I am 56 years old and not embarrassed to say I owe all my knowledge on history to the history guy!!! I never paid much attention in school but then again I didn't have the history guy teaching me
I’m glad you are trying, I am 32 and have always been confuse why everyone doesn’t want to know history. The more history you know the less mistakes you make I truly believe that.
@@nedludd7622 maybe the readings werent adequate or interesting either. I have a degree in history, but my love of the subject was not gained in any k12 classroom, unfortunately. My passions grew out of my own personal reading selections. Which actually started mostly with sports biographies..but that lead to biographies generally, etc. I've found a passion for history is usually instilled through some passion you have, ie a hobby that younare presently engaged in, etc. But with such an immediate reaction I cant help but wonder if you arent one of those teachers who just doesnt get it and blames their students for not being passionate when the teacher doesnt know how to connect with them.... (Btw I had really bad grammar teachers and never gained a passion for that)
Raised on James Island, I spent many a summer day at Fort Sumter when I was in my early teens. A friend & myself would commandeer his fathers john boat and put in at the neighborhood boat landing, then run the creeks out to the harbor. It was free to tour the fort then, it was the boat ride from the city marina that cost you. 40 some odd years later we still talk about about that john boat & the places it took us. Castle Pinckney would be another fortification to do a story on. It sets a little further into the harbor on an Island named Shutes Folly & played a part in another confrontation South Carolina had with the Federal Government, The Nullification Crisis. Can't help but to be a history nerd growing up Charleston.
As a child, I played at Battery park, in Charleston SC. That is where the bombardment, but not the very first shots, were fired from. I have visited Ft Sumter many times in my life. I am also proud to have stood at attention on the deck of a US Navy frigate leaving (and returning) to the Charleston Naval base... while passing Ft Sumter and other Naval ships. Most all of this military presence is gone from Charleston now, but it was a large part of the 20th century DETERRENT back in the 1980s. Great video. Take Care and be safe, John
The first shots were fired from fort Johnson on James Island, where the marine research labs, dnr, and a CofC campus reside, not downtown at battery park, but it’s a popular misconception. There’s a stone marking the site near the coast. I know this because I used to eat lunch next to it at a picnic table.
@@jasonteknut I guess I misunderstood about the start of this. I remember it being said of the bombardment from the battery and didn't think of the other locations. Take Care and be safe, John
Good Morning THG. I visited Fort Sumter, and the beautiful city of Charleston, in 2014. The NPS tour out to Ft. Sumter is interesting and well worth taking.
@@toddtouchberry It's been a long time since the tour and my memory can be shaky in the best of times, but as I recall there were some CSA cadets manning a battery that let the first salvo fly.
My gf and I just visited Charleston and we took the Park Service tour while there. Very interesting. Great tour guides. I highly recommend it to anyone.
My interest in Fort Sumter & Charleston really started 20 some years ago. My son was in the Navy & was stationed in Charleston. Move forward some 25 yrs. & I now have a grandson who is in the Navy & is at this moment stationed in Charleston. A beautiful city w/a rich history. Thank you for today's timely lesson.
In 1985 my dad to us on a vacation we drove from Southern California to Florida to Disney world. After Disney world we went to South Carolina and to see Fort Sumter and other civil war battlefields. Fort Sumter was a great place filled with American history. 👮♂️
@@EricDKaufman 40th Anniversary of the First Space Shuttle Launch as well. STS-1 "Columbia", which some years later was lost on re-entry along with all crew.
My best History teachers were just like the History Guy - Great storytellers. Presenting history as the complicated interesting stories that they are is so much more relatable than they way most people are taught!
Mr Simms was my favorite History teacher in school. We opened the book on the fist day then put it under the desk and took notes the rest of the year. He captivated us with his stories of History and gave us a feeling that we were there and a part of it.
My best history teacher was in my local community collage. He had good textbooks, and lectures. He prompted his class with questions, many of them aimed towards considering the point of view of a person at the time. If you were a upper class woman why would you NOT support the suffrage movement? If you were a poor southern farmer why would you support, or not support, succession.
Having visited the fort with my grandson (pre-covid), I found the more extensive history to be enlightening. The presentations of THG make what was once a dry accumulation of dates and actions much more relevant to me. Thank you, THG!
I just toured the South Carolina State Museum. I did not know until last weekend that South Carolina was the first state to succeed from the Union. South Carolina was on it's own for four months until other states joined them in succession from the Union. The timing of this video is perfect! Thank you
Its always nice to see something local talked about by the History guy. Also fun historical tidbit, the resupply ship was named Star of the West and it was driven off by the cadets of the local military college the Citadel, who fired across the bow and forced star of the west to turn back. The ship's crew praised the cadets for their gunnery
my normal interest is actually something else totally unrelated to history; but when any new video of this channel pops out on the front page : **CLICKS WITHOUT ANY DOUBT*
We have been tearing ourselves apart for the past six years. The violence is bubbling up. Our elected leadership is fostering it, or ignoring it. They are tearing down law enforcement to help it.
Major Robert Anderson is my 3rd cousin, 6 generations removed. I do a lot of family history, and after 50 years, I have concluded that I'm related to almost everybody (as we all are at some level). One of Anderson's sets of great-great-grandparents were William Williams (1665-1712) and Jael Harrison (1674-1734). This same couple was one my sets of 8 x great-grandparents. - Dr Dave Menke, Tucson. PS: history is far more interesting when one realizes one's relatives were part of history.
WOW!! This was an OUTSTANDING VIDEO!! I live in Charleston, S.C.,and, have taken the boat ride out to Ft. Sumter. The Park Service people were NEVER this informative. I had no idea about the third system (much less the first or second) until I saw this. When conducting training to give tours at Ft.Sumter, your video should be used as a training tool. Interesting quote from Branch Rickey when asked if he thought Abner Doubleday invented baseball...THE ONLY THING ABNER DOUBLEDAY DID WAS START THE CIVIL WAR!! BTW, he didn't invent baseball. Keep up the good work THE HISTORY GUY. Also learned from watching the history of Blossom Rock(the actual rock not the late actress).
Great video! I always enjoy the little known stories behind those we know so well that you bring. Well done! On pronunciation, I suggest Kościuszko as “koh-SHOOSH-koh”.
Nice to see it spelled correctly. The largest "mountain" in Australia is named for him but nobody there pronounces it correctly. His statue to commemorate his contribution to the war of independence used to be outside the Whitehouse. He left quite a legacy
Fort Point at the Presidio of San Francisco, CA is a sister to Fort Sumter. It can be seen underneath the southern anchorage of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Ah! I like this episode. Most of us are familiar with Fort Sumter, it's Civil War history. But not Sumter's pre-civil war history, and how it came to be. Thank you Mr. The History Guy, Todays assignment is for me to find out what the forts are at 9:05 and 9:49, and their history. Thank you and Good Day to You. 😃
Coastal defense and the coastal artillery so vital to that defense are long overlooked topics of American military history. A visit to any one of these historic sites quickly conjures up images of what life behind those thick walls must have been like for the soldiers stationed there, be they Spanish, English, French, or American.
Long time viewer first time commenter --- really appreciate the format and delivery of these videos. I would suggest a long-form documentary on a specific and forgotten event in US history. Some suggestions would include the Colorado sheep-cattle wars, Maine-Canadian timber conflict, or the blizzard of 1892 and recession of 1893. Will watch for years to come hopefully, with likely no comments (sorry for that, I know the love of algorithms).
Ha! Nice one, today being the anniversary, you NAILED IT!! Hey, not sure if you're familiar with Ft. Lewis, Washington, but there's some history there. I spent 10 of my 14 years there and I have to say, it's a pretty impressive Fort. It's now called JBLM, they merged Ft. Lewis (Army) with McChord (Air Force)....sooo Joint Base Lewis McChord. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to me either, but whattya do!! Thanks as always for making another great video, keep 'em comin'!!
Would you consider doing a piece on the great stone face, New Hampshire's old man of the mountain and the man who spent many years maintaining the rock formation, Niels Nielsen? The anniversary of the end of the old man of the mountain, a rock formation that persisted for thousands if not tens of thousands of years is coming up on 3rd May. It is definitely history that deserves to be remembered.
I remember that face. As a kid of about 10 we used to visit a cabin near there in the early 60s. I had an old 110 black and white film camera and somewhere have a picture of it. It was sad to hear it broke apart.
I want to add, Niels Nielsen came to my elementary school to teach us about the Old Man and how his family cared for it. I still remember how nice he was, and how passionate about his work. He was a great caretaker and a great educator, too.
Niels was a friend of the family, tickled and grateful that he is remembered, especially so fondly. I used to love looking for the old man every time we drove through the notch when I was a kid. If you have the opportunity to visit, nowadays there is a very nice Memorial; you can pull off the Kank & there are plates with cutouts arranged in such a manner that you can still see the old man...
THG always gets my Thumbs Up. My thrice weekly dose of AM protocol, w/ a hot cup of Joe and a smile on my face. Thank you THG Team, for your efforts on our behalves.
I’m a resident of Leavenworth KS. You should do an episode on the history of fort Leavenworth and it’s role today in the US military and that of our allies. It’s fascinating and almost no one outside of the town and military knows what it’s role is today.
@@gorflunk we dont have a super max but we do have 7 prisons in town 2 of which are military prisons on the Fort. The forts primary mission is to train senior officers in command and war fighting. All of our allies send officers also. Pretty much any captain or better has been here. There is a wall of fame for our allies and sometimes individuals have to be removed, like Manuel Noriega.
There is almost unknown Navy group that played a key roll in World War 11 in the Pacific. The “On The Roof Gang (OTRG)” was a group of Navy and Marine radio operators that were trained in the process of receiving Japanese coded radio transmissions. Their name came from were they received their training from 1928 to the start of the war. A small classroom was built on the top of the Navy Department in DC. My uncle was a member of this group.
I can attest, the combination of fort moultrie, fort Sumter, and the museum ship USS Yorktown at patriot’s point make for an interesting series of tours, covering US naval and costal defense history spanning from the Revolution all the way to the Second World War. To say nothing of the various other museums and historical sites in and around the Charleston area.
Fort Point, San Francisco Cal. I toured/visited it in the early 1980s. M. Vauban? Fort Point was part of the system of red brick forts of 1855 to defend San Francisco. The prison on Alcatraz was built on red brick fort foundations. There were other forts around the bay and it's entrances. The fortifications at Los Angeles and Honolulu are "Taft era" ones, also in Panama and Manila.
Some Forts approaching Portland Maine still exist. In the late 60s and early 70s I enjoyed exploring inside the ones at cape Elizabeth and some islands. Look at the history of Fort Williams.
I’m pretty sure that things like the third system were why the Civil War occurred when it did. Before the 1860s, the USA was very vulnerable to pressure or attack from England or France. We had to hang together, or we might be hung separately. By 1861, we had a good chance of fighting amongst ourselves without other countries being able to take over one part or another. So we did. I remember a Yugoslav English teacher who stayed at our house while taking a 3 month course at the local university. She said that the only thing keeping Yugoslavia together was fear of the USSR. This seems to have been accurate. She was a Bosnian married to a Serb. She ended up migrating to the USA, because she wasn’t particularly welcome anywhere in the former Yugoslavia. Their loss.
I hope that The History Guy continues to deliver these great oft-forgotten episodes in history for us to enjoy. Unlike the politicians and the conspiratorial skeptics, The History Guy brings together people from different places and backgrounds in the spirit of learning about the world we all live in. Is there a permanent History Cat now who may make the channel even better?
You can examine online the history textbook for any state in the Union. Simply choose the state, then begin your search. There are no secrets in public education. It's all online.
@@LordFalconsword Really? So first you claim that history isn't being taught and when you're called on it you change to "Well, its taught but there are errors in the books. So you've read some of them? Tell us, which ones have you, give the publisher and the error.
@grant smythe: online information is easily manipulated and thus fallible. Also: just because it is online doesn't mean it is being taught. The first slaves in the US where white Irish. The most slaves were Chinese. The reparations movement is horseshit. Ronald Regan was the best president ever. Second best was Trump.
@@christopherwedemeyer2993 Well I probably wasn't clear about the online comment. There is an online copy of the textbooks that the kids have in the classroom. Lesson plans are online too. Often, students' work from previous years is online as well. As for the reparations issue, I have mixed feelings about it. Reagan was somewhat above average while the president of Trump University is at the bottom.
South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860. On January 9, 1861, the ship " Star of the West" attempted to resupply Fort Sumter and was driven off by cannon fire. The shots were fired by cadets from the Citadel. These were the first shots it the Civil War.
Good vids! Please do a story on "Baron von Steuben", Who ,Trained the American troops. Without him ,We would all be in trouble.. And he was not even a Baron.
..once again a great telling, and the name Abner Doubleday caught my attention, although he never admitted to inventing the game of baseball as has been bestowed upon him, he did design and patent the cable car system in San Francisco!
I really do like your videos. Your presentation and voice is easy to fallow and understand. And you alas have some information in them that's new to me. Thank you.
I am pretty well versed in Civil War history and I'm taken a back that all this history somehow managed to allude me. What a cool site I will definitely subscribe and start scrolling through all of these tidbits of the past! ❤
The tallest mountain on mainland Australia, Mount Kosciuszko, is also names after General Tadeusz Kościuszko . . . now that's a great trivia questions . . . "What is the direct link between Australia's highest mountains and West Point Military Academy?" . . .?
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel thank you loved that video. I had forgotten that the Endicott batteries were placed largely in old forts. The large mortars and disappearing guns are impressive too.
I you want to see what Ft. Sumter looked like before it was pounded into ruin, check out Ft. Point in San Francisco, which was built on the same plan as Sumter. Location? See that little arch on the Golden Gate Bridge? Ft. Point is under the arch.
‘Alleigance’ written by David Detzer has been a great book about Maj Anderson and Fr Sumter. The first chapter blew my find just kind of putting the town of Charleston into context. The more you learn about slavery the stranger it is honestly.
Thanks for another great lesson in History. Could you please tell the forgotten tale of the cadets from The Citadel who actually fired he first shots of the Civil War with their cannon as they drove off the Supply ship which was I believe The Star of the West.
MR G: Well done Sir! While the American civil war actually started years earlier in Bloody Kansas, your account of the Third System is definitely history worth remembering! Everyone should stand in the ruins of FT Sumter today and imagine those awful 72 hours of constant bombardment.
Awful hours that could have been avoided had they simply left when offered the opportunity. Nothing in the Constitution forbade any State from seceding then. Nor is there any prohibition now. Indeed, none of the original 13 states would have signed or ratified such a provision.
@@johncox2865 Perhaps you are correct; there was some debate at the founding about secession, just without agreement. With all due respect, Sir, had the Federals permitted the south to secede, the unconscionable blight of human slavery would have continued to fester "next door," and I suggest would have eventually led to blows. A righteous man cannot live peacefully next door to a wife beater. Let's be clear, the "rights" that concerned southern secessionists were property rights over fellow human beings. I've just been reading a fascinating book, "The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final Attempt to Avert the Civil War" by Mark Tooley. In this book, Tooley demonstrates that the property rights arguments of the slave-holding members is clearly the driving force behind secession.
@@davemoore6690 Slavery was not the basic issue. However, it neither began nor ended in the American South. Are you aware that slavery continued unabated in the North long after Emancipation? I repeat, the South was Constitutionally justified in secession. If the tables were turned, would not the North have done the same? I remind you that, before Emancipation, the war was intensely unpopular in the North. Lincoln only turned to the moral issue after realizing that he would fail re-election, if not face military defeat, unless the war could be popularized.
@@davemoore6690 And, I readily admit to being a Recovering Racist, having been born white and male in Birmingham, AL in the very middle of the 20th century. I voted against Roy Moore and for Joe Biden, the first Democratic votes I have ever cast. The reasoning behind my opinions of the war have nothing to do with racism, for I have discovered myself to be a member of an even more hated minority.
@@davemoore6690 I will not argue the morality of slavery. The only point I am making here is that the South had Constitutional justification for secession. In particular, the document is a legal contract between the subscribing states. Clearly, the Union violated that contract.
Wonderful video. As a Civil War buff I'm often disappointed in the lack of details about some of its battles. How and why was Ft. Sumter built? Who was it named after? Why did Anderson surrender so soon? Excellent video.
Would love to hear your input into the Fort Moultie during the rev war, in particular about the material it was made of and why it wasn't defeated:) We first heard the story on a carriage ride in Charleston years ago:)
Since we're on the subject of civil wars, I'd love to see an episode on an operation that occurred during the Civil War of 1775-1783 - specifically, Henry Knox's capture and subsequent transport to Washington's army of the British artillery from Fort Ticonderoga. Another subject for consideration: _ _ _ _ _ . _ . . . . . _ . _ . _ _ _ _ . . . Otherwise known as Morse Code. Many thanks.
I've visited the fort, and I was surprised that they held out for as long as they did. They were semi surrounded by the coast and islands, with no relief in sight.
If you stop the play at 2:37 you can see "Chevaux de firse underwater" written. This was a French term, which "literally" meant "Horse from Friesland" which sounds innocuous and almost pleasant. What it was, was almost the very thing in the whole world that was LEAST innocuous and pleasant. It was a siege tool for defense. You made them before the siege started, and kept them on the walls of your fort, strategically place where they could be rushed to any possible breach in the wall. They were long heavy beams of wood, with "Legs" at each end that held them up off the ground, so the hundred sword blades you had fixed to them at all angles projected out from waist height. When the breach was made, and the troops were running to pass into your fort, you threw the "horse" down into the hole. And the mass of troops couldn't stop, and as they cut themselves to pieces, you could fire down onto the struggling mass. So they had one in the water to welcome swimming troops. :)
When I was a girl in the 1960s and my Dad was stationed at what was then called "Andrews Air Force Base," one of our favorite places to visit was Fort Washington, one of the beneficiaries of the War of 1812 pointing out the need for better fortifications.
Rockets red Glare. The inhabitants of Woolwhich South London, home of the Arsenal where they were made, had good reason to worry about that! The town was hit by them on a number of occasions :-)
I am 56 years old and not embarrassed to say I owe all my knowledge on history to the history guy!!! I never paid much attention in school but then again I didn't have the history guy teaching me
I’m glad you are trying, I am 32 and have always been confuse why everyone doesn’t want to know history. The more history you know the less mistakes you make I truly believe that.
So why did you not pay attention and do the reading? Maybe you were just lazy. But for you, it is always the teacher's fault.
Good teachers matter.... and after a generation of focusing on STEM there are even less good history teachers now than ever.
@@stenbak88 not to mention an endless supply of good stories...
@@nedludd7622 maybe the readings werent adequate or interesting either. I have a degree in history, but my love of the subject was not gained in any k12 classroom, unfortunately. My passions grew out of my own personal reading selections. Which actually started mostly with sports biographies..but that lead to biographies generally, etc. I've found a passion for history is usually instilled through some passion you have, ie a hobby that younare presently engaged in, etc.
But with such an immediate reaction I cant help but wonder if you arent one of those teachers who just doesnt get it and blames their students for not being passionate when the teacher doesnt know how to connect with them....
(Btw I had really bad grammar teachers and never gained a passion for that)
You think you know everything about history, then you watch your show. Love your show. I am addicted to it. Thank you.
Research Tuck Haynesworth. For the rest of the story lol
My parents were married on April 12th. My dad often quipped that the date marked the start of two great conflicts.
I married my wife on July 1st for a reason.......1st day of Gettysburg 🤣
Your father has a wonderful sense of humor. Hopefully your mother appreciated his humor.
@@gary4250 The were married until death parted them. They were both always joking even when times were tough.
@@model-man7802Also Canada Day, eh?
@@TheMrPeteChannel absolutely👍
Raised on James Island, I spent many a summer day at Fort Sumter when I was in my early teens. A friend & myself would commandeer his fathers john boat and put in at the neighborhood boat landing, then run the creeks out to the harbor. It was free to tour the fort then, it was the boat ride from the city marina that cost you. 40 some odd years later we still talk about about that john boat & the places it took us. Castle Pinckney would be another fortification to do a story on. It sets a little further into the harbor on an Island named Shutes Folly & played a part in another confrontation South Carolina had with the Federal Government, The Nullification Crisis. Can't help but to be a history nerd growing up Charleston.
As a child, I played at Battery park, in Charleston SC. That is where the bombardment, but not the very first shots, were fired from.
I have visited Ft Sumter many times in my life.
I am also proud to have stood at attention on the deck of a US Navy frigate leaving (and returning) to the Charleston Naval base... while passing Ft Sumter and other Naval ships.
Most all of this military presence is gone from Charleston now, but it was a large part of the 20th century DETERRENT back in the 1980s.
Great video.
Take Care and be safe, John
The first shots were fired from fort Johnson on James Island, where the marine research labs, dnr, and a CofC campus reside, not downtown at battery park, but it’s a popular misconception. There’s a stone marking the site near the coast. I know this because I used to eat lunch next to it at a picnic table.
@@jasonteknut Yep! Use to ride my bike there when I was a kid.
@@jasonteknut I guess I misunderstood about the start of this. I remember it being said of the bombardment from the battery and didn't think of the other locations. Take Care and be safe, John
Good Morning THG. I visited Fort Sumter, and the beautiful city of Charleston, in 2014. The NPS tour out to Ft. Sumter is interesting and well worth taking.
Who did they say fired the first shot? I haven't done the tour in a while although we visit the Holy city often as we live in Sumter
@@toddtouchberry It's been a long time since the tour and my memory can be shaky in the best of times, but as I recall there were some CSA cadets manning a battery that let the first salvo fly.
@@stevedietrich8936 research Tuck Haynesworth (we live in Sumter)
My gf and I just visited Charleston and we took the Park Service tour while there. Very interesting. Great tour guides. I highly recommend it to anyone.
Fascinating, informed, educational and timely. Why we all love The History Guy!!
well said!
My interest in Fort Sumter & Charleston really started 20 some years ago. My son was in the Navy & was stationed in Charleston. Move forward some 25 yrs. & I now have a grandson who is in the Navy & is at this moment stationed in Charleston. A beautiful city w/a rich history. Thank you for today's timely lesson.
Visit the Hunley??
In 1985 my dad to us on a vacation we drove from Southern California to Florida to Disney world. After Disney world we went to South Carolina and to see Fort Sumter and other civil war battlefields. Fort Sumter was a great place filled with American history. 👮♂️
The anniversary of the first shots of the Civil War. Man, the History Guy is right on top of things.
When you learn the history, you’re doomed to coordinate with it.
Thomas Jefferson's birthday tomorrow as well.
@@firingallcylinders2949 And Yuri Gargin's first flight into space
... and the anniversary of FDR's death.
@@EricDKaufman 40th Anniversary of the First Space Shuttle Launch as well. STS-1 "Columbia", which some years later was lost on re-entry along with all crew.
The battle of Athens Tennessee is history that deserves to be remembered
My best History teachers were just like the History Guy - Great storytellers. Presenting history as the complicated interesting stories that they are is so much more relatable than they way most people are taught!
Mr Simms was my favorite History teacher in school. We opened the book on the fist day then put it under the desk and took notes the rest of the year. He captivated us with his stories of History and gave us a feeling that we were there and a part of it.
My best history teacher was in my local community collage. He had good textbooks, and lectures. He prompted his class with questions, many of them aimed towards considering the point of view of a person at the time. If you were a upper class woman why would you NOT support the suffrage movement? If you were a poor southern farmer why would you support, or not support, succession.
Having visited the fort with my grandson (pre-covid), I found the more extensive history to be enlightening. The presentations of THG make what was once a dry accumulation of dates and actions much more relevant to me. Thank you, THG!
I just toured the South Carolina State Museum. I did not know until last weekend that South Carolina was the first state to succeed from the Union. South Carolina was on it's
own for four months until other states joined them in succession from the Union. The timing of this video is perfect! Thank you
Are you referring to the museum in Columbia?
Its always nice to see something local talked about by the History guy. Also fun historical tidbit, the resupply ship was named Star of the West and it was driven off by the cadets of the local military college the Citadel, who fired across the bow and forced star of the west to turn back. The ship's crew praised the cadets for their gunnery
There is star on The Citadel cadet graduate ring commemorating the firing upon the Star of the West.
George E. Haynsworth was the Cadets name. James Islander here.
The actual first shots of the war.
Another great story of American History. Thanks
my normal interest is actually something else totally unrelated to history;
but when any new video of this channel pops out on the front page : **CLICKS WITHOUT ANY DOUBT*
So much American history at that site it gives me chills to think of all that happened before our amazing country was torn apart and after
The next civil war will be much worse.
We have been tearing ourselves apart for the past six years. The violence is bubbling up. Our elected leadership is fostering it, or ignoring it. They are tearing down law enforcement to help it.
@@dirus3142 The seeds for what looms ahead were sown at least as far back as the 1960s.
Major Robert Anderson is my 3rd cousin, 6 generations removed. I do a lot of family history, and after 50 years, I have concluded that I'm related to almost everybody (as we all are at some level). One of Anderson's sets of great-great-grandparents were William Williams (1665-1712) and Jael Harrison (1674-1734). This same couple was one my sets of 8 x great-grandparents. - Dr Dave Menke, Tucson. PS: history is far more interesting when one realizes one's relatives were part of history.
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WOW!! This was an OUTSTANDING VIDEO!!
I live in Charleston, S.C.,and, have taken the boat ride out to Ft. Sumter. The Park Service people were NEVER this informative. I had no idea about the third system (much less the first or second) until I saw this.
When conducting training to give tours at Ft.Sumter, your video should be used as a training tool.
Interesting quote from Branch Rickey when asked if he thought Abner Doubleday invented baseball...THE ONLY THING ABNER DOUBLEDAY DID WAS START THE CIVIL WAR!!
BTW, he didn't invent baseball.
Keep up the good work THE HISTORY GUY. Also learned from watching the history of Blossom Rock(the actual rock not the late actress).
I wish he included info on Tuck Haynesworth
Great video! I always enjoy the little known stories behind those we know so well that you bring. Well done! On pronunciation, I suggest Kościuszko as “koh-SHOOSH-koh”.
Nice to see it spelled correctly. The largest "mountain" in Australia is named for him but nobody there pronounces it correctly. His statue to commemorate his contribution to the war of independence used to be outside the Whitehouse. He left quite a legacy
Fort Point at the Presidio of San Francisco, CA is a sister to Fort Sumter. It can be seen underneath the southern anchorage of the Golden Gate Bridge.
That is an interesting place to visit, I bet most tourists don't even realize it's down there.
Ah! I like this episode. Most of us are familiar with Fort Sumter, it's Civil War history. But not Sumter's pre-civil war history, and how it came to be. Thank you Mr. The History Guy, Todays assignment is for me to find out what the forts are at 9:05 and 9:49, and their history. Thank you and Good Day to You. 😃
9:05 is Fort Jefferson: www.nps.gov/drto/learn/historyculture/fort-jefferson.htm. 9:49 is Fort Clinch: www.floridastateparks.org/fortclinch
Excellent Content 👍🇺🇸 Thank you for sharing THG !
You know, I've never heard the subject of the fort itself discussed. Bravo!
Coastal defense and the coastal artillery so vital to that defense are long overlooked topics of American military history. A visit to any one of these historic sites quickly conjures up images of what life behind those thick walls must have been like for the soldiers stationed there, be they Spanish, English, French, or American.
great research once again. Thanks!
Simply one of the best consistent presentation on anywhere. Thank you.
Hearing about this has given me the idea that I might go visit the place.
Long time viewer first time commenter --- really appreciate the format and delivery of these videos. I would suggest a long-form documentary on a specific and forgotten event in US history. Some suggestions would include the Colorado sheep-cattle wars, Maine-Canadian timber conflict, or the blizzard of 1892 and recession of 1893. Will watch for years to come hopefully, with likely no comments (sorry for that, I know the love of algorithms).
As always, excellent! Thank you.
A wonderful way to spend an early Monday morning. Thanks THG!
Was just out to Ft Sumter and the Hunley last weekend.
I visited there once and it was fascinating to see where the war seriously began.
Ha! Nice one, today being the anniversary, you NAILED IT!! Hey, not sure if you're familiar with Ft. Lewis, Washington, but there's some history there. I spent 10 of my 14 years there and I have to say, it's a pretty impressive Fort. It's now called JBLM, they merged Ft. Lewis (Army) with McChord (Air Force)....sooo Joint Base Lewis McChord. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to me either, but whattya do!!
Thanks as always for making another great video, keep 'em comin'!!
I'm in Florida and have visited both Ft. Pickens in Pensacola and Ft. Clinch in Jacksonville. Both from this era.
Key West's Fort Zachary Taylor, Dry Tortuga's Fort Jefferson(?) and the fort in Saint Augustine are also great Florida forts. 👍🏻🇺🇸
You should also attend the reenactment of the battle of Olustee, Fl. It is one of the last battles of the Civil War.
Thank you for another wonderful recitation of the history of our country.
Nice summary of Sumter, we were there last week touring the fort. Impressive stories, sad history.
Would you consider doing a piece on the great stone face, New Hampshire's old man of the mountain and the man who spent many years maintaining the rock formation, Niels Nielsen? The anniversary of the end of the old man of the mountain, a rock formation that persisted for thousands if not tens of thousands of years is coming up on 3rd May. It is definitely history that deserves to be remembered.
One of my bucket list items that is not there anymore... Great suggestion! Niels is with the Old Man, to this day...
Seconded! Great idea.
I remember that face. As a kid of about 10 we used to visit a cabin near there in the early 60s. I had an old 110 black and white film camera and somewhere have a picture of it. It was sad to hear it broke apart.
I want to add, Niels Nielsen came to my elementary school to teach us about the Old Man and how his family cared for it. I still remember how nice he was, and how passionate about his work. He was a great caretaker and a great educator, too.
Niels was a friend of the family, tickled and grateful that he is remembered, especially so fondly.
I used to love looking for the old man every time we drove through the notch when I was a kid. If you have the opportunity to visit, nowadays there is a very nice Memorial; you can pull off the Kank & there are plates with cutouts arranged in such a manner that you can still see the old man...
THG always gets my Thumbs Up. My thrice weekly dose of AM protocol, w/ a hot cup of Joe and a smile on my face. Thank you THG Team, for your efforts on our behalves.
Excellent video. Thanks.
Thank you for presenting the history of this subject with a base as good, metaphorically, as the subject's foundation!
I noticed the audio is far better now... Great quality videos
I’m a resident of Leavenworth KS. You should do an episode on the history of fort Leavenworth and it’s role today in the US military and that of our allies. It’s fascinating and almost no one outside of the town and military knows what it’s role is today.
Supermax?
@@gorflunk Fort Leavenworth is much more than just the military and Federal prisons. Lots of other stuff there.
@@gorflunk we dont have a super max but we do have 7 prisons in town 2 of which are military prisons on the Fort. The forts primary mission is to train senior officers in command and war fighting. All of our allies send officers also. Pretty much any captain or better has been here. There is a wall of fame for our allies and sometimes individuals have to be removed, like Manuel Noriega.
There is almost unknown Navy group that played a key roll in World War 11 in the Pacific. The “On The Roof Gang (OTRG)” was a group of Navy and Marine radio operators that were trained in the process of receiving Japanese coded radio transmissions. Their name came from were they received their training from 1928 to the start of the war. A small classroom was built on the top of the Navy Department in DC. My uncle was a member of this group.
Interesting. We lived in the Charleston area more than 20 years, yet I still learned new-to-me things about Fort Sumter.
You should research the other fort knox in maine. Good story about appropriating military funds. Love your show. We listen at work every day
It’s haunted too. We camped there on scouts. Late 80’s. Was scary hearing noises all night.
Again, another great watch. Great visuals and narration. Thanks History Guy.
I can attest, the combination of fort moultrie, fort Sumter, and the museum ship USS Yorktown at patriot’s point make for an interesting series of tours, covering US naval and costal defense history spanning from the Revolution all the way to the Second World War. To say nothing of the various other museums and historical sites in and around the Charleston area.
We entered a WWII diesel submarine that was moored beside the Yorktown about 15 years ago. Always wanted to do that.
Fort Point, San Francisco Cal. I toured/visited it in the early 1980s. M. Vauban? Fort Point was part of the system of red brick forts of 1855 to defend San Francisco. The prison on Alcatraz was built on red brick fort foundations. There were other forts around the bay and it's entrances. The fortifications at Los Angeles and Honolulu are "Taft era" ones, also in Panama and Manila.
Great topic. Please do one on Ft. Drum (AKA the Concrete Battleship), Corregidor and the other works the US constructed to protect Manila Bay.
Some Forts approaching Portland Maine still exist. In the late 60s and early 70s I enjoyed exploring inside the ones at cape Elizabeth and some islands. Look at the history of Fort Williams.
I learn so much from the History Guy! And I LOVE it!
I'd really love to see a video that talks about Fort Fisher. Love the channel and hope all is well with you and yours.
I’m pretty sure that things like the third system were why the Civil War occurred when it did. Before the 1860s, the USA was very vulnerable to pressure or attack from England or France. We had to hang together, or we might be hung separately. By 1861, we had a good chance of fighting amongst ourselves without other countries being able to take over one part or another. So we did. I remember a Yugoslav English teacher who stayed at our house while taking a 3 month course at the local university. She said that the only thing keeping Yugoslavia together was fear of the USSR. This seems to have been accurate. She was a Bosnian married to a Serb. She ended up migrating to the USA, because she wasn’t particularly welcome anywhere in the former Yugoslavia. Their loss.
I wish you would do an episode on the Shelton Laurel massacre , it's a bit of Civil War history that deserves to be remembered.
Love this episode, I’ve always been interested in static defenses.
I hope that The History Guy continues to deliver these great oft-forgotten episodes in history for us to enjoy. Unlike the politicians and the conspiratorial skeptics, The History Guy brings together people from different places and backgrounds in the spirit of learning about the world we all live in. Is there a permanent History Cat now who may make the channel even better?
Civil War history is no longer being taught or "changed". Thanks for this unbiased history lesson.
You can examine online the history textbook for any state in the Union. Simply choose the state, then begin your search.
There are no secrets in public education. It's all online.
@@grantsmythe8625 And those books are full of inaccuracies, and outright lies.
@@LordFalconsword Really? So first you claim that history isn't being taught and when you're called on it you change to "Well, its taught but there are errors in the books.
So you've read some of them? Tell us, which ones have you, give the publisher and the error.
@grant smythe: online information is easily manipulated and thus fallible. Also: just because it is online doesn't mean it is being taught. The first slaves in the US where white Irish. The most slaves were Chinese. The reparations movement is horseshit. Ronald Regan was the best president ever. Second best was Trump.
@@christopherwedemeyer2993 Well I probably wasn't clear about the online comment.
There is an online copy of the textbooks that the kids have in the classroom. Lesson plans are online too.
Often, students' work from previous years is online as well.
As for the reparations issue, I have mixed feelings about it.
Reagan was somewhat above average while the president of Trump University is at the bottom.
I see this fort everyday! I live about 20 mins from the fort!!
Nicely done, sir. 🙂
South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860. On January 9, 1861, the ship " Star of the West" attempted to resupply Fort Sumter and was driven off by cannon fire. The shots were fired by cadets from the Citadel. These were the first shots it the Civil War.
Good vids! Please do a story on "Baron von Steuben", Who ,Trained the American troops. Without him ,We would all be in trouble.. And he was not even a Baron.
..once again a great telling, and the name Abner Doubleday caught my attention, although he never admitted to inventing the game of baseball as has been bestowed upon him, he did design and patent the cable car system in San Francisco!
163 years ago today here in Charleston, SC.
Ft Sumter still brings so much tourism and fascination and shows people today that this really happened!
Fort Jefferson on Dry Tortugas would make for an excellent episode. There was a famous prisoner held there.
I really do like your videos. Your presentation and voice is easy to fallow and understand. And you alas have some information in them that's new to me. Thank you.
Yuri gagarin went into space today as well. FDR died on this date. It is also my birthday today.
My Birthday too Happy Birthday Aries
Happy Birthday
Thanks you guys
yep, and a few more dates in history
Best of the day to you.
I am pretty well versed in Civil War history and I'm taken a back that all this history somehow managed to allude me. What a cool site I will definitely subscribe and start scrolling through all of these tidbits of the past! ❤
The tallest mountain on mainland Australia, Mount Kosciuszko, is also names after General Tadeusz Kościuszko . . . now that's a great trivia questions . . . "What is the direct link between Australia's highest mountains and West Point Military Academy?" . . .?
Love the Endicott forts!
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@@TheHistoryGuyChannel thank you loved that video. I had forgotten that the Endicott batteries were placed largely in old forts. The large mortars and disappearing guns are impressive too.
I you want to see what Ft. Sumter looked like before it was pounded into ruin, check out Ft. Point in San Francisco, which was built on the same plan as Sumter. Location? See that little arch on the Golden Gate Bridge? Ft. Point is under the arch.
‘Alleigance’ written by David Detzer has been a great book about Maj Anderson and Fr Sumter. The first chapter blew my find just kind of putting the town of Charleston into context. The more you learn about slavery the stranger it is honestly.
Thanks for another great lesson in History. Could you please tell the forgotten tale of the cadets from The Citadel who actually fired he first shots of the Civil War with their cannon as they drove off the Supply ship which was I believe The Star of the West.
Good video always with class and fine details! Thanks.
How about a story of Fort Point & Fort Alcatraz built to defend the Golden Gate of Ca. With one of my favorite events in SF bay July 4th 1876
Love this video Thank u sir
Thank you again for the great history lesson.
MR G: Well done Sir! While the American civil war actually started years earlier in Bloody Kansas, your account of the Third System is definitely history worth remembering! Everyone should stand in the ruins of FT Sumter today and imagine those awful 72 hours of constant bombardment.
Awful hours that could have been avoided had they simply left when offered the opportunity. Nothing in the Constitution forbade any State from seceding then. Nor is there any prohibition now. Indeed, none of the original 13 states would have signed or ratified such a provision.
@@johncox2865 Perhaps you are correct; there was some debate at the founding about secession, just without agreement. With all due respect, Sir, had the Federals permitted the south to secede, the unconscionable blight of human slavery would have continued to fester "next door," and I suggest would have eventually led to blows. A righteous man cannot live peacefully next door to a wife beater. Let's be clear, the "rights" that concerned southern secessionists were property rights over fellow human beings. I've just been reading a fascinating book, "The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final Attempt to Avert the Civil War" by Mark Tooley. In this book, Tooley demonstrates that the property rights arguments of the slave-holding members is clearly the driving force behind secession.
@@davemoore6690 Slavery was not the basic issue. However, it neither began nor ended in the American South. Are you aware that slavery continued unabated in the North long after Emancipation?
I repeat, the South was Constitutionally justified in secession. If the tables were turned, would not the North have done the same?
I remind you that, before Emancipation, the war was intensely unpopular in the North. Lincoln only turned to the moral issue after realizing that he would fail re-election, if not face military defeat, unless the war could be popularized.
@@davemoore6690 And, I readily admit to being a Recovering Racist, having been born white and male in Birmingham, AL in the very middle of the 20th century. I voted against Roy Moore and for Joe Biden, the first Democratic votes I have ever cast.
The reasoning behind my opinions of the war have nothing to do with racism, for I have discovered myself to be a member of an even more hated minority.
@@davemoore6690 I will not argue the morality of slavery. The only point I am making here is that the South had Constitutional justification for secession. In particular, the document is a legal contract between the subscribing states. Clearly, the Union violated that contract.
Wonderful video. As a Civil War buff I'm often disappointed in the lack of details about some of its battles. How and why was Ft. Sumter built? Who was it named after? Why did Anderson surrender so soon? Excellent video.
It's still a great place to visit. Now I have better insight. Thank you, THG❤🕊
Tony & Susan here, Vary impressive dissertation of the events. As always.
Thank you for your historical updates. Very enlightening
A stack of multicolored Post It Notes. Quite an interesting historical artifact!
Interesting as usual Thanks for the info
Would love to hear your input into the Fort Moultie during the rev war, in particular about the material it was made of and why it wasn't defeated:) We first heard the story on a carriage ride in Charleston years ago:)
Those carriage rides are fun. Did They mention that the cannonballs were absorbed into the palmetto trees because they were nearly rubber like?
Would like to hear the story of Fort Pulaski. Love the History Guy...
An excellent video. Thank you.
I think a good topic, if not done already, would be the history of roller coasters.
Since we're on the subject of civil wars, I'd love to see an episode on an operation that occurred during the Civil War of 1775-1783 - specifically, Henry Knox's capture and subsequent transport to Washington's army of the British artillery from Fort Ticonderoga.
Another subject for consideration:
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Otherwise known as Morse Code.
Many thanks.
I've visited the fort, and I was surprised that they held out for as long as they did. They were semi surrounded by the coast and islands, with no relief in sight.
Excellent episode on history - - - as your usual
If you stop the play at 2:37 you can see "Chevaux de firse underwater" written. This was a French term, which "literally" meant "Horse from Friesland" which sounds innocuous and almost pleasant.
What it was, was almost the very thing in the whole world that was LEAST innocuous and pleasant.
It was a siege tool for defense. You made them before the siege started, and kept them on the walls of your fort, strategically place where they could be rushed to any possible breach in the wall.
They were long heavy beams of wood, with "Legs" at each end that held them up off the ground, so the hundred sword blades you had fixed to them at all angles projected out from waist height.
When the breach was made, and the troops were running to pass into your fort, you threw the "horse" down into the hole. And the mass of troops couldn't stop, and as they cut themselves to pieces, you could fire down onto the struggling mass.
So they had one in the water to welcome swimming troops. :)
Well told, once again. Thank you!
Could you do a video on the San Elizario Salt War? A.K.A. the El Paso Salt War
When I was a girl in the 1960s and my Dad was stationed at what was then called "Andrews Air Force Base," one of our favorite places to visit was Fort Washington, one of the beneficiaries of the War of 1812 pointing out the need for better fortifications.
Incredible lesson.
Thank you.
Nice interesting lecture👏👏
Rockets red Glare. The inhabitants of Woolwhich South London, home of the Arsenal where they were made, had good reason to worry about that! The town was hit by them on a number of occasions :-)