cause, which was unshackling themselves from colonial rule, was a bit more palatable that that of the South, whose cause was to keep human beings shackled in forced labor. As for your “war of Northern aggression”: Haha! Who left the Union in a tizzy because they didn’t like the duly elected president? Who illegally confiscated federal goods and property before the war started? Who fired on Fort Sumpter to begin the war? Have your drinking water supply checked for lead contamination, Cletus.
@@jamessoltis5407 If you think it was treason then you must believe in communism and dictatorships. It's all about differences in beliefs. Most liberals side with the rebels overthrowing Syrias Government as "just..." Which, thinking like you, it should be deamed as "treason.." It's not. It's oppressed people trying to gain independence from their oppressor. Ain't no shame in that no matter what the cause.
@@smooth247fyi …derp. I’m a U.S. Army vet. I’ve given years of my life in service to my country. What about you, ‘patriot’? Confederate sympathizers are just so pathetic, and the direct ideological descendant of the Confederacy, aka the modern Republican Party, is even more pathetic. Blind allegiance to a leader is about as un-American as it gets, and the party of Trump has that in spades.
I live close to these battles. As I have said, a many of time. The war was over after July 65. The south should have surrendered. That said, Atlanta, Columbia and Richmond burnings are on the Confederate government. If the Confederates had of surrendered at Hampton Rds, all of this probably would not have happened. Think of the lives that could have been saved. When it is over or fruitless a good leader looks to saving the lives of his men, not more useless fighting
Park Ranger jobs are highly competitive, they have to know history as well as PHDs. It’s an honor and dream job for those that become one. They are very passionate about what they do.
IMO an exceptional lecture. Good enough that it is prompting me to seek out the mentioned books. My heart lays with the Confederate cause- the men were fighting for their freedom, the Second American Revolution. Yankees with numerical superiority, Henry rifles, almost endless supplies but an unjust cause.
It wasn't a second revolution, it was treason against the United States. They were free citizens in the Union, and under the United States Constitution. Yep we had superior numbers and endless supplies, and etc.
really great park guys trump should have a parade for these hafd working voulenteers thank you guys fot making clear what hs history fails to teach our boys and girls good stuff sorry about the spelling its the same school who fail
Trump will never appreciate or show appreciation for squat if it doesn't get him cheap political points or $. Trump is a disgrace, period. Every American whose politics extend beyond cheap hatred for the SJW fringe (and Trump supporters are the SJWs of the right) sees Trump for the lying trash he is and despises him.
@@neilhillis9858 You leftist weirdo, Trump has done more for Americans people. Trump made promises and kept them to me and the American people, we were better off when he was in office. Creepy, 😴 Sleepy Joe Biden manage to nearly destroy this country in only in a few months in office. Biden is the horrible 2.0 new version of Jimmy Carter, he is a puppet of the radical leftist Democratic Party.
Stanton threw out Sherman's terms....... the democrat's continued their treason with the black codes and terror tactics which set the south back fifty years from the much needed reconciliation ...........The better angels weren't given control ...........
Beauregard should have known that all the devils in hell could not have defeated Grant and Sherman. Grant and Sherman had 200,000 African American troops in their armies.
The Battle of Wyse Forks was NOT just north of Wilmington! This is just fundamentally wrong! ANYONE who knows the fundamentals of the 1865 campaign in North Carolina knows this! How could you and, apparently, the professional staff at Gettysburg get this so WRONG?! Its location is several miles east of Kinston, which is about 20 miles east of the important railroad junction of Goldsborough. The battle there was Bragg's attempt to prevent Union forces who were advancing westward along the rail line from New Bern towards Goldsboro. The main objective of those Federal forces was to capture Goldsborough and to be prepared to resupply Sherman's army when it reached Goldsborough.
Sir I love your video! But you tend to glorify NC forces even thou a NC soldier shot and killed stonewall jackson!!!Jackson!!!! Rel right Arm!!!! Hampton may have got swept off field late but NC people quit be fore the war!!!!!
Most of those men youcall cowards had been through many battles the reason they deserted was they received a letter from the wife stating that Sherman had marched through and destroyed all the food and your children are starving come home now!! what choice did they have. the south could have won the war if at Gettysburg, Lee had not attacked against up hill fortified positions and instead marched south around the union army Washington DC was 40- 50 miles away the union army would have had to follow. Lee could have met them on an even playing field and prob. won also the union had nothing to stop Lee with he had an open road all the way to DC the war was lost because the north had a larger population to draw on and they had a big manufacturing capacity the south had to win quick or lose
This shows me how inadequate Sherman was as a general. Was always trying to avoid a potential loss, that would make him look bad, or incompetent. He should’ve crushed Johnson, but was afraid of mistakes. So he chose to go around him and make excuses for this, like saving lives? Nobody that knows anything about the “REAL SHERMAN” is buying this story!!
I grew up near Greensboro, NC and always heard stories about the Battle of Guildford Courthouse and its significance as a turning point during the Revolutionary War. I never knew the Confederate cause literally dissolved in Greensboro. It shows how much we selectively pick and choose moments in history to remember. Thank you Ranger Brown for your lecture.
The ending quote brought tears to my eyes. Thank you very much Mr Philip Brown for a wonderful presentation / dedication.
Another great presentation by the National Park Service and the volunteers.
I just stumbled upon this video after watching a documentary of the battle Chikamauga. Im so glad i clicked on this. One of the best presentations iv ever listened to. Made even better considering i live in NC and iv been to nearly every place mentioned. The "walk home" part nearly made me cry.
Never attended college--but I sure like these lectures.
I think a lot of people are frustrated history professors
Excellent lecture…attention keeping, chocked full of intimate details…really enjoyed it…will listen for more, I’ve been a civil war re-enactor for 25 years and still have so much to know about the war….great job…👍
The Confederates were outmanned, out gunned and out maneuvered during the end of the war. I have to believe the soldiers knew it was over way before it was over. Outstanding presentation, very informative.
Thank you
Agree.
Fun fact: Tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) Roman Catholic Irish were expelled from their Irish homeland (by a ZOG Protestant King) and they arrived in New York Harbor (by boat). Upon docking, Lincoln ordered them conscripted into the Federal Army or be deported post haste. Entire Federal Army infantry regiments were composed of enslaved Roman Catholic Irish. Why? Because the South was winning the War of Rights and U.S. Congress told Lincoln they were intent on withdrawing all funding (of Lincoln's war). Lincoln responded by enslaving the arriving Roman Catholic Irish and rendering them into infantry so as to throw them at the C.S.A. army. Much of U.S. history has been subverted/denied us.
Outstanding lecture, bringing this time in history to life, and the feelings of the soldiers.
Fantastic! Thank you for this, Phillip. Super enjoyable to watch your presentation.
i enjoyed this talk. It was filled with information and insight. I had not realized that Lane's brigade had such a dismal ending engagement. Even the last walk that the speaker brought up was insightful and filed me with some dim part of the emotion these men felt as the war truly ended for each.
must have been a heart crushing time for Southerners and what was left of their military.
Thank you Ranger Phillip Brown for recommending the three books 📚 The Confederate Surrender at Greensboro The Final Days of the Army of Tennessee, April 1865 by Robert M. Drunkenly, Last Stand in the Carolinas The Battle of Bentonville by Mark L. Bradley, and This Astounding Close The Road To Bennett Place Mark L Bradley. They are fantastic books!! Tragic war!!
17th Corp Preston Blair, was the hardest fighting Corp through out the war 1861 - 1865. Huzzah for the great State of Illinois!!
2 of my great great grandfathers, made that walk of over 600 miles from Greensboro together. One to Bells, TN and the other to Dyersberg, TN not knowing that one day they would be more than battle brothers.
Thanks for sharing 😊
Thank you Ranger Brown for your interesting and Infomative presentation
Excellent presentation, thank you!
Terrific presentation - beautifully conceived and executed
Excellent presentation. Great visual aids to follow the lecture. Thanks.
So often, these videos/lectures don't pick up the laser pointers. You did and that is so more informative.TY.
I’ve visited Bull run , twice, I’ve been to Arlington, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, and fort mchenry. Always wanted to visit Gettysburg. Had several ancestors from Alabama and Mississippi there.
The Army of Tennessee after their defeat at Nashville on the 15 and 16th of December 1864 retreated across the Tennessee River into Alabama as I recall. At that time Hood resigned his command and the army was sent on a 30 day furlough and told to reassemble after that for further action. No sure how many returned to active duty. My Great-Great Grandfather was wounded on the 16th of December at Nashville but was able to retreat with the Army. He was in the 19th South Carolina Infantry Regiment, and his military records end after the Nashville battle and it is unknown where he was at surrender. It is likely that he returned to his home in Edgefield County, South Carolina to recover from his wound. My speculation was if able he became part of the units then being formed in South Carolina for the final defense?
Army of Northern VA sent its South Carolina Brigade to this theater - same Brigade that attacked Peach Orchard at Gettysburg. Escaped surrender to Appomatox, only to surrender to Sherman.
Good day to you sir. This is Ted from Texas. I am a living historian. I portrayed the general Joseph E Johnston. I found this lecture to be very informative and interesting. I enjoyed it and learned a few things I did not know. I do enjoy history, history of the Civil War. The Civil War had helped mold our country the great country we were. We are going through political turmoil now. Hoping and praying but it doesn't ignite another civil war. I thank you again and I will continue watching and learning history to the eyes of you men and women At the park service.
Excellent presentation, well done Mr. Brown.
Good talk and a great ending - the walk home.
I somehow missed this great video. Somehow I would like to see the lecture series if each year. I catch a new one here and there.
Very Good lecture by Park Service Ranger...
Fantastic talk
Great presentation!!!
Thank you for the great lecture of the eastern theater North Carolina battles in the weaning days.
There's an easy explanation for weekness of resistance. George Thomas. The man crushed an army larger than the Army of Northern VA with very competent leadership, 2 armies actually. Along with Sherman he drained the West of fighting resources. Shouldn't have forced Johnston to retire. Of course, the war was lost at Shiloh.
how would you say the war was lost at shiloh? that's a fascinating theory
The South did lose the war at shiloh. Never again would the South have parity of numbers against federal armies. When Shiloh was lost the South lost more land mass and lands able to produce and feed its armies than it lost in both Sheridan's march up the valley and Sherman's March through Georgia. After Shiloh the South's only hope was a political solution. Unreconstructed Alabamian here but the reality is the South lost the war at Shiloh.
Vicksburg Campaign was the beginning of the end of the Confederacy, and the fall of Atlanta and Chattanooga. I under what he getting at!! Shiloh was the crack in the foundation, and so was Corinth.
Excellent lecture. Time well spent.
A very fine lecture. Much of information that was unknown to me.
This campaign gets overshadowed by the fall of Petersburg and subsequent events leading up to surrender of Appomattox. Still, Bentonville is an interesting battle to study. No way that Johnson's ad hoc army could tackle Sherman's whole force. Even if Johnson had beaten Sherman, Grant would have diverted forces from Virginia to counter, and in the end Johnson would have been caught between two superior forces. Wisely, he saw situation as it was, a hopeless cause, and surrendered to Sherman (right around time when Lincoln was assasinated).
Ernest Spencer I suppose the only hope they had was to link with the AoNV by rail and dig in for defense somewhere near Lynchburg. Still, that scenario was pretty hopeless.
Forgive me, sir, for saying, not thirteen "Henry Flat" cartridges, but seventeen, originally, and later sixteen shots from the original 1860 Henry Rifle during the American Civil War. The modern-day Uberti-Henry in .45 Colt or .44 WCF cartridges will hold 13 rounds. Thank you for your marvelous lecture, sir. Col. Hammer, Alaska
Wow! Thank you so much :) Amazing
Good Job Ranger Phillip. 👍
Very good. Thank you.
I have an ancestor that surrendered with Johnston at Bentonville. He also surrendered at Port Hudson.
Great lecture.
What a humiliation. It really was a war of subjugation. It’s so sad. But you’ve got to appreciate the good sense of William T. Sherman at the last.
Had not Southerners secede from the Union, and attack Fort Sumter, and formed the Confederacy. They wouldn't have suffered such humiliation and defeat, and total destruction of southern states.
Ranger Brown, an excellent lecture on macro and micro Civil War history. Better than the professors (and I am one) and better delivered. You were careful to consider your mixed audience, informative, entertaining, and completely prepared. I'm from NC and I learned how much I don't know. I'm sure your Q&A was also excellent.
Excellent
The War Between the States die end at Bentonville,the last Confederate General to surrender was Stand Watie in Southeast Indian Territory in June of'65.
And it wasn't over at sea.The Shenandoah left the Bering Sea wreaking havoc on the Whalers of New England and circumvented the world,striking her colors in port at Liverpool,England.
Cary West is that in addition to The Alabama? RELee’s brother was the commander.
Civil War quality beard there Ranger!👍
Superb and thanks!!!
Bragg, Hardee, Hoke, Johnston
That note with the code was very interesting
Sherman was a great leader,who saved many of life's for the North with his march.
You must mean Nathan Bedford Forrest. He went on to commit hate crimes. @james crowe
The CSA documented its fundamental facts - such as its seceeding specifically for slavery, and its constitutional ban on states' right to sbolish slavery - thus proving the "states' rights" nonsense to be the pathetic lie it is. The CSA got just what it deserved, and those who identify with the CSA and fly its flags do so to the extent that they are obviously anti-American.
It's obvious Sherman had 'connections', regardless of how well a general he was. I know a lot of his soldiers were upset about Bentonville because there they were, almost nearing the end and surviving, and then this battle happens with losses because of Sherman's sloppiness with staying alert.
***** Seems political generals were the bane of the Union Army. When Grant got situated into the Army of the Potomac in late summer '64 he asked his cavalry chief James Wilson on why there were so many bad political generals and what could be done with them. Wilson told Grant to fill his staff member Seneca Indian Eli Parker with the worst commissary whiskey available and let him scalp them all.
Many of these generals did some good-mainly in the form of raising regiments from their respective states with which they conveniently appointed themselves commanders of. Many times the soldiers refused to have someone from another state in command.
I'm not calling Sherman a political general-he innovated the 'total war' approach. However on a tactical level I find his record wasn't exactly stellar. For example at Lookout Mountain Grant wanted Sherman to have the glory for it's capture but Sherman's attack bogged down. I also use the attack at Shiloh that caught Sherman's division by surprise and yet again at Bentonville.
I'm more of a George Thomas fan, but we won't ever really know about him because he told his wife to burn his war diary upon his death.
***** As my hair turns grayer I'm happy that it's doing just that instead of falling out. I don't think George Thomas was bi-polar. Everyone that knew him said he was always even tempered. I think he simply didn't want 'the glory' memoirs usually give their authors which says a great deal of his character. He was a Virginian and his family forever disowned him for his service to the Union instead of Virginia. His troops loved him because they knew he wouldn't needlessly waste their lives and if 'Old Pap' was around things were going to be alright. In the words of Bruce Catton my favorite author, "the Union gained back nearly everything in George Thomas they had lost in Robert Lee."
Sorry for the long reply...it's awesome that you're related to Joe Johnston. I don't have any ancestors that high up-just one that served with Sherman in his March to the Sea and another that died in a Richmond hospital 5 days after receiving a head wound at Petersburg, and another who was a Colonel in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
I can well imagine losing your hair upon seeing cases that an increasingly immoral society produces. I truly respect the capabilities of reasoning that marks a judge's profession. (Ever read about 'Judge' Roy Bean?)
I really need to do some traveling to Civil War battlefields. We have a few here in Missouri but we never had any major engagements, with the exception of Wilson's Creek. Most around here are a simple marker around a ford or crossing and are mostly sadly forgotten and neglected. I firmly believe the saying that states a people that forget their history are doomed to repeat it. Our history may not be forgotten, but when political correctness becomes infused in it one might as well throw it out the window anyway in my humble opinion.
I always wondered about being paroled in the Civil War. It was one of Grant's favorite terms of surrender but I think it was really Grant's logistical sense he learned from Winfield Scott in the Mexican War. Paroling prisoners freed Grant's armies from having to feed and guard them. As God-fearing honorable men they promised to peaceably go home and never pick up arms against the Union for the duration.
Talk about devotion-I couldn't imagine continuing to fight for a lost cause after Lee and Johnston surrendered. Lee could have easily told his army to disband and continue fighting but he formally surrendered to end the bloodshed and hoped his example would influence the rest of any Confederates who pledged to fight on. These men were cast from an iron mold to withstand all the disease, bad food, and combat that I simply cannot fathom. Wow, getting shot in the head, recovering and walking home 75 miles-taken all in stride by what I consider the finest set of Americans ever; little wonder it lasted 4 years and cost 650,000 lives.
I currently reside in Gladstone, MO which is really part of North Kansas City. I grew up on a small farm near Braymer, a town of 900 or so. It's been my dream to get moved out of the city and to get back out to the farm but meaningful employment is lacking out there. I come from a long line of Republicans, back to my great-grandfather who moved from Virginia as a boy with $5 in his pocket and a 6th grade education. He was able to build himself up to shipping off 20 railroad cars full of swine to the Kansas City stockyards but lost it all during the '29 crash.
I do consider myself very conservative on the role of government but I'm very frustrated at the GOP's apparent lack of backbone these last few years, at least in DC. I'm pleased with our state legislature who have toed the line against our liberal governor. (For example, passing a bill stating that Missouri will not recognize any Federal bill infringing the 2nd Amendment. What part of "shall not be infringed" do liberals not understand? (It shows their thinking on government power.) I can go on and get very agitated on this subject. Long story short I wished I'd been able to teach history or civics but college seems to think I need to know algebraic formulas to do so and that's my Achilles Heel.
Anyhow Springfield is about 3 hours from here-it'd be great to talk. The furthest South I've ever been is Tennessee. Shiloh would probably be the closest major battlefield to me.
You do know that wyse fork is on hwy 70 between New Bern and Kinston and not hwy 117 between Wilmington and Goldsboro don't you.
Beauregard's plan to defend Salisbury was a decent plan, and the men in gray had men already in the area and it was the last supply line to lee and Johnston with the fall of Ft Fisher .... Beauregard served the Confederacy well and the USA well in Mexico.... Too bad him and Davis did not get along....
That feud might have cost them the war as Davis put incompetents in command specifically to avoid giving the skilled Beauregard command same case with Davis and Joseph E Johnston his personal grudges were perhaps the confederacy greatest military weakness
@Dat Dude Confederacy's greatest weakness WAS their "cause" ! ! !
@@datdude6754 ...and Lee should have listened to Longstreet more!!!
No Longstreet should have listened to Lee, and when he did at the Wilderness
the Union army was pushed back and would many think been defeated had Longstreet not been hit by Union fire.
@@OldHeathen1963 The cause of State Rights what most men in gray fought for is what we need today as China is at the door.
Johnston's & Lee's dads were like guys who served in vietnam having a kid in 2001
What did Davis think he was going to Accomplish in texas?
Johnston and Lee should have linked up at Petersburg
…better yet, they shouldn’t have taken up arms against their country to become traitors.
@@jamessoltis5407 They weren't traitors.. They legally departed from the union to gain sovereign independence from Northern Aggression. America was founded on this principle; hence, that's how we gained independence from the British. If the South had won, the North would be called the traitors; which, highlights neither side were traitors. Each side were fighting for their own beliefs which is divine.
@@smooth247fyi …derp. Secession has been found to be unconstitutional, according to the Supreme Court:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._White?wprov=sfti1
The treasonous CSA killed more Americans than any other organization in history. Full stop.
The American colonists who took up arms against their crown were technically treasonous. However, their cause, which was unshackling themselves from colonial rule, was a bit more palatable that that of the South, whose cause was to keep human beings shackled in forced labor.
As for your “war of Northern aggression”: Haha! Who left the Union in a tizzy because they didn’t like the duly elected president? Who illegally confiscated federal goods and property before the war started? Who fired on Fort Sumpter to begin the war?
Have your drinking water supply checked for lead contamination, Cletus.
@@jamessoltis5407 If you think it was treason then you must believe in communism and dictatorships. It's all about differences in beliefs. Most liberals side with the rebels overthrowing Syrias Government as "just..." Which, thinking like you, it should be deamed as "treason.." It's not. It's oppressed people trying to gain independence from their oppressor. Ain't no shame in that no matter what the cause.
@@smooth247fyi …derp. I’m a U.S. Army vet. I’ve given years of my life in service to my country. What about you, ‘patriot’?
Confederate sympathizers are just so pathetic, and the direct ideological descendant of the Confederacy, aka the modern Republican Party, is even more pathetic. Blind allegiance to a leader is about as un-American as it gets, and the party of Trump has that in spades.
So what about the idea that the confederate maps were wrong showing Sherman s wings further apart than the were.
I live close to these battles. As I have said, a many of time. The war was over after July 65. The south should have surrendered. That said, Atlanta, Columbia and Richmond burnings are on the Confederate government. If the Confederates had of surrendered at Hampton Rds, all of this probably would not have happened. Think of the lives that could have been saved. When it is over or fruitless a good leader looks to saving the lives of his men, not more useless fighting
It has to be a fact that those fellows back then were as tough as a 2 dollar steak and as mean too.
Braxton Bragg ended up a traitor, thus the naming of a airborne division hq, Fort Bragg.
Why was Braxton Bragg a traitor??
Lol 4000 men and they organized them into corps? That's a brigade at most I didnt think they had it that bad out west.
What must one do to become a park ranger?
***** lmao
James contact there web site and e mail them asking what are there requirements.
It will help to know the correct use of "there," "their," and "they're." Accents aside, these Rangers appear rather well-educated.
My guess is some college courses with a major in history but I say that because any cool job usually comes through the college programs.
Park Ranger jobs are highly competitive, they have to know history as well as PHDs. It’s an honor and dream job for those that become one. They are very passionate about what they do.
IMO an exceptional lecture. Good enough that it is prompting me to seek out the mentioned books. My heart lays with the Confederate cause- the men were fighting for their freedom, the Second American Revolution. Yankees with numerical superiority, Henry rifles, almost endless supplies but an unjust cause.
It wasn't a second revolution, it was treason against the United States. They were free citizens in the Union, and under the United States Constitution. Yep we had superior numbers and endless supplies, and etc.
so sad the end of a very brave army especially with your "president" Jeff Davis .apparentely. "away with the birds"?! Fight on? Really?
Yea jusy like those hard fighting Nazis
cool the ranger has my name
Very sad
No Surrender! Fight until we die! And they all almost died.
really great park guys trump should have a parade for these hafd working voulenteers thank you guys fot making clear what hs history fails to teach our boys and girls good stuff sorry about the spelling its the same school who fail
Trump will never appreciate or show appreciation for squat if it doesn't get him cheap political points or $. Trump is a disgrace, period. Every American whose politics extend beyond cheap hatred for the SJW fringe (and Trump supporters are the SJWs of the right) sees Trump for the lying trash he is and despises him.
@@neilhillis9858 You leftist weirdo, Trump has done more for Americans people. Trump made promises and kept them to me and the American people, we were better off when he was in office. Creepy, 😴 Sleepy Joe Biden manage to nearly destroy this country in only in a few months in office.
Biden is the horrible 2.0 new version of Jimmy Carter, he is a puppet of the radical leftist Democratic Party.
Thanks for posting this video.
It always nice to fantasize that the confederacy was more noble than a bunch of traiters.
What country were you born within?
Stanton threw out Sherman's terms....... the democrat's continued their treason with the black codes and terror tactics which set the south back fifty years from the much needed reconciliation ...........The better angels weren't given control ...........
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Beauregard should have known that all the devils in hell could not have defeated Grant and Sherman.
Grant and Sherman had 200,000 African American troops in their armies.
The Yankees sent back the demons back to the Devil.
Beauregard laid the SH and Sherman brought the IT.
Your wrong
You are naive. Refrain from commenting on subject matter you know not.
The Battle of Wyse Forks was NOT just north of Wilmington! This is just fundamentally wrong! ANYONE who knows the fundamentals of the 1865 campaign in North Carolina knows this! How could you and, apparently, the professional staff at Gettysburg get this so WRONG?!
Its location is several miles east of Kinston, which is about 20 miles east of the important railroad junction of Goldsborough.
The battle there was Bragg's attempt to prevent Union forces who were advancing westward along the rail line from New Bern towards Goldsboro. The main objective of those Federal forces was to capture Goldsborough and to be prepared to resupply Sherman's army when it reached Goldsborough.
White Barbara Rodriguez John Davis Karen
Sir I love your video! But you tend to glorify NC forces even thou a NC soldier shot and killed stonewall jackson!!!Jackson!!!! Rel right Arm!!!! Hampton may have got swept off field late but NC people quit be fore the war!!!!!
Tennessee gov mansion. Indiana pa. Hard knox. G nns it how you live lolly pop
Voulenteer cause you'll stole gov identy
Desertions by cowards destroyed the Confederacy.
T. Davis Who but cowards would fight for slavery?
+Frederick Harriman Yes, half of the men who fought and died in America's bloodiest war were nothing but cowards. Lol, some people are just retarded.
Even Lee blamed the Confederate loss on desertions. Please educate yourself before posting. Thank You
Most of those men youcall cowards had been through many battles the reason they deserted was they received a letter from the wife stating that Sherman had marched through and destroyed all the food and your children are starving come home now!! what choice did they have. the south could have won the war if at Gettysburg, Lee had not attacked against up hill fortified positions and instead marched south around the union army Washington DC was 40- 50 miles away the union army would have had to follow. Lee could have met them on an even playing field and prob. won also the union had nothing to stop Lee with he had an open road all the way to DC the war was lost because the north had a larger population to draw on and they had a big manufacturing capacity the south had to win quick or lose
R.E. Lee called them cowards first son.
The video is GREAT but the AUDIO is ABYSMAL
Do you not realize this video was uploaded eight plus years ago?
This shows me how inadequate Sherman was as a general. Was always trying to avoid a potential loss, that would make him look bad, or incompetent. He should’ve crushed Johnson, but was afraid of mistakes. So he chose to go around him and make excuses for this, like saving lives? Nobody that knows anything about the “REAL SHERMAN” is buying this story!!
Good job Sherman well done you da man 👨 😈🤔🙃🤕🤢
Sherman > The CSA and its pathetic, lying apologists.
William Webster Sherman is greatest military genius, he but the rebs in their place.
@@neilhillis9858 Quit No care what you have say you Neo Confederate Lost Causers loser!!
I'm sorry, but , you've been droning on for I don't know how long.. It seems like three days.. And still nothing but promoting stuff. I'm out.
Johnston's & Lee's dads were like guys who served in vietnam having a kid in 2001